Background
Katchanovski, Ivan G. was born on September 11, 1967 in Lutsk, Ukraine. Arrived in Canada, 2005. Son of Sophia Katchanovska.
(Why have Americans, who by a clear majority approve of un...)
Why have Americans, who by a clear majority approve of unions, been joining them in smaller numbers than ever before? This book answers that question by comparing the American experience with that of Canada, where approval for unions is significantly lower than in the United States, but where since the mid-1960s workers have joined organized labor to a much greater extent. Given that the two countries are outwardly so similar, what explains this paradox? This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of both countries using, among other things, a detailed survey conducted in the United States and Canada by the Ipsos-Reid polling group.The authors explain that the relative reluctance of employees in the United States to join unions, compared with those in Canada, is rooted less in their attitudes toward unions than in the former country's deep-seated tradition of individualism and laissez-faire economic values. Canada has a more statist, social democratic tradition, which is in turn attributable to its Tory and European conservative lineage. Canadian values are therefore more supportive of unionism, making unions more powerful and thus, paradoxically, lowering public approval of unions. Public approval is higher in the United States, where unions exert less of an influence over politics and the economy.
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This is the first book to offer a systematic and comparative analysis of the regional political divisions in post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova. The study examines voting behavior and political attitudes in two groups of regions: those which were under Russian, Ottoman, and Soviet rule; and those which were under Austro-Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, and Czechoslovak rule until World War I or World War II. This book attributes the regional political divisions to the differences in historical experience. This study helps us to better understand regional cleavages and conflicts, not only in Ukraine and Moldova, but also in other cleft countries.
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political scientist researcher
Katchanovski, Ivan G. was born on September 11, 1967 in Lutsk, Ukraine. Arrived in Canada, 2005. Son of Sophia Katchanovska.
Diploma in Economic and Social Planning, National University of Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1990. Diploma with honours in Sociology and Politics, Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993. Master of Arts in Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax-Arlington, Virginia, 1996.
Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax-Arlington, Virginia, 2001.
Economist Lutsk District Finance Department, Lutsk, Ukraine, 1990—1992. Instructor Volyn State University, Ukraine, 1993—1994. Research assistant United States Institute of Peace, Washington, 1996—1996, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 1997—2002.
Research associate Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, since 2001. Post-doctoral fellow University Toronto, Canada, since 2005. Visiting assistant professor State University of New York Potsdam, 2008—2009.
Visiting scholar Harvard University Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies, since 2009. Consultant George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2000—2004, adjunct professor, 2004.
(Why have Americans, who by a clear majority approve of un...)
(This is the first book to offer a systematic and comparat...)
Member of American Political Science Association.