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



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Autore: Ayres Jeffrey McKelvey Visualizza persona
Titolo: Defying conventional wisdom : political movements and popular contention against North American free trade / / Jeffrey M. Ayres Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998
©1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina: 322.40971
Soggetto topico: Political participation - Canada
Social movements - Political aspects - Canada
Foreign trade regulation - Canada - Citizen participation
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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 -- Appendix: Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a crisp and thoughtful account of political phenomena still fresh in the minds of Canadians, and with continuing relevance 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-US FTA and NAFTA. His extensive use of popular writings and interviews highlights the personal reflections of coalition members and provides an intimate perspective on their strategies and actions. As a contribution both to the study of recent developments in Canadian politics and to our understanding of emerging transnational contention in North America, Defying Conventional Wisdom will appeal to readers across a wide spectrum of interests and backgrounds.University of Toronto Press gratefully acknowledges that this book was sponsored in part by the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. and by the Government of Canada.
Titolo autorizzato: Defying conventional wisdom  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-99549-5
9786611995492
1-4426-7378-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455840803321
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Serie: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.