Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables, Figures, and Equations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: The Work of Robert A. Young 3
6. Multilevel Governance
7. Bob Young, Big Projects, and the Study of Local and Urban Politics in Canada 15
8. Exchange Rates, Energy Royalties, Carbon Pricing, Fiscal Federalism: An Integrative Framework for Equity and Competitiveness 33
9. Do Ideas Matter? Competing Models of Municipal Public Administration and Their Influence on Policy and Implementation of a Toronto Social Program 47
10. Secession Politics
11. Democracy Against Unilateral Secession 83
12. Has the Economic Risk Associated with Quebec’s Independence Increased? 113
13. How Do Secessions Not Happen? The Cases of Scotland and Catalonia 128
14. The Self-Determination Conundrum: Wrong Answers or Wrong Question? 148
15. Political Economy
16. The Left and the Fiscal Deficit: A Beautiful Hypothesis Slain by an Ugly Fact 165
17. Gandhi’s Satyagraha: An Economic Interpretation 185
18. On Blessing and Cursing Matters: Some Political Economy 199
19. In Defence Of Majoritarianism 214
20. The Publications of Robert A. Young 231
21. Contributors 245
22. Index 251