Policy and politics in Canada / / Carolyn Tuohy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785323103321
• Autore: Tuohy Carolyn Hughes <1945->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-4399-0702-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (418 pages)
• Collana: Policy and politics in industrial states
• Disciplina: 320.60971; 320/.6/0971
• Soggetti: Political planning - Canada; Canada Economic policy; Canada Politics and government 1945-; Canada Social policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors' Preface; Preface; 1. Introduction; The Roots of Ambivalence; The Institutionalization of Ambivalence; The Organization of Interests; Conclusions; Notes; 2. Constitutional Change; Context; Agenda; Process; Consequences; Readings; 2-1: The Pequiste Manifesto; 2-2: The Federal Response to Quebec's Constitutional Agenda; 2-3: The Quebec Referendum; 2-4: Entrenched Rights versus Parliamentary Supremacy; 2-5: The Quebec Liberal's Constitutional Position during the 1980 Referendum Campaign; 2-6: The Meech Lake Accord (Excerpts); 2-7: Trudeau's Criticism of the Accord; 2-8: One Legislator's Ambivalence Notes; 3. Health Care Delivery; Context; Agenda; Process; Consequences; Readings; 3-1: A Health Charter for Canadians; 3-2: Governmental Insurance and Clinical Judgement: A Medical View; 3-3: The Canadian Medical Association and Canadian Medicare; 3-4: The Canadian Nurses Association and Canadian Medicare; 3-5: A Consumers' Coalition Seeks a Community-Based Health Plan; 3-6: Extra-Billing and the Universality of Social Programs; 3-7: The Medical Profession Seeks a Partnership with Government; 3-8: The Policy Agenda of the 1990's at the Provincial Level; Notes; 4. Industrial Relations and Labour-Market Policy Context; Agenda; ; Process; Consequences; Readings; 4-1 and 4-2: The Business View of Labour-Management Cooperation; 4-3: Labour's Approach to Social Partnership; 4-4: Government as a Catalyst in Labour-Management Cooperation; 4-5: An Evaluation of Government Adjustment Assistance; 4-6: Labour on Collective Bargaining and Labour-Market Policy; Notes; 5. Economic Development and Adjustment; Context; Agenda; Process; Consequences; Readings; 5-1: The BCNI Critique of Canadian Industrial Policy; 5-2: Labour's Goals: Full Employment and Greater Public Control 5-3: The Macdonald Commission on Canada-U.S. Trade; 5-4: Labour's Focus on Full Employment; 5-5: The Commons Debate on the Free Trade Agreement; Notes; 6. Oil and Gas Policy; Context; Agenda; Process; Consequences; Readings; 6-1: The Gordon Commission's View of Foreign Investment in Canadian Oil; 6-2: Western Canadian Resistance to the National Energy Program; 6-3: The Federal Defense of the National Energy Program; 6-4: The Business Community and the National Energy Program; 6-5: Federal and Provincial Powers over Natural Resources Notes; 7. Minority Language Rights; Context; Agenda; Process; Consequences; Readings; 7-1: Trudeau on Language Rights; 7-2: Levesque on Francophones outside Quebec; 7-3: The Manifesto of Quebec's Radical Nationalists; 7-4: The Union Nationale Government on the Status of French; 7-5: The Courts on Linguistic Education Rights; 7-6: Language Rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom; 7-7: The Commissioner of Official Languages on Multiculturalism; Notes; 8. Competence and Crisis: Canada's Ambivalent Institutions-- Elite Accommodation: The Role of Mediating Interests
• Sommario/riassunto: At a time when Canadian political institutions are being fundamentally questioned, this book provides a comparative perspective on the distinctive features of the Canadian policy process which have enabled conflict to be resolved in the past. In comparison with other Western industrial nations, Canada's policies in some arenas appear as models of workable compromise; in others, they stand out as marked by continuing irresolution. In this first book-length treatment of Canadian public policy in comparative perspective, Carolyn Tuohy focuses on constitutional change, health care delivery,