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  • Canadian Federal Election of 2021 Canadian Federal Election of 2021
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    Canadian Federal Election of 2021

    Media pundits and students of Canadian politics alike have strived to interpret the relevance of the 2021 federal election, held in the midst of a global pandemic and reinforcing the existing parliamentary balance of power.This timely volume explains the...
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  • Symbolic State Symbolic State
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    Symbolic State

    The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state encompassing it. No such naturalization is possible in multinational states. To explain why these countries experience political crises that bring their very...
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  • Precarious Lives of Syrians Precarious Lives of Syrians
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    Precarious Lives of Syrians

    Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and...
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  • Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec
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    Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec

    Quebec's most recent attempts to assert its distinctiveness within Canada have relied on unilateral constitutional means to strengthen its French and secular character, suggesting that an important change of political culture has taken place in Quebec...
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  • Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies
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    Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies

    Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- determination. Multinational democracies face pressing challenges to the existing order because...
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  • Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States
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    Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States

    Substate nationalism is often studied as a question of political identity and cultural recognition. The same applies to the study of multinational federalism - it is mainly conceived as a tool for the accommodation of minority cultures and identities...
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  • Across Boundaries Across Boundaries
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    Across Boundaries

    Why and how does secession happen? How do different levels of government interact with each other? Why do some multilevel governments work better than others? What makes political extremism so virulent in today's society? These are some of the most...
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  • Greatness and Decline Greatness and Decline
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    Greatness and Decline

    Exceptionalist ideas have long influenced British foreign policy. As Britain begins to confront the challenges of a post-Brexit era in an increasingly unstable world, a re-examination of the nature and causes of this exceptionalist bent is in order...
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  • Rethinking Decentralization Rethinking Decentralization
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    Rethinking Decentralization

    Federal countries face innumerable challenges including public health crises, economic uncertainty, and widespread public distrust in governing institutions. They are also home to 40 per cent of the world's population.Rethinking Decentralization explores...
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  • Legacy of 9/11 Legacy of 9/11
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    Legacy of 9/11

    While 9/11 was understood at the time as a world-changing event in international relations, its uneven aftermath and the long-term effects for North America could not have been predicted.Twenty years later, The Legacy of 9/11 explores the political,...
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  • Organizing Equality Organizing Equality
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    Organizing Equality

    Struggles for equality happen in all corners of the world. While social and economic justice movements are specific to their different national contexts, identities, and forms of oppression, collaboration and coalition building are required if we are to...
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  • Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America
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    Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America

    Latin America provides a compelling case for the study of migration policies and laws, with several factors - including both internal and interregional migration and refugee flows, the region's progressive approach to the management of human mobility,...
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  • Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy
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    Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy

    From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to overloaded internet voting servers to faulty voting machines, the growing relationship between democracy and technology has brought to light the challenges associated with integrating new digital tools into the...
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  • Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces
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    Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces

    While countries throughout the world rely on immigrants to support their populations and economies, access to the military is limited, denied to those who have not yet acquired citizenship.Precluding immigrants from serving in their host country's armed...
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  • Taking Pluralism Seriously Taking Pluralism Seriously
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    Taking Pluralism Seriously

    In so-called post-factual societies, where public debates are undermined by their false or misleading premises, philosophers who have reflected on diversity and pluralism can offer a critical and clarifying perspective through which to evaluate the...
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  • New Leaders, New Dawns? New Leaders, New Dawns?
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    New Leaders, New Dawns?

    In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both experienced rapid and unexpected political transitions. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, the only leader the country had ever known, was replaced in a "soft coup" by his erstwhile vice-president,...
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  • Russian Military Intervention in Syria Russian Military Intervention in Syria
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    Russian Military Intervention in Syria

    Since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has tried to restore its lost status, prestige, and influence in the global political arena. At the same time, internal political challenges and international events - such as the Arab Spring and the...
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  • Fate of Canada Fate of Canada
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    Fate of Canada

    From 1963 until 1971, a group of distinguished Canadians wrestled with the language conflict that ran the risk of tearing the country apart. Among their ranks, F.R. Scott - a poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, human rights activist, and law...
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  • Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms
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    Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms

    Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare. The weaponization of artificial intelligence raises questions about whether human beings will maintain control of the use of force. The notion of meaningful...
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  • Canada as Statebuilder? Canada as Statebuilder?
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    Canada as Statebuilder?

