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David Hume's Political Theory
Law, Commerce and the Constitution of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and political theory. David Hume's Political Theory brings together Hume's diverse writings on law and government,...
Constitutional Odyssey
Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Constitutional Odyssey is an account of the politics of making and changing Canada's constitution from Confederation to the present day. Peter H. Russell frames his analysis around two contrasting constitutional philosophies – Edmund Burke's conception of the constitution as a set of laws and practices...
The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools
The Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Educational Policy and Practice, 1982-2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during...
Exalted Subjects
Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2007
Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the...
Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions
Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2008
No area of public policy and law has seen more change than lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and trans-gender rights, and none so greatly needs careful comparative analysis. Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions explores the politics of sexual diversity in Canada and the United States by analyzing three...
The Politics of Race
Canada, the United States, and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The Politics of Race is an excellent resource for students and general readers seeking to learn about race policies and legislation. Arguing that 'states make race,' it provides a unique comparison of the development and construction of race in three white settler societies — Canada, the United...
Canadian Islamic Schools
Unravelling the Politics of Faith, Gender, Knowledge, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2008
Religious schooling in Canada has been a controversial subject since the secularization of the public school system, but there has been little scholarship on Islamic education. In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In Canada, the 1982 Constitution Act contains the amending formula, which outlines a set of procedures required to make changes to the constitution. Recent debates over Senate reform, the status of the Supreme Court of Canada, and the rules governing royal succession have highlighted how important...
by Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American...
Dimensions of Development
History, Community, and Change in Allpachico, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands. Susan Vincent examines four aid projects in the area, each following distinct international trends, that took place between 1984 and 2008 within the context of wider state and global political...
by Grace Skogstad
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics offers a variety of perspectives on the development of policy paradigms — the ideas that structure thinking about what can and should be done in a policy domain. In this collection, international experts examine how both transnational actors...
by Alain G. Gagnon, Raffaele Iacovino
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2006
Canadians often imagine their country as a multicultural democracy, while a few go further to claim that the country's diversity can be characterized as multinational in its social and institutional make-up. In Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec, Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino reveal how this...
Children's Rights
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into international law in 1989. Since its adoption, it has been ratified by nearly all member nations. An outline of the basic rights of all persons under the age of 18, the Convention has various implications and its importance...
Old English Metre
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction...