| A Civil Society?: Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life, Second Edition Contributor(s): Smith, Miriam (Author) |
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ISBN: 1487587791 ISBN-13: 9781487587796 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $80.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Advocacy - Political Science | Political Economy - Political Science | World - Canadian |
| LCCN: 2018300808 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Civil Society? surveys the main approaches to the study of group politics in Canada, with a strong comparative perspective. Unique to this brief and accessible text is a comprehensive theoretical framework that helps students evaluate policy areas surveyed in the book, while also pointing them toward future study. This new edition opens with a discussion of power, political institutions, and identity. It goes on to explore group and social movement activity across a range of institutions including the House of Commons, the bureaucracy, and the courts as well as mobilization through social media and the electoral system. Throughout, Smith systematically integrates consideration of the role of gender, racialization, and indigeneity in contemporary Canadian group and movement politics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Miriam: - Miriam Smith is Professor in the Law and Society Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. She is a political scientist who has published widely on LGBTQ politics in Canada and the US, among other topics. She is the author of Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (2008) and Editor of Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada (2014). |