Synopses & Reviews
Border Crossings examines how specific Canadian public policy fields are being increasingly affected by globalization and internationalization factors and processes. The book also examines how these factors and processes have varied across policy fields and why these variations have occurred.
Synopsis
Border Crossingsis the first Canadian analysis of globalization and internationalization to go beyond broad generalities and recognize that those forces have influenced the various policy fields in very different ways.
Throughout the emphasis is on the policy process - policy ideas, including various conceptions of national sovereignty; policy communities and the influence of interest groups; interdepartmental relations in the federal government; and changes in policy instruments.
This book is also unusual in recognizing the complex relationship between the national and international forces that influence Canadian public policy. To that end, the fourteen contributors have been drawn variously from the public-policy and the international-relations specialties; each of the selected policy fields is examined intensively from both points of view.
Table of Contents
1. The Internationalization of Canadian Public Policy, G. Bruce Doern, Leslie A. Pal, and Brian W. Tomlin
2. Social Policy, Keith G. Banting
3. Banking and Securities Policy, William D. Coleman and Tony Porter
4. Telecommunications Policy, Richard J. Schulz and Mark R. Brawley
5. Environmental Policy, Glen Toner and Tom Conway
6. Agricultural Policy, Grace Skogstad
7. Trade-Industrial Policy, G. Bruce Doern and Brian W. Tomlin
8. Investment Policy, Elizabeth Smythe
9. Human Rights and Security Policy, Andrew F. Cooper and Leslie A. Pal
10. Foreign Policy, G. Bruce Doern and John Kirton