Commissioned ridings : designing Canada's electoral districts /
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| Author / Creator: | Courtney, John C. (John Childs), 1936- |
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| Imprint: | Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | xii, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4500554 |
Table of 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.