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Political Science Democracy

Once and Future Canadian Democracy

An Essay in Political Thought

by (author) Janet Ajzenstat

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2003
Category
Democracy
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773571686
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $95.00

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To revitalize politics we need to abandon the idea that ideologies evolve from "right" to "left", from conservatism to socialism, and look at our political differences in terms of the distinction, more familiar in the arts, between classicism and romanticism. She argues that by abandoning our current modes of debate and rediscovering the Enlightenment liberalism that is an enduring part of our political tradition we will help to recreate Canada as a place of debate on fundamentals, not one in which a monolithic definition of identity answers all questions in advance.

About the author

Janet Ajzenstat is professor emeritus, political science, McMaster University. Her most recent book on the Canadian constitution is The Once and Future Canadian Democracy: An Essay in Political Thought.

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