Political Science Political Advocacy
A Civil Society?
Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life, Second Edition
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2017
- Category
- Political Advocacy, Canadian, Economic Conditions
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551112312
- Publish Date
- Apr 2005
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487593667
- Publish Date
- Dec 2017
- List Price
- $43.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487587796
- Publish Date
- Dec 2017
- List Price
- $89.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487593674
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $43.95
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Description
A Civil Society? surveys the main approaches to the study of group politics in Canada, with a strong comparative perspective. Unique to this brief and accessible text is a comprehensive theoretical framework that helps students evaluate policy areas surveyed in the book, while also pointing them toward future study.
This new edition opens with a discussion of power, political institutions, and identity. It goes on to explore group and social movement activity across a range of institutions including the House of Commons, the bureaucracy, and the courts as well as mobilization through social media and the electoral system. Throughout, Smith systematically integrates consideration of the role of gender, racialization, and indigeneity in contemporary Canadian group and movement politics.
About the author
Miriam Smith is Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Trent University. Her areas of interest are Canadian and comparative politics, in particular, political economy, social movements, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements in Canada. She is the author of Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995 (University of Toronto Press, 1999) and co-editor, with François Rocher, of New Trends in Canadian Federalism (University of Toronto Press, 2003).