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Canada's National Defence: Volume 1
Defence Policy
Häftad, 1999
471 kr
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Canadian governments have not issued many policy statements on national defence since 1945. Most of those presented to Parliament were simple pronouncements of the status quo, especially after the early 1950s. Occasionally, however, ministers attempted to take defence policy in new, and sometimes …
Canada's National Defence: Volume 2
Defence Organization
Häftad, 1999
457 kr
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Volumes in the Canada's National Defence series present an annotated collection of government statements on defence policy and internal studies and reports prepared by senior military officers, defence officials, and consultants to governments and ministers from about 1945 to 1997. They trace the …
Comparing Federal Systems
Häftad, 2008
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Countries studied include the United States, Switzerland, Australia, Austria, and Germany as examples of developed industrial societies; India and Malaysia as examples of multilingual and multicultural federations; Belgium and Spain as examples of emerging federal systems that illustrate bicommunal …
Immigration, Integration, and Inclusion in Ontario Cities
Av John Biles, Meyer Burstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
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Ontario receives the majority of newcomers to Canada, and its cities are a locus of diversity. Recognizing that the building and sustenance of "welcoming communities" is as much a local project as a national and provincial one, this volume explores the activities of municipal governments in Ontario …
Where to from Here?
Keeping Medicare Sustainable
Häftad, 2012
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Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and …
Water As a Social Opportunity
Av Seanna L. Davidson, Jamie Linton m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
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Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen's University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity. Water as a Social Opportunity conveys …
Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 4th Edition
Av Kim Richard Nossal, Stéphane Roussel m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
495 kr
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The fourth edition of this widely used text includes updates about the many changes that have occurred in Canadian foreign policy under Stephen Harper and the Conservatives between 2006 and 2015. Subjects discussed include the fading emphasis on internationalism, the rise of a new foreign policy …
Maastricht Model
A Canadian Perspective on the European Model
Häftad, 1996
383 kr
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Leslie provides an accessible and clear description of the complex governing machinery of the European Union (as created by the Maastricht Treaty of 1993), underlying dynamics of European integration, and applicability of the model to Canada.
Labour Market Polarization and Social Policy Reform
Av Keith G. Banting, Charles M. Beach
Häftad, 1995
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Labour Market Polarization and Social Policy Reform explores the dimensions of polarization and the challenges it poses for social policy reform, presenting the most recent evidence on polarization, poverty, and inequality in Canada and other nations.
Policy Frameworks for a Knowledge Economy
Häftad, 1996
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Continuing the focus of earlier volumes on ways in which economic growth, globalization, and nationalism are being forged and reshaped by growth in the knowledge-based economy, this fourth volume of the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy explores policy frameworks for a knowledge …
How Many Roads...?
Regionalization and Decentralization in Health Care
Av John Dorland, Mathwin S. Davis
Häftad, 1996
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How Many Roads...? addresses regionalization and decentralization in health care from the perspective of health care providers and consumers at a time when Canada's health care system faces change and financial constraints.
Reform of Retirement Income Policy
International and Canadian Perspectives
Av Keith G. Banting, Robin W. Boadway
Häftad, 1996
423 kr
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Canada is hardly unique in this respect. Countries around the world are engaged in similar debates, and their experience holds important lessons. Through the perspectives of international and Canadian researchers, Reform of Retirement Income Policy focuses on many key reform issues: future income …
Lone Parent Incomes and Social Policy Outcomes
Lone Parents and Social Policy in Ten Countries
Häftad, 1997
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Lone parent families are vulnerable to lower living standards in all the countries studied, but the highest poverty rates among such families occur in the English-speaking world. On a variety of poverty measures, lone parent families are better off in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and France …
Social Partnerships for Training
Canada's Experiment with Labour Force Development Boards
Av Andrew Sharpe, Rodney S. Haddow
Häftad, 1997
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This study of social partnerships in the establishment of labour force development boards provides important food for thought for Canadians interested in the continuing problem of high unemployment in Canada. Drawing on recent theory in political science and comparative public policy, Social …
Nation State in a Global/Information Era
Policy Challenges
Inbunden, 1997
1401 kr
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Richard Cooper (Harvard) examines government, markets, and citizens in the millennium; Mark Zacher (UBC), Ronald McKinnon (Stanford), and Sylvia Ostry (U of T) provide three perspectives on the changing nature of supra-natural economic and political space; Paul Boothe (U of A) focuses on …
