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The Once and Future Canadian Democracy
Janet Ajzenstat
其他書名
An Essay in Political Thought
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2003
主題History / GeneralLiterary Collections / LGBTQPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / World / Canadian
ISBN07735265959780773526594
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BDM7VXHdf_YC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In The Once and Future Canadian Democracy Janet Ajzenstat debunks conventional wisdom about Canadian political identity and history. She shows that linking Canadian identity to an ideology that favours the common good over individual interests and counts on big government to achieve it is strangling Canadian democracy by placing fundamental questions beyond debate. To revitalize politics we need to abandon the idea that ideologies evolve from "right" to "left," from conservatism to socialism, and look at our political differences in terms of the distinction, more familiar in the arts, between classicism and romanticism. She argues that by abandoning our current modes of debate and rediscovering the Enlightenment liberalism that is an enduring part of our political tradition we will help to recreate Canada as a place of debate on fundamentals, not one in which a monolithic definition of identity answers all questions in advance.