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Canadian Party Politics in the 2000s: A Re-examination of the Regionalization Thesis
Full text linkSince the 1990s scholars of party politics have written of the increasing regionalization of Canadian party politics, going as far as to label the current system 'balkanized'. Using three widely established measures of party nationalization (party coverage, uniformity of support, and patterns of electoral competition), and one new measure (analysis of party advertisements), this paper explores the regionalization thesis in the post 1990s political landscape. While there is widespread consensus in the literature that the Canadian party system is highly regionalized, this paper provides evidence to the contrary. Rather than a balkanization of Canadian electoral and party politics we are witnessing a re-nationalization of Canadian party politics. This is especially true for those parties that compete in English Canada. Where regionalization does still exist is in the province of Quebec. Not only does the Bloc Quebecois represent a regionalizing force in itself, but the party's very presence alters the strategies of the other parties that compete in Quebec. As a result of the different dynamics of party competition in Quebec, we are left with two distinct party systems: a regional party system in Quebec and a national party system in the rest of Canada
How to Win and Lose an Election: Campaign Dynamics of the 2011 Ontario Election
Full text linkWe review the 2011 Ontario general election, which reduced the incumbent Liberal party to a minority government. We place attention on campaign dynamics and issue salience
Designing as Reflexive Conversation with the Materials of a Design Situation
No full textDesigning can be understood as a dialogue of prototype and site.... designers have access to repertoires of prototypes that have been derived from their earlier experiences. Faced with a particular site and a design task, the designer selects one or more prototypes from his repertoire, seeing the site in terms of the prototype carried over to it, and seeing the prototype in the light of the constraints and possibilities discovered in the site
Still Not Equal? Visible Minority Vote Dilution in Canada
Full text linkThis article takes the long-standing fact of deviations from the principle of representation by population in Canada as the starting point and asks whether the consequence is the dilution of visible minority votes. It calculates visible minority voting power and compares it to the voting strength of voters who are not visible minorities for the 2004 federal electoral map using 2006 Census data and for provincial electoral districts. We conclude that vote dilution exists and is concentrated in the ridings with the largest proportions of visible minorities. Visible minority vote dilution carries special significance in light of demographic, policy and constitutional considerations. The article concludes by offering some suggestions for how the electoral boundary commissions that set the contours of ridings can address visible minority vote dilution, as well as possible legislative amendments
Ivakhiv, Adrian J. Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2013.
Full text linkNadeau, Robert. Rebirth of the Sacred: Science, Religion, and the New Environmental Ethos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
No full textLadino, Jennifer K. Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2012.
No full textDesign Research and Public Policy: Current Practice Working to Intersect with Government
No full textDesign research is an academic and practical field of study that seeks to explore the ways in which design in any discipline area is produced, understood, and used. This paper presents some case studies of designers working both at the heart of the government as well as making use of new opportunities in procurement processes to undertake design research and offer creative solutions to long-standing policy ‘problems’
Garrard, Greg, ed. Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies. New York: Palgrave, 2012. Print.
Full text linkThe Elements of Effective Program Design: A Two-Level Analysis
Full text linkPolicy and program design is a major theme of contemporary policy research, aimed at improving the understanding of how the processes, methods and tools of policy-making are employed to better formulate effective policies and pro- grams, and to understand the reasons why such designs are not forthcoming. However while many efforts have been made to evaluate policy design, less work has focused on program designs. This article sets out to fill this gap in knowledge of design practices in policy-making. It outlines the nature of the study of policy design with a particular fo- cus on the nature of programs and the lessons derived from empirical experience regarding the conditions that en- hance program effectiveness