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Assessing Performance 评估性能
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0012
K. Banting, J. Nagel, Chelsea Schafer, D. Westlake
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引用次数: 139
Bureaucratic Influence and Policymaking 官僚影响和政策制定
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0005
John R. McAndrews, B. Rockman, Colin F. Campbell
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引用次数: 0
Political Culture and Values 政治文化与价值观
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0002
R. Dalton
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引用次数: 1
Lessons of Comparison 比较的教训
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0013
P. Quirk
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引用次数: 0
Executive Leadership and the Legislative Process 行政领导和立法程序
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0004
J. Malloy, P. Quirk
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引用次数: 0
Economic Policy 经济政策
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0007
W. Keech, W. Scarth
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引用次数: 0
Healthcare 医疗保健
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190870829.003.0010
A. Maioni, T. Marmor
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引用次数: 0
Managing Diversity 管理多样性
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0011
I. Bloemraad, D. Provine
{"title":"Managing Diversity","authors":"I. Bloemraad, D. Provine","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Comparing the United States (U.S.) and Canadian responses to immigration in the context of each country’s civil rights struggles underscores the importance of history, geography, demography, and institutional structures in determining law and policy. Civil rights in the U.S. required a civil war over slavery and created an important role for courts to interpret constitutional mandates of equal treatment. Constitutionally enshrined individual rights came late to Canada and change occurred often through piecemeal legislative and bureaucratic action rather than litigation. Such differences in the trajectory of rights influence differences in immigration policy: active support and management of entry and integration in Canada versus an ambiguous welcome and laissez-faire incorporation in the U.S. Looking to the future, the political system and contentious views on immigration make policymaking difficult in the U.S., while Canadian policymakers enjoy more public support and flexibility as they take on the challenges and opportunities of immigration.","PeriodicalId":10903,"journal":{"name":"Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78693291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Environmental Policy 环境政策
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0008
K. Harrison
{"title":"Environmental Policy","authors":"K. Harrison","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190870829.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Although Canada and the United States (U.S.) have a special responsibility to act on climate change given per capita greenhouse gas emissions among the highest in the world, both have repeatedly failed to meet their domestic emissions targets. Their failure ultimately reflects the formidable political challenge of transforming economies heavily reliant on fossil fuels, which prompts opposition from both emissions-intensive industries and voters resistant to higher energy prices. Efforts to mitigate climate change have been undertaken in fits and starts, with leadership flipping between the U.S. and Canada as center-left leaders have exercised institutional points of leverage available to them. However, Democratic presidents’ efforts have been stymied by Republican successors, while Canadian governments’ efforts have been undermined by concerns about competitiveness with the U.S. That challenge looms large once again as Canada has pledged to meet its target under the Paris Agreement despite Donald Trump’s reversal of the U.S. commitment.","PeriodicalId":10903,"journal":{"name":"Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76529345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Federalism 联邦制
Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico Pub Date : 2019-08-22 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190870829.003.0006
Richard Simeon, B. Radin
{"title":"Federalism","authors":"Richard Simeon, B. Radin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190870829.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190870829.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The federal systems of Canada and the United States (U.S.) are difficult to define both individually and in comparative terms. They are similar in some ways yet very different in others. They have employed different strategies to deal with issues, diverse populations, and political structures. At the same time, both have relied on their constitutions to respond to change. Their strategies have moved between conflict and collaboration to attempt to support principles of democracy at different points in their historical development. Federalisms are highly variable; each is sui generis. Few if any generalizations about them are very robust. If this is true, then we have two quite different models to describe and explain. The task, then, is to understand how and in what ways they are similar and ask what common factors might explain why; and to understand the differences, and explain them.","PeriodicalId":10903,"journal":{"name":"Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico","volume":"136 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73100818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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