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Does Your Vote Count
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Author : Paul Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2003-02-01
Does Your Vote Count written by Paul Kemp and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-01 with Political Science categories.
As Canadians, we grow up believing that we live in a democracy. In school we are taught about the importance of exercising our right to vote, and that the politicians we elect to the House of Commons are there to be our representatives - to give voice to the concerns of their constituents and to give ordinary citizens a say in how the country is governed. Does Your Vote Count? demonstrates just how far Canadian government has strayed from this democratic ideal. Using excerpts from interviews with current and former politicians, civil servants, and academics, author Paul Kemp argues that, in many important ways, our vote does not count. In reality, only one person holds almost all of Ottawa's decision-making power: the prime minister. Backbench MPs, and even many Cabinet ministers, have little or no influence over government policy. Moreover, party discipline is so strictly enforced that MPs rarely express opinions or viewpoints that differ from the party line, either in House debates or in parliamentary committees. Perhaps most alarming, the ability of Parliament to scrutinize government spending has been severely limited. Does Your Vote Count? challenges us to take a closer, more critical look at how well our government and electoral system are serving us as Canadian citizens. We may still have the right to choose who sits in the House of Commons, but how meaningful is this right if the people we elect into office have been stripped of all power and influence?
Does Your Vote Count
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Author : Paul R. Carr
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2011
Does Your Vote Count written by Paul R. Carr and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Education categories.
"Paul R. Carr has produced a rich and impressive examination of the multiplicity of relationships among notions of democratic formation, critical pedagogy, human rights, anti-racism, and feminist, anti-colonial, political and cultural studies. Drawing from a deep well of intriguing and eclectic sources..., he moves with clarity and elan between the brood and the narrow, the general and the specific to capture the power of theory without sacrificing the nitty-gritty of concrete practice. A balance of possibilities rather than false dualisms will be found here. Does Your Vote Count? has become an essential contribution to my own work and teaching." ---Tom Wilson, Chapman University --Book Jacket.
Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College
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Author : Alexander Keyssar
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College written by Alexander Keyssar and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Political Science categories.
A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
Your Vote
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Your Vote written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Political participation categories.
Let The People Pick The President
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Author : Jesse Wegman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Let The People Pick The President written by Jesse Wegman and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Political Science categories.
“Wegman combines in-depth historical analysis and insight into contemporary politics to present a cogent argument that the Electoral College violates America’s ‘core democratic principles’ and should be done away with..." —Publishers Weekly The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule. How can we tolerate the Electoral College when every vote does not count the same, and the candidate who gets the most votes can lose? Twice in the last five elections, the Electoral College has overridden the popular vote, calling the integrity of the entire system into question—and creating a false picture of a country divided into bright red and blue blocks when in fact we are purple from coast to coast. Even when the popular-vote winner becomes president, tens of millions of Americans—Republicans and Democrats alike—find that their votes didn't matter. And, with statewide winner-take-all rules, only a handful of battleground states ultimately decide who will become president. Now, as political passions reach a boiling point at the dawn of the 2020 race, the message from the American people is clear: The way we vote for the only official whose job it is to represent all Americans is neither fair nor just. Major reform is needed—now. Isn't it time to let the people pick the president? In this thoroughly researched and engaging call to arms, Supreme Court journalist and New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman draws upon the history of the founding era, as well as information gleaned from campaign managers, field directors, and other officials from twenty-first-century Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, to make a powerful case for abolishing the antiquated and antidemocratic Electoral College. In Let the People Pick the President he shows how we can at long last make every vote in the United States count—and restore belief in our democratic system.
Will Your Vote Count
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Author : Herma Percy Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Will Your Vote Count written by Herma Percy Ph.D. and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Political Science categories.
Voters in a democratic society should have confidence in the electoral process. Yet, as Americans have witnessed in every election since 2000, voting-the basic act of citizenship—is under assault: technologically complex, subject to manipulation, and fiercely contested on many levels. Documenting the areas of collapse in the American electoral process, this book analyzes ongoing problems in the casting and counting of ballots, as well as new threats: future elections could be compromised by new voting machines that are unreliable, poorly programmed, and prone to tampering. At this critical moment for American democracy, the author issues a call for urgently needed reforms.
Daddy When I Grow Up Will My Vote Count
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Author : Roy Brown
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004-12
Daddy When I Grow Up Will My Vote Count written by Roy Brown and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12 with Fiction categories.
We have to give up our rights to make it right. We have a second chance to make it right. Let us not dwell on the fact that we have had problems, they were not stumbling blocks but actually steppingstones. Reading Daddy, When I Grow Up Will My Vote Count? will allow you to put some issues behind you, and to reach that level, that you have been striving for. So that you can leave a mark that cannot be erased.
Appreciating Differences Enhanced Ebook
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Author : John Gust
language : en
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Release Date : 1995-03-01
Appreciating Differences Enhanced Ebook written by John Gust and has been published by Lorenz Educational Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-01 with categories.
This unique resource includes a well-rounded collection of activities to help teachers instill in their students a sensitivity and appreciation toward others. Acknowledging that multicultural education is more than ethnicity, Appreciating Differences provides an inclusive and effective approach in teaching about physical, social, economic or the myriad other differences in today's world. Included are writing activities, games, art experiences, surveying and graphing skills, and expermenting with other languages and ways of communicating. In learning to appreciate differences, children can learn to make a positive difference.
Armed Forces Talk
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Armed Forces Talk written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Military policy categories.
Disproven
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Author : Ken Block
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Disproven written by Ken Block and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Political Science categories.
Many searched for evidence of voter fraud in 2020, only a few were unbiased professionals . . . and only one has written a book about his experience. If you value the integrity of our elections—or want a behind-the-scenes look at an attempt at overturning one—Disproven by Ken Block takes you out of the voting booth and into the chaos that was the attempt to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In November 2020, data specialist Ken Block received a phone call from the Trump Campaign. They wanted to hire him to find evidence of election fraud. What followed were late night and early morning requests to assess fraud claims at a blistering pace and ultimately find definitive evidence about the role voter fraud played in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Multiple subpoenas later, Block reveals the truth about being one of the few professionals hired to prove the Trump Campaign’s allegation that voter fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 presidential election. He explains what the voter data tells us and exposes the sobering truth that our federal elections are operating on hundreds, if not thousands, of disparate voting systems prone to error—a threat to national election integrity. Disproven is an insider’s look at the results of an inflammatory claim, a flawed system, and the changes drastically needed before the results of another election are threatened or contested.