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The Big Red Machine
How the Liberal Party Dominates
Canadian Politics
Stephen Clarkson
The Courts
Ian Greene
Clarkson ‘gets’ electoral
politics. He avoids the
journalistic trap of generalizing
the popular will,
and has a good feel
for the ordering of the
electorate into coalitions.
Liberal campaign
planners should read
this book, especially the
chapters about the
Trudeau campaigns,
which challenge the
memory of a charismatic
juggernaut with an evidence-based portrait of
spotty organization, weak strategy and frequently
indifferent performance.
– John Duffy, The Globe and Mail, October 2005
Contents
Preface: The Joy of Winning
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Party Systems and Liberal Leaders
Pierre Trudeau: Victory, Fall, and Recovery
1974 The Liberal Party and Pierre Trudeau: The Jockey and
the Horse
1979 The Government’s Defeat, the Party’s Decline, and the
Leader’s (Temporary) Fall
1980 Hiding the Charisma: Low-Bridging the Saviour
John Turner: From Disappointment to Despair
1984 The Dauphin and the Doomed: John Turner’s Debacle
1988 Election or Referendum? Disoriented in Defeat
Jean Chrétien: Power without Purpose
1993 Yesterday’s Man and His Blue Grits: Backwards into
Jean Chrétien’s Future
1997 Securing Their Future Together
2000 The Liberal Threepeat: The Multi-System Party in the
Multi-Party System
Paul Martin: Saved By the Far Right
2004 Disaster and Recovery: Paul Martin As Political
Lazarus
Conclusion – The Liberal Party As Hegemon: Straddling
Canadian History
Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
2005, 352 pages, 6 x 9”
22 tables, 4 figures
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Academic and policy
circles have been
abuzz lately over
whether unelected and
unaccountable judges
should play as great a
role in policy making as
they currently do. It was
Canada’s Supreme Court,
for example, that decided
in 2002 to extend voting
rights to all prisoners. And
when Parliament changed the definition of marriage
to include gay and lesbian couples in 2005, it was
reacting to decisions of provincial appeal courts. To
understand this debate we need to appreciate the
fundamentals of how courts operate. The Courts
provides a well-informed account of the judicial
system and its place in democratic life.
The Courts moves its examination of the judicial
system beyond the well-trodden topics of judicial
appointment, discipline, independence, and review
to consider the ways in which courts affect daily life
in terms of democratic principles. Although courts
are often viewed as elitist and unaccountable, they
are a more valuable aspect of democratic practice
than most citizens realize.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1 Canada’s Courts in Context
2 Public Participation in the Justice System
3 Inclusiveness
4 Responsiveness of Courts to Expectations:
Independence, Behaviour, and Administration
5 Responsiveness of Judicial Decisions to Canadian
Democracy
6 The Courts and Democracy
Discussion Questions
Additional Reading; Works Cited; Index
2006, 224 pages, 5½ x 8½”
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