Across boundaries : essays in honour of Robert A. Young / edited by André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Anna Lennox Esselment, Ronald Wintrobe.

"Why and how does secession happen? How do different levels of government interact with each other? Why do some multi-level governments work better than others? What makes political extremism so virulent in today's society? These are some of the most pressing questions in political science...

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Other Authors: Blais, André, 1947- (Editor), De Clercy, Cristine (Editor), Esselment, Anna Lennox (Editor), Wintrobe, Ronald (Editor), Young, Robert Andrew (honouree.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Tables, Figures, and Equations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Work of Robert A. Young
  • Multilevel Governance
  • Bob Young, Big Projects, and the Study of Local and Urban Politics in Canada
  • Exchange Rates, Energy Royalties, Carbon Pricing, Fiscal Federalism: An Integrative Framework for Equity and Competitiveness
  • Do Ideas Matter? Competing Models of Municipal Public Administration and Their Influence on Policy and Implementation of a Toronto Social Program
  • Secession Politics
  • Democracy Against Unilateral Secession
  • Has the Economic Risk Associated with Quebec's Independence Increased?
  • How Do Secessions Not Happen? The Cases of Scotland and Catalonia
  • The Self-Determination Conundrum: Wrong Answers or Wrong Question?
  • Political Economy
  • The Left and the Fiscal Deficit: A Beautiful Hypothesis Slain by an Ugly Fact
  • Gandhi's Satyagraha: An Economic Interpretation
  • On Blessing and Cursing Matters: Some Political Economy
  • In Defence Of Majoritarianism
  • The Publications of Robert A. Young
  • Contributors
  • Index