Alan C Cairns

Datos Biográficos

ID734028
NOMBREAlan C Cairns
NOMBRESAlan C
APELLIDOCairns
FIRMACAIRNS A C
AFILIACIONESUniversity of British Columbia
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAS262
TOTAL COMO AUTOR27
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1966
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
ÍNDICE H7

  • In Search of Canadian Political Culture By Nelson Wiseman

    Open AccessAlan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Public Administration2008

  • Afterword

    Alan C Cairns, Alan CairnsARTICLECitizenship Studies2003Citada por: 6

    Citizenship is a contested site in the evolving relations between indigenous minority nations/peoples and the states in which they live. This cannot be understood without reference to global trends and the history of indigenous-state relations in the imperial era. The former wardship status of indigenous peoples in settler societies was sustained by European control of much of the globe. The demise of the latter delegitimated the colonial treatme…

  • Citizenship, Diversity, and Pluralism

    Patrick Kyba, Alan C Cairns et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy2001Citada por: 1

    Contributors include Heribert Adam (Simon Fraser), Keith Banting (Queen's), Anthony Birch (emeritus, Victoria), John Borrows (UBC), Alan Cairns, Walker Connor (Trinity College), John Erik Fossum (LOS-Senteret, Norway), Virginia Leary (emeritus, SUNY), Denise Reaume (Toronto), Lynn Smith (justice, BC Supreme Court), Charles Taylor (emeritus, McGill), and Jeremy Webber (Sydney, Australia)

  • Citizens Plus

    Open AccessMary A Murphy, Michael Murphy et al.REVIEWThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2000

  • Citizenship, Diversity, and Pluralism

    Alan C Cairns, John C Courtney et al.BOOKCitizenship, Diversity, and…1999

  • Rethinking the Constitution

    Alan C Cairns, Alan Cairns et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1997

    Introduction: The Necessity of Rethinking the Constitution PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM 1. A Lament for British North America 2. Trudeau's Moral Vision 3. On the Virtues of a Limited Constitution: Why Canadians Were Correct to Reject the Charlottetown Accord PART II: CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION 4. The Supreme Court as the Vanguard of the Intelligentsia: The Charter Movement as Postmaterialist Politics 5. The Language of Rights and the Crisis o…

  • Reconfigurations

    Jennifer Smith, Alan C Cairns et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1995Citada por: 1

  • An Election to Be Remembered

    Alan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Public Policy1994Citada por: 7

    This paper analyses the 1993 Canadian federal election from three perspectives; (1) the significance of the campaign; (2) the contribution of institutional variables, especially the electoral system, to the outcome; (3) and most important, the election as the vehicle for a paradigm shift with respect to, (i) a new relationship of the party system to the constitutional issue, (ii) a repudiation of several basic constitutional assumptions of the la…

  • A Defence of the Citizens' Constitution Theory

    Open AccessAlan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…1993Citada por: 4Referencias: 2

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  • Ethnography and the Historical Imagination

    Leslie Bank, Henrika Kuklick et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1993Citada por: 1

    La caza costera tradicional de ballenas o "pesca de ballenas" se inicia en la zona de Talcahuano en la primera mitad del siglo XIX y luego se extiende hacia el sur de Chile, llegando hasta la Isla Grande de Chiloé.En este trabajo nos interesa escribir una etnografía de la caza costera en Tumbes e isla Santa María, denominada en la literatura de la época "pesca de ballenas".Los datos sobre estas operaciones provienen de una serie de informes escri…

  • Uneasy Patriots

    Alan C Cairns, David Kilgour et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1990Citada por: 1

  • The Past and Future of the Canadian Administrative State

    Alan C CairnsARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal1990Citada por: 3

  • Hard Choices

    Alan C Cairns, Carolyn SwayzeARTICLECanadian Public Policy1988Citada por: 2

  • Citizens (Outsiders) and Governments (Insiders) in Constitution-Making

    Alan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Public Policy1988Citada por: 15Referencias: 1

    Alan C. Cairns, Citizens (Outsiders) and Governments (Insiders) in Constitution-Making: The Case of Meech Lake, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 14, Supplement: The Meech Lake Accord / L'Accord du lac Meech (Sep., 1988), pp. S121-S145

  • No Sense of Evil. Espionage

    Alan C Cairns, James Barros et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1988

  • Politics of the High Court

    Alan C Cairns, Brian GalliganARTICLEPacific Affairs1988Citada por: 1

  • The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Language in Canada

    Open AccessDavid A Nock, Alan C Cairns et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1987Citada por: 9

  • In Their Own Right. The Rise to Power of Joh's Nationals

    Alan C Cairns, Alan MetcalfeARTICLEPacific Affairs1986

    PREFACE n This book is about politics in the state of Queensland. Morenparticularly, it is about the National Party of Australian(Queensland). Even more particularly, it is about thentumultuous decade of politics in Queensland between 1973nand 1983. It was during the premiership of Joh Bjelke-nPetersen and the presidency of Sir Robert Sparkes that thenNational Party achieved its aim of governing Queensland innits own right.n n Circumstances broug…

  • A Constitutional History of Australia

    Alan C Cairns, W G McminnARTICLEPacific Affairs1980

  • Recent Federalist Constitutional Proposals

    Alan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Public Policy1979

  • The other crisis of Canadian federalism

    Open AccessAlan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Public Administration1979Citada por: 6

    This article examines ‘the other crisis’ of Canadian federalism, which is identified as a declining capacity for the effective use of government authority for the attainment of public goals. Central to this crisis is the negative impact of competitive big governments at both levels on the effective functioning of the federal system. In one sense the crisis is simply a particular version of the widespread crisis in government capacity characterist…

  • The Australian Federal System

    Alan C Cairns, Jean Holmes et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1979

  • The Governments and Societies of Canadian Federalism

    Open AccessAlan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…1977Citada por: 61Referencias: 8

    Cet article expose un point de vue sur le fédéralisme canadien qui met l'accent sur l'impact des gouvernements provinciaux et fédéraux. Ces deux niveaux de gouvernement se sont créés de puissants soutiens pour leur propre survie en employant un Canadien sur neuf, en obtenant le support des partis et des groupes de pression et en structurant par leurs diverses politiques un réseau de relations avec les sociétés qu'ils dirigent.Le système fédéral t…

  • Political Science in Canada and the Americanization Issue

    Open AccessAlan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…1975Citada por: 15Referencias: 45

    Le problème de l'américanisation de la science politique au CanadaCet essai a pour objectif d'analyser les principales composantes de la controverse actuelle concernant l'influence américaine sur le développement de la science politique au Canada, tout particulièrement au Canada anglais. Après avoir rappelé les grandes lignes de l'histoire de la science politique au Canada depuis le dix-neuvième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, l'auteur circonscrit les …

  • Alternative Styles in the Study of Canadian Politics

    Open AccessAlan C CairnsARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…1974Citada por: 7Referencias: 24

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