State rescaling, institutionalized state-citizen relationships, and Canadian health policy

Work on state rescaling has generally argued that economic restructuring is hollowing out the state at the nation-state level. The ambiguity of this formulation, with the displacement of power potentially being recuperated through governance, is accentuated by a thin political analysis. This paper follows Purcell in emphasizing state-citizen relations and institutionalization in the state rescaling process, which constrains changes in scalar …