POL382H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lower Canada Rebellion, Cultural Hegemony, Utopia

• School: UTSG
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL382H1
• Professor: Gabriel Eidelman

Document Summary

Puzzle: there has never been a single case of secession (e. g. through a referendum) in well- established democracies. Case selected: quebec, an extreme case; where secession is the most likely. Cell i is extremely unlikely: when confidence inspired by secession is high, fear inspired by union tends to be low, and vice versa. Small numbers (the french population in north america has always been tiny in comparison to the english one); Lack of colonial allies and multiple dependencies (vatican, uk, us, fr, ca), especially in the context of the change in colonial power from france to great britain in 1763;