On a day-to-day basis, what does a newly elected Member of Parliament do? How does the House of Commons work? Drawing on his years of service to five majority and three minority parliaments, Rob Walsh shares first-hand insights into the...
Democracy
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Auteur:O'Brien, Conor CruiseSommaire:Conor Cruise O'Brien, respected journalist, diplomat and statesman, considers threats to the Enlightenment tradition from which modern society derives threats he considers serious enough that the tradition and its institutions might not...
- Auteur:Brookes, ChrisSommaire:
Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But...
- Auteur:Brookes, ChrisSommaire:
Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But...
- Auteur:Schiff, AdamSommaire:
In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the...
- Auteur:Reid, Taylor Jenkins, Schiff, AdamSommaire:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today -From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . . "Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach, starring four sexy,...
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Auteur:May, ElizabethSommaire:A ringing manifesto for change from Canada's Green Party leader and Activist. We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style...
- Auteur:D'Arcy, StephenSommaire:
"What we must see," Martin Luther King once insisted, "is that a riot is the language of the unheard."; In this new era of global protest and popular revolt, Languages of the Unheard draws on King’s insight...
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Auteur:Trépanier, AnneSommaire:Les expressions politiques du Québec et du Canada donnent l'impression d'une quête identitaire perpétuelle. L'obsession du moi est passée du " je " au " nous ". Ce collectif pluridisciplinaire donne...
- Auteur:Savoie, Donald J.Sommaire:
La démocratie représentative canadienne se heurte à de grandes difficultés. Au sommet de leur liste figure l'incapacité croissante du gouvernement national à remplir ses rôles les plus essentiels, soit planifier des actions...
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Auteur:Dionne, E.J., Jr., Sullivan, Andrew, Gingrich, Newt, Strassel, KimberleySommaire:"Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes." - E. J. Dionne, Jr. It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating a crisis of American...
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Auteur:Orum, Anthony M.Sommaire:Thoroughly revised and updated in this fifth edition, Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World illustrates the broad social bases of politics and also shows how politics and governmental actions can influence the...
- Auteur:Mentan, TatahSommaire:
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Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text...
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Auteur:Tillotson, ShirleySommaire:A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising...
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Auteur:Franken, AlSommaire:A book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate...
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Auteur:Elshtain, Jean BethkeSommaire:Is democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning...
- Auteur:Taylor, AstraSommaire:
There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money campaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of...
- Auteur:Savoie, Donald J.Sommaire:
Canada's representative democracy is confronting important challenges. At the top of the list is the growing inability of the national government to perform its most important roles: namely mapping out collective actions that...
- Auteur:Tocqueville, Alexis deSommaire:
Presents excerpts from Tocqueville's treatise, written in 1834, about the advantages and pitfalls of democracy.
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