ISBN:
9781442609099
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (472 p)
Edition:
4th ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Canada and the United States : Differences that Count, Fourth Edition
DDC:
303.48/271073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Plus Ãa change? ""; ""Data Gold Mines and Minefields ""; ""Part One: Populations, Impressions, Values, and Cultures""; ""1 Population Tectonics: Life and Death in North America""; ""2 Imagining Each Other""; ""3 America Pivots Toward Progressive Canada: Recent Trajectories of Social Change in North America""; ""4 Football, Frats, and Fiscal Peril vs. Commuters, Carping, and Rising Costs: The New Financial, Social, and Psychological Context of Higher Education in Canada and the United States""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Data Sources for Future Research""""Part Two: Governance and Governing Mechanisms""; ""5 Past Futures: Federalism Under Stress""; ""6 Prime Ministers and Presidents: Institutional Differences and Political Convergence""; ""7 Turning Out or Tuning Out? Electoral Participation in Canada and the United States""; ""8 Legislatures and Parties: Heightened Divisions Since the 1990s""; ""9 Two Nations Under Law""; ""Data Sources for Future Research""; ""Part Three: Economic Systems, Taxation, and Safety Nets""
Description / Table of Contents:
""10 Banks, Banking, Regulatory Mechanisms, and the Public Interest: What�s So Different?""""11 Getting Things Straight: The Complex World of Budgetary Policy""; ""12 Health Care in Canada and the United States""; ""13 Choose Your Parents Wisely: Economic Inequality and Mobility in Canada and the United States""; ""Data Sources for Future Research""; ""Part Four: Policy Differences, Policy Challenges, and Policy Change""; ""14 So Near and Yet So Far: Washington and British Columbia in the New Century""
Description / Table of Contents:
""15 Environmental Policy in Canada and the United States: Climate Change and Increasing Distinctiveness""""16 First Nations: Turning Promises into Action?""; ""17 Reflections on Foreign Policies, Defense Budgets, Borders, and the Current State of the Partnership""; ""Conclusion: Plus c�est la même chose?""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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