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TINKER, TORY, WOBBLER, WHY? : the political economy of electricity restructuring in Ontario, 1995-2003
(2007-09-12)The Ontario Tories' 42-year hegemony in government (1943-1985) was wrought through clever policies which often utilized Crown institutions to promote prosperity or to oblige or mollify vying interests. Ousted in 1985, ... -
Machineries of War and Mechanisms of Change in World Politics
(2007-10-01)The purpose of this dissertation is to anticipate changes in the international system by examining changes in Western defence industries. The defence industries are a mechanism for producing power. In an anarchic ... -
Deepening democracy and cultural context in the Republic of Mali, 1992-2002
(2007-10-11)This thesis challenges the view that the Republic of Mali is a model of democratization in Africa with the aim of opening the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship inherent in the democratization discourse to ... -
Their Images, Our Selves: Canadian Print Media's Construction of Feminism Surrounding the Cuts to the Status of Women Canada
(2007-10-25)Media play an important role in transmitting information for citizens in a country as large as Canada. Much of what Canadians know about the larger country comes to them through the media they view. What then, is the ... -
Sex Work and Motherhood: Case Studies of Edmonton and Toronto
(2008-01-29)The purpose of this thesis was to examine the complex relationship that exists between lone motherhood and sex work. Utilizing the idea of particularlism, I argue that it is important to understand the environmental context ... -
Aboriginality, existing aboriginal rights and state accommodation in Canada
(2008-07-11)ABORIGINALITY, EXISTING ABORIGINAL RIGHTS AND STATE ACCOMMODATION IN CANADA: ABSTRACT The central focus of this dissertation is the relationship between aboriginality, aboriginal rights and state accommodation in Canada. ... -
Warriors of choice : the (Re)articulation of militarized masculinities in private and public special forces
(2008-08-15)My thesis is an examination militarized masculinity in Canada's JTF2 Special Forces and the Private Security Firm Blackwater. I employ a gender analysis to highlight how militarized masculinity impedes women's participation ... -
Constructing Democratic Space: Inclusion, Efficacy, and Protest in Deliberative Democratic Theory
(2008-12-01)This dissertation looks at the challenges that deliberative democratic theory encounters when it tries to offer a rich account of inclusion yet refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of external protest. While sympathetic ... -
Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine
(2009-01-26)"Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine" is a comparative analysis of the conflict resolution processes and peace-building strategies employed in Northern ... -
Seeking Stability Amid Deep Division: Consociationalism and Centripetalism in Comparative Perspective
(2009-02-17)For the design of power-sharing practices in deeply divided places, there are two main macro-political strategies: consociationalism, developed and defended by Arend Lijphart, and centripetalism, associated with the work ... -
All Talk and No Action: International Norms and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(2009-09-18)In the decade from 1998 to 2008, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was witness to one of the most brutal violent conflicts in recent history. Crimes against humanity and large-scale violations of human rights occurred ... -
The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role: An Historical Institutionalist Account
(2009-11-11)This dissertation describes and analyzes the work of the Supreme Court of Canada, emphasizing its internal environment and processes, while situating the institution in its broader governmental and societal context. In ... -
To the Global Village and Back: International Indigenous Rights and Domestic Change in Nicaragua and Ecuador
(2010-01-26)International indigenous rights represent a special category of human rights, offering a potent tool in the community-based defense of indigenous lands and livelihoods. State sovereignty has, however, historically been ... -
The Power of Ideas: The OECD and Labour Market Policy in Canada, Denmark and Sweden
(2011-01-31)This thesis advances our understanding of how ideas play a role in policy making by examining the processes and conditions that facilitate their international diffusion into domestic debates, their acceptance by policy ... -
Advocacy Under Authoritarianism: Transnational Networks in China
(2011-08-09)The standard theoretical account of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is one of principled non-state actors remaking world politics by upsetting conventional notions of power in the international system. Relying on ... -
Non-domination and the Accommodation of Minority Social Practice
(2011-09-29)This thesis develops an account of non-domination as a principle of legitimacy that ought to govern both inter-group and intra-group relations in multicultural states. It applies this principle to the question of how ... -
Liberal Ethics & Political Obligation
(2011-11-02)This is a study in the political ethics of liberalism. It uses political obligation theory to shed light on the neutrality-perfectionism debate. My thesis is that neutralism cannot provide a coherent foundation for liberal ... -
The Unnatural Likeness of Deference: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Democratic Process
(2012-01-04)This dissertation examines the behaviour of the Supreme Court of Canada in cases involving electoral/referendum laws and the alleged violation of freedom of expression and/or the right to vote. In 2007, it declared that ... -
The Rise and Demise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas: A Case Study in Counter-Hegemony
(2012-01-24)This dissertation examines the failure to achieve a final agreement for the Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA)at the 2005 Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas. The predominant explanation for this outcome highlights the ... -
Justice and Official Languages in Canada
(2012-02-29)This is a study of the politics of language in Canada from the perspective of francophone minority communities – the close to one million French-speakers living in provinces and territories outside Québec. The analysis ...