Literature Analysis
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
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From ForewordFrom: Anatomy of an Election |
Foreword by Peter Mansbridge | Peter Mansbridge | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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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 |
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From Part 1 Clearing the Cobwebs Around DemocracyDemocracy and U.S. Centrism From: Cuba and Its Neighbours |
- | Arnold August | 13 | 2013 | $1.43 Add |
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From Part One The End of an Era? |
- | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 2 | 2006 | $0.20 Add |
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From  PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of … | Alex Harris | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From Preface to the New EditionFrom: Honest Politics Now |
Discusses ethics in politics and the effects of various forms of political corruption on democracy. | Ian Greene | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
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From Prologue |
The introduction describes an encounter between the author and a man named Xi Xin Zhu, whose home was destroyed as a result of China’s rapid economic development. The author discusses the … | Michael Cormier | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Address to the Electors of TerrebonneFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
Text of 1840 speech by Louis-Hyppolyte Fontaine promoting responsible government. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add |
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From Democracy in the U.S.From: Cuba and Its Neighbours |
- | Arnold August | 31 | 2013 | $3.41 Add |
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From Ethics and the Principles of DemocracyFrom: Honest Politics Now |
Discusses how ethical politics is a requirement for genuinely democratic government. | Ian Greene | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