    Canada's statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan are not well documented. After fourteen years of significant investments in humanitarian causes, there are still questions about the impact of these projects and whether they delivered as promised or fell...
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  • Telecom Tensions Telecom Tensions
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    Telecom Tensions

    Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko...
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  • John Stuart Mill, Socialist John Stuart Mill, Socialist
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    John Stuart Mill, Socialist

    Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself ""under the general designation of Socialist."" Taking this self-description...
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  • Global Politics of Poverty in Canada Global Politics of Poverty in Canada
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    Global Politics of Poverty in Canada

    In the 1960s and 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War and an international decolonization movement, development advocates believed that poverty could be ended, at home and abroad. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores the relationship between...
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  • Coping with Geopolitical Decline Coping with Geopolitical Decline
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    Coping with Geopolitical Decline

    How great powers react to their inevitable decline shapes their own destiny as well as the course of international politics. Leaders can decide to engage with others or isolate themselves; to build alliances or initiate war; to stoke up nationalism or...
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  • Canadian Federalism and Its Future Canadian Federalism and Its Future
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    Canadian Federalism and Its Future

    The time is ripe to revisit Canada's past and redress its historical wrongs. Yet in our urgency to imagine roads to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, it is important to keep in sight the many other forms of diversity that Canadian federalism has...
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  • Frequencies Frequencies
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    Frequencies

    Our digital world is increasingly mobile. All mobile communication rests upon access to one invisible, essential element: the radio spectrum. In Frequencies Gregory Taylor and Catherine Middleton bring together diverse national perspectives to explore...
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  • Big Moves Big Moves
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    Big Moves

    All countries have distinctive urban regions, but Canadian cities especially differ from one another in culture, structure, and history. Anthony Perl, Matt Hern, and Jeffrey Kenworthy reveal that despite the peculiarities and singular traits that each...
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  • Strangers to Neighbours Strangers to Neighbours
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    Strangers to Neighbours

    As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a...
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  • Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis
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    Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis

    Since 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign...
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  • Who Pays for Canada? Who Pays for Canada?
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    Who Pays for Canada?

    Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But if resentment and...
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  • International Education as Public Policy in Canada International Education as Public Policy in Canada
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    International Education as Public Policy in Canada

    In the early twenty-first century international education emerged as an almost ubiquitous concept within discussions of educational curriculum; the objectives of schools, universities, and colleges; and government policies for K-12 and higher education...
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  • Politics of Party Leadership Politics of Party Leadership
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    Politics of Party Leadership

    Making use of a unique data set that includes more than 1000 leadership elections from over 100 parties in 14 countries over an almost 50 year period, this volume provides the first comprehensive, comparative examination of how parties choose their...
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  • Militant Suffrage Movement Militant Suffrage Movement
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    Militant Suffrage Movement

    The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonymous with the British...
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  • The Inclusion Calculation The Inclusion Calculation
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    The Inclusion Calculation

    In The Inclusion Calculation, Melody E. Valdini examines women's representation in politics and offers insights into men's strategies for using women to advance their own political ambitions. While it is certainly valuable to encourage women to run for...
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  • The Captured Economy The Captured Economy
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    The Captured Economy

    In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a new culprit for increasing inequality: the government-corporate sector nexus. They explain how wealthy special interest groups have captured the governmental regulatory process, and...
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  • The Politics of the Pill The Politics of the Pill
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    The Politics of the Pill

    In The Politics of the Pill, Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten tell the story of contemporary birth control policy and the role that women played in it. First, they chart the twists and turns of a fascinating, controversial and consequential...
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  • The Long Hangover The Long Hangover
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    The Long Hangover

    The Long Hangover reveals a lost generation: the millions of Russians who lost their country and the subsequent attempts to restore to them a sense of purpose. Now in paperback with a revised preface, this book presents deep analysis and vibrant...
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  • LA GRAN TRAICIÓN LA GRAN TRAICIÓN
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    LA GRAN TRAICIÓN

    LA GRAN TRAICIÓNTras renunciar a un contrato por dos años en la COPE, César Vidal sufre, desde el primer día, un acoso cruel en Es.Radio, a manos de Dieter Brandau y Javier Somalo, dos mediocres colaboradores directos de Federico Jiménez Losantos, quien...
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  • Strengthening Urban Management Strengthening Urban Management
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    Strengthening Urban Management

    Managing cities and providing housing, essential infra­ structure and public services in an era of great pressures on municipal resources are challenging domestic issues in all parts of the world. Increasingly, city ...
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  • Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy
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    Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy

    This volume contains the papers, along with the discussant's re­ marks, presented at a conference on 'Federal Fiscal Responsibility', held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, on 26-27 March 1976. Additionally, we, the...
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  • Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts
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    Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts

    Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, published in 1972, was the first criminologi­ cal birth cohort study in the United States. Nils Christie, in Unge norske lovorertredere, had done the first such study as his dissertation at the...
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