The Canadian State : : Political Economy and Political Power / / ed. by Leo Panitch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong, Hugh,; Clement, Wallace,; Endres, Robin,; Finkel, Alvin,; Loney, Martin,; Mahon, Rianne,; Milner, Henry,; Olsen, Dennis,; Panitch, Leo,; Pratt, Larry,; Schecter, Stephen,; Stevenson, Garth,; Swartz, Donald,; Whitaker, Reg,; Wolfe, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Panitch, Leo,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

The Canadian State is a powerful collection of essays. Leo Panitch’s theme essay, dealing with the theories of recent neo-Marxist thinkers such as O’Connor, Miliband, and Poulantzas on the nature and role of the state and sketching their relevance to Canada, sets the tone and interpretation of the whole work, which thus has a rare unity and cohesion. Reg Whitaker and Garth Stevenson provide papers offering profound analyses of the history and functioning of the federalized state in Canada. The twelve further contributors develop this theme, dealing with such topics as the aspirations of those behind the governments of Alberta and Quebec, relations between the government elites and Canada’s classes and ethnic groups, the management of the economy through budgets and welfare state policies, and the management of culture through education, the arts, and citizen participation. Together they illuminate various aspects of the way the bourgeois state organizes our society above all, for the accumulation of capital and legitimation of capitalism and, at times, uses coercion to these ends. The work as a whole brings together Canada’s economics and politics in a new and penetrating way.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's preface -- PART I. THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. The role and nature of the Canadian state -- 2. Images of the state in Canada -- PART II. CAPITALISM AND FEDERALISM -- 3. Federalism and the political economy of the Canadian state -- 4. The decline and fall of the Quebec Liberal regime: contradictions in the modern Quebec state -- 5 .The state and province-building: Alberta's development strategy -- PART III. CLASS STRUCTURE AND STATE STRUCTURE -- 6. Canadian public policy: the unequal structure of representation -- 7. The state elites -- 8. The corporate elite, the capitalist class, and the Canadian state -- PART IV. THE STATE IN ACTION: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY -- 9. The state and economic policy in Canada, 1968-75 -- 10. The labour force and state workers in Canada -- 11. The politics of reform: conflict and accommodation in Canadian health policy -- 12. Origins of the welfare state in Canada -- PART V. THE STATE IN ACTION: IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL CONTROL -- 13. Capitalism, class, and educational reform in Canada -- 14. Art and accumulation: the Canadian state and the business of art -- 15. A political economy of citizen participation -- Contributors