Reforming parliamentary democracy
By: edited by F. Leslie Seidle and David C. Docherty.
Contributors: Seidle, F. Leslie.; Docherty, David Campbell, 1961-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Legislative bodies -- Reform.; Representative government and representation.; Legislative bodies -- Canada -- Reform.; Comparative government.; Parlements -- Réforme.; Parlements -- Canada -- Réforme.; Institutions politiques comparées.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Institutional change in a small democracy : New Zealand's experience of electoral reform -- Jonathan Boston; title: Australian republic : act I -- Cheryl Saunders; title: Solving the conundrum of second chamber reform in the United Kingdom -- Lord Wakeham; title: Canada and the Aboriginal peoples : from dominion to condominium -- Paul L.A.H. Chartrand; title: Mäori in governance : Parliament, statutory recognition, and the state sector -- Mason Durie; title: Debating the reform of Canada's Parliament -- Jennifer Smith.; title: Interdependence of governments in Canada -- Stéphane Dion /; title: UK's rolling program of devolution : slippery slope or safeguard of the union? -- Robert Hazell; title: Designing Parliament for cooperative federalism : South Africa's National Council of Provinces -- Christina Murray -- Conclusion,; title: Can Canada learn some lessons? -- David C. Docherty.