An edition of Why Canadian unity matters and why Americans care
(2001)
Why Canadian unity matters and why Americans care
democratic pluralism at risk
by Charles F. Doran
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American Foreign public opinion, Histoire, Autonomy and independence movements, Opinion publique, Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes, Pluralisme, Public opinion, Pluralism (Social sciences), Opinion étrangère américaine, Secession, History, Sécession, Democracy, Separatisme, Nationale Einheit, Sezession, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Federalisme, Cultural pluralism, Democratie, Teilstaat, Multiculturele samenlevingen, Separatismus, Öffentliche Meinung, (Politik), Unabhängigkeit, General, American Public opinion, HISTORY, Einheit, Opinion etrangere americaine, Offentliche Meinung, Unabhangigkeit, Autonomie et mouvements independantistes, Public opinion, united states, Quebec (province), history, autonomy and independence movementsPlaces
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Why Canadian unity matters and why Americans care: democratic pluralism at risk
2001, University of Toronto Press
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 Challenges to Democratic Pluralism 3
Democratic Pluralism: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary 5
Cultural Identity and Politics 16
The Social-Psychology of Divisive Nationalism 22
The Challenge to Liberal Democracy 27
2 A U.S. Perspective on Canadian Unity 37
What Underlies U.S. Preferences? 40
The Economic Claim to Wholeness 46
Defence of the North American Continent: The Security
Claim 55
Why Canada Is Important: City on the Hill, Interdependence, and
Cohesion 60
3 Will Quebec Secede? 66
How Three Social-Psychological Processes Fan Quebec
Nationalism 66
Factors Contributing to Separation 69
Quebec Nationalism: Ethnic or Civic? 83
Sources of Resistance to Disunity 88
Background Trends Affecting Quebec Nationalism 96
Unaccounted-for Trends and Surprises 100
No Bottom Line, No Willingness to Budge 104
4 Could English Canada Unravel? 106
Geographical Isolation of the Atlantic Provinces 109
'Transfer Payments' Would End 113
Effervescence of 'Western Alienation' 119
The 'Ontario Problem' 126
The North American Crucible 131
5 Is Separatism Home-Grown or the Result of Contagion? 135
State Formation as Historically Determined Evolution 137
The Influence of the International System on Secession 143
Building States by Breaking States: Divisive Nationalism 145
Can Democratic Pluralism Survive? Divisive Nationalism and the
Future 150
Centralization, Globalization, and North America 153
6 Is Small Size a Stimulus or Obstacle to Separatism? 162
Economic Costs of Separation to Quebec 162
The Structure of World Order and Trade 166
Relationship between the Size of a Polity and Its Economic
Growth 174
Empirical Analysis of the Size/Growth Threshold 178
Causal Assumptions Underlying Costs of Secession 183
Resolving the Paradigmatic Controversy 184
Assessing the Policy Implications 185
7 What Kind of Canada in the Twenty-First Century? 190
Aboriginal Peoples, Cultural Survival, and Democratic
Pluralism 191
Responding to Quebec If Secession Fails 192
Is a Unilateral Declaration of Independence Possible? 199
Probing Plan B 202
Responding to the ROC If Quebec Secedes 207
Responding to Asymmetrical Federalism 216
Responding to a Scenario of Deep Decentralization 217
Summing Up the Options and the Consequences 222
8 Self-Determination and Democratic Pluralism 225
The Threat to Democratic Pluralism 225
Divisive Nationalism 228
Bogus Science of Primordial Causes for Ethnic Separatism 236
The Communitarian Challenge to Democratic Pluralism 237
Self-Determination: The Pluralist Addendum 243
Confronting the Challenge to Democratic Pluralism 249
Notes 253
Index 291.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-289) and index.
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