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Author : Communist Party of Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A Democratic Front for Canada written by Communist Party of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meenal Shrivastava
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771990295
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada written by Meenal Shrivastava and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.
Author : Communist Party of Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (219 download)
Download or read book A Democratic Front for Canada written by Communist Party of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Communist Party of Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A Democratic Front for Canada written by Communist Party of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberta Lexier
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771133937
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Party of Conscience written by Roberta Lexier and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the field of political history in Canada, one might assume that the politics of the nation have been shaped solely by the Liberal and Conservative parties. Relatively little attention has been paid to the contributions of the CCF and NDP in Canadian politics. This collection remedies this imbalance with a critical examination of the place of social democracy in Canadian history and politics. Bringing together the work of politicians, think tank members, party activists, union members, scholars, students, and social movement actors in important discussions about social democracy delving into an array of topics including municipal, provincial, and national issues, labour relations, feminism, contemporary social movements, war and society, security issues, and the media, Party of Conscience reminds Canadians of the important contributions the CCF and NDP have made to a progressive, compassionate idea of Canada.
Author : Alison Loat
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307361314
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Tragedy in the Commons written by Alison Loat and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada. Though Canada is at the top of international rankings of democracies, Canadians themselves increasingly don’t see politics as a way to solve society’s problems. Small wonder. In the news, they see grandstanding in the House of Commons and MPs pursuing agendas that don’t always make sense to the people who elected them. But elected officials make critical choices about how this wildly diverse country functions today and how it will thrive in the future. They direct billions of dollars in public funding and craft the laws that have allowed Canada to lead the way internationally. Even with so much at stake, citizens—voters—are turning away. How did one of the world’s most functional democracies go so very wrong? In Tragedy in the Commons, MPs describe arriving at their political careers almost by accident; few say they aspired to be in politics before it “happened” to them. In addition, almost without fail, each MP describes the tremendous influence of their political party: from the manipulation of the nomination process to enforced voting in the House and in committees, the unseen hand of the party dominates every aspect of the MP’s existence. Loat and MacMillan ask: Just what do we want Members of Parliament to be doing? To whom are they accountable? And should parties be trusted with the enormous power they wield with such little oversight or citizen involvement? With unprecedented access to the perspective and experience of Canada’s public leaders, Tragedy in the Commons concludes by offering solutions for improving the way politics works in Canada, and how all Canadians can reinvigorate a democracy that has lost its way, its purpose and the support of the public it is meant to serve.
Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228000408
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Democracy in Canada written by Donald J. Savoie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's representative democracy is confronting important challenges. At the top of the list is the growing inability of the national government to perform its most important roles: namely mapping out collective actions that resonate in all regions as well as enforcing these measures. Others include Parliament's failure to carry out important responsibilities, an activist judiciary, incessant calls for greater transparency, the media's rapidly changing role, and a federal government bureaucracy that has lost both its way and its standing. Arguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to embrace regional identities, Democracy in Canada explains how Canada's national institutions were shaped by British historical experiences, and why there was little effort to bring Canadian realities into the mix. As a result, the scope and size of government and Canadian federalism have taken on new forms largely outside the Constitution. Parliament and now even Cabinet have been pushed aside so that policy makers can design and manage the modern state. This also accounts for the average citizen's belief that national institutions cater to economic elites, to their own members, and to interest groups at their own expense. A masterwork analysis, Democracy in Canada investigates the forces shaping the workings of Canadian federalism and the country's national political and bureaucratic institutions.
