Citizenship and Democracy
A Case for Proportional Representation
This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world. Most democracies do not use Canada's first past the post voting system. To give a party more seats than its share of the popular vote warrants is deemed undemocratic by most. Such democracies use proportional representation to ensure a party's seat-share does not exceed its vote-share. Former MLA, Nick Loenen, examines what proportional representation can do for Canadian politics. He finds that a change to proportional representation holds the potential to involve citizens…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4597-1843-2
- EAN: 9781459718432
- Produktnummer: 20460117
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'560 KB
Über den Autor
Nick Loenen immigrated to Canada from Holland in 1956, After a business career in residential construction, he served as a councillor in Richmond, B.C. from 1983 to 1987 and as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991. In 1995 he obtained a master's degree in political science from the University of British Columbia.
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