Defying Conventional Wisdom : : Political Movements and Popular Contention Against North American Free Trade / / Jeffrey Ayres.

This book offers a crisp and thoughtful account of political phenomena still fresh in the minds of Canadians, and with continuing relevance to policy-making processes. As the first major work on the origins, strategies, and activities of movements and coalitions that arose in Canada and spread acros...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1998
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Studying Movements Politically
  • 2. The Origins of a Movement
  • 3. The Politics of Coalition Building
  • 4. The Parliamentary Protest Campaign
  • 5. The Constraints of Electoral Politics
  • 6. NAFTA and the Structuring of Domestic and Transnational Protest
  • 7. From National Sovereignty towards Popular Sovereignty?
  • 8. Political and Theoretical Implications
  • Appendix: Methods
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter