While democratic reforms of electoral institutions continue, their capacities for deepening
democracy are limited by the large, pluralized, complex, and territorial political units through …

The shift from government to governance has become a starting point for many studies of
contemporary policy-making and democracy. Practices of Freedom takes a different …

Citizens can be involved directly in the electoral reform process. In some jurisdictions,
constitutional requirements or political necessity requires a referendum. There are also …

This paper seeks to contribute to discussions of deliberative democracy by developing tools
to measure the deliberative quality of the media handling of the Ontario referendum debate …

An important success of deliberative democratic theory and practice over the last two
decades has been to show that ordinary citizens are capable of sophisticated political …

British Columbia's two referenda on its voting system produced dramatically different results.
Conventional accounts of the events tend to rely on populism to explain the surprisingly high …

Ontario's 2007 referendum on electoral reform, which resulted in the retention of the present
first-past-the-post electoral system, was the culmination of a multi-layered exercise in …

The citizen assembly in the province of British Columbia (2004) has drawn enthusiastic
attention from proponents of deliberative democracy. Its recommendation in favour of a more …

In Against Reform, John Pepall offers a stringent critique of proposed reforms to Canada's
political institutions. Examining electoral reform, an elected or provincially appointed Senate …

This article asks what international evidence suggests about the likelihood of major reform of
the system used to elect the British House of Commons. It identifies four paths that have …