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Sleeping Dogs: Quebec and the Stabilization of Canadian Federalism After 1995

Sleeping Dogs: Quebec and the Stabilization of Canadian Federalism After 1995

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Series: Political Development: Comparative Perspectives

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1487522215
ISBN13: 9781487522216
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Aug 23 2023
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

What happened to the Quebec sovereignty movement after 1995? In Sleeping Dogs, Andrew McDougall reveals how a change in federalist strategy, combined with an improving political context, helped Canada stabilize its federal system and bury the Quebec question for the foreseeable future.

The book identifies five potential reasons the Quebec sovereignty movement lost momentum and argues that all contributed to a political environment that benefited federalists. McDougall explores topics of elite accommodation, generational change, changing identity politics, economic globalization, and constitutional fatigue. He argues that Canada's federalist political elites have capitalized on these developments to stabilize the country by dropping the national question - even when they might still hold very different visions of the Constitution. Building on constitutional abeyance theory, the author conceives of this strategic change as the restoration of a constitutional abeyance among federalist actors. Considering recent history in light of subsequent developments, Sleeping Dogs is a timely and important attempt to understand the evolving situation in Quebec and Canadian federalism.

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