Politics and Ideology in Canada: Elite and Public Opinion in the Transformation of a Welfare State

by Michael Ornstein, Michael D. Stevenson, Michael Stevenson

This publication examines a period of crucial historical change in Canada, beginning in the mid-1970s when the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state precipitated a transition to a new political order based on the progressive downsizing of state involvement in the economy and society. Using class and ideology as key concepts, Michael Ornstein and H. Michael Steventson examine this transition in terms of the nature of hegemony and hegemonic crisis and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773525947
• ISBN13: 9780773525948
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"