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Häftad, Franska, 2027
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Examining the complex process behind the federal electoral map, with a particular focus on Quebec, this book explains how each province and territory is allocated its seats in the House of Commons and how electoral boundaries are redrawn every ten years by independent commissions.Quebec's former electoral redistribution commissioner Louis Massicotte brings his expertise in constitutional law and political science to explore the full redistribution process. Chapters detail the entire procedure: the development of a proposal, the subsequent public hearings, the commission's report, and the handling of objections from Members of Parliament. This book offers rigorous academic analysis and practical insight that scholars, legal experts, and political scientists will find invaluable – and is the essential French companion volume to James Bowden's Where to Draw the Line: Readjusting Federal Electoral Boundaries in Canada, together forming a bilingual exploration of electoral democracy in Canada.
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There are an astonishing variety of election laws across contemporary democratic societies. In Establishing the Rules of the Game, Louis Massicotte, André Blais, and Antoine Yoshinaka provide the first thorough examination of these laws. The study incorporates original data collected from more than sixty democracies around the world, and touches on oft-ignored, yet extremely important, aspects of election laws. The countries covered by the study include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Romania, and the United Kingdom. The authors focus on six dimensions of election laws: the right to vote, the right to be a candidate, the electoral register, the agency in charge of the election, the procedure for casting votes, and the procedure to sort out the winners and losers.Massicotte, Blais, and Yoshinaka uncover underlying patterns, explaining why certain types of country tend to adopt a given sets of rules. In general, former colonies adopt the same laws as their former mother country. There is also a tendency for established democracies to be more inclusive than non-established ones. The authors point out sociological patterns and review normative and practical arguments for and against each set of rules, providing invaluable information for students of elections and democratic theory as well as election practicioners.