Across Boundaries: Essays in Honour of Robert A.Young

✍ Scribed by André Blais (editor); Cristine de Clercy (editor); Anna Lennox Esselment (editor); Ronald Wintrobe (editor)

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Essays honouring Bob Young's groundbreaking work on multi-level governance, secession, and political economy

Robert (Bob) Andrew Young (1950–2017) was Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance at the University of Western Ontario and one of Canada's most distinguished political scientists. In Across Boundaries Young's former colleagues and students bring together contributions from his extensive network. These essays speak to Young's legacy while providing new insight into research in multilevel governance, secession, and political economy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
ACROSS BOUNDARIES
Title
Copyright
Contents
Tables, Figures, and Equations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: The Work of Robert A. Young
PART ONE | MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE
2 Bob Young, Big Projects, and the Study of Local and Urban Politics in Canada
3 Exchange Rates, Energy Royalties, Carbon Pricing, Fiscal Federalism: An Integrative Framework for Equity and Competitiveness
4 Do Ideas Matter? Competing Models of Municipal Public Administration and Their Influence on Policy and Implementation of a Toronto Social Program
PART TWO | SECESSION POLITICS
5 Democracy Against Unilateral Secession
6 Has the Economic Risk Associated with Quebec’s Independence Increased?
7 How Do Secessions Not Happen? The Cases of Scotland and Catalonia
8 The Self-Determination Conundrum: Wrong Answers or Wrong Question?
PART THREE | POLITICAL ECONOMY
9 The Left and the Fiscal Deficit: A Beautiful Hypothesis Slain by an Ugly Fact
10 Gandhi’s Satyagraha: An Economic Interpretation
11 On Blessing and Cursing Matters: Some Political Economy
12 In Defense of Majoritarianism
Appendix: Publications of Robert A. Young
Contributors
Index