Alan Cairns
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Canadian political scientist
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Alan Cairns's Degrees
- PhD Political Science University of British Columbia
- Masters Political Science University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Political Science University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hugh Alan Craig Cairns, was a Canadian political scientist and professor. His scholarship focused on diverse topics within Canadian politics, including federalism, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, electoral politics, the role of the courts, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and Indigenous issues. Cairns was a leading expert of federalism and governance, and his scholarship remains foundational in Canadian political science.
Alan Cairns's Published Works
Published Works
- Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State (2000) (216)
- The Governments and Societies of Canadian Federalism (1977) (144)
- The Electoral System and the Party System in Canada, 1921–1965 (1968) (118)
- Charter versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform (1992) (61)
- The Australian federal system (1977) (61)
- A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON CANADIAN FEDERALISM (1966) (61)
- The Judicial Committee and Its Critics (1971) (60)
- Constitutionalism, Citizenship and Society in Canada (1986) (46)
- Citizenship, Diversity, and Pluralism: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives (2000) (40)
- Disruptions : constitutional struggles, from the Charter to Meech Lake (1991) (39)
- The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity, and Language in Canada (1987) (38)
- Citizens (Outsiders) and Governments (Insiders) in Constitution-Making: The Case of Meech Lake (1988) (37)
- Reconfigurations: Canadian Citizenship and Constitutional Change (1995) (36)
- Political Science in Canada and the Americanization Issue (1975) (34)
- An Election to be Remembered: Canada 1993 (1994) (22)
- The other crisis of Canadian federalism (1979) (17)
- Alternative Styles in the Study of Canadian Politics (1974) (15)
- Afterword: international dimensions of the citizen issue for indigenous peoples/nations (2003) (15)
- Constitution, Government, And Society In Canada (1988) (15)
- The Past and Future of the Canadian Administrative State (1990) (14)
- Insiders and outsiders : Alan Cairns and the reshaping of Canadian citizenship (2005) (14)
- A Defence of the Citizens' Constitution Theory: A Response to Ian Brodie and Neil Nevitte (1993) (9)
- The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900–1945 Doug Owram Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986, pp. xiv, 402 (1987) (8)
- Political Science, Ethnicity, and the Canadian Constitution (1989) (7)
- Chief Electoral Officer ’ s Message 2 Aboriginal People ’ s Electoral Participation in the Canadian Community (2003) (7)
- The Politics of Constitutional Renewal in Canada (1985) (7)
- Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings ed. by Robert Adamoski, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies (review) (2016) (7)
- Recent Federalist Constitutional Proposals: A Review Essay (1979) (6)
- Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada Will Kymlicka Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. viii, 220 (1999) (4)
- Uneasy Patriots: Western Canadians in Confederation@@@A House Divided: Meech Lake, Senate Reform and the Canadian Union (1990) (4)
- The Charter: A Political Science Perspective (1992) (4)
- Citizenship and Indian Peoples: The Ambiguous Legacy of Internal Colonialism (2002) (4)
- Chemicals and the world economy (1969) (4)
- THE QUEBEC SECESSION REFERENCE: THE CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION TO NEGOTIATE (2011) (3)
- Searching for Multinational Canada: The Rhetoric of Confusion (2001) (3)
- Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism Charles Taylor Edited by Guy Laforest Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993, pp. xv, 208 (1994) (2)
- A Reply to J. A. A. Lovink, “On Analysing the Impact of the Electoral System on the Party System in Canada” (1970) (2)
- Commentaries: An Overview of the Trudeau Constitutional Proposals (1969) (1)
- The End of Internal Empire: The Emerging Aboriginal Policy Agenda (2000) (1)
- The Canadian Constitutional Experiment (2019) (1)
- 12. Writings in Political Science (1990) (0)
- “The Constitution of the People”: Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society Robert E. Calvert, ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991, pp. xii, 168 (1992) (0)
- “Rights Talk” and Reality in Canada: Does News Media Coverage Impoverish Political Discourse Regarding the Charter of Rights? (2007) (0)
- R. Macgregor Dawson, The Government of Canada , fifth edition, revised by Norman Ward. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. xiv, 569. (1971) (0)
- THE LEGACY OF THE REFERENDUM: WHO ARE WE NOW? (2011) (0)
- Charting the Consequences: The Impact of Charter Rights on Canadian Law and Politics by David Schneiderman and Kate Sutherland (1998) (0)
- The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century-La distinction canadienne au tournant du (0)
- ROADBLOCKS IN THE WAY OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (2011) (0)
- Editorial (2005) (0)
- CJP volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1975) (0)
- The Myth of the Sacred: The Charter, the Courts, and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada (review) (2004) (0)
- Editorial: Rapid Communications (2000) (0)
- Comment on “Critics of the Judicial Committee: The New Orthodoxy and an Alternative Explanation” (1986) (0)
- Constitutional Stigmatisation 1 (2018) (0)
- Essays on Citizenship: Bernard Crick (2003) (0)
- Editorial (2007) (0)
- Special Issue in Honour of David Montgomery (1995) (0)
- Hazards in the dental surgery. (1978) (0)
- Citizenship and the New Constitutional order. by Alan Cairns (1992) (0)
- The Courts / Parliament Trade-off : The View from the Canadian Election Study (2010) (0)
- In Search of Canadian Political Culture By NELSON WISEMAN (2008) (0)
- Economy , Class and Nation in Quebec : Interpretive Essays (2009) (0)
- Canada: Can we survive? (1996) (0)
- Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau by Gordon Robertson (review) (2016) (0)
- Aboriginal Peoples in the Twenty-first Century: A Plea for Realism (2003) (0)
- CJP volume 8 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1975) (0)
- Editorial (2000) (0)
- CJP volume 8 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1975) (0)
- Douglas W. Rae, The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws . New Haven, London: Yale University Press [Montreal: McGill University Press], 1967, pp. ix, 173. (1968) (0)
- Aboriginal Research in Troubled Times (2017) (0)
- The crisis of Canadian federation (1979) (0)
- Book Review: Hyam Gold (ed.), New Zealand Politics in Perspective, 2nd ed. (Auckland, Longman Paul Ltd., 1989), pp. 456. NZ$39.95 (1990) (0)
- CJP volume 8 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1975) (0)
- The Changing Architecture of Politics: Structure, Agency and the Future of the State Philip G. Cerny London: Sage Publications, 1990, pp. xviii, 267 (1991) (0)
- Publications Received (2001) (0)
- Indigenous Nationalism and the Nation State (2007) (0)
- Democracy with Justice: Essays in Honour of Khayyam Zev Paltiel Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay, eds. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992, pp. xi, 447 (1993) (0)
- Political Thought in Canada ed. by Stephen Brooks (review) (2016) (0)
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