Nation State in a Global/Information Era
Policy Challenges
Häftad, 1997
411 kr
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Richard Cooper (Harvard) examines government, markets, and citizens in the millennium; Mark Zacher (UBC), Ronald McKinnon (Stanford), and Sylvia Ostry (U of T) provide three perspectives on the changing nature of supra-natural economic and political space; Paul Boothe (U of A) focuses on …
1997 Federal Budget
Retrospect and Prospect
Av Thomas J. Courchene, Thomas A. Wilson
Inbunden, 1998
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1997 Federal Budget
Retrospect and Prospect
Av Thomas J. Courchene, Thomas A. Wilson
Häftad, 1998
395 kr
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Diplomatic Missions
The Ambassador in Canadian Foreign Policy
Av Robert Wolfe
Häftad, 1999
423 kr
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The collection addresses expectations placed on ambassadors, the role of provincial representatives, the history of foreign service recruitment, diplomatic change in Washington, the challenges of small missions, the contrasts between representing Canada in a G-7 capital and in a populous developing …
Women and Work
Av Richard Chaykowski, Lisa Powell
Häftad, 1999
411 kr
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Women and Work offers analyses of women and the labour market with respect to a wide range of topics that include technological change, skill requirements, and training; income security programs and work decisions of lone parents; the dynamics of welfare participation; school-to-work transitions; …
Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Av Tom McIntosh
Häftad, 2001
411 kr
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Labour market policy occupies a space at the intersection of social policy and economic policy and as such has important implications for each. With the signing of the Social Union Framework Agreement between Ottawa and nine provincial governments, Canada has embarked on an ambitious restructuring …
Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada
Av Duane Adams
Häftad, 2001
395 kr
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The future of Canadian health policy is the highest priority issue in Canadian politics and, recognizing that intergovernmental relations are central to tackling this issue, Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada examines the nature of prevalent intergovernmental regimes in the health …
Disability and Federalism
Comparing Different Approaches to Full Participation
Av David Cameron, Fraser Valentine
Häftad, 2001
411 kr
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All modern democratic states have fashioned policies and programs in response to the needs of persons with disabilities. These vary from nation to nation and in Disability and Federalism the authors examine the impact of the federal regimes of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, and the United …
Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada
Av Duane Adams
Inbunden, 2001
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The future of Canadian health policy is the highest priority issue in Canadian politics and, recognizing that intergovernmental relations are central to tackling this issue, Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada examines the nature of prevalent intergovernmental regimes in the health …
Improving Connections Between Governments, Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations
Public Policy and the Third Sector
Häftad, 2002
411 kr
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This collection of conference papers and notes begins an important dialogue across the divides that exist nationally and internationally. Topics include the Voluntary Sector Initiative, regulatory and legislative reform, charity commissions, nongovernmental organizations abroad, civil society and …
Lessons of Everyday Law
Häftad, 2002
353 kr
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Problems of discovering and representing reality, of making and transcribing rules into linguistic and other symbolic forms, of fact-finding and interpretation routinely confront policy-makers and lawyers. But, in a sense, everyone is a lawyer because ordinary human interaction is saturated with …
North American Democratic Peace
Absence of War and Security Institutions Building in Canadians-U.S. Relations (1867-1958)
Häftad, 2004
411 kr
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That democratic societies do not fight one another is well documented, but the mechanisms that produce and maintain this situation remain vague. Stéphane Roussel argues that Canadian-U.S. security relations provide a case study that allows us to better understand this process. He shows that the …
North American Democratic Peace
Absence of War and Security Institutions Building in Canadians-U.S. Relations (1867-1958)
Inbunden, 2004
453 kr
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That democratic societies do not fight one another is well documented, but the mechanisms that produce and maintain this situation remain vague. Stéphane Roussel argues that Canadian-U.S. security relations provide a case study that allows us to better understand this process. He shows that the …
Nonprofit Sector in Interesting Times
Case Studies in a Changing Sector
Av Kathy L. Brock, Keith G. Banting
Häftad, 2003
411 kr
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The cases explored here include internet regulation and privacy legislation, conservation efforts and biodiversity, the savings behaviour of NPOs, the breast cancer policy community, and voluntary sector-government compacts. Contributors include Kathy Brock, Philippe Barla (Université Laval), …
Framing Financial Structure in an Information Environment
Av Thomas J. Courchene, Edwin H. Neave
Häftad, 2003
423 kr
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Contributors include Douglas Gale (NYU) on regulation in the information era; David Smith (Federal Reserve Board) on the globalization of commercial banking; John Chant (Simon Fraser) on the internationalization of Canadian banking; Charles Goodhart (London School of Economics) on the economics of …
