TEACHING CANADIAN POLITICS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: SOME RECOMMENDATIONS

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• Dale C. Thomson and Roger F. Swanson, “Scholars, Missionaries or Counter-Imperialist?,” ACSUS Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 1971), p. 8.
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• There is now a vast scholarly literature on nation-building. See, for example. Seymour Martin Lipset, The First Nation; Clifford Geertz, ed., Old Societies and New States; S. N. Eisenstadt and Stein Rokkam, eds., Building States and Nations; Karl Deutsch and William Foltz, eds., Nation-Building; Lucian W. Pye, Politics, Personality and Nation-Building; Reinhard Bendix, ed., State and Society; Rupert Emerson, From Empire, to Nation; W. Bell and E. Freeman, eds., Ethnicity and Nation-Building.
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• E.g., McKim Marriott, “Cultural Policy in the New States,” in Clifford Geertz, ed., Old Societies and New States (New York: The Free Press, 1963).
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• Ibid., p. 35.
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• E.g., Mildred Schwartz, Public Opinion and Canadian Identity (Berkeley: University California Press, 1967).
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• Cf. McRae, op. cit. and Gad Horowitz, “Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation”, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. XXXII, no. 2 (May 1966), pp. 143–171.
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• For two recent attempts to remedy this deficiency, see Donald Eugene Smith, Religion and Political Development (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1970) and Guenter Lewy, Religion and Revolution (New York: Oxford Unitersity Press, 1974.
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• Such social scientists as Robert Alford, Seymout Lipset, Stein Rokkan, and Mildred Schwartz have at least been concerned with the relationship between religion and voting behavior. See also Richard Rose, ed., Electoral Behavior: A Comparative Handbook (New York: The Free Press, 1974).
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• See the comprehensive anthology edited by Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Political Corruption (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970), and Pierre-Elliot Trudeau, “Some Obstacles to Democracy in Quebec,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. XXIV, no. 3 (August 1958), pp. 297–311.
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• On the nature of the Canadian political culture, see Robert Presthus, Elite Accommodation in Canadian Politics (London: Cambridge University Press, 1973), pp. 20–63. Employing a variety of the Almond-Verba Civic Culture terminology, Presthus describes Canadian politics as “quasi-participative.”
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• Robert M. Dawson, Democratic Government in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964), ch. 2; J. R. Mallory, The Structure of Canadian Government (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971), ch. 1.
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• Ibid., chs. 4 and 7.
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• Andrew Berwin, Stand on Guard: the Search for a Canadian Defence Policy (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965).
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