Political Support in Canada: The Crisis Years : Essays in Honor of Richard A. PrestonAll governments require popular support, and in democracies this support must be maintained by noncoercive means. This book analyzes the question of political support in Canada, a country in which the maintenance of the integrity of the political community has been and continues to be, in the words of the editors, "the single most salient aspect of the country's political life." The nature of popular support is first considered in broad, theoretical terms, then from the standpoint of those agents most responsible for maintaining support in Canadian democracy, then as influenced by particular issues and policies, and finally as it affects and is affected by the separatist movement in Quebec. |
Contents
A Theoretical Inventory and Cri | 27 |
Political Support and Group Dominance Mildred A Schwartz | 49 |
49 | 64 |
Demographic Variables | 88 |
of National Identification | 96 |
The Political Socialization of Political Support Ronald G Landes | 103 |
The Publicly Financed | 124 |
Some Impli | 152 |
Public Attitudes and Intergovernmental Shifts in Responsibility | 225 |
Contributions b by Province 197576 to 197980 | 236 |
Environmental Policy and Political Support Douglas C Nord | 252 |
the 1980s Lawrence LeDuc and J Alex Murray | 270 |
The Transition of Ideology and Political | 293 |
Political Support and Voting Behavior in the Quebec Referen | 323 |
National or Provincial Event? Joel | 353 |
ConstitutionMaking Government SelfInterest and the Prob | 380 |
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