12 Policy Networks and Policy Communities: Conceptualizing State-Societal Relationships in the Policy Process

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Establishing Benchmarks
5. Introduction: The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science 3
6. A Quantitative Analysis of the Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science 17
7. Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Rights: Canada’s Comparative Advantage
8. Is Canadian Multiculturalism Parochial? Canadian Contributions to Theorizing Justice and Ethnocultural Diversity 41
9. Canada as Counternarrative: Multiculturalism, Recognition, and Redistribution 59
10. Canada’s Contribution to the Comparative Study of Rights and Judicial Review 77
11. Marketing Canadian Pluralism in the International Arena 99
12. Federalism and Multilevel Governance: Canada’s Comparative Resurgence
13. Is the Secret to Have a Good Dentist? Canadian Contributions to the Study of Federalism in Divided Societies 123
14. Working around the American Model: Canadian Federalism and the European Union 140
15. Empirical Evidence and Pragmatic Explanations: Canada’s Contributions to Comparative Federalism 158
16. Political Parties and Public Policy: Canada’s Comparative Potential
17. What’s So Bad about Cultivating Our Own Theoretical Gardens? The Study of Political Parties in Canada 177
18. Canadian Voting Behaviour in Comparative Perspective 194
19. Policy Networks and Policy Communities: Conceptualizing State-Societal Relationships in the Policy Process 205
20. How Can Comparative Political Economy Explain Variable Change? Lessons for, and from, Canada 221
21. Conclusion: Are We on the Right Track? 238
22. Notes 252
23. References 261
24. Contributors 292
25. Index 297