Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction / Gerald Kernerman and Philip Resnick

Part 1: Methods and Approaches

2 Alan Cairns: Public Intellectual / John Meisel

3 The Political Scientist as Hedgefox: Key Themes in Cairns’ Approach to Institutions / Leslie A. Pal

Part 2: Citizen-Shaping Institutions

The Electoral System

4 Early Warning, No Response: Alan Cairns and Electoral Reform / Roger Gibbins

5 The Electoral System and the Party System Revisited / Richard Johnston

The Institutions of Canadian Federalism

6 The Legacy of the Privy Council in Canadian Federalism / Peter W. Hogg

7 Unnatural Loyalties or Naïve Collaborationists? The Governments and Citizens of Canadian Federalism / Fred Cutler and Matthew Mendelsohn

8 Institutions, Citizenship, and Federalism: Contrasting Models of Redistribution in the Twenty-First Century / Robert G. Finbow

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms

9 Some Implications of the Embedded State in Canada / Barry Cooper

10 Morton and Knopff’s The Charter Revolution and the Court Party: A Legal Critique / Robin Elliot

11 The Politics of Honourable Constitutional Inclusion and the Citizens’ Constitution Theory / Matt James

12 Charters and Constitution Making: Comparing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights / John E. Fossum

Part 3: Citizenship, Diversity, and Unity Quebec and Canadian Unity

13 The Anatomy of Cairns’ Constitutional Criticism: French Canadians, Quebec, and the Canadian Constitution / Ramsay Cook

14 Alan C. Cairns on Canadians’ Right to Their Country / Stéphane Dion

15 Plan C? Alan Cairns and English Canada Confront the Challenge of Quebec Sovereignty / Reg Whitaker

16 Canada’s Mismatching Federations / Jean Laponce

Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations

17 Belonging in the New World: Imperialism, Property, and Citizenship / Frances Abele

18 Toward Conceptual Precision: Citizenship and Rightsm Talk for Aboriginal Canadians / Joyce A. Green

19 Parallel or Embedded? Aboriginal Self-Government and the Changing Nature of Citizenship in Canada / Marc Hanvelt and Martin Papillon

20 First Nations, Citizenship, and Democratic Reform / Kathy L. Brock

Diversity and Unity

21 Citizenship in a Multinational Democracy / Peter H. Russell

22 Citizenship Complexities in Canada and Australia: A Challenge for the Hedgefox / Brian Galligan

23 Of Cairns and Cages? Identity, Democracy, and Alan Cairns / Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Richard F. Devlin

24 Multiculturalism, Gender, and Social Cohesion: Reflections on Intersectionality and Urban Citizenship in Canada / Caroline Andrew

Conclusion

25 My Academic Career: The Pleasures and Risks of Introspection / Alan C. Cairns

Contributors

Index

About the Author

Gerald Kernerman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Canadian Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Philip Resnick is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.