Uncle Sam and Us : : Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State / / Stephen Clarkson.

Between them, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien radically altered the structure and functions of the federal government, first by signing and implementing major trade liberalization projects, and then by cutting back the size of their governments' budgets and the scope of their policies. Uncle S...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2002
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Not Whether, but Which Canada Will Survive
  • 2. The Peripheral State: Globalization and Continentalism
  • I. The Polity: Reconstituting the Canadian State
  • Change from Without
  • 3. Continental and Global Governance
  • 4. NAFTA and the WTO as Supraconstitution
  • Change from Within
  • 5. The Federal State: Internal Trade and the Charter
  • 6. The Municipal State: Megacity and the Greater Toronto Area
  • II. The Economy: Reframing the State's Functions
  • The Macro Economy and the Managerial State
  • 7. The Taxing State: From Lord Keynes to Paul Martin
  • 8. The Banking State and Global Financial Governance
  • The Oligopolistic Economy and the Regulatory State
  • 9. Financial Services: National Champions at Risk
  • 10. Telecoms: From Regional Monopolies to Global Oligopolies
  • The External Economy and the Internationalizing State
  • 11. The Trading State
  • 12. The Investing State
  • The Microeconomy and the Interventionist State
  • 13. The Residual State: Accommodation at the Federal Level
  • 14. The Industrial State Goes Provincial
  • III. The Society: The Contradictions of Neoconservatism
  • 15. The Civil State: Social Policies under Strain
  • 16. The Working State: Labour Relations under Stress
  • 17. The (Un)sustainable State: Deregulating the Environment
  • 18. The Cultured State: Broadcasting and Magazines
  • 19. The Diplomatic State: Lockstep under Hegemonic Dominance
  • 20. The Post-Globalist State: and the Democratic Deficit
  • Notes
  • Acronyms
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index