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  • The Parliaments of Autonomous Nations

    by Guy Laforest, André Lecours ...
    Series Book 1 - Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series
    At a time when nationalist movements are forcefully looking for new forms of political, institutional, and constitutional accommodation - if not seeking independence altogether - insight into their dynamics is more useful than ever. In The Parliaments of Autonomous Nations, Guy Laforest and André Lecours assemble an original perspective on minority nations in Belgium, Canada, Spain, and the United ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Constitutions that Shaped Us

    A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions

    Edited by Guy Laforest, Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon ...
    The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Quebec Act of 1774, the Constitutional Act of 1791, and the 1840 Act of Union. ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Quebec Conference of 1864

    Understanding the Emergence of the Canadian Federation

    Edited by Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon, Guy Laforest ...
    Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach.The Quebec Conference of 1864 expresses a renewed historical interest over the last two decades in both the Quebec-Canada ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • The Quebec Conference of 1864

    Understanding the Emergence of the Canadian Federation

    Edited by Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon, Guy Laforest ...
    Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach.The Quebec Conference of 1864 expresses a renewed historical interest over the last two decades in both the Quebec-Canada ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Constitutional Politics and the Territorial Question in Canada and the United Kingdom

    Federalism and Devolution Compared

    Edited by Michael Keating, Guy Laforest ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book compares the constitutional politics in Canada and the United Kingdom – two complex, multilevel, plurinational states. While the former is federal and the latter a devolved state, the logic of both systems is similar: to combine unity with diversity. Both are facing similar challenges in a world marked by spatial rescaling, international interdependence and economic and social change. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies

    Edited by André Lecours, Nikola Brassard-Dion, Guy Laforest ...
    Series Book 5 - Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series
    Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- determination. Multinational democracies face pressing challenges to the existing order because they are composed of communities with distinct cultures, histories, and aspirations, striving to coexist under mutually agreed-upon terms. Conflict ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Interpreting Quebec’s Exile Within the Federation

    Selected Political Essays

    by Alain-G. Gagnon, Guy Laforest ...
    Series Book 20 - Diversitas
    This book combines the approaches of political theory and of intellectual history to provide a lucid account of Québec’s contemporary situation within the Canadian federation.Guy Laforest considers that the province of Québec, and its inhabitants, are exiled within Canada. They are not fully integrated, politically and constitutionally, nor are they leaving the federation, for now and for the ... Read more

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    by David E. Smith ...
    Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. The House has also faced challenges by the courts since the introduction of the Charter, a powerful bureaucracy equipped with ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Paradiplomacy in Action

    The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments

    Edited by Francisco Aldecoa, Dr Michael Keating ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
    Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Democratization and the Judiciary

    The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracies

    Edited by Roberto Gargarella, Siri Gloppen, Elin Skaar ...
    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    This title examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focusing on their ability to hold political power-holders accountable when they act outside their constitutionally defined powers. The book also issues a warning: there are problems inherent in the current global move towards strong constitutional government, where increasingly strong powers are placed ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution

    'Restoring What Was Ours'

    Edited by Derick Fay, Deborah James ...
    The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of land restitution programs. Drawing on memories and histories of past dispossession, governments, NGOs, informal movements and individual claimants worldwide have attempted to restore and reclaim rights in land. Land restitution programs link the past and the present, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Practising Self-Government

    A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions

    Edited by Sophia Woodman, Yash Ghai ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to ... Read more

    $47.59 USD