Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care : Democratic Pluralism at Risk


Charles F. Doran
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , 2000.
Omfang
1 online resource (317 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Challenges to Democratic Pluralism""; ""Democratic Pluralism: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary""; ""Cultural Identity and Politics""; ""The Social-Psychology of Divisive Nationalism""; ""The Challenge to Liberal Democracy""; ""2 A U.S. Perspective on Canadian Unity""; ""What Underlies U.S. Preferences?""; ""The Economic Claim to Wholeness""; ""Defence of the North American Continent: The Security Claim""; ""Why Canada Is Important: City on the Hill, Interdependence, and Cohesion""; ""3 Will Quebec Secede?"". - ""5 Is Separatism Home-Grown or the Result of Contagion?""""State Formation as Historically Determined Evolution""; ""The Influence of the International System on Secession""; ""Building States by Breaking States: Divisive Nationalism""; ""Can Democratic Pluralism Survive? Divisive Nationalism and the Future""; ""Centralization, Globalization, and North America""; ""6 Is Small Size a Stimulus or Obstacle to Separatism?""; ""Economic Costs of Separation to Quebec""; ""The Structure of World Order and Trade""; ""Relationship between the Size of a Polity and Its Economic Growth"". - ""Empirical Analysis of the Size/Growth Threshold""""Causal Assumptions Underlying Costs of Secession""; ""Resolving the Paradigmatic Controversy""; ""Assessing the Policy Implications""; ""7 What Kind of Canada in the Twenty-First Century?""; ""Aboriginal Peoples, Cultural Survival, and Democratic Pluralism""; ""Responding to Quebec If Secession Fails""; ""Is a Unilateral Declaration of Independence Possible?""; ""Probing Plan B""; ""Responding to the ROC If Quebec Secedes""; ""Responding to Asymmetrical Federalism""; ""Responding to a Scenario of Deep Decentralization"". - ""How Three Social-Psychological Processes Fan Quebec Nationalism""""Factors Contributing to Separation""; ""Quebec Nationalism: Ethnic or Civic?""; ""Sources of Resistance to Disunity""; ""Background Trends Affecting Quebec Nationalism""; ""Unaccounted-for Trends and Surprises""; ""No Bottom Line, No Willingness to Budge""; ""4 Could English Canada Unravel?""; ""Geographical Isolation of the Atlantic Provinces""; ""'Transfer Payments' Would End""; ""Effervescence of 'Western Alienation'""; ""The 'Ontario Problem'""; ""The North American Crucible"". - ""Summing Up the Options and the Consequences""""8 Self-Determination and Democratic Pluralism""; ""The Threat to Democratic Pluralism""; ""Divisive Nationalism""; ""Bogus Science of Primordial Causes for Ethnic Separatism""; ""The Communitarian Challenge to Democratic Pluralism""; ""Self-Determination: The Pluralist Addendum""; ""Confronting the Challenge to Democratic Pluralism""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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0802048730. - 0802083919

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