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Total Pages : 680 pages
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Download or read book Canadiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alain-G. Gagnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442634707
Total Pages : 513 pages
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Download or read book Canadian Parties in Transition, Fourth Edition written by Alain-G. Gagnon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Parties in Transition examines the transformation of party politics in Canada and the possible shape the party system might take in the near future. With chapters written by an outstanding team of political scientists, the book presents a multi-faceted image of party dynamics, electoral behaviour, political marketing, and representative democracy. The fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and includes fifteen new chapters and several new contributors. The new material covers topics such as the return to power of the Liberal Party, voting politics in Quebec, women in Canadian political parties, political campaigning, digital party politics, and municipal party politics.
Author : Robert A. Milen
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781550021059
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Aboriginal Peoples and Electoral Reform in Canada written by Robert A. Milen and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers on elections, electoral law and electoral reform as they affect aboriginal peoples (Indian, Inuit, Metis) includes a comparison with New Zealand and the Maori situation, campaign coverage, considerations of 'nordicity' and native press and communications.
Author : Nick Leonen
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459718437
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Citizenship and Democracy written by Nick Leonen and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world. Most democracies do not use Canada's "first past the post" voting system. To give a party more seats than its share of the popular vote warrants is deemed undemocratic by most. Such democracies use proportional representation to ensure a party's seat-share does not exceed its vote-share. Former MLA, Nick Loenen, examines what proportional representation can do for Canadian politics. He finds that a change to proportional representation holds the potential to involve citizens more meaningfully and give political parties a more significant policy development role. It would also move power from the prime minister's office to Parliament, and from the premiers to provincial legislatures, shifting the focus in politics from leaders, style and images, to parties, principles and platforms. Instead of the adversarial politics of confrontation, which aim to exclude and eliminate political opponents, proportional representation holds promise for a consensual, cooperative style of governing that includes a broad spectrum of political diversity. The book also counters many popular misconceptions about proportional representation. It traces Canada's most intractable political problems such as national unity, high taxation, government over-spending, excessive party discipline, the concentration of power in our leaders, and our peculiar archaic voting system. The end product is the most detailed analysis of the effects of proportional representation on Canadian politics ever published.
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Author : Alan Frizzell
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554883148
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Canadian General Election of 1997 written by Alan Frizzell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The General Election of 1997 did not turn out as Jean Chretien and the Liberal Party had planned. Chretien called an early election, believing that his party was in a position to retain the majority they had won in 1993. They got their majority, but just barely. When the campaign began, the focus for many Canadians was the economy and job creation. National unity, however, quickly became a key issue, and triggered the most heated debates of the campaign. As was the case in 1993, the election of 1997 saw the country divided along regional lines. The Bloc Quebecois remained strong in Quebec, while the Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats dominated the maritime provinces. The Reform Party, meanwhile, won the west in a landslide, becoming the Official Opposition for the first time. It was Ontario, however, where the election was won: the Liberals won all but two seats in Canada's largest province, and in the end that was enough to carry Jean Chretien to victory. The Canadian General Election of 1997 is a study of the key aspects of the campaign and the election itself. In addition to analyzing each party's campaign, authors examine the role of the media, pollsters, the electoral system, and the voters. Articles are contributed by some of the best-known political writers in Canada today: Anthony Westell, Stephen Clarkson, Peter Woolstencroft, Alan Whitehorn, Keith Archer, Faron Ellis, AndrÈ Bernard, Chris Dornan, Ed Greenspon, Michael Marzolini, and Louis Massicotte. This readable volume will appeal to an academic as well as a general readership, and is ideally suited for libraries and political science courses. New to this year's volume is a post-election survey by Jon Pammett.
Author : R. Kenneth Carty
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774850809
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics written by R. Kenneth Carty and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the collapse of Canadian party politics in the early 1990s, about the end of a party system that had governed Canada's national politics for several decades, and about the ongoing struggle to build its successor.
Author : Mark E. Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521885072
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Designing Deliberative Democracy written by Mark E. Warren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the province's electoral system. The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly represents the first time a citizen body has had the power to reform fundamental political institutions. It was an innovative gamble that has been replicated elsewhere in Canada and in the Netherlands, and is gaining increasing attention in Europe as a democratic alternative for constitution-making and constitutional reform. In the USA, advocates view citizens' assemblies as a means for reforming referendum processes. This book investigates the citizens' assembly in British Columbia to test and refine key propositions of democratic theory and practice.
