Christopher Manfredi, Mark Rush

Judging Democracy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

'This is an important, concise, and well-written book that provides readers with bold insights into the converging patterns of jurisprudence in the field of election law in Canada and the United States.' - Cynthia Ostberg, University of the Pacific ManfrediChristopher: Christopher P. Manfredi is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Along with numerous journal articles on the US and Canadian Supreme Courts, he is the author of Judicial Power and the Charter: Canada and the Paradox of Liberal Constitutionalism (Oxford, 2001) and Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (UBC Press, 2004).RushMark: Mark Rush is the Robert G. Brown Professor of Politics and Law, Head of the Department of Politics, and Director, Williams School Program in International Commerce at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Does Redistricting Make a Difference?: Partisan Representation and Electoral Behavior (Lexington, 2000) and co-author, with Richard Engstrom, of Fair and Effective Representation?: Debating Electoral Reform and Minority Rights (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442689756
• Artikelnr.: 54200392

Autorenporträt

Christopher P. Manfredi is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Along with numerous journal articles on the US and Canadian Supreme Courts, he is the author of Judicial Power and the Charter: Canada and the Paradox of Liberal Constitutionalism (Oxford, 2001) and Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (UBC Press, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 
Introduction
1. Differences That Matter? Canadian Misreading of American
Constitutionalism
2. Of Real and "Self-Proclaimed" Democracies: Differing Approaches to
Criminal Disenfranchisement
3. The Scope and Definition of the Franchise
4. A Tale of Two Campaign Spending Decisions
5. Judicial Struggles with Democracy and the Unbearable Lightness of
Process
Bibliography
Index