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Author Courtney, John C. (John Childs), 1936-

Title Commissioned ridings : designing Canada's electoral districts / John C. Courtney
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Electoral Districts in a Federal State -- Institutional Role-Modelling: Canada's First Provincial Electoral Boundaries Commissions -- Going Down Under: Canada Looks to Australia -- Drawing the Maps -- Professional and Independent Commissions -- Participation, Objections, and Delays -- "A Full and Generous Construction": The Courts and Redistribution -- Life with Carter : Commissioned Ridings in the 1990s -- Community of Interest and Effective Representation -- Looking Back and Looking Ahead -- Decennial Boundary Readjustment Process (Canada) -- Chronology of Redistribution Related Events, 1993 -- 7 -- Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary A study of institutional transformation and changing public and political attitudes toward the redistribution of electoral constituencies in Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index
Notes English
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Subject Election districts -- Canada
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
LAW -- Election Law.
Election districts
Wahlbezirk
Wahlsystem
Canada
Kanada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773569430
077356943X
1282859447
9781282859449
9786612859441
661285944X