The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada
Author : Michael Mandel
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Canada
ISBN :
The Charter Revolution and the Court Party
Author : F.L. Morton
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2000-04
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
"Here finally is a book that unveils the politics that infuse Canadian courts and their decisions ... and warns us of the effects of a judicialized politics on our democratic traditions." - Leslie A. Pal, Carleton University
Just Words
Author : Joel Bakan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 080200461X
Book Description
Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.
Contested Constitutionalism
Author : James B. Kelly
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 0774816767
Book Description
The introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied by much fanfare and public debate. This book does not celebrate the Charter; rather it offers a critique by distinguished scholars of law and political science of its effect on democracy, judicial power, and the place of Quebec and Aboriginal peoples twenty-five years later. By employing diverse methodological approaches, contributors shift the focus of debate from the Charter’s appropriateness to its impact – for better or worse – on political institutions, public policy, and conceptions of citizenship in the Canadian federation.
Canada’s Rights Revolution
Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774858435
Book Description
In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. This book offers a unique perspective on infamous human rights controversies and argues that the idea of human rights has historically been highly statist while grassroots activism has been at the heart of the most profound human rights advances.
Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective
Author : Kenneth M. Holland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1349117749
Book Description
The theme of this book is judicial activism in industrialized democracies, with a chapter on the changing political roles of the courts in the Soviet Union. Eleven contributors describe the extent to which the highest courts in their country of expertise have embraced the making of public policy.
The Politics of the Charter
Author : Andrew Petter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802095992
Book Description
Andrew Petter is a leading constitutional scholar who served from 1991 to 2001 as a British Columbia MLA and cabinet minister, including Attorney General. In The Politics of the Charter, Petter assembles a set of his original essays written over three decades to provide a coherent critique of the political nature, impact, and legitimacy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Showing how Charter rights have been shaped by the institutional character of the courts and by the ideological demands of liberal legalism, the essays contend that the Charter has diverted progressive political energies and facilitated the rise of neo-conservatism in Canada. Drawing upon his constitutional expertise and political experience, Petter evaluates the Charter in practical, legal, and philosophical terms. These essays, along with a new introduction and conclusion, map out Petter's political philosophy and review the entirety of the Charter record. The Politics of the Charter is vividly written, free of legal jargon, accessible to a broad readership, and will provoke renewed discussion about how best to achieve a more compassionate and egalitarian Canadian society.
Queering Representation
Author : Manon Tremblay
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774861843
Book Description
Political representation matters. And representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering Representation explores long-ignored issues relating to LGBTQ voters and politicians in Canada. What are the LGBTQ electorate’s characteristics and voting behaviours, and what empowerment has it achieved through electoral systems? How do straight voters view out LGBTQ politicians, and what part do the media play in framing these perceptions? What pathways to power do LGBTQ politicians follow? Do they represent LGBTQ people and communities in particular, and, if so, how is this role articulated? And finally, how do Canadian party ideologies shape LGBTQ representation? The contributors to Queering Representation address these questions by offering diverse, nuanced readings of political representation, shining a spotlight on relations between electoral processes and LGBTQ communities.
The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism
Author : Stephen Gardbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107009286
Book Description
Stephen Gardbaum proposes and examines a new way of protecting rights in a democracy.
Abortion
Author : Shannon Stettner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0774835761
Book Description
When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people are experiencing on the ground and what people believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision. Grouped into four themes – History, Experience, Politics, and Reproductive Justice – these essays showcase new theoretical frameworks and approaches from law, history, medicine, women’s studies, and political science as they document the diversity of abortion experiences across the country, from those of Indigenous women in the pre-Morgentaler era to a lack of access in the age of so-called decriminalization. Together, the contributors make a case for shifting the debate from abortion rights to reproductive justice and caution against focusing on “choice” or medicalization without understanding the broader context of why and when people seek out abortions.
