03618nam 22007694a 450 991081017540332120231206210234.01-282-86166-297866128616660-7735-7168-X10.1515/9780773571686(CKB)1000000000244983(OCoLC)76898714(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119753(SSID)ssj0000282476(PQKBManifestationID)11232262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282476(PQKBWorkID)10323561(PQKB)11641782(CaPaEBR)400032(CaBNvSL)gtp00521321(Au-PeEL)EBL3330719(CaPaEBR)ebr10132902(CaONFJC)MIL286166(OCoLC)929120764(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/2k81bx(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400032(MiAaPQ)EBC3330719(DE-B1597)656271(DE-B1597)9780773571686(MiAaPQ)EBC3243415(EXLCZ)99100000000024498320040729h20032003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe once and future Canadian democracy an essay in political thought /Janet AjzenstatMontreal ;Ithaca :McGill-Queen's University Press,2003.©20031 online resource (x, 192 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-2659-5 0-7735-2658-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-188) and index.""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART ONE Liberals and Romantics""; ""1 Prenez Garde!""; ""2 Beyond Right-Centre-Left""; ""3 The Evil Futures""; ""PART TWO Getting to Democracy""; ""4 What Romantics Say""; ""5 Are We There Yet? Liberal Arguments""; ""6 Why Historians Can't Put a Date to Democracy""; ""7 What Did the Fathers Say?""; ""8 The Monarchical Element""; ""9 Parliament: The Talking Shop""; ""PART THREE Bringing in the Future""; ""10 Last Train from Right-Centre-Left""; ""11 Romantic Ideas: George Grant""; ""12 Romance in a Democratic Clime"" ""13 The Romantic Artist in Her Lonely Garret""""14 The Three Deaths of the Canadian Constitution""; ""Sources""; ""Index""To revitalize politics we need to abandon the idea that ideologies evolve from "right" to "left", from conservatism to socialism, and look at our political differences in terms of the distinction, more familiar in the arts, between classicism and romanticism. She argues that by abandoning our current modes of debate and rediscovering the Enlightenment liberalism that is an enduring part of our political tradition we will help to recreate Canada as a place of debate on fundamentals, not one in which a monolithic definition of identity answers all questions in advance.DemocracyCanadaPolitical cultureCanadaPolitical participationCanadaDémocratieCanadaCanadaPolitics and governmentCanadaPolitique et gouvernementDemocracyPolitical culturePolitical participationDémocratie320.971Ajzenstat Janet1936-835463MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810175403321The once and future Canadian democracy3914995UNINA