Canadian Federalist Experiment

Canadian Federalist Experiment
Author: Frederick Vaughan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773525335

Frederick Vaughan looks at changes that have taken place in Canada since 1867, arguing that Pierre Trudeau's 1982 Constitution Act quietly undermined the monarchic character of the constitution by introducing republican principles of government, leaving Canada clinging to the wreckage of the old aristocratic order while attempting to provide a new order founded on republican equality."--BOOK JACKET.

Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic

Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic
Author: Gary N. Wilson
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-02-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774863102

The Canadian federal system was never designed to recognize Indigenous governance, and it has resisted formal institutional change. But change has come. Indigenous communities in the North have successfully negotiated the creation of self-governing regions, most of which have been situated politically and institutionally within existing constituent units of the Canadian federation. These varied governance arrangements are forms of nested federalism, a model that is transforming Canadian federalism as it reformulates the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic traces the political journey toward self-governance taken by three predominantly Inuit regions over the past forty years: Nunavik in northern Québec, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the western Northwest Territories, and Nunatsiavut in northern Labrador. This meticulous analysis of the regions’ development trajectories provides new insight into the evolution of Indigenous self-government, as well as its consequences for Indigenous communities and for Canadian federalism.

Contemporary Canadian Federalism

Contemporary Canadian Federalism
Author: Alain-G. Gagnon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2009-06-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442692529

First published in French in 2006, Le fédéralisme canadien contemporain was immediately recognised as the most comprehensive collection of reflections on Canadian federalism by leading Québécois scholars. This remarkable translation of a range of Québécois voices makes their insightful and underrepresented perspectives available to English-language audiences. Offering alternative views of the Canadian federal model's realities by covering its foundations, traditions, and institutions, Contemporary Canadian Federalism considers the ways in which federalism relates to issues such as regionalism, multiculturalism, rights and freedoms, financial distribution, and public policy. Filled with stimulating work that bridges the gap between distinctive traditions in English- and French-Canadian scholarship on federalism, this important volume is required reading for understanding provincial-federal relations and Canadian governance.

Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics

Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics
Author: Jason Roy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2020
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 148752501X

In this work, the authors employ a series of experiments to assess the strategies used to win elections and stay in power once elected.

The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism

The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism
Author: Samuel Victor LaSelva
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773514225

LaSelva offers a compelling reconsideration of Confederation and of the pivotal role of George-Etienne Cartier, one of the Fathers of Confederation, in both the achievement of confederation and the creation of a distinctively Canadian federalist theory.

The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science

The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science
Author: Linda White
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774858397

Over the past decade, the introspective, insular, and largely atheoretical style that informed Canadian political science for most of the postwar period has given way to a deeper engagement with, and integration into, the global field of comparative politics. This volume is the first sustained attempt to describe, analyze, and assess the "comparative turn" in Canadian political science. Canada's engagement with comparative politics is examined with a focus on three central questions: In what ways, and how successfully, have Canadian scholars contributed to the study of comparative politics? How does study of the Canadian case advance the comparative discipline? Finally, can Canadian practice and policy be reproduced in other countries?

Canadian Federalism and Its Future

Canadian Federalism and Its Future
Author: Alain-G. Gagnon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0228002524

The time is ripe to revisit Canada's past and redress its historical wrongs. Yet in our urgency to imagine roads to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, it is important to keep in sight the many other forms of diversity that Canadian federalism has historically been designed to accommodate or could also reflect more effectively. Canadian Federalism and Its Future brings together international experts to assess four fundamental institutions: bicameralism, the judiciary as arbiter of the federal deal, the electoral system and party politics, and intergovernmental relations. The contributors use comparative and critical lenses to appraise the repercussions of these four dimensions of Canadian federalism on key actors, including member states, constitutive units, internal nations, Indigenous peoples, and linguistic minorities. Pursuing the work of The Constitutions That Shaped Us (2015) and The Quebec Conference of 1864 (2018), this third volume is a testimony to Canada's successes and failures in constitutional design. Reflecting on the cultural pluralism inherent in this country, Canadian Federalism and Its Future offers thought-provoking lessons for a world in search of concrete institutional solutions, within and beyond the traditional nation-state.