Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

1. Introduction: The Provincial State in Canada
Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett

2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Regime Change in Newfoundland
Valerie A. Summers

3. Nova Scotia: The Political Economy of Regime Change
James Bickerton

4. The Challenge of New Brunswick Politics
Hugh Mellon

5. Prince Edward Island: Politics in a Beleaguered Garden III
David A. Milne

6. The Beleaguered State: Québec at the End of the 1990s
Luc Bernier

7. Divided Province, Growing Protests: Ontario Moves Right
Robert McDermid and Greg Albo

8. Paradigm Shift: A Sketch of Manitoba Politics
Alex Netherton

9. Saskatchewan: From Entrepreneurial State to Embedded State
Ken Rasmussen

10. Alberta: Experiments in Governance—From Social Credit to the Klein Revolution
Peter J. Smith

11. British Columbia: Politics in a Post-Staples Political Economy
Michael Howlett and Keith Brownsey

12. The Northwest Territories: Old and New Class Politics on the Northern Frontier
Peter Clancy

13. Still Frontier, Always Homeland: Yukon Politics in the Year 2000
Floyd McCormick

14. Nunavut: Inuit Self-Determination Through a Land Claim and Public Government?
Jack Hicks and Graham White

15. Comparative Provincial Politics: A Review
Christopher Dunn

Contributors

Index

Promotional Information

This book represents a rare achievement in the field: specialist authors illuminate their individual provinces and territories within an overall integrating theme. There are no weak links. -- Rand Dyck, Laurentian University This rich and well-researched collection is an essential for students of provincial politics and Canadian political economy. It provides grist for comparative provincial studies by linking provincial states and their diverse societies at a time when globalization has weakened the nation-state and paradoxically enhanced the relevance of regional and sub-national governments. From various angles, this volume casts light on Canadian politics from the bottom up rather than from the top down federal centre. -- Nelson Wiseman, University of Toronto

About the Author

Keith Brownsey teaches political science at Mount Royal College in Calgary. He has published extensively in the area of Canadian politics, specializing in provincial politics.

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University and Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Reviews

This book represents a rare achievement in the field: specialist authors illuminate their individual provinces and territories within an overall integrating theme. There are no weak links.--Rand Dyck, Laurentian University
This rich and well-researched collection is an essential for students of provincial politics and Canadian political economy. It provides grist for comparative provincial studies by linking provincial states and their diverse societies at a time when globalization has weakened the nation-state and paradoxically enhanced the relevance of regional and sub-national governments. From various angles, this volume casts light on Canadian politics from the bottom up rather than from the top down federal centre.--Nelson Wiseman, University of Toronto