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Who is afraid of the state? : Canada in a world of multiple centres of power / edited by Gordon Smith and Daniel Wolfish.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Policy research (Toronto, Ont.)Publication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 351 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442683396
  • 1442683392
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Who is afraid of the state?DDC classification:
  • 320.971 21
LOC classification:
  • JL75 .W47 2001
Other classification:
  • ML 6400
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: conceptualizing multiple contres of power / Gordon Smith and Daniel Wolfish -- Menage a trois: the state between civil society and the international system / Julien Bauer and Philippe Le Prestre -- Policy making in a multicentric world: the impact of globalization, privatization, and decentralization on democratic governance / Ronald D. Crelinsten -- Governance of politics without a centre / Vincent Della Sala -- The multi-centred state: Canadian government under globalizing pressures / Stephen Clarkson -- The emergence of international parliamentary institutions: new networks of influence in world society / Robert M. Cutler -- International convention secretariats and Canada's role in future environmental governance / Philippe Le Prestre -- Rendering unto Caesar: how legal pluralism and regime theory help in understanding multiple centres of power / Robert Wolfe -- Conclusion: implications for governance and policy / Gordon Smith and Daniel Wolfish.
Summary: The essays in this collection argue that - contrary to some private-sector populists - the state is in the best position to lead in making policy in a rapidly changing world and should retain and refine this responsibility.
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Introduction: conceptualizing multiple contres of power / Gordon Smith and Daniel Wolfish -- Menage a trois: the state between civil society and the international system / Julien Bauer and Philippe Le Prestre -- Policy making in a multicentric world: the impact of globalization, privatization, and decentralization on democratic governance / Ronald D. Crelinsten -- Governance of politics without a centre / Vincent Della Sala -- The multi-centred state: Canadian government under globalizing pressures / Stephen Clarkson -- The emergence of international parliamentary institutions: new networks of influence in world society / Robert M. Cutler -- International convention secretariats and Canada's role in future environmental governance / Philippe Le Prestre -- Rendering unto Caesar: how legal pluralism and regime theory help in understanding multiple centres of power / Robert Wolfe -- Conclusion: implications for governance and policy / Gordon Smith and Daniel Wolfish.

The essays in this collection argue that - contrary to some private-sector populists - the state is in the best position to lead in making policy in a rapidly changing world and should retain and refine this responsibility.

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