A Civil Society?: Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life

by Miriam Smith

Focusing on the traditional state-centred arenas of group and social movement influence such as Parliament, elections, the bureaucracy and the courts, this book argues that the terrain of group politics in Canada has been restructured by the transition from the Keynesian welfare state era to the era of neoliberal globalization. It surveys the main approaches to the study of collective action in the Canadian context, including theories such as pluralism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551112310
• ISBN13: 9781551112312
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"