Contentious Politics in North America

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Theoretical Issues and Policy Implications of North American Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Conceptualizing North American Contentious Politics

      • Jeffrey Ayres, Laura Macdonald

      Pages 3-15

   3. The Political Economy of Neoliberalism in North America

      • Stephen McBride

      Pages 16-34

   4. North American Politics after September 11: Security, Democracy and Sovereignty

      • Julián Castro-Rea

      Pages 35-53

3. Contentious Politics: National and Cross-Border Variations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Civil Society Organizations against Free Trade Agreements in North America

      • Dorval Brunelle, Sylvie Dugas

      Pages 57-73

   3. Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

      • Joe Bandy

      Pages 74-91

   4. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism and NAFTA in Rural Mexico: From State Corporatism to the Political-Cultural Formation of the Peasantry?

      • Armando Bartra, Gerardo Otero

      Pages 92-113

   5. Contentious Politics in Mexico: Democratization and Mobilizations after NAFTA

      • Jorge Cadena-Roa

      Pages 114-131

   6. Coalition Politics: A Political Analysis of the Strategies, Discourses and Impact of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC)

      • Marie-Josée Massicotte

      Pages 132-152

4. Contesting Regional Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. The Globalized Complexities of Transborder Governance in North America

      • Stephen Clarkson, Antonio Torres-Ruiz

      Pages 155-176

   3. The Legalization of Transnational Political Opportunity Structures: Mobilization of NAFTA’s Labor Citizen Petitions for Domestic Political Gain

      • Jonathan Graubart

      Pages 177-194

   4. North American Transnational Environmental Actors and Mexico

      • Blanca Torres

      Pages 195-210

   5. NAFTA and Transnational Contention: A Decade of Alliance and Conflict over Neoliberalism

      • Michael Dreiling, Tony Silvaggio

      Pages 211-228

5. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Conclusion: Contention and Deepening North America

      • Stephanie R. Golob

      Pages 231-247

6. Back Matter

   Pages 248-299

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This is the only book of its kind devoted to exploring contentious politics from a North American perspective, including protests, social movements, transnational contention, and emergent regional governance processes, between Canadian, U.S. and Mexican state and civil society actors.

• democracy
• democratization
• desegregation
• economy
• environment
• Governance
• Integration
• Nation
• neoliberalism
• organization
• Policy
• politics
• Protest
• sovereignty
• Transnational
• us politics

'...an insightful compilation...This book has many strengths that make it important to the literature of North American integration. In addition to adding an important topic to the discussion, it contributes by emphasizing the importance of society in policy design, technology transfer, sharing of solidarity values, understanding of societies, and development of multicultural sensibility through different mechanisms...Another of its strengths is intellectual honesty.' -Latin American Policy

• Department of Political Science, Saint Michael’s College, USA

  Jeffrey Ayres

• Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  Laura Macdonald

JEFFREY AYRES is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont, USA.

LAURA MACDONALD is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science, and co-director of the Centre on North American Politics and Society, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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