Andrew Heard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Heard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Heard |
| SIGNATURE | HEARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Just What is a Vote of Confidence? The Curious Case of May 10, 2005
Despite the confidence convention's central part in Canadian parliamentary government, little attention has been paid to what exactly constitutes a vote of confidence. This uncertainty was highlighted in May 2005, when the opposition parties in the House of Commons passed a motion which they claimed was a confidence motion but the government did not. This paper examines the episode, and the motion at the heart of the controversy, to determine whe…
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and its Provinces , Henry Milner, ed., Peterborough: Broadview, 2004, pp. 319. After some decades of a principally academic debate in Canada, electoral reform has become a topic of current political discussion and even, in some cases, concrete action. Henry Milner's Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count is a very useful follow-up to the widely read Making Every Vote Count (Pet…
Empirical Banzhaf indices
The Regional Veto Formula and Its Effects on Canada's Constitutional Amendment Process
In early 1996, Canada's federal government enacted a new constitutional amending process to provide provincial and regional vetoes over future amendments. This study compares the new process with the “7 and 50” formula found in the Constitution Act, 1982. Using the Banzhaf Index as well as separate measures for the power to prevent and the power to initiate amendments, the article examines the relative influence of the provinces under the two ame…
Canadian Constitutional Conventions
The Charter in the Supreme Court of Canada
A traditional focus on the collective, institutional operation of the Supreme Court of Canada has obscured the practical impact on the Charter of Rights of the personal views held by the individual members of the Court. A study of all the Charter cases decided by the Supreme Court from 1983 to 1989 reveals a profound divergence of opinions within the Court. The differences are seen not only in each judge's overall support for Charter claims but a…
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Recognizing the Variety Among Constitutional Conventions
This article argues that the traditional views of constitutional conventions have failed to illuminate the variety among this important group of constitutional rules. A fresh examination of conventional rules explains how they may vary in precision, acceptance and importance to basic constitutional principles and processes. A hierarchical ordering of five types of constitutional rules is proposed as a replacement for the simple dichotomy between …
The Charter in the Supreme Court of Canada
A traditional focus on the collective, institutional operation of the Supreme Court of Canada has obscured the practical impact on the Charter of Rights of the personal views held by the individual members of the Court. A study of all the Charter cases decided by the Supreme Court from 1983 to 1989 reveals a profound divergence of opinions within the Court. The differences are seen not only in each judge's overall support for Charter claims but a…
Recognizing the Variety Among Constitutional Conventions
This article argues that the traditional views of constitutional conventions have failed to illuminate the variety among this important group of constitutional rules. A fresh examination of conventional rules explains how they may vary in precision, acceptance and importance to basic constitutional principles and processes. A hierarchical ordering of five types of constitutional rules is proposed as a replacement for the simple dichotomy between …
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and its Provinces , Henry Milner, ed., Peterborough: Broadview, 2004, pp. 319. After some decades of a principally academic debate in Canada, electoral reform has become a topic of current political discussion and even, in some cases, concrete action. Henry Milner's Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count is a very useful follow-up to the widely read Making Every Vote Count (Pet…
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Canadian Constitutional Conventions
Just What is a Vote of Confidence? The Curious Case of May 10, 2005
Despite the confidence convention's central part in Canadian parliamentary government, little attention has been paid to what exactly constitutes a vote of confidence. This uncertainty was highlighted in May 2005, when the opposition parties in the House of Commons passed a motion which they claimed was a confidence motion but the government did not. This paper examines the episode, and the motion at the heart of the controversy, to determine whe…
Empirical Banzhaf indices
The Regional Veto Formula and Its Effects on Canada's Constitutional Amendment Process
In early 1996, Canada's federal government enacted a new constitutional amending process to provide provincial and regional vetoes over future amendments. This study compares the new process with the “7 and 50” formula found in the Constitution Act, 1982. Using the Banzhaf Index as well as separate measures for the power to prevent and the power to initiate amendments, the article examines the relative influence of the provinces under the two ame…
Recognizing the Variety Among Constitutional Conventions
This article argues that the traditional views of constitutional conventions have failed to illuminate the variety among this important group of constitutional rules. A fresh examination of conventional rules explains how they may vary in precision, acceptance and importance to basic constitutional principles and processes. A hierarchical ordering of five types of constitutional rules is proposed as a replacement for the simple dichotomy between …
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
The Charter in the Supreme Court of Canada
A traditional focus on the collective, institutional operation of the Supreme Court of Canada has obscured the practical impact on the Charter of Rights of the personal views held by the individual members of the Court. A study of all the Charter cases decided by the Supreme Court from 1983 to 1989 reveals a profound divergence of opinions within the Court. The differences are seen not only in each judge's overall support for Charter claims but a…
Canadian Constitutional Conventions
The Regional Veto Formula and Its Effects on Canada's Constitutional Amendment Process
In early 1996, Canada's federal government enacted a new constitutional amending process to provide provincial and regional vetoes over future amendments. This study compares the new process with the “7 and 50” formula found in the Constitution Act, 1982. Using the Banzhaf Index as well as separate measures for the power to prevent and the power to initiate amendments, the article examines the relative influence of the provinces under the two ame…
Empirical Banzhaf indices
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and its Provinces , Henry Milner, ed., Peterborough: Broadview, 2004, pp. 319. After some decades of a principally academic debate in Canada, electoral reform has become a topic of current political discussion and even, in some cases, concrete action. Henry Milner's Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count is a very useful follow-up to the widely read Making Every Vote Count (Pet…
Just What is a Vote of Confidence? The Curious Case of May 10, 2005
Despite the confidence convention's central part in Canadian parliamentary government, little attention has been paid to what exactly constitutes a vote of confidence. This uncertainty was highlighted in May 2005, when the opposition parties in the House of Commons passed a motion which they claimed was a confidence motion but the government did not. This paper examines the episode, and the motion at the heart of the controversy, to determine whe…
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