Author : Reuven Hazan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317978927
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Understanding Electoral Reform written by Reuven Hazan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of elections and electoral systems, and particularly electoral reform, has exhibited tremendous growth and cross-national appeal over the last two decades. However, beyond an increased knowledge of voting rules and their consequences for political representation, little attention has been devoted to the question of why electoral systems have recently undergone substantial change in several liberal democracies. This book addresses several new approaches to electoral reform. First, the scope of the study of electoral reform has been expanded. Second, contrary to previous studies of electoral reform, the conviction that the determinants of reform can be explained by one single approach has been replaced by a belief in a more comprehensive framework for analysis. Third, we move beyond political parties (acting in parliament and government) as the most significant source of electoral reform. Fourth, a focus on the determinants of electoral reform allows us to include motivations and objectives of electoral reform. A final advancement in the study of electoral reform is the inclusion of countries other than ‘established’ democracies. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.
Author : James B. Kelly
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774816767
Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book Contested Constitutionalism written by James B. Kelly and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied by much fanfare and public debate. This book does not celebrate the Charter; rather it offers a critique by distinguished scholars of law and political science of its effect on democracy, judicial power, and the place of Quebec and Aboriginal peoples twenty-five years later. By employing diverse methodological approaches, contributors shift the focus of debate from the Charter’s appropriateness to its impact – for better or worse – on political institutions, public policy, and conceptions of citizenship in the Canadian federation.
Author : Faron Ellis
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381560
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Participation written by Faron Ellis and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Limits of Participation: Members and Leaders in Canada's Reform Party provides an historical account of the Canadian Reform Party, which shattered the established pattern of Canadian party politics in the late twentieth century. Faron Ellis provides an analysis of the party's development as it struggled to build an organization capable of bridging the policy demands of its members with the strategic plans of its leaders. The book examines the party from the perspective of its members by focusing on the opinion structure of activists who helped found Reform, build it into Canada's official opposition, and eventually decommission it in pursuit of power.
Author : Frederick J. Fletcher
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145971895X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Media, Elections, And Democracy: Royal Commission on Electoral Reform written by Frederick J. Fletcher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media, Elections and Democracy examines campaign communication in selected industrial democracies. Klaus Schoenbach, Karen Siune, Doris Graber and a host of authors around the world contribute critical overviews of the systems in their countries. The studies deal with a wide range of issues in modern communication, including the principles and practices of news and public affairs coverage and the impact of new technologies.
Author : Michel Seymour
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773526854
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Fate of the Nation State written by Michel Seymour and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles. The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and governmental analysts that provide state of the art analyses of the situation of the nation-state as it is developing all over the world in the new millennium.There are different concepts of nationhood and different forms of national consciousness: ethnic, civic, cultural, socio-political and diasporic. There are also different ways for nations to be present on any given territory; as immigrant groups, as extensions of neighbouring national majorities, as minority nations or as majority nations. There are also different policies adopted toward different groups: bilingualism, multiculturalism, interculturalism, collective rights, etc. Finally, there are different sorts of political arrangements: nation-state, multination state, confederation of sovereign states, multinational federation, federation of nation-states, supranational institutions, etc. The enormous complexity of these issues explain why nations, nationalism and nation-states have been so difficult to understand.The theoretical essays contained in this volume are sensitive to all those issues. The authors examine the foundations of nationalist thinking and the justifications behind the nation-state model. They also reflect upon the nation building policies, politics of recognition and issues related to globalization. The case studies investigate countries or regions such as Ireland, Scotland, Catalonia, the Balkans, Russia, USA, Finland, India, Indonesia, the European Union and Canada.
Author : Frances M. Woodward
Publisher : The Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Vancouver Centennial Bibliography written by Frances M. Woodward and published by The Society. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144269159X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The People's House of Commons written by David E. Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-04-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. The House has also faced challenges by the courts since the introduction of the Charter, a powerful bureaucracy equipped with specialized knowledge, and new telecommunications systems that are redefining the transfer of information. Through an examination of academic, judicial, political, and legal commentary, The People's House of Commons explores the role of the House as a public institution. While addressing much of the criticism that has been levelled at the House, David E. Smith considers the competing political models and inherent tensions and their affect on public understanding. Smith maintains that court decisions are transforming the political system from one dominated by parties to one that promotes individual participation. He argues that reforms such as fixed election dates or stronger parliamentary committees have constitutional significance since their implementation would alter the practice of responsible government, which for more than a century has been a party government. A definitive work by one of Canada's foremost experts in the field of political science, The People's House of Commons explores the ramifications of many of the changes currently being proposed to Canada's political system, with particular reference to their affect on prerogative power, parliamentary privilege, party discipline, bicameralism, and the role of the opposition.
Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
ISBN 13 : 9780886451912
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Strengthening Canadian Democracy written by Institute for Research on Public Policy and published by IRPP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering provincial and federal debates about democratic reform alternatives.
Author : J. Patrick Boyer
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459718844
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Direct Democracy in Canada written by J. Patrick Boyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well researched analysis of three national referenda in Canada: prohibition in 1898, conscription in 1942, and the Constitution in 1992.
