Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. A More Democratic Canada…? 1
5. Reforming the Parties: Prescriptions for Democracy 43
6. Constitutionalizing Economic and Social Rights in the Charlottetown Round 83
7. Lobbying, the Voluntary Sector and the Public Purse 109
8. Constitutional Politics 1990-92: The Paradox of Participation 143
9. Efficiency-Democracy Bargains in the Reinvention of Federal Government Organization 203
10. Aboriginal Self-Government: The Two Sides of Legitimacy 231
11. Devolution and Development: The Urban Nexus 257
12. Canada's Balance of Payments and International Indebtedness 291
13. The NAFTA, Democracy and Continental Economic Integration: Trade Policy as if Democracy Mattered 333
14. Lowering the Safety Net and Weakening the Bonds of Nationhood: Social Policy in the Mulroney Years 381
15. The Politics of Stealth: Child Benefits under the Tories 417
16. Accountability, Back-to-Basics and Choice: An ABC for Educational Change? 449
17. Fiscal Facts and Trends 483
18. The Authors 505