Electing a Diverse Canada
Electing a Diverse Canada presents the most extensive analysisto date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, andwomen in Canada. Covering eleven cities, as well as Canada’sParliament, it breaks new ground by assessing the representation ofdiverse identity groups across multiple levels of government. Electoralrepresentation is …
Gilles Paquet
This volume explores and contextualizes the contributions of Gilles Paquet as a social scientist. A quintessential public intellectual, Gilles Paquet's long and multifaceted career has shown him to be a thinker of significant power and creativity. This self-described "homo hereticus"--always critical and sometimes controversial--has influenced sch …
La Démocratie à l'épreuve de la gouvernance
Pour le profane, la gouvernance fait d’abord penser au fonctionnement des organisations, ou des institutions, et à la distribution du pouvoir dans ces structures. Le jargon dans ce domaine nous vient des spécialistes de la gestion des organisations, des sciences administratives et de la sociologie urbaine. Toutefois, en devenant de plus en plus …
Life Spaces
Written by some of Canada's top researchers in the field, thearticles in this collection introduce a new chapter in feministliterature, focusing on women and their experiences in Canadian urbansettings and illustrating the importance of gender in the developmentof urban areas. While the articles represent diverse approaches andmethodologies, they a …
Studies in Political Economy
This collection brings together a number of significant articles from the journal Studies in Political Economy (SPE) that illustrate feminist political economy, reflect on the ways in which political economy incorporates feminism, and examine the evolution of Canadian feminist analysis over the past twenty years. Studies in Political Economy: Deve …
Urban Affairs
Canada's last experience with national urban policy-making was in the 1970s. The authors focus on what has happened since, exploring how both our city-regions and our ideas about the urban policy-making process have changed. The authors also examine both the past and present roles of the federal government, and what it can and should do in the futu …
Women and the Canadian State/Les femmes et l'Etat canadien
Awareness of the history of the interaction between women and the Canadian state is central to understanding and evaluating action in the present and in the future. Women and the Canadian State makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate. Contributors include Dyane Adam, Naomi Alboim, Pat Armstrong, Monique Bégin, Florence Bird, Claire B …