7. Prime ministers and presidents: institutional differences and political convergence / Thomas M.J.Bateman ; Data gold mines and minefields / Barbara Boyle Torrey -- Part One: Populations, impressions, values, and cultures -- 1. Population tectonic: life and death in North America / Barbara Boyle Torrey ; 2. Imagining each other / Stephen Brooks ; 3. America pivots toward progressive Canada: recent trajectories of social change in North America / Michael Adams; 4. Football, frats, and fiscal peril vs. commuters, carping, and rising costs: the new financial, social, and psychological context of higher education in Canada and the United States / Henry Srebrnik (with David M. Thomas) -- Part Two: Governance and governing mechanisms -- 5. Past futures: federalism under stress / David M. Thomas ; 6. Prime ministers and presidents: institutional differences and political convergence / Thomas M.J.Bateman ; 7. So near and yet so far: Washington and British Columbia in the new century / Jonathan W.Lampman and David M. Thomas ; 15. Legislatures and parties: heightened divisions since the 1990s / Melissa Haussman and Lori Turnbull ; 9. Two nations under law / Hon. Roger P. Kerans -- Part Three: Economic systems, taxation, and safety nets -- 10. Banks, banking, regulatory mechanisms, and the public interest: what's so different? / Kathryn C. Lavelle and Tony Porter ; 11. Getting things straight: the complex world of budgetary policy / Munir A. Sheikh ; 12. Health care in Canada and the United States / Antonia Maioni ; 13. Choose your parents wisely: economic inequality and mobility in Canada and the United States / John Harles -- Part Four: Policy differences, policy challenges, and policy change ; 14. So near and yet so far: Washington and British Columbia in the new century / Jonathan W.Lampman and David M. Thomas ; 15. Plus c'est la même chose? David N. Biette and Alexandra Kuschner ; Conclusion: First nations: turning promises into action? / Kathy Brock ; 17.Reflection on foreign policies, defense budgets, borders, and the current state of the partnership / David N. Biette and Alexandra Kuschner ; Conclusion: Plus c'est la même chose?
Summary:
"Canada and the United States: Differences that Count investigates why and how the United States and Canada - while so close and seemingly so similar - remain different in so many ways. In seventeen analytical yet readable chapters, leading authorities look at the American and the Canadian ways of doing things. The questions they address affect us all in ways great and small: as citizens, as students, and as policymakers. Our similarities and our differences are not always as we have assumed them to be, and this volume helps us learn from one another's experiences. The fourth edition features new chapters on taxation, revenues, and budgets; health care; banking and financial regulation; legislatures; foreign policy; prime ministers and presidents; and state-province comparisons. Every chapter has been updated to take into consideration major developments and changes since the third edition, including the economic meltdown of 2008, changing electoral outcomes, new census data, and new policy directions in both countries - especially concerning health care and the environment."--pub. desc.
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