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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817905603321

Autore

Ayres Jeffrey McKelvey

Titolo

Defying conventional wisdom : political movements and popular contention against North American free trade / / Jeffrey M. Ayres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-281-99549-5

9786611995492

1-4426-7378-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

Disciplina

322.40971

Soggetti

Political participation - Canada

Social movements - Political aspects - Canada

Foreign trade regulation - Canada - Citizen participation

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Studying Movements Politically -- ; 2. The Origins of a Movement -- ; 3. The Politics of Coalition Building -- ; 4. The Parliamentary Protest Campaign -- ; 5. The Constraints of Electoral Politics -- ; 6. NAFTA and the Structuring of Domestic and Transnational Protest -- ; 7. From National Sovereignty towards Popular Sovereignty? -- ; 8. Political and Theoretical Implications.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book offers a crisp and thoughtful account of political phenomena still fresh in the minds of Canadians and still relevant to policy-making processes. As the first major work on the origins, strategies, and activities of movements and coalitions that arose in Canada and spread across North America to oppose free trade, it captures an important developmental period in Canadian political life." "Focusing on an analysis of the Action Canada Network, Jeffrey Ayres adopts a political-process model to link the emergence of popular sector movements and transnational networks to constraints posed by



the Canada-U.S. FTA and NAFTA."--Jacket