Author: Jane T. Stoddart
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: referendum
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1110400470
ISBN-13: 9781110400478

Author: Curtis Cook
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: referendum, canada, predicament, constitutional
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1994-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773512020
ISBN-13: 9780773512023

This collection of essays by prominent Canadian political scientists and philosophers examines why the Charlottetown Accord failed to resolve Canada’s constitutional problems and explains the design and fate of the Accord as reflected in the theories and political forces that framed it. Canada’s fifth effort at "mega-constitutional politics" was a period of popular discussion and leadership negotiation, that ran from the defeat in 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord through to the Charlottetown Accord and the referendum of 26 October 1992. "Constitutional Predicament" explores the refere

Authors:Holli A. Semetko, Claes H. de Vreese,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: referendum, issue, framing, referendums, campaigning, political
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-10-12
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415349419
ISBN-13: 9780415349413

This book reviews the research on campaigns and elections and investigates the effects of campaigning in referendums, drawing on panel survey data, media content data, focus groups, and interviews with journalists and campaign managers. The authors argue that the media coverage not only influences public perceptions of the campaign, the referendum issue and the party leaders, but that, in a close race, it also shapes the voting and the political future of the incumbent party.The first study to investigate the dynamics and effects of a referendum campaign on politicians, media and citizens, thi

Authors:Hugh Bochel, David Denver, James Mitchell, Charles
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: referendum, issue, devolution, decides, scotland
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-03-30
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0714650536
ISBN-13: 9780714650531

Scotland has a parliament for the first time in almost 300 years, and this book is an account of how this came about. The authors trace the origins and history of the demand for home rule in Scotland, focusing particularly on developments following the failure of the first referendum on the issue in 1979, which culminated in a second referendum in September 1997.This major political event attracted national and international interest, and its decisive result was a milestone in Scottish history. This work presents an analysis of the referendum campaign at both national and local levels, includi

Author: Schaffner Margaret A. (Margaret Anna)
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: legislation, state, referendum, initiative
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $15.75
ISBN-10: 1113275855
ISBN-13: 9781113275851