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CHAPTER 12

Suggested Readings

<BIB>Douglas Amy, Behind the Ballot Box: A Citizen’s Guide to Voting Systems (Westport, Conn.: GPG-Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000).</BIB>

<BIB>André Blais, To Vote or Not to Vote? The Merits and Limits of Rational Choice Theory (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000).</BIB>

<BIB>André Blais, Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2002).</BIB>

<BIB>Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Canada’s Electoral System (Ottawa: Elections Canada, 2001).</BIB>

<BIB>John Courtney, Elections (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004).</BIB>

<BIB>Christopher Dornan, et al., The Canadian General Election 2000 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2003).</BIB>

<BIB>Roderick Hart, Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good For Us (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).</BIB>

<BIB>Jon Pammett and Lawrence LeDuc, Explaining the Turnout Decline in Canadian Federal Elections: A New Survey of Nonvoters (Ottawa: Elections Canada, 2003).</BIB>

<BIB>Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble, eds., Women and Electoral Politics in Canada (Don Mills, Ont: Oxford University Press, 2003).</BIB>

<BIB>Linda Trimble and Jane Arscott, Still Counting: Women in Politics Across Canada (Peterborough Ont: Broadview Press, 2003).</BIB>

<BIB>Stephen Wayne, The Road to the White House, 2000: The Politics of Presidential Elections (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000).</BIB>

<BIB>Kathrin Wessendorf, ed., Challenging Politics: Indigenous People’s Experiences with Political Parties and Elections (Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2001).</BIB</BIBSET>

Weblinks

<H1>Canadian Sites</H1>

<WWW>Canadian Study of Parliament Group

<URL>http://www.studyparliament.ca</URL</WWW>

<WWW>Democracy Watch

<URL>http://www.dwatch.ca</URL</WWW>

<WWW>About Elections Canada

<URL>http://www.elections.ca</URL</WWW>

<WWW>Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

<URL>http://www.searchspaniel.com </URL</WWW>

<WWW>Elections in the International Community

<URL>http://www.electionworld.org/</URL</WWW>

<WWW>Electoral Systems

<URL>http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/elections.htm</URL</WWW>

<WWW>Fair Vote Canada

<URL>http://www.fairvotecanada.org</URL</WWW>

<H1>US Sites</H1>

<WWW>Campaigns and Elections

<WWW>Federal Election Commission

<WWW>Emily’s List

<URL>http://www.emilyslist.org</URL</WWW>

<WWW>Center for Responsive Politics

<WWW>Campaign 2004

<URL>http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/election04/</URL</WWW>

<H1>Other Sites</H1>

<WWW>Comparative Electoral Systems

<URL>http://www.umich.edu/~cses/</URL</WWW>

<WWW>Parliamentary Elections around the World

<URL>http://www.elections2004.eu.int/elections.html</URL>

<URL>http://www.election.demon.co.uk/election.html</URL</WWW>

<WWW>Interparliamentary Union

<URL>http://www.ipu.org

ADDITIONAL FACTFILES

FACTFILE: In Canada special arrangements for electors unable to vote because of disability, occupation, or assignment abroad were gradually introduced: postal ballot (1915); advance polling (1920); proxy voting (1970); level access at polling stations (1992).

FACTFILE: After each general election, within 90 days of the return of the writs, the Chief Electoral Office must submit a report to the Speaker of the House of Commons and must publish a report of the official voting results by polling division.

FACTFILE: Based on the 2001 census there are 308 seats in the House of Commons, an additional seven districts to the 301 electoral districts contested in the federal election of 2000, including three for Ontario, two from British Columbia and two for Alberta.

FACTFILE: In Israel before an election, political parties usually submit lists of their candidates, each containing 120 names to correspond with the number of seats in the Knesset.

FACTFILE: About 20 percent of elector information changes every year. Thus Elections Canada must keep the Register open and current between electoral events.

FACTFILE: The out-of-power party traditionally holds its convention first, in July of the presidential election year, followed by the party holding White House in August of the same year.

FACTFILE: Eight times in American history a vice-president has become president because of the death of his predecessor and once because of a presidential resignation.

FACTFILE: In 2004, eleven states rejected by a large margin ballot propositions to allow same-sex marriage and civil unions. Whereas in Canada one by one the provinces were making these unions legal.

FACTFILE: Election 2004 in the US brought out about 60 percent of the qualified electorate to vote, reversing a trend that had hovered around 50 percent for many years.

FACTFILE: Prior to a law against election violence, bribery and intimidation, rival gangs would clash, fatally, as in the election of 1841 in the Montreal riding of Terrebonne, where 7 men met their death as they voted.

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