Literature Analysis
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 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 |
 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 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  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 |
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From Inequality and Democracy |
- | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 9 | 2006 | $0.90 Add |
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From Responsible Government: Theory and Practice |
Historical review of responsible government in Canada in support of an argument that the current situation is in need of reform. | Peter Aucoin | 45 | 2011 | $4.50 Add |
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From “Not Derived from the People”: Letter from the Fathers of Confederation to the British Colonial SecretaryFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
1858 letter drafted by Alexander Galt to promote the idea that the constitution of the proposed Canadian confederation be derived from the Imperial Parliament rather than be based on the American … | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 2 | 2015 | $0.20 Add |
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From Economists and Canadian Democracy |
- | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 9 | 2006 | $0.90 Add |
