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across boundaries Across Boundaries Essays in Honour of Robert A. Young edited by André Blais Cristine de Clercy Anna Lennox Esselment Ronald Wintrobe McGill- Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago © McGill- Queen’s University Press 2021 ISBN 978-0-2280-0607-7 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-2280-0608-4 (paper) ISBN 978-0-2280-0709-8 (ePdf) ISBN 978-0-2280-0710-4 (ePUB) Legal deposit second quarter 2021 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free Funding has been received from the J.B. Smallman Publication Fund, Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Across boundaries : essays in honour of Robert A. Young / edited by André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Anna Lennox Esselment, Ronald Wintrobe. Other titles: Across boundaries (2021) Names: Blais, André, 1947– editor. | De Clercy, Cristine, editor. | Esselment, Anna Lennox, editor. | Wintrobe, Ronald, editor. | Young, Robert Andrew, honouree. Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210144491 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210144637 | ISBN 9780228006084 (softcover) | ISBN 9780228006077 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780228007098 (PDF) | ISBN 9780228007104 (ePUB) Subjects: lcsh: Political science. | lcsh: Federal government. | lcsh: Central-local government relations. | lcsh: Secession. | lcsh: Economics. Classification: lccja66 .a27 2021 | ddc 320—dc23 This book was typeset in 10.5/13 Sabon. Contents Tables, Figures, and Equations vii • Acknowledgments ix • 1 Introduction: The Work of Robert A. Young 3 • André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Anna Lennox Esselment, and Ronald Wintrobe part one | multilevel governance 2 Bob Young, Big Projects, and the Study of Local and Urban Politics in Canada 15 • Martin Horak, Andy Sancton, and Allison Bramwell 3 Exchange Rates, Energy Royalties, Carbon Pricing, Fiscal Federalism: An Integrative Framework for Equity and Competitiveness 33 • Thomas J. Courchene 4 Do Ideas Matter? Competing Models of Municipal Public Administration and Their Influence on Policy and Implementation of a Toronto Social Program 47 • Carol Agocs vi Contents part two | secession politics 5 Democracy Against Unilateral Secession 83 • Stéphane Dion 6 Has the Economic Risk Associated with Quebec’s Independence Increased? 113 • Philippe Faucher 7 How Do Secessions Not Happen? The Cases of Scotland and Catalonia 128 • François Rocher and Nadia Verrelli 8 The Self-Determination Conundrum: Wrong Answers or Wrong Question? 148 • Michael Keating part three | political economy 9 The Left and the Fiscal Deficit: A Beautiful Hypothesis Slain by an Ugly Fact 165 • Louis M. Imbeau and Jérôme Couture 10 Gandhi’s Satyagraha: An Economic Interpretation 185 • Ronald Wintrobe 11 On Blessing and Cursing Matters: Some Political Economy 199 • Mario Ferrero 12 In Defense of Majoritarianism 214 • Stanley L. Winer Appendix: Publications of Robert A. Young 231 • Contributors 245 • Index 251 • Tables, Figures, and Equations tables 3.1 The anatomy of provincial finances, 2012–13 ($ per capita) 37 • 6.1 Interprovincial and international trade, Quebec, 1990 and 2016 (percentage of provincial gdp) 120 • figures 9.1 Voters on the spending dimension 171 • 9.2 A two-dimensional fiscal policy space 172 • 9.3 The bottom-up budget 173 • 9.4 The top-down budget 175 • 9.5a A more fiscally conservative top-down budget 176 • 9.5b A less fiscally conservative top-down budget 176 • 9.6 Ideological zones regarding fiscal policy 178 • 12.1 Loosemore-Hanby and Gallager Indexes, Elections 19–42 (1940–2015) 224 • viii Tables, Figures, and Equations equations 12.1 Gallagher index of proportionality 223 • 12.2 Loosemore-Hanby index of proportionality 223 • Acknowledgments This volume was produced with the help and support of many peo- ple. As one might expect, compiling a manuscript featuring the work of eighteen authors and supervised by four co-editors presented some significant logistical challenges. Moreover, much of the production preparation was accomplished in the summer and fall of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted work and tangled communications. Nevertheless, the patience and commitment of everyone involved in this project secured its completion. We thank McGill-Queen’s University Press for agreeing to pursue this project after an initial meeting with the then chair of Western Political Science, Don Abelson, in November of 2017. Among the press’s personnel we especially appreciate the help of Philip Cercone, Jacqueline Davis, Filomena Falocco, Kathleen Fraser, Elena Goranescu, Jacqueline Mason, Joanne Pisano, and Grace Seybold. We also thank Virgil Duff at University of Toronto Press. We appreciate the useful comments and suggestions of two anon- ymous external reviewers concerning the original manuscript. The professional editing and proofreading services of Dawn Oosterhoff were invaluable in turning the rough draft into a coherent manuscript. At the University of Western Ontario, several people made large contributions to the project. In particular the chair of the Department of Political Science, Matt Lebo, supplied advice concerning internal funding. The office of Dean Joan Finegan and the associate dean of Research, Ken McRae, provided valuable support. The editors grate- fully acknowledge the assistance of the J.B. Smallman Publication Fund and the Faculty of Social Science, the University of Western Ontario. The editors also gratefully acknowledge the assistance of
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