LEADER 03618nam 22007694a 450 001 9910783762603321 005 20231206210234.0 010 $a1-282-86166-2 010 $a9786612861666 010 $a0-7735-7168-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773571686 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244983 035 $a(OCoLC)76898714 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119753 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000282476 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232262 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282476 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10323561 035 $a(PQKB)11641782 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400032 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521321 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330719 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132902 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286166 035 $a(OCoLC)929120764 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/2k81bx 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330719 035 $a(DE-B1597)656271 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773571686 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243415 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244983 100 $a20040729h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe once and future Canadian democracy $ean essay in political thought /$fJanet Ajzenstat 210 1$aMontreal ;$aIthaca :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2003. 210 4$aŠ2003 215 $a1 online resource (x, 192 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-7735-2659-5 311 0 $a0-7735-2658-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-188) and index. 327 $a""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"" 330 $aTo 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. 606 $aDemocracy$zCanada 606 $aPolitical culture$zCanada 606 $aPolitical participation$zCanada 606 $aDe?mocratie$zCanada 607 $aCanada$xPolitics and government 607 $aCanada$xPolitique et gouvernement 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aPolitical participation 615 6$aDe?mocratie 676 $a320.971 700 $aAjzenstat$b Janet$f1936-$0835463 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783762603321 996 $aThe once and future Canadian democracy$93859856 997 $aUNINA