Commissioned ridings: designing Canada's electoral districts

by Courtney, John C.

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Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mcgill-Queen's University Press
Place of Publication:Montreal
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 337 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0773522263, 9780773522268, 0773522654, 9780773522657
oclc:ocm45485875
LC Classification:JL167
Dewey Decimal:328.71/07345

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.

Subjects

Canada Circonscriptions électorales -- Canada Election districts Election districts -- Canada Kanada Redistribution (Election law) -- Canada Wahlbezirk Wahlsystem