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The decline of deference : Canadian value change in cross-national perspective /

Since the 1980's Canadians have experienced turmoil on an unprecedented scale and on a variety of fronts. Constitutional battles pitted citizen against citizen and publics against leaders. Vigorous new interest groups challenged governments to respond to new issues like the environment, gay rig...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nevitte, Neil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, ©1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • PART I: SETTING THE STAGE
  • Chapter 1 A Decade of Turmoil
  • Interpreting Turmoil
  • Canada as One Stage
  • Three Perspectives on Canadian Value Change
  • Chapter 2 Setting the Stage
  • Structural Shifts in Context
  • From Structural Change to Value Change
  • Public Priorities and Orientations Towards Authority
  • Conclusions
  • PART II: POLITICAL VALUE CHANGE
  • Chapter 3 A Changing Political Culture?
  • Interest in Politics
  • Confidence in Governmental Institutions
  • Confidence in Non-Governmental Institutions
  • The Rise of CosmopolitanismConclusions
  • Chapter 4 Changing Patterns of Political Participation
  • The Rise of Protest Behaviour
  • New Movements
  • The Case of Environmentalism
  • Civil Permissiveness
  • Orientations towards Change
  • Challenging Political Authority
  • Conclusions
  • PART III: ECONOMIC VALUE CHANGE
  • Chapter 5 Changing Economic Cultures
  • Support for the Free Market
  • Why do People Live in Need?
  • When Jobs are Scarce
  • Free Markets and Free Trade: The Case of NAFTA
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 6 A Changing Work Culture
  • The Work Ethic and Pride in WorkWhy do People Work?
  • Elaborating Canadian-U.S. Comparisons
  • Workplace Participation
  • Conclusions
  • PART IV: PRIMARY RELATIONS
  • Chapter 7 Moral Outlooks
  • Shifting Religious Orientations
  • Moral Permissiveness
  • Tolerance
  • Situational Tolerance
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 8 Family Values: Stability and Change
  • The Family and Marriage
  • Women and Men, Family and Work
  • Parents and Children
  • Connecting Authority Orientations: The Family, Work and the Polity
  • Conclusions
  • PART V: CONCLUSIONS
  • Chapter 9 Patterns of ChangeCanada as an Advanced Industrial State: Perspective 1
  • Canada as a North American State: Perspective 2
  • Canada as an Immigrant Society: Perspective 3
  • Revisiting Authority Orientations
  • Authority Orientations and the Status Quo
  • Appendix: World Values Survey
  • Index
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