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Ralph Klein's Alberta is the model touted by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal of how to harness middle-class insecurity to remake Canada. If Canadians want to learn where the Klein model is taking them, they need to look no farther than this powerful anthology.

Based on extensive research from many impressive contributors, the book is a compelling indictment of the Klein revolution.
Linda McQuaig, author of Shooting the Hippo

Facts, clear prose, and the courage to tell it straight make this book essential reading.
Duncan Cameron

Widely excerpted, cited and debated, The Trojan Horse has had the effect of giving Albertans permission to fight their own government.
Globe and Mail

A powerful new book shines a bright and uncomfortable light on Ralph's Revolution. This book deserves, nay demands, a read.
Edmonton Journal

The best account of the right in power in Canada is The Trojan Horse . . . it is a thorough analysis of every aspect of the Klein government and should be replicated by social activists in Ontario.

Peel away the careful packaging of the Klein government's record and what have you got? This book tells the story. Facts, clear prose, and the courage to tell it straight make it essential reading.
Canadian Forum

CONTENTS
1. Introduction Trevor Harrison and Gordon Laxer
POLITICS
2. Klein the Chameleon Gillian Steward
3. Klein's Makeover of the Alberta Conservatives David Stewart
4. The Reform-Ation of Alberta Politics Trevor Harrison
5. Cultivating the Tory Electoral Base: Rural Politics in Ralph Klein's Alberta Barry K. Wilson
6. Redefining Normal: Life in the New Alberta Joanne Helmer
IDEOLOGY
7. The New Normal: Capitalist Discipline in Alberta in the 1990s Claude Denis
8. The Privatization of Public Life Gordon Laxer
9. Making the Trains Run on Time: Corporatism in Alberta Trevor Harrison
ECONOMICS
10. One-Track (Thinking) Towards Deficit Reduction Melville L. McMillan and Allan A. Warrack
11. The Politics of Debt and Deficit in Alberta David Cooper and Dean Neu
12. The Alberta Tax Advantage: Myth and Reality Sten Drugge
SECTORS
13. Restructuring From the Right: School Reform in Alberta Heather-jane Robertson and Maude Barlow
14. Clearcutting in the Groves of Academe Jim Marino
15. Chipping Away at Medicare: cRome Wasn't Sacked in a Day¦ Simon Renouf
16. Protecting Mother Earth or Business?: Environmental Politics in Alberta John McInnis and Ian Urquhart
17. Culture and the State in Alberta George Melnyk
PEOPLE
18. Road Kill: Women in Alberta's Drive Toward Deficit Elimination Gurston Dacks, Joyce Green, and Linda Trimble
19. Seniors: The End of a Dream Fred C. Engelmann
20. Labour in the Klein Revolution Jeff Taylor
21. Workfare Will Make You Free: Ideology and Social Policy in Klein's Alberta Jonathan Murphy Afterword: A Note on Political Criticism in Alberta Today

Gordon Laxer is a political economist and Professor in the department of sociology at the University of Alberta. He is author of Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada, which won the John Porter Award for the best book in sociology and anthropology.

Trevor Harrison teaches in the department of sociology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada.

ECONOMICS
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335 pages, index
Paperback 1-55164-034-1 $19.99
Hardcover 1-55164-035-X $48.99
L.C. No. 95-79349

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