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State, society, and the development of Canadian federalism

Title: State, society, and the development of Canadian federalism / Richard Simeon and Ian Robinson.
Author: Simeon, Richard.
Publication: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1990.

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xvii, 381 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

From Confederation in 1867 to Meech Lake today, the debate on Canadian federalism goes on, the central questions perenially raised: How do we strike a balance between regional and national loyalties and interests? How do we reconcile the sometimes competing values in parliamentary government, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and federalism? How effective is federalism in serving democratic principles? In order to address this debate, we must first understand the forces that have shaped Canadian federalism sing its beginning. To that end the authors have developed a comprehensive theorteical framework that integrates the roles of economic and social forces, political institutions, and political culture. They retrace Canada's early experience with federalism, especially the character of the 1867 Confederation bargain and the experience of the Great Depression in which tensions between new roles of the state and classical federal forms first appeared. Turning to more recent events, they explore the remarkable shift from the pervasive sense of criss, conflict and disarray that marked the decade from 1974 t 1984 into the more harmonious collaborative federalism of the first years of the Mulroney era.

Series Statement

The Collected research studies, 0829-2396 ; v. 71

Uniform Title

Collected research studies ; v. 71.

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"Published by the University of Toronto Press in cooperation with the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-381)

Contents

Part I. Introduction: Overview -- Collective action, societal differences and theories of Canadian federalism; Part II. Classical federalism: origins and dynamics: The confederation settlement -- The triumph of classical federalism ; Part III. Crisis and transformation: The crisis of classical federalism, 1930-38 -- Interregnum: war federalism, 1939-46 ; Part IV. The development of modern federalism -- Introduction: federalism and modernization -- construction of modern federalism, 1947-57 -- The era of executive federalism, 1958-73 -- The compound crisis of the postwar order, 1974-84 -- The renewal of collaborative federalism, 1984-87.

ISBN

0802073190
9780802073198

LCCN

90194409

OCLC

ocm21571844
21571844
SCSB-1891471

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