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Over the past thirty-five years, Canada's provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of social and economic issues. Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by-province analysis of politics and political economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial level.Featuring chapters written by experts in the politics of each province and territory, Transforming Provincial Politics examines how neoliberal policies have affected politics in each jurisdiction. A comprehensive and accessible analysis of the issues involved, this collection will be welcomed by scholars, instructors, and anyone interested in the state of provincial politics today

This textbook is part of a series covering several aspects of social science, social and political life. Chapters include Role of the Government in Health, How the State Government Works, Growing up as Boys and Girls, Women Change the World, Understanding Media, Understanding Advertising, Markets Around Us, A Shirt in the Market, and Struggles for Equality.

A symposium on a book by Bevir & Rhodes (2003) Interpreting British Governance. Following an introduction by Alan Finlayson, Mark Bevir & Ron A. W. Rhodes summarize their work & list the five main advantages of their interpretive approach to British governance, eg, identification of important gaps in the Westminster model & decentraliztion of institutions from their role in fixing individual behavior. In "Interpretation, Truth and Investigation: Comments on Bevir and Rhodes," Keith Dowding argues that Bevir & Rhodes are ambiguous on the central question of truth & that their partial explanations for British governance through the interpretivist perspective may be misleading. In "Taking Ideas Seriously' in Explanatory Political Analysis," Colin Hay rejects the ideas that explanation & positivism & understanding & interpretation are synonymous. Bevir & Rhodes's conceptualization of explanation & understanding are problematic, so a form of post-positivist political analysis adapted from social constructivism is preferred. In "Meaning and Politics: Assessing Bevir and Rhodes," Finlayson examines Bevir & Rhodes's concepts of power, dilemma, & narrative & develops an alternative interpretive approach to British governance. In "Interpretation as Method, Explanation, & Critique: A Reply," Bevir & Rhodes defend their interpretive approach on philosophical grounds, but view the approach as insufficiently objective. They expand on issues of method, explanation, & critique in response to Dowding, Hay, & Finlayson. They believe their narrative on governance using the four traditions -- Tory, liberal, Whig, & socialist -- & the dilemmas faced are robust. 1 Table, 1 Figure, 72 References. M. Pflum

In the Direction of the Persian Gulf (1977) analyses the Soviet Union's interest in the countries of the Persian Gulf against the background of its relations with the Arab world, and the complexities of power politics. It examines, from the nineteenth century to the present, Russia's involvement in and efforts to gain at least a foothold, if not control of this oil-rich region. Particular attention is paid to the Soviet's interest in Persian Gulf oil, and Russian fuel resources are also discussed. Although bilateral and multilateral local relations are closely examined, power politics in general and in the region and the Indian Ocean are not neglected. In addition to Soviet sources, the authors have used the Arab and Western press, periodicals and monitoring services extensively.