Democracy

Democracy is a form of government in which the people have the authority to choose their governing legislators. The decisions on who is considered part of the people and how authority is shared among or delegated by the people have changed over time and at different speeds in different countries, but they have included more and more of the inhabitants of all countries. Cornerstones include freedom of assembly and speech, inclusiveness and equality, membership, consent, voting, right to life and minority rights. The notion of democracy has evolved over time considerably, and, generally, the two current types of democracy are …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

different experience of life (I grew up in a democracy in full postwar expansion, Chus in a dictatorship


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 24 June 2024 English

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voluntary institutions that are core to a healthy democracy, plays an important role in ensuring the quality


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

strands of far-left thought, including social democracy, communism, anarchism, and Marxist humanism. (1846–1875) and the chief theorist of Serbian social democracy, Dimitrije Tucović (1881–1914). Through close goals of national self-determination, popular democracy, and social egalitarianism were bound up with social order based on egalitarianism, popular democracy, and the free association of producers.32 It Tucović reflected this commitment to German social democracy. Since his teenage years he had closely fol- lowed


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the …

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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Addressing current …

Reconciling Judicial Review and Constitutional Democracy 10.1 Donald Smiley, “Courts, Legislatures, and advocacy of “government by consent,” or liberal democracy, ever written. In it, we find not only a defence RULE OF LAW IN THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION rule” democracy. The principle of natural rights means that a the traditional British parliamentary model of democracy, they are not “spelled out” in any single, basic differences is that under the American model of democracy, the courts, and especially the Supreme Court


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English

Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged …

“we must never forget that, in the long run, a democracy is judged by the way the majority treats the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 4 June 2024 English

effects of cyber elections by looking at how adoption of online voting affects attitudes towards democracy, who uses and who benefits from the voting mode, the extent to which candidates support it, and

Stephenson 17 Voting Online Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections Nicole Goodman, Helen and Zachary SpicerVoting Online Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections Nicole Goodman Helen Publication Title: Voting online : technology and democracy in municipal elections / Nicole Goodman, Helen innovativeness 45 3.1 Satisfaction with local democracy, by experimental treatment 64 3.2 Attitudes that online voting may improve elections and democracy has led to its precipitous uptake around the


Fraser Institute · 4 June 2024 English

entrants have innovated in ways that legacy media have difficulty competing with. However, in a democracy the government is not well placed to reverse those disruptions. The media, like any other business

Decline of the News Industry is Bad News for Democracy. Globe and Mail. <https://www.theglobeandmail -death-of-the-news-industry-is-bad-news-for- democracy/>, as of May 9, 2024 . Menzies, Peter (2023, November


Fraser Institute · 4 June 2024 English

entrants have innovated in ways that legacy media have difficulty competing with. However, in a democracy the government is not well placed to reverse those disruptions. The media, like any other business

media have difficulty competing. However, in a democracy the government is not well placed to reverse those virtues of journalism as a vital component of democracy. A recent Globe and Mail headline encapsulates decline of the news industry is bad news for democracy” (Mason, 2024). These sentiments ignore the fact fact that although journalism can aid democracy, that is not its sole purpose. As Roy Thomson, one of


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 29 May 2024 English

Given the rise of the Indo-Pacific region, and the profound impacts of the region on the lives of all Canadians, the Government of Canada recognized the need for a comprehensive, …

integrating human rights into con- versations on democracy, civic space, and media freedom, while being cognisant Canada. From climate change to the erosion of democracy, to heightened global insecurity, to global economic economic development, and defending and promoting democracy and human rights. In his keynote remarks, Christopher specific Western type of democracy when there are indigenous models of democracy that do not make it into country (i.e., it isn’t a perfectly functioning democracy), it needs to recognize that the global order


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