Download or read book Media Elections And Democracy Royal Commission on Electoral Reform written by Frederick J. Fletcher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media, Elections and Democracy examines campaign communication in selected industrial democracies. Klaus Schoenbach, Karen Siune, Doris Graber and a host of authors around the world contribute critical overviews of the systems in their countries. The studies deal with a wide range of issues in modern communication, including the principles and practices of news and public affairs coverage and the impact of new technologies.
Download or read book Media Elections And Democracy Royal Commission on Electoral Reform written by Frederick J. Fletcher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern democracies, election campaigns are contested to a large degree in the media. Most democracies have enacted regulations dealing with aspects of electoral communication out of concern for the legitimacy of the system. This document presents information on election communication in France; broadcasting and election communication in Britain; mass media and election campaigns in Germany; campaign communication in Scandinavia; campaign communication in Australian elections; the mass media and election campaigns in the United States of America; and mass media and elections in Canada.
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Download or read book The Politics of Electoral Reform written by Alan Renwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of preferences voters can express and how votes translate into seats in a legislature. Through detailed examination of electoral reform politics in four countries (France, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand), Alan Renwick shows how major electoral system changes in established democracies occur through two contrasting types of reform process. Renwick rejects the simple view that electoral systems always straightforwardly reflect the interests of the politicians in power. Politicians' motivations are complex; politicians are sometimes unable to pursue reforms they want; occasionally, they are forced to accept reforms they oppose. The Politics of Electoral Reform shows how voters and reform activists can have real power over electoral reform.
Download or read book Reforming Electoral Democracy Proposed legislation written by Canada. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Issues in Party and Election Finance written by F. Leslie Seidle and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance. Because the issue of money in elections is as old as democracy, the experience of other countries is instructive. The studies in this volume offer Canadians information about approaches to funding political parties and elections in the United States and Western Europe. The studies by Herbert Alexander and Robert Mutch exmaine how the United States has approached issues such as contribution limits and the disclosure of election finances. The latter study provides explicit comparisons to Canada, noting the constitutional roleof the Supreme Court in each country. Jane Jenson draws on Western European experience to propose and assess reforms for the public funding for party foundations is documented by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky. The studies approach theirm aterial from a historical perspective, noting the uniqueness of the constitutions, institutions, and traditions of the countries reviewed. The authors provide background essential to any consideration of whether foreign experience might serve as a model for Canada.
Download or read book Democratic Rights and Electoral Reform in Canada written by Michael Cassidy and published by Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing and Canada Communications Group, Supply and Services Canada [and] Dundurn Press. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing.
Download or read book Reforming Parliamentary Democracy written by Leslie Seidle and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-06-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors address issues of representation - the move to a proportional electoral system in New Zealand, the unsuccessful attempt to establish a domestic head of state in Australia, and the reform of the British House of Lords - and demonstrate that citizens increasingly want legislative institutions to more closely reflect the societies they serve. To discuss responsiveness, the governance of indigenous communities and their place within the broader society in Canada and New Zealand are examined, as is the role of institutions other than legislatures that are involved in protecting minority rights and responding to various forms of diversity. A separate chapter analyses the basis for and merits of proposals to reform the Canadian House of Commons. In addition, authors review the dynamics of federalism, intergovernmental relations, and other processes of multi-level governance in Canada, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. Public debate about adapting governance processes to changing conditions and citizen values is a necessary condition of successful democracies and there is much to learn from progress and false starts in other parliamentary democracies. Contributors include Jonathan Boston (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Paul Chartrand (consultant, Victoria, British Columbia), Stéphane Dion (minister of Intergovernmental Relations, Government of Canada), David Docherty, Mason Durie (Massey University), Robert Hazell (University College London), Christina Murray (University of Cape Town), Cheryl Saunders (University of Melbourne), Leslie Seidle, Jennifer Smith (Dalhousie University), and Lord Wakeham (former chairman of the Royal Commission on House of Lords Reform).
Download or read book Reporting the Campaign written by Frederick J. Fletcher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the research program was to provide Commissioners with a full account of the factors that have shaped the electoral democracy. This document presents discussions on the following topics: journalistic practice in covering federal election campaigns in Canada; relations between political parties and the media in Quebec election campaigns; free to be responsible: the accountability of the print media; smaller voices: minor parties, campaign communication and the news media; and the mass media and the reproduction of marginalization.
Download or read book Voting Counts written by Law Commission of Canada and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the electoral process, citizens grant authority to their governments and to the laws governments enact. In recent years more and more Canadians have expressed their desire for improvements to our system of democratic governance, and to the mechanisms through which they can participate in government decision-making processes...This report aims to clarify the debates surrounding electoral reform: it reviews the arguments advanced to justify change, evaluates their relevance and cogency, and proposes a new model." -- p. vii.
Download or read book Strengthening Democracy written by Ron Gould and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text represents an attempt to bring together matters that would provide guidance to parliamentarians, and present a parliamentary perspective on some of the aspects of strengthening democracy throughout the world.
Download or read book Parties Candidates and Constituency Campaigns in Canadian Elections written by Anthony Sayers and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important contribution to the study of Canadian elections forcefully argues that knowledge of the dynamics at the local level is essential to a full understanding of Canadian polity, its underlying social basis, and the factors that determine successful election campaigns. As such, Parties, Candidates, and Constituency Campaigns in Canadian Elections will intrigue not only political scientists and students of Canadian politics but also election candidates and party strategists.
Download or read book Mass Media written by James B. Martin and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass media has become an integral part of the human experience. News travels around the world in a split second affecting people in other countries in untold ways. Although being on top of the news may be good, at least for news junkies, mass media also transmits values or the lack thereof, condenses complex events and thoughts to simplified sound bites and often ignores the essence of an event or story. The selective bibliography gathers the books and magazine literature over the previous ten years while providing access through author, title and subject indexes.
Download or read book Media And Voters In Canadian Election Campaigns written by Frederick J. Fletcher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together, the five studies provide a useful overview of the effectiveness of various forms of campaign communication in informing voters. Much of the material presented here is not readily available elsewhere.
Download or read book Election Broadcasting In Canada written by Frederick J. Fletcher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Election Broadcasting in Canada explores the role of media in Canadian politics. David R. Spencer, David Hogarth, Catherine M. Bolan and others look at the history, legal framework, and difficulties in election broadcasting, as well as the impact of new broadcasting services.
Download or read book Submissions to the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing written by Canada. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in Party and Election Finance in Canada written by F. Leslie Seidle and published by Dundurn Group (CA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document contains papers on the following topics, an evaluation of disclosure arrangements in Canadian political finance; some evidence on the effects of incumbency in the 1988 Canadian federal election; official agents in Canadian elections; electoral competition, campaign expenditure, and incumbency advantage; capital-intensive politics; public funding of political parties, candidates, and elections in Canada; independent candidates in federal general elections; large contributions to candidates in the 1988 federal election and the issues of undue influence; and an economic analysis of the funding of political parties in Canada.
