| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Publication Year | |
| Publisher |
Canada One Hundred Years from Now: A Federation of Nations?
$1.68
Canada’s distinctiveness rests not in its multi-ethnic and multicultural composition but in its enduring national cleavages and confrontations. That distinctiveness is the cause of a problem yet unresolved: how to adjust a federalism of regions to manage a federalism of nations?
Contributors
Jean Laponce
Jean Laponce is Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, where he taught political science. He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Science and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was Director of the Institute of Interethnic Relations of the University of Ottawa from 1992 to 2001 and Visiting Professor at the University's Department of Political Science during that period. He is a former president of the Canadian and International Political Science Associations and has been a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada since 1974. He has published numerous articles and books, among them The Protection of Minorities (1961) and Languages and their Territories (1987). His present research interest is in the comparative study of multi-ethnic and multinational states.
