Literature Analysis
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! Anatomy of an ElectionCanada’s 2019 Federal General Election Through the Lens of Political Law |
Elections are the high point of democracy. They provide scheduled opportunities for the people at large to have a participatory voice in their own government. They enable adult citizens to judge … | Gregory Tardi | 838 | 2020 | View |
![]() NEW! Civilizing the StateReclaiming Politics for the Common Good |
Across the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political polarization, and the pervasive power of corporations are tearing apart the social contract and … | John Restakis | 226 | 2021 | View |
![]() Cuba and Its NeighboursDemocracy in Motion |
In this groundbreaking book, Arnold August explores Cuba’s unique form of democracy, presenting a detailed and balanced analysis of Cuba’s electoral process and the state’s … | Arnold August | 285 | 2013 | View |
![]() Democratizing the ConstitutionReforming Responsible Government |
Canada’s time-honoured system of responsible government is failing us. This principle, by which the executive must be accountable to the people’s elected representatives, was fought … | Lori Turnbull; Mark Jarvis; Peter Aucoin | 274 | 2011 | View |
![]() Honest Politics NowWhat ethical conduct means in Canadian Public Life |
Using high-profile political scandals as case studies, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are now being held. This is the definitive up to date book … | Ian Greene | 392 | 2017 | View |
![]() NEW! Making Sense of SocietyPower and Possibility |
Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common … | Alex Khasnabish | 273 | 2022 | View |
![]() The Legacy of Tiananmen Square |
More than 20 years after the Tiananmen Square uprising, Michel Cormier, CBC Television’s former China correspondent, examines the still-born legacy of the Tiananmen Square student protests … | Michael Cormier | 240 | 2013 | View |
![]() Too Dumb for Democracy? |
Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. In an … | David Moscrop | 256 | 2019 | View |
![]() Turning the World Right-Side UpScience, Community and Democracy |
The focus of this book is on the un-sustainability of the system that economists, in the name of science, have foisted upon society. Corporations and the economists who act as their apologists, … | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 240 | 2006 | View |
From ![]() NEW! ForewordFrom: Anatomy of an Election |
Foreword by Peter Mansbridge | Peter Mansbridge | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: Civilizing the State |
The introduction outlines the world’s environmental, political, economic, social and public health contexts from which the book arises, and makes a call for transformative change based on … | John Restakis | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Too Dumb for Democracy? |
The Introduction offers of reflection on how we have found ourselves in a messy world where we must make important decisions. The title of the book asks, “Are we too dumb for … | David Moscrop | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Introduction: A Fundamental Democratic Problem |
Overview of the authors’ argument that Canadian democracy has been undermined by the excess of power of the prime minister over the operations of the House of Commons. | Mark Jarvis; Peter Aucoin | 28 | 2011 | $2.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Introduction: Beyond the SilosToward a Social Justice Social Science From: Making Sense of Society |
In the introduction author Alex Khasnabish explains how the primary purpose of this book is to critically explore what social research is, what it does, and what it is and isn’t good for. … | Alex Khasnabish | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
From ![]() Part 1 Clearing the Cobwebs Around DemocracyDemocracy and U.S. Centrism From: Cuba and Its Neighbours |
- | Arnold August | 13 | 2013 | $1.43 Add |
From ![]() Part One The End of an Era? |
- | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 2 | 2006 | $0.20 Add |