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Presents retrospective and prospective insights into the processes of agricultural change. Examples of structural change in Canada; Overview of development models; Alternative paths of development.

The article discusses the specific political culture of a country in identifying the relationship between postmaterialist values and environmental concern. The arguments put forward by Quentin Kidd and Aie-Rie Lee, on the relationship between a county's level of economic development and the level of public concern for the environment, has been highlighted. Kidd and Lee claim that some final compelling evidence that environmental concern is associated with the materialist-postmaterialist change is prominent, and that support for environmental protection is likely the result of a gradual shift in value priorities rather than of objective environmental conditions in those countries. Several studies have examined the role of nation-distinctive political cultures in structuring the effect of postmaterialist values on environmental concern. In the context of common issues, these studies have examined citizens' orientations to values and the environment in the United States and Japan relative to water pollution, the United States and Canada relative to acid rain contamination, and the United States and Russia relative to the environmental effects of nuclear weapons production.

The article compares the American and Canadian electorates in terms of their political involvement and their partisan allegiances, employing national election studies from the mid-sixties through the mid-seventies. Earlier studies have concluded that Canadians both participate less in their country's politics and also feel less efficacious about that participation. There likewise has been considerable disagreement as to the nature of partisan allegiances in the two countries, with party identification thought by some to be more volatile in Canada. This analysis found no difference in the levels of political participation in the two countries. Canadians are less likely to feel that their participation has an impact on government, that is, they are less efficacious. However, the lower rates of efficacy in Canada stem from perceptions of the absence of governmental responsiveness, rather than from viewing the government as complicated or the leaders as losing touch with the people. The Americans, on the other hand, are more likely to see the government as wasteful.

The article examines the political cultures in the cities of Canada and the United States. The persistence of differences in the Canadian and U.S. political cultures has been a subject of intense debate for quite some time This paper presents the results of an empirical analysis of the degree to which the political cultures of a number of Canadian cities are more similar to each other than they are to the political cultures of cities in the U.S. The presumed differences in the political cultures of Canada and the United States have been a source of some considerable dispute. The cultural perspective on Canada and the United States presents two national pictures, side by side on the North American continent, at first glance strikingly similar to each other, but on closer inspection containing important distinctive features. At the same time, other observers contest those claims of persistent differences in the overall patterns of Canadian and American political cultures. Some writers argue that international regional differences within Canada or the United States are greater than any possible cross-national contrasts.