LEADER 05206nam 2200793 450 001 9910813878303321 005 20230912154759.0 010 $a1-282-03396-4 010 $a9786612033964 010 $a1-4426-8347-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442683471 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004552 035 $a(EBL)3255423 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000313263 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244599 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313263 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10353649 035 $a(PQKB)10465478 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600726 035 $a(DE-B1597)465117 035 $a(OCoLC)1013952322 035 $a(OCoLC)944177179 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442683471 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672256 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257930 035 $a(OCoLC)666917112 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/q30r5t 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418180 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672256 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255423 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004552 100 $a20160922h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy Canadian unity matters and why Americans care $edemocratic pluralism at risk /$fCharles F. Doran 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2001. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-4873-0 311 $a0-8020-8391-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Challenges to Democratic Pluralism. Democratic Pluralism: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary. Cultural Identity and Politics. The Social-Psychology of Divisive Nationalism. The Challenge to Liberal Democracy -- 2. A U.S. Perspective on Canadian Unity. What Underlies U.S. Preferences? The Economic Claim to Wholeness. Defence of the North American Continent: The Security Claim. Why Canada Is Important: City on the Hill, Interdependence, and Cohesion -- 3. Will Quebec Secede? How Three Social-Psychological Processes Fan Quebec Nationalism. Factors Contributing to Separation. Quebec Nationalism: Ethnic or Civic? Sources of Resistance to Disunity. Background Trends Affecting Quebec Nationalism. Unaccounted-for Trends and Surprises. No Bottom Line, No Willingness to Budge -- 4. Could English Canada Unravel? Geographical Isolation of the Atlantic Provinces. 'Transfer Payments' Would End. Effervescence of 'Western Alienation'. The 'Ontario Problem'. The North American Crucible -- 5. Is Separatism Home-Grown or the Result of Contagion? State Formation as Historically Determined Evolution. The Influence of the International System on Secession. Building States by Breaking States: Divisive Nationalism. Can Democratic Pluralism Survive? Divisive Nationalism and the Future. Centralization, Globalization, and North America -- 6. Is Small Size a Stimulus or Obstacle to Separatism? Economic Costs of Separation to Quebec. The Structure of World Order and Trade. Relationship between the Size of a Polity and Its Economic Growth. Empirical Analysis of the Size/Growth Threshold. Causal Assumptions Underlying Costs of Secession. Resolving the Paradigmatic Controversy. Assessing the Policy Implications -- 7. What Kind of Canada in the Twenty-First Century? Aboriginal Peoples, Cultural Survival, and Democratic Pluralism. Responding to Quebec If Secession Fails. Is a Unilateral Declaration of Independence Possible? Probing Plan B. Responding to the ROC If Quebec Secedes. Responding to Asymmetrical Federalism. Responding to a Scenario of Deep Decentralization. Summing Up the Options and the Consequences -- 8. Self-Determination and Democratic Pluralism. The Threat to Democratic Pluralism. Divisive Nationalism. Bogus Science of Primordial Causes for Ethnic Separatism. The Communitarian Challenge to Democratic Pluralism. Self-Determination: The Pluralist Addendum. Confronting the Challenge to Democratic Pluralism. 330 $aDrawing on a variety of perspective, Charles Doran examines why Canadian unity is important not only to the United States but also to other liberal democracies around the world. In addition, he looks at the wider context of Quebec nationalism and the nature of the historical era that has shaped and conditioned the secessionist impulse. 606 $aSecession$zQue?bec (Province) 606 $aCultural pluralism$zCanada 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 607 $aQue?bec (Province)$xHistory$xAutonomy and independence movements 607 $aCanada$xForeign public opinion, American 608 $aLivres numeriques. 608 $aHistory. 608 $ae-books. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSecession 615 0$aCultural pluralism 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a971.4/04 700 $aDoran$b Charles F.$01671701 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813878303321 996 $aWhy Canadian unity matters and why Americans care$94034474 997 $aUNINA