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Informationen zum Autor Patti Tamara Lenard is an assistant professor of applied ethics at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Richard Simeon is a professor emeritus in the Political Science Department at the University of Toronto.Contributors: Robert C. Boatright, Simone Chambers, John C. Courtney, David C. Docherty, Amy Lang, Ethan J. Leib, Michael McDonald, David Munro, Neil Nevitte, Pippa Norris, David Ponet, Daniel Tichenor, Mark Warren, Graham White, Stephen White, and Lisa Young Klappentext Canada and the United States are consistently ranked among the most democratic countries in the world, yet voices expressing concern about the quality of these democracies are becoming louder and more insistent. Critics maintain that the two countries suffer from a "democratic deficit," a deficit that raises profound questions about the legitimacy and effectiveness of their democratic institutions. Imperfect Democracies brings together Canadian and American scholars to compare how the democratic deficit plays out in the two nations. An important contribution to the field of democratic theory and the study of democratic institutions, this timely book will spark debate on both sides of the border. Zusammenfassung This timely book evaluates and compares alleged democratic deficits in Canada and the United States and proposes solutions to remedy them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Patti Tamara Lenard and Richard Simeon1 The Democratic Deficit: Canada and the United States in Comparative Perspective / Pippa Norris2 Citizen Expectations and Democratic Performance: The Sources and Consequences of Democratic Deficits from the Bottom Up / Neil Nevitte and Stephen White3 Defining and Identifying a "Democratic Deficit" / David Beetham4 Democracy in American Elections / Michael McDonald5 "Can Canada's Past Electoral Reforms Help to Understand the Debate over Its Method of Election?" / John C. Courtney6 Regulating Political Finance in Canada: Contributions to Democracy? / Lisa Young7 Campaign Finance Reform in the United States / Robert C. Boatright8 Imperfect Legislatures / David C. Docherty9 Democracy's Wartime Deficits: Presidential Prerogatives and Liberal Democracy in America / Daniel J. Tichenor10 The "Centre" of the Democratic Deficit: Power and Influence in Canadian Political Executives / Graham White11 Extending the Franchise to Non-Citizen Residents in Canada and the United States: How Bad is the Democratic Deficit? / Patti Tamara Lenard and Daniel Munro12 Citizen Representation and the American Jury / Ethan J. Leib and David L. Ponet13 Supplementary Democracy? Democratic Deficits and Citizens' Assemblies / Amy Lang and Mark E. Warren14 Reflections on the "Democratic Deficit" in Canada and the United States / Simone Chambers and Patti Tamara LenardIndex...
