[PDF] The Comparative Turn In Canadian Political Science eBook

Author : Linda White
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774858397

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Over the past decade, the introspective, insular, and largely atheoretical style that informed Canadian political science for most of the postwar period has given way to a deeper engagement with, and integration into, the global field of comparative politics. This volume is the first sustained attempt to describe, analyze, and assess the "comparative turn" in Canadian political science. Canada's engagement with comparative politics is examined with a focus on three central questions: In what ways, and how successfully, have Canadian scholars contributed to the study of comparative politics? How does study of the Canadian case advance the comparative discipline? Finally, can Canadian practice and policy be reproduced in other countries?

Author : Martin Papillon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0774827866

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Debating how Canada compares, both regionally and in relation to other countries, is a national pastime. This book examines how political scientists apply diverse comparative strategies to better understand Canadian political life. Using a variety of methods, the contributors use comparison to examine topics as diverse as Indigenous rights, Canadian voting behaviour, activist movements, climate policy, and immigrant retention. While the theoretical perspectives and kinds of questions asked vary greatly, as a whole they demonstrate how the “art of comparing” is an important strategy for understanding Canadian identity politics, political mobilization, political institutions, and public policy. Ultimately, this book establishes how adopting a more systematic comparative outlook is essential – not only to revitalize the study of Canadian politics but also to achieve a more nuanced understanding of Canada as a whole.

Author : Ronald G. Landes
Publisher : Prentice-Hall Canada
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780130914170

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This text is suited to Introduction to Canadian Politics, Introduction to Political Science, and Comparative Government courses taught at universities and colleges across the country. The Canadian Polity is an introduction to Canadian politics that uses a comparative approach. The text includes an evaluation of Canada's system of government compared to that of the United States and Britain. Examples and analysis have been updated and coverage of recent political events have been included to make this text current. This text includes coverage of the recent Canadian, American, and British elections. This is the only text in the market that is completely structured around the comparative framework.

Author : Antje Ellermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 110714664X

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Ellermann examines the development of immigration policies in four democracies from the postwar era to the present.

Author : John Courtney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019533535X

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation that has occurred in Canadian politics since it acheived autonomy nearly a century ago, examining the institutions and processes of Canadian government and politics at the local, provincial and federal levels. It analyzes all aspects of the Canadian political system: the courts, elections, political parties, Parliament, the constitution, fiscal and political federalism, the diffusion of policies between regions, and various aspects of public policy.

Author : Gregory S. Mahler
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780130915696

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This text is appropriate for comparative politics, world politics, and global politics courses taught at the university level. The Canadian edition of Comparative Politics: An Institutional and Cross-National Approach provides students and instructors with a balance of the theoretical, institutional and polity specific approaches. Emphasis is placed on political institutions because of their ease of comparison, their facility of identification and classification, and the extent to which they lend themselves to analysis. Comparative Politics gives students both the tools and the perspective to undertake a meaningful cross-national introduction to the political world in which they must operate.

Author : Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 144260428X

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Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the relationship between power and representation in Canada. The framework for the book presents a model of the mutual interaction between politics and the media. Attention is focused in the early chapters on how cultural, ideological, economic, and governmental forces shape and condition the production of media in Canada. Chapters on the work of Innis, Grant, McLuhan, and their postmodern successors place the evolution of McLuhan's theoretical argument that "the medium is the message" at the heart of the book. Canadian identity, and how to understand Canadian media politically, is the subject of a chapter on textual analysis. Two extensive chapters follow on the media’s influence and effects on politics. In addition to standard topics on politics and the media, this new edition offers much more: an examination of the media on the politics of gender and aboriginal peoples, the micro-politics of the media workplace, and an exploration of important media-related considerations. Throughout, reference is made to relevant and compelling issues placed within the context of media theory.

Author : David Easton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134935242

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In recent years the history of political science has become recognised as an important but neglected area of study. The Development of Political Science is the first comprehensive discussion of the subject in a comparative international perspective. Offering a wide-ranging account of the development of the subject and its dissemination across national borders and cultural divides, the book begins with a study of the historiography of the discipline in the United States, a country which has been at the forefront of the field. Widening its discussion to emphasise Western Europe as a focus for comparison, the contributors provide studies of further areas of interest such as China and Africa. This particular approach emphasises the book's vision of political science as a growing transnational body of knowledge. In presenting critical analysis of the state of the field, this vigorous study aims to further the development of the discipline in the countries discussed, and to provide a work that is interesting not only to political scientists, but to all those concerned with the development of the social sciences.

Author : Agustina Giraudy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110849658X

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Offers a groundbreaking analysis of the distinctive substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions of subnational research in the field of comparative politics.