Why Canadian unity matters and why Americans care
Subtitle: democratic pluralism at risk
By: Charles F. Doran.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Secession -- Québec (Province); Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Canada; Public opinion -- United States; Sécession -- Québec (Province); Pluralisme -- Canada; Opinion publique -- États-Unis; Québec (Province) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Canada -- Foreign public opinion, American; Québec (Province) -- Histoire -- Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes; Canada -- Opinion étrangère américaine
Description: Drawing on a variety of perspective, Charles Doran examines why Canadian unity is important not only to the United States but also to other liberal democracies around the world. In addition, he looks at the wider context of Quebec nationalism and the nature of the historical era that has shaped and conditioned the secessionist impulse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Challenges to Democratic Pluralism 3; title: Democratic Pluralism: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary 5; title: Cultural Identity and Politics 16; title: The Social-Psychology of Divisive Nationalism 22; title: The Challenge to Liberal Democracy 27; title: 2 A U.S. Perspective on Canadian Unity 37; title: What Underlies U.S. Preferences? 40; title: The Economic Claim to Wholeness 46; title: Defence of the North American Continent: The Security; title: Claim 55; title: Why Canada Is Important: City on the Hill, Interdependence, and; title: Cohesion 60; title: 3 Will Quebec Secede? 66; title: How Three Social-Psychological Processes Fan Quebec; title: Nationalism 66; title: Factors Contributing to Separation 69; title: Quebec Nationalism: Ethnic or Civic? 83; title: Sources of Resistance to Disunity 88; title: Background Trends Affecting Quebec Nationalism 96; title: Unaccounted-for Trends and Surprises 100; title: No Bottom Line, No Willingness to Budge 104; title: 4 Could English Canada Unravel? 106; title: Geographical Isolation of the Atlantic Provinces 109; title: 'Transfer Payments' Would End 113; title: Effervescence of 'Western Alienation' 119; title: The 'Ontario Problem' 126; title: The North American Crucible 131; title: 5 Is Separatism Home-Grown or the Result of Contagion? 135; title: State Formation as Historically Determined Evolution 137; title: The Influence of the International System on Secession 143; title: Building States by Breaking States: Divisive Nationalism 145; title: Can Democratic Pluralism Survive? Divisive Nationalism and the; title: Future 150; title: Centralization, Globalization, and North America 153; title: 6 Is Small Size a Stimulus or Obstacle to Separatism? 162; title: Economic Costs of Separation to Quebec 162; title: The Structure of World Order and Trade 166; title: Relationship between the Size of a Polity and Its Economic; title: Growth 174; title: Empirical Analysis of the Size/Growth Threshold 178; title: Causal Assumptions Underlying Costs of Secession 183; title: Resolving the Paradigmatic Controversy 184; title: Assessing the Policy Implications 185; title: 7 What Kind of Canada in the Twenty-First Century? 190; title: Aboriginal Peoples, Cultural Survival, and Democratic; title: Pluralism 191; title: Responding to Quebec If Secession Fails 192; title: Is a Unilateral Declaration of Independence Possible? 199; title: Probing Plan B 202; title: Responding to the ROC If Quebec Secedes 207; title: Responding to Asymmetrical Federalism 216; title: Responding to a Scenario of Deep Decentralization 217; title: Summing Up the Options and the Consequences 222; title: 8 Self-Determination and Democratic Pluralism 225; title: The Threat to Democratic Pluralism 225; title: Divisive Nationalism 228; title: Bogus Science of Primordial Causes for Ethnic Separatism 236; title: The Communitarian Challenge to Democratic Pluralism 237; title: Self-Determination: The Pluralist Addendum 243; title: Confronting the Challenge to Democratic Pluralism 249; title: Notes 253; title: Index 291.