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Dr. James P. Bickerton |
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James Bickerton is Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. His research interests are in the areas of federalism, regionalism, and electoral politics in Canada. He is currently completing work on the seventh edition of his textbook Canadian Politics (University of Toronto Press, with Alain Gagnon). Ongoing research includes a project on diversity accommodation and political stability in Canada, as well as the comparative study of regions. He is an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Research on Quebec and Canadian Studies. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Cornell, Simon Fraser, Victoria, McGill, UQAM, Barcelona, and Edinburgh. |
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Courses / Schedule / Contact Information / StFX / Department |
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Books |
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Canadian
Politics, Sixth Edition
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014) co-edited with A.G. Gagnon. |
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Governing: Essays in Honour of
Donald J. Savoie (Montreal:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) co-edited with B.G. Peters. |
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Freedom,
Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006)
co-authored with S. Brooks and A.G. Gagnon. Published in French as Six penseurs en quête
de liberté, d’égalité et
de communauté: Grant, Innis, Laurendeau,
Rioux, Taylor et Trudeau (Quebec: Les Presses de l’Université
Laval, 2003). |
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The Savage
Years: The Perils of Reinventing Government in Nova Scotia (Halifax: Formac
Publishing, 2000) co-authored with P. Clancy, R. Haddow,
and I. Stewart. |
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Ties That Bind: Parties and Voters in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1999)
co-authored with A.G. Gagnon and P. Smith. Published in French as
Filiations et affiliations: partis politiques et comportement électoral au Canada (Montreal: Boreal Press, 2002). |
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The
Almanac of Canadian Politics, Second Edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995) co-authored
with M. Eagles, A.G. Gagnon and P. Smith. Published in French as L’Almanach Politique
Du Quebec (Montreal: Quebec/Amerique, 1997). |
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Nova
Scotia, Ottawa, and the Politics of Regional Development (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990). |
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Articles
and Book Chapters (since 2010)
“Parties and Elections: An End to Canadian Exceptionalism?” in J.
Bickerton and A.G. Gagnon, eds. Canadian
Politics, Seventh Edition (Toronto: UTP, in press).
“Regions” in Danielle Caramani, ed. Comparative Politics, Fifth Edition (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, in press) (with A.G. Gagnon).
“Rebalancing Federal Citizenship in Canada” in Fifty Shades of Federalism (2019). Available at:
http://50shadesoffederalism.com/case-studies/rebalancing-federal-citizenship-in-canada/
“Diversity Accommodation as a Strategy of National Unity: The Case of
Canada” in Alain-G. Gagnon and Michael Burgess, eds, Revisiting Unity and Diversity in Federal
Countries: Changing Concepts, Reform Proposals and New Institutional Realities
(Leiden: Brill/Nijhoff, 2018), 233-258.
“Managing Diversity Through Citizenization:
Citizenship Regime as a Framework of Analysis” in M. Paquet,
N. Nagels, and A-C Fourot,
eds. Citizenship as a Regime: Canadian
and International Perspectives (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2018), 141-164.
“Enhancing Democratic Engagement through Electoral Reform and Civic
Literacy” in Alex Marland and Lisa Moore, eds. The Democracy Cookbook: Recipes to Renew
Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John’s, NL: ISER, 2017),
163-66.
“Regions” in Danielle Caramani, ed. Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2017) (with A.G. Gagnon), 260-73.
“Parties and Regions: Representation and Resistance” in A.B. Tanguay and A.-G. Gagnon, eds. Canadian Parties in Transition, Fourth Edition (Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 2017), 44-63.
“Les partis politiques,
les électeurs et les elections au Canada” in Alain-G.
Gagnon, ed. La politique
québécoise et canadienne: une approche pluraliste
(Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2014).
“Competing for Power: Parties and Elections” in J. Bickerton and A.G.
Gagnon, eds. Canadian Politics, Sixth
Edition (Toronto: UTP, 2014), 249-79.
“Regions” in Danielle Caramani, ed. Comparative Politics, Third Edition
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 252-266 (with A.G. Gagnon).
“Canada: Federal adaptation and the limits of hybridity” in J. Loughlin, J. Kincaid and W. Swenden,
eds. Routledge Handbook of Regionalism
and Federalism (London: Routledge, 2013), 172-89 (with A.G. Gagnon).
“Revisiting Grandchildren: Building Regions in the Maritimes” in J.
Bickerton and B.G. Peters, eds. Governing:
Essays in Honour of Donald J. Savoie (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2013), 260-90.
“Transforming Federal Canada: Gaining Perspective on Harper’s New
Federalism” in S. Mangiameli, ed. Federalism, Regionalism and Territory
(Milan: Guiffrè
Editore, 2013), 109-32.
“Seeking New Autonomies: State Rescaling, Reterritorialization, and
Minority Identities in Atlantic Canada” in M. Keating and A.G. Gagnon, eds. Political Autonomy in Divided Societies:
Imagining Democratic Alternatives in Complex Settings (London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012), 81-97.
“The New Federalism and Atlantic Canada” in J. Reid and D. Savoie,
eds. Shaping
an Agenda for Atlantic Canada (Halifax: Fernwood
Press, 2011), 205-231.
“Janus
Faces, Rocks, and Hard Places: Majority Nationalism in Canada” in A.-G. Gagnon,
A. Lecours, and G. Nootens, eds. Contemporary Majority Nationalism (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 2011), 144-180.
“Regions”
in Danielle Caramani, ed. Comparative Politics, Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2011), 275-291 (with A.G. Gagnon).
“Deconstructing
the New Federalism” Canadian Political
Science Review 4:2-3 (2010), 56-72.