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category: Political Science
published: Jan 2004
ISBN:9780774809863
publisher: UBC Press

The Integrity Gap

Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions

edited by Anthony Perl & Eugene Lee

tagged: environmental conservation & protection, environmental policy
Description

This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada’s response to environmental challenges. Canadians, despite their national penchant for environmental discussion, have fallen behind their G-8 peers in both domestic commitments and international actions. In a cogent examination of the issue, eight authors demonstrate how Canada’s configuration of political and economic institutions has limited effective environmental policy. Canadian environmental institutions, the authors argue, have produced an integrity gap: the sustainability rhetoric adopted by policymakers fails to achieve concrete results. In an analysis that penetrates several policy domains and combines various disciplinary, sectoral, and geographic perspectives, the authors demonstrate how Canada fell from leader to laggard within the international environmental community.

Placing the study of Canadian environmental policy within a sound theoretical framework for the first time, this book makes a significant contribution to existing policy scholarship. It will find an enthusiastic audience among political scientists, neo-institutional theorists, policy analysts, and students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

About the Authors

Anthony Perl


Eugene Lee

Contributor Notes

Eugene Lee is a member of the Department of Political Science, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea. Anthony Perl is in the Department of Political Science, University of Calgary.

Editorial Review

A useful matrix in the introductory chapter identifies the institutional constraints that prevent Canadian governments delivering stated environmental goals ... The case studies offer useful support for this hypothesis.

— British Journal of Canadian Studies, 12 November 2005

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