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Reforming parliamentary democracy [electronic resource] / edited by F. Leslie Seidle and David C. Docherty.

Contributor(s): Seidle, F. Leslie | Docherty, David Campbell, 1961- | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003Description: viii, 245 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Legislative bodies -- Reform | Representative government and representation | Legislative bodies -- Canada -- Reform | Comparative government | Parlements -- Réforme | Parlements -- Canada -- Réforme | Institutions politiques comparéesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 328.3/04 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Institutional change in a small democracy : New Zealand's experience of electoral reform / Jonathan Boston -- Australian republic : act I / Cheryl Saunders -- Solving the conundrum of second chamber reform in the United Kingdom / Lord Wakeham -- Canada and the Aboriginal peoples : from dominion to condominium / Paul L.A.H. Chartrand -- Mäori in governance : Parliament, statutory recognition, and the state sector / Mason Durie -- Debating the reform of Canada's Parliament / Jennifer Smith.
Interdependence of governments in Canada / Stéphane Dion / UK's rolling program of devolution : slippery slope or safeguard of the union? / Robert Hazell -- Designing Parliament for cooperative federalism : South Africa's National Council of Provinces / Christina Murray -- Can Canada learn some lessons? / David C. Docherty.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Institutional change in a small democracy : New Zealand's experience of electoral reform / Jonathan Boston -- Australian republic : act I / Cheryl Saunders -- Solving the conundrum of second chamber reform in the United Kingdom / Lord Wakeham -- Canada and the Aboriginal peoples : from dominion to condominium / Paul L.A.H. Chartrand -- Mäori in governance : Parliament, statutory recognition, and the state sector / Mason Durie -- Debating the reform of Canada's Parliament / Jennifer Smith.

Interdependence of governments in Canada / Stéphane Dion / UK's rolling program of devolution : slippery slope or safeguard of the union? / Robert Hazell -- Designing Parliament for cooperative federalism : South Africa's National Council of Provinces / Christina Murray -- Conclusion, Can Canada learn some lessons? / David C. Docherty.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.