Research Interests and Specialties
Language planning
- Canada, Quebec and Catalonia
Research Projects
Publications
Catalonia: Nation Building Without a State (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001). Catalan version: Catalunya. Una nació sense estat (Barcelona: Proa, 2002).
Misconceiving Canada: The Struggle for National Unity (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp.384; second printing, 1998. French-language version: Un Pays à refaire: L’échec des politiques constitutionnelles canadiennes (Montreal: Les Éditions Boréal, 1999).
Beyond Quebec: Taking Stock of Canada, Editor and Contributor (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995), pp. 435, second printing, 1999.
The Charlottetown Accord, the Referendum and the Future of Canada, Co-editor and contributor with Patrick J. Monahan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 361.
English Canada and Quebec: avoiding the issue. Sixth Robarts Lecture (Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, 1991), pp. 64.
Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis (coauthored with Dale Posgate) Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976, pp. 216; second printing, 1978; third printing, 1979. Revised edition, 1980, pp. 325; second printing, 1981; third printing, 1985. (This edition contains two new chapters; four existing chapters were expanded. Solely responsible for these materials). French-language edition: Développement et modernisation du Québec, (Montreal: Editions Boréal Express, 1983), with introduction by Daniel Latouche. Awarded publication grant by Social Science Federation of Canada. (Responsible for verification of translation and preparation of special preface). Third edition –sole author (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988, pp. 530; second printing, 1989). (This edition contains two new chapters and major expansion of several existing chapters.) With postscript, 1993 (Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 556.