Mildred A. Schwartz – författare

Public Opinion and Canadian Identity offers a profound exploration of the complex and evolving nature of Canadian national identity, as seen through the lens of public opinion data spanning two decades. Mildred Schwartz's work examines the deep-seated historical and ideological contrasts between Canada and the United States, emphasizing how Canada’s identity has often been shaped by its resistance to American revolutionary values. Unlike its southern neighbor, Canada emerged from a counter-revolutionary tradition, influenced by a colonial legacy and a gradualist approach to political and social change. Through extensive analysis of Canadian Gallup poll data, Schwartz provides valuable insights into how Canadians have understood their own national character, regional allegiances, and the role of political parties in fostering national unity.The book highlights key tensions within Canadian identity, including the long-standing divide between English and French-speaking populations, regional disparities, and Canada's ambiguous relationship with Britain and the United States. Schwartz argues that Canadian political parties have played a crucial role in shaping national cohesion, mediating between diverse cultural and political forces. By applying a comparative perspective, she situates Canada's national development within broader global patterns, illustrating how national identity formation is influenced by historical events, political structures, and public perception. This meticulously researched study not only deepens our understanding of Canadian society but also offers an important methodological contribution by demonstrating the value of public opinion research in analyzing national identity.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Public Opinion and Canadian Identity offers a profound exploration of the complex and evolving nature of Canadian national identity, as seen through the lens of public opinion data spanning two decades. Mildred Schwartz's work examines the deep-seated historical and ideological contrasts between Canada and the United States, emphasizing how Canada’s identity has often been shaped by its resistance to American revolutionary values. Unlike its southern neighbor, Canada emerged from a counter-revolutionary tradition, influenced by a colonial legacy and a gradualist approach to political and social change. Through extensive analysis of Canadian Gallup poll data, Schwartz provides valuable insights into how Canadians have understood their own national character, regional allegiances, and the role of political parties in fostering national unity.The book highlights key tensions within Canadian identity, including the long-standing divide between English and French-speaking populations, regional disparities, and Canada's ambiguous relationship with Britain and the United States. Schwartz argues that Canadian political parties have played a crucial role in shaping national cohesion, mediating between diverse cultural and political forces. By applying a comparative perspective, she situates Canada's national development within broader global patterns, illustrating how national identity formation is influenced by historical events, political structures, and public perception. This meticulously researched study not only deepens our understanding of Canadian society but also offers an important methodological contribution by demonstrating the value of public opinion research in analyzing national identity.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

This Handbook provides a complete survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures from civil society.

This Handbook provides a complete survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures from civil society.

Party movements can be described as political organizations that both participate in the electoral process and have social movement qualities. They appear frequently in both Canada and the United States. Many of these movements face huge organizational problems, and yet they display remarkable resilience, signaling both continuing political dissatisfactions as well as possibilities for changing political outcomes. This book demonstrates how organizational theory can be useful for understanding party movements, and also expands on the idea of continuity, contributing new ways of thinking about how organizations change and survive in the face of recurring dilemmas. This look inside party movements, at the organizational problems they face and the strategies employed to deal with them, represents a new way of accounting for their history that contrasts with perspectives focusing solely on external conditions.

Party movements can be described as political organizations that both participate in the electoral process and have social movement qualities. They appear frequently in both Canada and the United States. Many of these movements face huge organizational problems, and yet they display remarkable resilience, signaling both continuing political dissatisfactions as well as possibilities for changing political outcomes. This book demonstrates how organizational theory can be useful for understanding party movements, and also expands on the idea of continuity, contributing new ways of thinking about how organizations change and survive in the face of recurring dilemmas. This look inside party movements, at the organizational problems they face and the strategies employed to deal with them, represents a new way of accounting for their history that contrasts with perspectives focusing solely on external conditions.

In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A. Schwartz and political scientist Raymond Tatalovich bring their disciplinary insights to the study of moral issues. Beginning with prohibition, Schwartz and Tatalovich trace the phases of its evolution from emergence, establishment, decline and resurgence, to resolution. Prohibition’s life history generates a series of hypotheses about how passage through each of the phases affected subsequent developments and how these were shaped by the political institutions and social character of the United States and Canada. Using the history of prohibition in North America as a point of reference, the authors move on to address the anticipated progression and possible resolution of six contemporary moral issues: abortion, capital punishment, gun control, marijuana, pornography, and same-sex relations. Schwartz and Tatalovich build a new theoretical approach by drawing on scholarship on agenda-setting, mass media, social movements, and social problems. The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts provides new insights into how moral conflicts develop and interact with their social and political environment.