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Title

Reforming parliamentary democracy / edited by F. Leslie Seidle and David C. Docherty.

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Seidle, F. Leslie
• Docherty, David C. (David Campbell), 1961-

Description

viii, 245 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Insightful analyses of recent reforms to parliamentary institutions and governance in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Parliamentary government combines stability and dynamism. Its continuity is rooted in enduring principles such as citizen representation and accountability to the legislature. But parliamentary systems have evolved in response to changes in the societies they govern and in citizens' views about democratic practices. In Reforming Parliamentary Democracy the authors demonstrate how, in their respective countries, parliamentary governments have combined stability with the capacity to adapt to such changes. They provide insightful analyses of recent reforms to parliamentary institutions and governance in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Subject

• Legislative bodies > Reform
• Representative government and representation
• Legislative bodies > Canada > Reform
• Comparative government
• Parlements > Réforme
• Parlements > Canada > Réforme
• Institutions politiques comparées

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 -- Conclusion, Can Canada learn some lessons? / David C. Docherty.

ISBN

• 0773525076 (bound)
• 0773525084 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004401154

OCLC

• 51274530
• SCSB-12761122

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Harvard Library