Good Government? Good Citizens? : Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Changing Canada.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
- Law and Society Series .
- Law and Society Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 The Society That Was -- 1 Before the Transformation -- PART 2 Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Society in Transition -- 2 The Ascendance of Courts -- 3 Representative Politics in Disarray -- 4 Chasing Choice: The Market Abounding -- PART 3 Some Examples of a Changing Canada -- 5 Aboriginals: Two Row Wampum, Second Thoughts, and Citizens Plus -- 6 Citizens in Cyberspace: The Internet and Canadian Democracy -- 7 The Youngest Citizens and Education as a Public Good? -- 8 Ever More Citizens Who Are Senior: An Ageing Canada -- Conclusion: " The Dance of Adjustment" -- Notes -- Index.
Examining the altered roles of courts, politics, and markets over the last two decades, this book explores the evolving concept of the citizen in Canada at the beginning of this century.
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Political participation -- Canada -- History. Political culture -- Canada -- History. Citizenship -- Canada. Canada -- Social conditions -- 1971-1991. Canada -- Social conditions -- 1991-.