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With a foreword by the former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis brings together journalists, political scientists, and leading constitutional experts to analyze the crisis and to discuss the nature of Canada's democracy. The contributors bring perspectives fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sossin, Lorne, 1964-, Russell, Peter H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Canada. > Parliament.
Canada. > Parliament > Rules and practice.
Parlamentarismus
Politics and government
Parliamentary practice.
Constitutional history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Histoire constitutionnelle > Canada.
Constitutional history > Canada.
Parliamentary practice > Canada.
Kanada.
Canada > Histoire constitutionnelle.
Canada > Politique et gouvernement > 2006-
Kanada
Canada.
Canada > Politique et gouvernement > 2006-2015.
Canada > Politics and government > 2006-2015.
Canada > Politics and government > 1980-
Rules.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
  • Introduction / Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin
  • Part One: The Events and Their Background. The "Crisis": A Narrative / Michael Valpy
  • A Crisis Not Made in a Day / Gary Levy
  • Part Two: The Governor General's Decision to Prorogue. To Prorogue or Not to Prorogue: Did the Governor General Make the Right Decision? / C.E.S. (Ned) Franks
  • The Governor General's Suspension of Parliament: Duty Done or a Perilous Precedent? / Andrew Heard
  • 5. Prime Minister Harper's Parliamentary "Time Out": A Constitutional Revolution in the Making? / Lorraine E. Weinrib
  • Part Three: Constitutional Conventions. Why the Governor General Matters / Brian Slattery
  • When Silence Isn't Golden: Constitutional Conventions, Constitutional Culture, and the Governer General / Lorne Sossin and Adam Dodek
  • Of Representation, Democracy, and Legal Principles: Thinking about the Impenseþ / Jean Leclair and Jean-Francıois Gaudreault-Desbiens
  • Part Four: Coalitions and Parliamentary Government. Coalition Government: When It Happens, How It Works / Lawrence Leduc
  • Learning to Live with Minority Parliaments / Peter H. Russell
  • The Coalition That Wasn't: A Lost Reform Opportunity / Graham White
  • Part Five: Tensions in Canada's Democratic Culture. Western Canada and the "Illegitimacy" of the Liberal-NDP Coalition Government / Grace Skogstad
  • Parliamentary Democracy versus Faux Populist Democracy / Jennifer Smith
  • Ultimately, the System Worked / David R. Cameron.

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