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Who is Afraid of the State? : Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power / ed. by Daniel Wolfish, Gordon Scott Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends ProjectPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780802083883
  • 9781442683396
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.971 21
LOC classification:
  • JL75 .W47 2001
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: Is the government becoming less powerful? Is it in retreat vis-a-vis a proliferation of non-governmental agencies, multinational corporations, and international organizations? The essays in this collection argue that - contrary to some private-sector populists - the state is in the best position to lead in making policy in a rapidly changing world and should retain and refine this responsibility. Examining the interaction of government, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector, the contributors show that government, far from being stagnant, is in a constant state of transformation and revitalization. It may work to prepare citizens for changes that often seem inevitable and sometimes it challenges, even resists, the directions or modes of such change. It remains an important - perhaps the most crucial - actor in the governance process.

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Is the government becoming less powerful? Is it in retreat vis-a-vis a proliferation of non-governmental agencies, multinational corporations, and international organizations? The essays in this collection argue that - contrary to some private-sector populists - the state is in the best position to lead in making policy in a rapidly changing world and should retain and refine this responsibility. Examining the interaction of government, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector, the contributors show that government, far from being stagnant, is in a constant state of transformation and revitalization. It may work to prepare citizens for changes that often seem inevitable and sometimes it challenges, even resists, the directions or modes of such change. It remains an important - perhaps the most crucial - actor in the governance process.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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