Canada and the United States
Differences That Count, Fifth Edition
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2023
- Category
- General, Comparative Politics, Canadian
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487544195
- Publish Date
- Jun 2023
- List Price
- $130.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487544225
- Publish Date
- Jun 2023
- List Price
- $70.00
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Description
Canada and the United States explains, across fifteen diverse areas, why and how Canada and the United States are still so different. The book discusses whether or not these differences are growing, the key results of such differences, and the major challenges to be faced in each system.
Focusing on institutions, political cultures, and social values, the book shows how both federal systems are extremely complex and how our institutions, cultures, and historical experiences often lead to very different outcomes. The fifth edition discusses the emergence of vital new issues, including the pandemic and its effects, climate change, energy requirements, increasing international tensions, and new trade problems. This book also reviews massive budgetary changes, new forms of protest emerging in Canada, and an ongoing political crisis in the US instigated bya former president convincing millions that the 2020 election was a hoax. Written by leading scholars in their field, Canada and the United States reveals how the two countries compare when dealing with similar problems that often spill across the border.
About the authors
David M. Thomas is the retired Vice-President Academic of Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC. Educated in the United Kingdom, France, and Canada, he has held a number of senior academic administrative appointments in addition to teaching. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Calgary; is author of Whistling Past the Graveyard: Constitutional Abeyances, Quebec, and the Future of Canada; was a co-editor of Braving the New World: Readings in Contemporary Politics; and is the editor of the first two editions of Canada and the United States: Differences that Count.
Christopher Sands is the director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Canada Institute and senior research professor and director of the Center for Canadian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
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