Insiders and outsiders : Alan Cairns and the reshaping of Canadian citizenship / edited by Gerald Kernerman and Philip Resnick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cairns, Alan.

Resnick, Philip.

Kernerman, Gerald P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cairns, Alan--Criticism and interpretation.

Cairns, Alan.

Citizenship--Canada.

Citizenship.

Canada--Politics and government.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrations, portrait

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Insiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Insiders and Outsiders; 1 Introduction; Part 1 Methods and Approaches; Part 2 Citizen-Shaping Institutions; Part 3 Citizenship, Diversity, and Unity; Conclusion; Contributors; Index; 2 Alan Cairns: Public Intellectual; 3 The Political Scientist as Hedgefox: Key Themes in Cairns' Approach to Institutions; 4 Early Warning, No Response: Alan Cairns and Electoral Reform; 5 The Electoral System and the Party System Revisited; 6 The Legacy of the Privy Council in Canadian Federalism

7 Unnatural Loyalties or Naive Collaborationists? The Governments and Citizens of Canadian Federalism; 8 Institutions, Citizenship, and Federalism: Contrasting Models of Redistribution in the Twenty- First Century; 9 Some Implications of the Embedded State in Canada; 10 Morton and Knopff's The Charter Revolution and the Court Party: A Legal Critique; 11 The Politics of Honourable Constitutional Inclusion and the Citizens' Constitution Theory; 12 Charters and Constitution Making: Comparing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights

13 The Anatomy of Cairns' Constitutional Criticism: French Canadians, Quebec, and the Canadian Constitution; 14 Alan C. Cairns on Canadians' Right to Their Country; 15 Plan C? Alan Cairns and English Canada Confront the Challenge of Quebec Sovereignty; 16 Canada's Mismatching Federations; 17 Belonging in the New World: Imperialism, Property, and Citizenship; 18 Toward Conceptual Precision: Citizenship and Rights Talk for Aboriginal Canadians; 19 Parallel or Embedded? Aboriginal Self- Government and the Changing Nature of Citizenship in Canada

20 First Nations, Citizenship, and Democratic Reform; 21 Citizenship in a Multinational Democracy; 22 Citizenship Complexities in Canada and Australia: A Challenge for the Hedgefox; 23 Of Cairns and Cages? Identity, Democracy, and Alan Cairns; 24 Multiculturalism, Gender, and Social Cohesion: Reflections on Intersectionality and Urban Citizenship in Canada; 25 My Academic Career: The Pleasures and Risks of Introspection

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7748-5135-X

OCLC:

607527731