JONATHAN LEMCO is Director of the Canadian-American Committee of the National Planning Association and Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Canada and the Crisis in Central America (Praeger, 1991), State and Development, The-Energy Environment Tradeoff, and Many Different Tongues. He is also editor of and contributor to Energy and Environmental Concerns in Canada and the United States, Tensions at the Border: The Politics of Energy and Environmental Coordination in the Canada-United States Relationship (both forthcoming from Praeger)tional Health Care: Lessons for the United States and Canada, and Turmoil North of the Border: Quebec Nationalism and Its Implications for the United States.

• PrefaceIntroductionThe Federal "Principle"What Is Political Stability?The Relation between Structure and Stability in Federal GovernmentsThe Degree of Political Freedom and Federal StabilityThe Relation between Centralization and Stability in Federal GovernmentsPolitical Cleavage and Federal StabilityModernization, Social Mobilization, Relative Deprivation, and Federal StabilityThe Federal Theorists, and Their Conditions for Political StabilityAppendixBibliographyIndex

JONATHAN LEMCO is Director of the Canadian-American Committee of the National Planning Association and Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Canada and the Crisis in Central America (Praeger, 1991), State and Development, The-Energy Environment Tradeoff, and Many Different Tongues. He is also editor of and contributor to Energy and Environmental Concerns in Canada and the United States, Tensions at the Border: The Politics of Energy and Environmental Coordination in the Canada-United States Relationship (both forthcoming from Praeger)tional Health Care: Lessons for the United States and Canada, and Turmoil North of the Border: Quebec Nationalism and Its Implications for the United States.

• PrefaceIntroductionThe Federal "Principle"What Is Political Stability?The Relation between Structure and Stability in Federal GovernmentsThe Degree of Political Freedom and Federal StabilityThe Relation between Centralization and Stability in Federal GovernmentsPolitical Cleavage and Federal StabilityModernization, Social Mobilization, Relative Deprivation, and Federal StabilityThe Federal Theorists, and Their Conditions for Political StabilityAppendixBibliographyIndex

JONATHAN LEMCO is Director of the Canadian-American Committee of the National Planning Association and Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Canada and the Crisis in Central America (Praeger, 1991), State and Development, The-Energy Environment Tradeoff, and Many Different Tongues. He is also editor of and contributor to Energy and Environmental Concerns in Canada and the United States, Tensions at the Border: The Politics of Energy and Environmental Coordination in the Canada-United States Relationship (both forthcoming from Praeger)tional Health Care: Lessons for the United States and Canada, and Turmoil North of the Border: Quebec Nationalism and Its Implications for the United States.

• PrefaceIntroductionThe Federal "Principle"What Is Political Stability?The Relation between Structure and Stability in Federal GovernmentsThe Degree of Political Freedom and Federal StabilityThe Relation between Centralization and Stability in Federal GovernmentsPolitical Cleavage and Federal StabilityModernization, Social Mobilization, Relative Deprivation, and Federal StabilityThe Federal Theorists, and Their Conditions for Political StabilityAppendixBibliographyIndex