Since he co-edited Essays in B.C. Political Economy (New Star, 1974), Philip Resnick of UBC has written several books on Canadian politics, including Parliament vs. People (New Star, 1984), Letters to a Quebecois Friend (with Daniel Latouche), The Masks of Proteus and Toward a Canada-Quebec Union. He believes the unwillingness of many English-Canadians to talk about the federal Constitution since the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord in 1992 is due to denial, not fatigue. In Thinking English Canada (1994) the political science professor urges English-speaking Canadians to emulate their French-speaking counterparts and talk about who they are and what they want from their country. He examined the bleatings of West Coasters in The Politics of Resentment (UBC Press, 2000), a compilation of quotes mainly gleaned from 'opinion makers' (journalists and politicians). "The collapse of Marxism-Leninism as a rival paradigm has given capitalism and markets a whole new lease on life," he wrote in Twenty-First Century Democracy (McGill-Queen's 1998), a frequently optimistic view of democracy in the future. In 2004 he co-edited Insiders and Outsiders: Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship (UBC Press) with Gerald Kernerman, a scholarly assessment of the contributions of Canadian social scientist Alan Cairns. He published a collection of poetry, Passageways (Ronsdale 2018), that spans works from over 40 years. In Itineraries: An Intellectual Odyssey (Ronsdale 2020), Resnick offers his reflections on academic freedom and key political developments in B.C. and Canada.

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity
Essays in B.C. Political Economy
The Labyrinth of North American Identities

BOOKS:

Parliament vs. People (New Star, 1984)
The Masks of Proteus (McGill-Queen's Press, 1990)
Toward a Canada-Quebec Union (McGill-Queen's Press, 1991)
Thinking English Canada (Stoddart Publishing Company, 1994)
Twenty-First Century Democracy (McGill-Queen's 1998) $55
The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity (UBC Press, 2000)
Passageways (Ronsdale 2018) $18.95 978-1-55380-523-6
Itineraries: An Intellectual Odyssey (Ronsdale 2020) $21.95 978-1-55380-602-8

Co-wrote:

Letters to a Quebecois Friend (McGill-Queen's Press, 1990) with Daniel Latouche.

Co-edited:

Essays in B.C. Political Economy (New Star, 1974)
Insiders and Outsiders: Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship (UBC Press, 2004) with Gerald Kernerman.

[BCBW 2020] "Politics"