Contentious Politics in North America

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.

JEFFREY AYRES is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Saint Michaels College, Vermont.

LAURA MACDONALD is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University; Chair of the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Center on North American Politics and Society.

Theoretical Issues And Policy Implications Of North American Integration Introduction: Conceptualizing North American Contentious Politics
The Political Economy of Neoliberalism in North America
Security, Democracy and Sovereignty
Contentious Politics: National and Cross-Border Variations
Civil Society Organizations against Free Trade Agreements in North America
Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
Contesting Neoliberal Globalism and NAFTA in Rural Mexico: From State Corporatism to the Political-Cultural Formation of the Peasantry?
Contentious Politics in Mexico: Democratization and Mobilizations after NAFTA
Coalition Politics: A Political Analysis of the Strategies, Discourses and Impact of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC
Contesting Regional Governance The Globalized Complexities of Transborder Governance in North America
The Legalization of Transnational Political Opportunity Structures: Mobilization of NAFTA's Labor Citizen Petitions for Domestic Political Gain
North American Transnational Environmental Actors and Mexico
NAFTA and Transnational Contention: A Decade of Alliance and Conflict over Neoliberalism
Conclusion
Conclusion: Contention and Deepening North America
Bibliography
Index
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Contentious Politics in North America National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration

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