Research Catalog

Title

Continentalizing Canada : the politics and legacy of the MacDonald Royal Commission / Gregory J. Inwood.

Author

Inwood, Gregory J.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

xiv, 471 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Free trade has been a highly contentious issue since the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney negotiated the first free trade agreement with the United States in the 1980s. Tracing the roots of Canada's contemporary involvement in North American free trade back to the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada in 1985 - also known as the Macdonald Commission - Gregory J. Inwood offers a critical examination of the work of the commission and its immediate and long-term effects on Canada's political and economic landscape." "Using original research - including content analysis, interviews, archival information, and surveys of relevant literature - Inwood argues that the Macdonald Commission created an atmosphere and political discourse that made the continentalization of Canada possible by way of free trade agreements with the United States and Mexico." "A thorough examination of the politics and legacy of the Macdonald Commission, Continentalizing Canada will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the areas of Canadian politics, public policy, and economics."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in comparative political economy and public policy

Uniform Title

• Studies in comparative political economy and public policy
• Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.

Subject

• Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada
• Since 1945
• Free trade > Canada
• Free trade > United States
• Free trade > Mexico
• Canada > Economic conditions > 1945-
• Canada > Economic policy

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-449) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Setting the stage : Canadian economic development in the post-war years -- 2. Macdonald Royal Commission : the struggle engaged -- 3. Seeking a new consensus -- 4. public submissions : reflections in the mirror of the Macdonald Commission -- 5. battle of the paradigms -- 6. (Mis-)using social science knowledge : the research program of the Macdonald Commission -- 7. rout is on : influence of the research program -- 8. Ideological homogeneity in the research program -- 9. Royal Commission politics : the triumph of the policy group -- 10. Leap of faith : ideology in the chair -- 11. commissioners' role and the final report -- 12. Continentalizing Canada : the politics and legacy of the Macdonald Commission -- App. Categorization of topics from Macdonald Commission content analysis.

ISBN

0802087299 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005275549

OCLC

• 56065838
• SCSB-11069212

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library