Political Science / Canadian Politics

This book investigates why and how Canada and the United States – while so close and seemingly so similar – remain different in many significant ways.

This book sheds light on the history of the Square Mile, a powerful symbol of wealth in Montreal's urban landscape.

This collection sheds light on local government and public administration by providing insights from city managers across Canada.

Thirsty Land into Springs of Water explores how Latter-day Saints in southern Alberta merged into Canadian society while maintaining their identity.

Covering a range of criminal justice and social policy issues, this book explores how governments and Parliament justify their legislative choices under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the Nunatsiavut Assembly, the legislature of Canada’s only Inuit self-government.

This timely collection of short essays focuses on various manifestations of institutionalized Islamophobia in Canada, and presents an agenda for necessary systemic, institutional-level change.

The Paradox of Parliament addresses the widespread and perennial dissatisfaction with Parliament in Canada.

The new edition of this influential text addresses key issues about the past, present, and future of workers and unions in Canada.

Drawing on Canadian case studies, Selling Social offers insight into the successes and challenges regarding social procurement and social purchasing from the perspective of social enterprises.

Faith, Rights, and Choice traces the history of religious accommodations in the schooling systems of Canada’s provinces.

This book explores the structural political imbalances that exist within complex democratic federations.

Controversies in the Common Law identifies some of the thorniest problems in private and public law, and explains how Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin addressed them by applying a common law approach to judging.

1950s Canada chronicles the social, economic, and cultural developments of Canadian politics and public affairs in the 1950s.

Toronto the Good? uniquely explores what diversity does to remake the City of Toronto as a beacon of democracy, racial inclusion, and progress.

Unequal Benefits shows how policies that create education "markets" and encourage greater private sector involvement in Canada’s public education systems undermine the democratic possibilities of the country’s public schools.