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Resisting Rights
Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947-76
From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe. Resisting Rights analyzes the Canadian government’s changing...
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Doing Politics Differently?
Women Premiers in Canada's Provinces and Territories
Women have reached the highest levels of political office in Canada’s provinces and territories, but what difference has their rise to the top made? In Doing Politics Differently? leading...
ISBN: 9780774860819
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Delivering Policy
The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada
Are assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) a medical issue or a matter of public policy, subject to restrictions? Francesca Scala employs the concept of boundary work to explain the protracted...
ISBN: 9780774860109
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Give and Take
The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy
A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored...
ISBN: 9780774836739
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The Political Economy of Resource Regulation
An International and Comparative History, 1850–2015
Industrialist John Paul Getty famously quipped, “The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.” Throughout history, natural resources have been sources of wealth and power and...
ISBN: 9780774860611
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Gendered Mediation
Identity and Image Making in Canadian Politics
Despite decades of women’s participation in politics, the gender identities of Canadian politicians continue to attract media and public attention and shape the way they are perceived and evaluated....
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Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society
Interdisciplinary Insights
Ideology is a ubiquitous, continuously innovating dimension of human experience, but its character and impact are notoriously difficult to pinpoint within political and social life. Political...
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Identities and Interests
Race, Ethnicity, and Affinity Voting
Identities and Interests offers an entirely new perspective on the role of racial and ethnic identities in Canadian elections. Using a series of experiments, as well as candidate and census...
ISBN: 9780774838924
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Métis Politics and Governance in Canada
At a time when the Métis are becoming increasingly visible in Canadian politics, this timely book offers a practical guide for understanding who they are and the challenges they face on the path...
ISBN: 9780774860765
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Opening the Government of Canada
The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age
Opening the Government of Canada presents a compelling case for a more open model of governance in the digital age – but a model that also continues to uphold democratic principles at the...
ISBN: 9780774836937
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Reassessing the Rogue Tory
Canadian Foreign Relations in the Diefenbaker Era
The years when John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservatives were in office were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history. This book provides a fresh assessment of foreign policy in the Diefenbaker...
ISBN: 9780774838146
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"Truth Behind Bars"
Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution
Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, the arctic settlement of Vorkuta was the site of a notorious Gulag that held former Trotsky followers and members of the Left Opposition. This coal-mining town...
ISBN: 9781771992459
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry...
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The New NDP
Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty‑first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its...
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Top-Down Democracy in South Korea
While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice...
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Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces...
ISBN: 9780295744247
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Rethinking the Spectacle
Guy Debord, Radical Democracy, and the Digital Age
Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the...
ISBN: 9780774860505
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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice
Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, which led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office. In Ours by Every Law of Right and...
ISBN: 9780774861878
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Concrete Mama
Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned...
ISBN: 9780295743981
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Putting Family First
Migration and Integration in Canada
When migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role. Putting Family...
ISBN: 9780774861274
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