Quiet Constitutionalism in Canada

The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6237853
AutoresStephen Mcbride (0009-0008-5222-0474, Simon Fraser University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas251-273
Fecha de publicación2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423903778603
OpenAlexW2154515102
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas14

The idea that Canada is experiencing a "post-constitutional" era is misleading because it is based only on lack of changes to the formal codified constitution. Through an examination of international economic agreements, considered as untraditional mechanisms having a constitutional effect, a case is made that Canada's constitution has undergone significant, but little noticed, change over the last decade. Using Stephen Krasner's typology of sovereignty, it is shown that several aspects of Canada's sovereignty have been diminished. The effect is that the balance between liberalism and democracy in Canada's liberal democratic polity has been altered, to the detriment of the democratic component

Constitution · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Sovereignty · Typology · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · Law · Political Systems and Governance