Commissioned ridings : designing Canada's electoral districts / John C. Courtney.

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

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773569430
077356943X
1282859447
9781282859449
9786612859441
661285944X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Commissioned ridings.DDC classification:

328.71/07345 21

LOC classification:

JL167 .C68 2001eb

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Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Electoral Districts in a Federal State -- 3. Institutional Role-Modelling: Canada's First Provincial Electoral Boundaries Commissions -- 4. Going Down Under: Canada Looks to Australia -- 5. Drawing the Maps -- 6. Professional and Independent Commissions -- 7. Participation, Objections, and Delays -- 8. "A Full and Generous Construction": The Courts and Redistribution -- 9. Life With Carter: Commissioned Ridings in the 1990s -- 10. Community of Interest and Effective Representation -- 11. Looking Back and Looking Ahead -- App. A Decennial Boundary Adjustments Process (Canada) -- App. B Chronology of Redistribution-Related Events, 1993-7.

Summary: A study of institutional transformation and changing public and political attitudes toward the redistribution of electoral constituencies in Canada.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.

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A study of institutional transformation and changing public and political attitudes toward the redistribution of electoral constituencies in Canada.

English.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Electoral Districts in a Federal State -- 3. Institutional Role-Modelling: Canada's First Provincial Electoral Boundaries Commissions -- 4. Going Down Under: Canada Looks to Australia -- 5. Drawing the Maps -- 6. Professional and Independent Commissions -- 7. Participation, Objections, and Delays -- 8. "A Full and Generous Construction": The Courts and Redistribution -- 9. Life With Carter: Commissioned Ridings in the 1990s -- 10. Community of Interest and Effective Representation -- 11. Looking Back and Looking Ahead -- App. A Decennial Boundary Adjustments Process (Canada) -- App. B Chronology of Redistribution-Related Events, 1993-7.

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