Syllabus
WEEKLY TOPICS AND READINGS:
(4.10.) Introduction, Organization of the course, Historical Background
Mandatory text: John Thompson and Mark Richard, Canadian History in North-American Context, in James and Kasoff, Canadian Studies in the New Millenium (Toronto: UTP, 2007), available in the SIS. Recommended text: W.L. Morton, The Relevance of Canadian History, pp. 37-50, in Taras, Rasporich eds. Passion for Identity, 1st edition, (ITP Nelson, 1997), available in the SIS.
(11.10.) Canadian Identity
Mandatory text: S. Lipset, Continental Divide, Chapter 3 (Canadian Identity), Routledge, 1990, Available in the SIS.
Recommended text: "Is the Canadian Political Culture Becoming Americanized?" in Crosscurrents, Contemporary Political Issues, Charleton and Barker eds.
(18.10.) Regionalism
Mandatory text: Michael Broadway, Canada: Too Much Geography?, Chapter 1, pp. 8-35, Available in the SIS.
Recommended text: John Ibbitson, The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus, Literary Review of Canada, 2012, http://reviewcanada.ca/essays/2012/01/01/the-collapse-of-the-laurentian-consensus/
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(25.10.) Political systemMandatory text: Donald Savoie, First Ministers, Government and Public Service, Chapter 10 in John C.Courtney and David E. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics. pp. 172-191, available in the SIS.
Recommended: Emmett MacFarlane, Senate Reform: THe GOod, the Bad and the Unconstitutional, IRRPP Policy Option, Sept, 2015,´http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/september-2015/the-future-of-the-senate/senate-reform-the-good-thebad-and-the-unconstitutional/.
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(1.11.) No class
(8.11.) Political Parties and Electoral system
Mandatory text: Keneth Carty and William Cross, Political Parties and the practice of Brokerage politics, Chapter 11 in John C.Courtney and David E. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics. pp. 191-208, available in the SIS.
Recommended: Cochrane, Christopher, "Left/Right Ideology and Canadian Politics", Canadian Journal of Political Science 43. 3 (Sep 2010): 583-605, available electronically via Proquest.
Stephen Clarkson, "Has the Centre Vanished?", Literary Review of Canada, 2011, http://reviewcanada.ca/essays/2011/10/01/has-the-centre-vanished/
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(15.11.) Managing diversity I: Quebec and bilingualismMandatory text: Sephan Dion, "The Quebec Challenge to Canadian Unity", Political Science and Politics, Vol. 26, 1993, available at http://homepage.univie.ac.at/herbert.preiss/files/Dion_The_Quebec_challenge_to_Canadian_unity.pdf
Recomended text:
Ch. Taylor: Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism, Chapter 8 Shared and Divergent Values, (MQU, 1993), available in the SIS.
Celine Cooper, The Quebec Question in the 21st Century, Magazine of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (December 2012, January 2013), http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/MLIInsidePolicy/December2012/Cooper.pdf
Bothwell, Robert," A Province in Search of a Country, 1976-1982", Chapter 9 in Canada and Quebec, 1995, in the SIS.
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(22.11.) Managing diversity II: Aboriginal Policy
Mandatory text: Papillon, Martin. "The Rise (and Fall?) of Aboriginal Self-Government". In Canadian Politics, 6th ed. eds. J. Bickerton and G. Gagnon (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), 113-131, available in the SIS.
Recommended texts:
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future,Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconsiliation Commission of Canada, 2015, Introduction, 1-23, available at: http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Honouring_the_Truth_Reconciling_for_the_Future_July_23_2015.pdf
Flanagan and Cairns on Aboriginal Policy, IRPP Policy Option, September 2001, pp. 43-53, available in the SIS.
Terry Fenge, Tony Pinekett, "Paper Promises", Literary Review of Canada, July-August 2014, http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2014/07/paper-promises/
Christina Woolner, Re-Storying Canada's Past: A Case Study in the Significance of Narratives in Healing Intractable Conflict, http://www.beyondintractability.org/casestudy/woolner-re-storying
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(29.11.) Managing diversity III: immigration and refugee policy
Mandatory text: Irene Bloemraad, Understanding Canadian exceptionalism in immigration and pluralism policy, Migration Policy Institute, July 2012, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CanadianExceptionalism.pdf
Randall Hansen interview: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/2013/02/qa-with-randall-hansen-major-debates-and-challenges-in-immigration-canada-and-europe/
Newsletter: Valdajeva Božena
(6.12.) Managing diversity IV: multicultural policy
Mandatory text:´Will Kymlicka, Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism, Comparative Migration Studies 20153:17, DOI: 10.1186/s40878-015-0017-4. https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-015-0017-4
Recommended: Will Kymlicka, Testing the Bounds of Liberal Multiculturalism?, For distribution to the 2006 Trudeau Foundation's Conference on Public Policy, "Muslims in Western Societies", November 16-18, 2006, Available in the SIS.
Keith Banting,Is there a Progresssive Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State, Canadian Journal of Political Science 10, 2010, 797-802, available at http://post.queensu.ca/~bantingk/Progressive%27s_Dilemma.pdf
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(13.12.) Canadian Foreign Policy (Background on Liberal internationalism)
Mandatory text: Cynthia Kite and Douglas Nord, "Canadian Foreign Policy", Canadian Studies in the New Millenium, pp. 245-276, available in the SIS.
Recommended: Harper`s foreign policy: "The wealth of Western economies is no more inevitable than the poverty of emerging ones", by Stephen Harper, verbatim, speech pronounced on Jan. 26, 2012, published in Policy Options, April 2012, available as pdf at http://www.irpp.org/po/issue.php?month=April&year=2012. The whole issue of Policy Options of April 2012 is devoted to current Canadian foreign policy.
Omer Aziz, Alienating the United Nations: What’s at stake?, AND Smith, J., Reinventing Canada: Stephen Harper’s Conservative Revolutio
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(20.12.) Canadian Foreign Policy II (Current issues, US-Canada relationship)
Mandatory: Trudeau doughnut strategy, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/world/canada/canadas-trump-strategy-go-around-him.html
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Annotation
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of Canada. The course is organized into three major sections.
The first part of the course will focus on brief overview of Canadian history. The second part of the course will focus on political structure of the Canadian polity and the third part will discuss some crucial public policies.
By examining the institutions and constitutional foundations of government and politics in Canada, the aim of the course is to develop a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the North America. Current and historical events will be employed as examples and used as a basis for class discussions.
Non-mandatory, however useful prerequisite for this course is Dejiny Kanady (JMB034).