University of British Columbia Press
Insiders and Outsiders
Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship
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Insiders and Outsiders
Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship
Insiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period. Few scholars have helped shape so many key debates in such a wide range of topics in Canadian politics, from the electoral system and federalism, to constitutional and Charter politics, to questions of Aboriginal citizenship.
This volume contains engaging and critical analyses of Cairns’ contributions by a diverse group of scholars -- political scientists, legal scholars, historians, and policymakers, many of them leaders in their own fields. It includes assessments of his role as a public intellectual, his interpretation of Canada’s electoral system, his views on federalism and on Canadian unity, his approach to Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations, and his writings on citizenship and diversity. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Canadian politics, history, and society, especially those examining ssues such as the Charter of Rights, Aboriginal politics, federalism, multiculturalism, political institutions, and political change. It should also be of interest to a larger public that follows the Canadian political scene, and that shares Cairns’ concerns with broad questions of citizenship, diversity, and national unity.
378 pages
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction / Gerald Kernerman and Philip Resnick
Part 1: Methods and Approaches
2 Alan Cairns: Public Intellectual / John Meisel
3 The Political Scientist as Hedgefox: Key Themes in Cairns’ Approach to Institutions / Leslie A. Pal
Part 2: Citizen-Shaping Institutions
The Electoral System
4 Early Warning, No Response: Alan Cairns and Electoral Reform / Roger Gibbins
5 The Electoral System and the Party System Revisited / Richard Johnston
The Institutions of Canadian Federalism
6 The Legacy of the Privy Council in Canadian Federalism / Peter W. Hogg
7 Unnatural Loyalties or Naïve Collaborationists? The Governments and Citizens of Canadian Federalism / Fred Cutler and Matthew Mendelsohn
8 Institutions, Citizenship, and Federalism: Contrasting Models of Redistribution in the Twenty-First Century / Robert G. Finbow
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
9 Some Implications of the Embedded State in Canada / Barry Cooper
10 Morton and Knopff’s The Charter Revolution and the Court Party: A Legal Critique / Robin Elliot
11 The Politics of Honourable Constitutional Inclusion and the Citizens’ Constitution Theory / Matt James
12 Charters and Constitution Making: Comparing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights / John E. Fossum
Part 3: Citizenship, Diversity, and Unity Quebec and Canadian Unity
13 The Anatomy of Cairns’ Constitutional Criticism: French Canadians, Quebec, and the Canadian Constitution / Ramsay Cook
14 Alan C. Cairns on Canadians’ Right to Their Country / Stéphane Dion
15 Plan C? Alan Cairns and English C