Author : Heather MacIvor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780433493617
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Canada at 150 written by Heather MacIvor and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is a collection of essays and contributions from prominent Canadians on the 150th anniversary of Confederation, and the 35th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Contributors include former prime ministers, politicians, judges, lawyers and wrongfully convicted. The perspectives are broad, thoughtful and inspiring."--
Author : Norman Penner
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550283846
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (838 download)
Download or read book From Protest to Power written by Norman Penner and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 Liberalism and Socialism in the Nineteenth Century 2 The Agrarian Revolt Revisited 1900-1935 3 Labour on the Road to Politics: 1900-1933 4 The Rise of the Third Party 5 The CCF and the War Against Fascism 6 The Transition from CCF to NDP 7 The NDP in Quebec 8 The CCF and NDP in Power 9 Socialism—Then and Now Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Author : David McGrane
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773596445
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Remaining Loyal written by David McGrane and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When social democratic politicians in the 1990s moderated their ideas and policies as part of a turn towards the "third way," they were assailed as traitors to the cause. Remaining Loyal demonstrates that while third way social democrats in Quebec and Saskatchewan supplemented certain social democratic ideas with more right-wing economic programs, their public policies remained true to the original spirit of social democracy. Drawing on a range of archival resources, David McGrane traces the evolution of social democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan from their respective origins in social Catholic thought and agrarian protest movements at the turn of the twentieth century to the most recent Parti Québécois and New Democratic Party governments. In doing so, he reconstructs the public policies of traditional social democracy from the postwar era and the third way in the 1990s and early 2000s and finds both differences and continuities. McGrane contends that remaining loyal to core social democratic values is exactly what differentiates the third way from neo-liberalism in Saskatchewan and Quebec. The first historical comparison of social democracy in Saskatchewan and Quebec, Remaining Loyal challenges how we think about the recent ideological evolution of left-wing parties in Canada and the rest of the world.
Author : Elisabeth Gidengil
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774828285
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up written by Elisabeth Gidengil and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is often held up as an example of a healthy democracy. However, the Canadian public is less enthusiastic about the way our democracy works. Rather than focusing on institutional performance, this book approaches the “democratic deficit” from the perspective of the Canadian public and assesses the performance of political leaders and the media in light of Canadians’ perceptions and expectations. In doing so, a number of chapters highlight the disjuncture between perceptions and performance. For example, governments do keep many of their election promises, and media coverage is not as negative as we are apt to believe. Similarly, the book provides new insights into political apathy by drawing on focus group discussions that represent the first attempt to ask politically marginalized Canadians why they have turned their backs on politics. By introducing the voice of everyday Canadians, this book adds a new perspective to political discussions in this country. Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up is essential for anyone who would like to learn how to build a better democracy – one that meets the expectations of the Canadian public.
Author : Desmond Morton
Publisher : Samuel Stevens Hakkert
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book NDP written by Desmond Morton and published by Samuel Stevens Hakkert. This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David H. Laycock
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Right and Democracy in Canada written by David H. Laycock and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Western world, the rise of the so-called New Right is a growing phenomenon. In Canada, it has taken the form of the Canadian Alliance Party. This book is the first critical examination of the Canadian Alliance and Reform Party ideology. It addresses the most distinctive and politically significant dimensions of the party's understanding of and agenda for democratic politics in contemporary Canada.
Author : Alex Marland
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077483451X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Permanent Campaigning in Canada written by Alex Marland and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Election campaigning never stops. That is the new reality of politics and government in Canada, where everyone from staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office to backbench MPs practise political marketing and communication as though each day were a battle to win the news cycle. Permanent Campaigning in Canada examines the growth and democratic implications of political parties’ relentless search for votes and popularity and what constant electioneering means for governance. With the emergence of fixed-date elections and digital media, each day is a battle to win mini-contests: the news cycle, public opinion polls, quarterly fundraising results, by-elections, and more. The contributors’ case studies reveal how political actors are using all available tools at their disposal to secure electoral advantage. This is the first study of a phenomenon – including the use of public resources for partisan gain – that has become embedded in Canadian politics and government.
Author : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Canada written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1921 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth May
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551994054
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Losing Confidence written by Elizabeth May and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ringing manifesto for change from Canada’s Green Party leader and Activist. We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style prime minister without the checks and balances of either the US or the Canadian systems. Attack ads run constantly, backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike are muzzled, committees are deadlocked, and civility has disappeared from the House of Commons. In Losing Confidence, Elizabeth May outlines these and other problems of our political system, and offers inspiring solutions to the dilemmas we face. “We no longer behead people in Canada, but Stephen Harper’s coup d’état cannot be allowed to stand, not least because of the precedent. Any future government can now slip the leash of democracy in the same way. This is how constitutions fail.” - Ronald Wright
Author : New Democratic Party
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book A Fair Deal for Canada written by New Democratic Party and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
