Why Canadian unity matters and why Americans care : democratic pluralism at risk / Charles F. Doran

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Challenges to Democratic Pluralism 3 -- Democratic Pluralism: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary 5 -- Cultural Identity and Politics 16 -- The Social-Psychology of Divisive Nationalism 22 -- The Challenge to Liberal Democracy 27 -- 2 A U.S. Perspective on Canadian Unity 37 -- What Underlies U.S. Preferences? 40 -- The Economic Claim to Wholeness 46 -- Defence of the North American Continent: The Security -- Claim 55 -- Why Canada Is Important: City on the Hill, Interdependence, and -- Cohesion 60 -- 3 Will Quebec Secede? 66 -- How Three Social-Psychological Processes Fan Quebec -- Nationalism 66 -- Factors Contributing to Separation 69 -- Quebec Nationalism: Ethnic or Civic? 83 -- Sources of Resistance to Disunity 88 -- Background Trends Affecting Quebec Nationalism 96 -- Unaccounted-for Trends and Surprises 100 -- No Bottom Line, No Willingness to Budge 104 -- 4 Could English Canada Unravel? 106 -- Geographical Isolation of the Atlantic Provinces 109 -- 'Transfer Payments' Would End 113 -- Effervescence of 'Western Alienation' 119 -- The 'Ontario Problem' 126 -- The North American Crucible 131 -- 5 Is Separatism Home-Grown or the Result of Contagion? 135 -- State Formation as Historically Determined Evolution 137 -- The Influence of the International System on Secession 143 -- Building States by Breaking States: Divisive Nationalism 145 -- Can Democratic Pluralism Survive? Divisive Nationalism and the -- Future 150 -- Centralization, Globalization, and North America 153 -- 6 Is Small Size a Stimulus or Obstacle to Separatism? 162 -- Economic Costs of Separation to Quebec 162 -- The Structure of World Order and Trade 166 -- Relationship between the Size of a Polity and Its Economic -- Growth 174 -- Empirical Analysis of the Size/Growth Threshold 178 -- Causal Assumptions Underlying Costs of Secession 183 -- Resolving the Paradigmatic Controversy 184 -- Assessing the Policy Implications 185 -- 7 What Kind of Canada in the Twenty-First Century? 190 -- Aboriginal Peoples, Cultural Survival, and Democratic -- Pluralism 191 -- Responding to Quebec If Secession Fails 192 -- Is a Unilateral Declaration of Independence Possible? 199 -- Probing Plan B 202 -- Responding to the ROC If Quebec Secedes 207 -- Responding to Asymmetrical Federalism 216 -- Responding to a Scenario of Deep Decentralization 217 -- Summing Up the Options and the Consequences 222 -- 8 Self-Determination and Democratic Pluralism 225 -- The Threat to Democratic Pluralism 225 -- Divisive Nationalism 228 -- Bogus Science of Primordial Causes for Ethnic Separatism 236 -- The Communitarian Challenge to Democratic Pluralism 237 -- Self-Determination: The Pluralist Addendum 243 -- Confronting the Challenge to Democratic Pluralism 249 -- Notes 253 -- Index 291.