Racing to the Bottom?

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Acknowledgments / xi

1 Provincial Interdependence: Concepts and Theories / 1 KathrynHarrison

2 A Race to the Bottom in Provincial Business Taxation in Canada? /25 Kenneth J. McKenzie

3 Still in the Game: Efforts to Govern Economic DevelopmentCompetition in Canada / 49 Douglas M. Brown

4 Follow the Leader and Dominoes: Games that Provinces Play inTobacco Taxation / 73 Kathryn Harrison

5 Environmental Policy in Canada: Harmonized at the Bottom? / 113Nancy Olewiler

6 Slouching toward the Bottom? Provincial Social AssistanceProvision in Canada, 1980-2000 / 157 Gerard W. Boychuk

7 Races to the Bottom versus Races to the Middle: Minimum WageSetting in Canada / 193 David A. Green and KathrynHarrison

8 Policy Races in the American States / 229 Mark CarlRom

9 Are Canadian Provinces Engaged in a Race to the Bottom? Evidenceand Implications / 257 Kathryn Harrison

Works Cited / 271

Contributors / 291

Index / 293