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Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney

Ged Martin
- 01 May 2009 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 1, pp 127
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This article is published in British Journal of Canadian Studies.The article was published on 2009-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7 citations till now.

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Deconstructing The New Federalism

TL;DR: This paper surveys the history of new federalism as a political strategy and program, and analyzes the competing interpretations of the concept that are currently on offer, concluding that policy challenges looming on the horizon will demand a coordinated and multilevel response from governments, making it likely that whatever new federalist emerges will continue the trend toward shared jurisdiction and policy-making, rather than disentanglement.
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Performing Canadian State Nationalism through Federal Symmetry

TL;DR: In the growing literature on the management of differences in multinational states, institutions (such as territorial autonomy or power-sharing) are typically understood as means through which vari... as mentioned in this paper.
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The Discourse of Nation Building in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Malaysia Info Web Portal News Articles

TL;DR: The authors explored the choice of language employed by the Malaysian mainstream media to construct the former Barisan Nasional government's role in nation building in transforming Malaysia from a developing country to a fully developed country by the year 2020 as envisioned by Vision 2020.
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Déstabilisation, crise et innovation : pouvoir et restructuration du champ d’action stratégique fransaskois

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose un nouveau regard sur les enjeux de pouvoir des minorites francophones en mettant en lumiere, dans le cas fransaskois, l'influence de l’Etat federal, du contexte et des promoteurs de la restructuration, qui ont reussi a mobiliser suffisamment d’acteurs aux interets divergents for faire accepter une nouvelle structure and de nouvaux me
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