Political Science Constitutions
Confederation in Crisis
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- Constitutions
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550283273
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $35.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550283259
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $8.95
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Preface
Introduction
I The Citizens and the Constitution
1 We the People: Public Opinion, Sovereignty and the Constitution
Édouard Cloutier
2 Constitutional Politics in the West and the Rest
Roger Gibbins
Interchange
II The Economy and the Constitution
3 How Economics is Shaping the Constitutional Debate in Quebec
Pierre Fortin
4 Federalism and Negative-Sum Games
Grant L. Reuber
Interchange
III Government Strategies and the Constitution
5 The Constitutional Game in Quebec: Options, Interests, Strategies, Outcomes
Andre Blais
6 The Future Process of Canadian Constitutional Politics
Peter Russell
Interchange
7 In Summation
Conclusion
Contributors
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About the author
Saskatchewan-born, Robert J. Young received his doctorate from the London School of Economics, and is currently Emeritus Professor of History and Fellow of United College at the University of Winnipeg. He is a recipient of the University’s principal award for Excellence in Teaching, and its principal award for Excellence in Research. He was also named Canadian Professor of the Year by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education. The first of his 10 books was published by Harvard University Press, the most recent by the Winnipeg Free Press. His biography of one 20th-century French statesman was awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Ferguson Prize for the best book in non-Canadian history; and another biography of a French diplomat and historian received the Manitoba Writers’ Guild’s Isbister prize for the best work of non-fiction.