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Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
Insight
A Study of Human Understanding, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1992
Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it.
In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is...
Our Place in the Sun
Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon the past but also explore the internal issues and external forces that will continue to influence...
David Hume's Political Theory
Law, Commerce and the Constitution of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and political theory. David Hume's Political Theory brings together Hume's diverse writings on law and government,...
by Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American...
by Grace Skogstad
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics offers a variety of perspectives on the development of policy paradigms — the ideas that structure thinking about what can and should be done in a policy domain. In this collection, international experts examine how both transnational actors...
by Alain G. Gagnon, Raffaele Iacovino
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2006
Canadians often imagine their country as a multicultural democracy, while a few go further to claim that the country's diversity can be characterized as multinational in its social and institutional make-up. In Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec, Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino reveal how this...
Old English Metre
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction...
North America in Question
Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States,...
Journalism in Crisis
Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology.
Public policies...
Flaming Souls
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexuality...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them...
Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice, and in so doing promotes...
Stickhandling through the Margins
First Nations Hockey in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Some of hockey’s fiercest and most passionate players and fans can be found among Canada's First Nations populations, including NHL greats Jordin Tootoo, Jonathan Cheechoo, and Gino Odjick. At first glance the importance of hockey to the country's Aboriginal peoples may seem to indicate assimilation...