OUT OF CONTROL?: POLITICAL HISTORY IN CANADA AS WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY

What would explain the political history in Canada as the initial question might ask, while the answers that follow range from the fairly unique to the rather ubiquitous. By applying then the principles from world-systems theory to those of “the control model, ” recurrent paradoxes in Canada—about a centralized confederation, the “mature-dependent ” economy, consensual democracy despite Westminster institutions, a two-party system without “alternation ” (more liberal, less conservative regimes), and multiple sovereign nations (First, Francophone, Anglophone) amid one hegemonic state—could now resolve themselves consistently as a single case-study via the comparative and international, historicist, context. In the final analysis, while no one account could fare any better or worse than all others, preliminary findings from Canada’s political history amount to the very organized effects—about interdisciplinary scope and methods—whose causes are just “out of control.” Résumé Que expliquerais l’histoire politique dans Canada comme la question initial mai demander, pendant les réponses postéieur inclure assez unique et trés univesel. Appliquant les principes dè