Rainer Knopff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4373161 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rainer Knopff |
| PRENOMES | Rainer |
| SOBRENOME | Knopff |
| ASSINATURA | KNOPFF R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Legislative Versus Judicial Checks and Balances
There is a longstanding debate in liberal constitutionalism over which method of rights protection – legislative or judicial – best achieves the moderate policy outcomes envisioned by democratic theorists. This article examines this question by comparing two Commonwealth countries, Canada and Australia, which explicitly placed themselves on opposite sides of the debate. After outlining the historical debate, a case study design compares the polic…
Social Capital and Civic Community in Alberta
We investigate the nature of civic community and social capital in Alberta. We find a civic community with high levels of interpersonal trust and civic participation, that values formal political equality and direct participation, yet expresses high levels of alienation from and low levels of confidence in its governments. While exogenous variables contribute to a strong civic community, only endogenous variables can account for the comparatively…
Ghosts and Straw Men
Readers of Miriam Smith's article1 who have not also read our recent book, The Charter Revolution and the Court Party, may conclude that she is critical of everything in that book. This would be a mistake, since nowhere in her article does she challenge the two central claims of the book: (1) that there has been a “Charter revolution,” and (2) that this revolution can be explained only in terms of a supporting constituency. Smith accepts these ce…
The Charter Revolution and the Court Party
Populism and the Politics of Rights
In Canada as elsewhere, representative democracy is under attack by both populists and rights advocates. The populist challenge comes mainly from Preston Manning's wing of the Reform party. The rights-based challenge is grounded on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These two challenges are different in obvious ways, but from the point of view of representative government—and ultimately of liberal democratic constitutionalism—what they …
Charter Politics
Human Rights and Social Technology
Australian Federalism and the Debate Over a Bill of Rights
Successive Australian Labor governments have tried to nationalize standards for the protection of rights either by means of a statutory bill binding on the states under the Commonwealth's much expanded external affairs power, or by further entrenching specific rights in the Constitution. All these attempts have failed for a variety of political and constitutional reasons including, importantly, the strength of Australia's established system of fe…
Selection bias in human rights tribunals
Quasi‐judicial tribunals are bound by the principle of natural justice, including the obligation to avoid bias or the apprehension of bias in the selection of adjudicators, as was affirmed for human rights commissions in the McBain case. This paper statistically analyses all decisions rendered by Canadian human rights tribunals, both federal and provincial, in the years 1956 to 1984. The main conclusion is that there is a tendency toward the reap…
What do Constitutional Equality Rights Project Canadians Against
It is frequently argued that section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be interpreted to protect Canadians not only against intentional discrimination based on the prohibited grounds, but also against “systemic discrimination.” Since systemic discrimination against one group can always be described as intentional discrimination against another, this approach seems redundant in the context of an open-ended list of prohibited…
On Proving Discrimination
Canadian Federalism, The Charter of Rights, and the 1984 Election
Journal Article Canadian Federalism, The Charter of Rights, and the 1984 Election Get access Roger Gibbins, Roger Gibbins University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rainer Knopff, Rainer Knopff University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. L. Morton F. L. Morton University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Federalism, the Charter and the Court
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Quebec's “Holy War” as “Regime” Politics
La dernière partie du XIXe siècle au Québec a été marquée par la querelle de l'ultramontanisme et du libéralisme que l'on appelle parfois la « guerre sainte». Cette querelle s'est même déroulée devant les tribunaux à travers certains procès. L'un d'eux dût déterminer si l'Eglise avait le droit de priver Joseph Guibord d'un enterrement religieiix parce qu'il avait été membre de l'Institut canadien, société de pensée de tendance libérale combattue …
Populism and the Politics of Rights
In Canada as elsewhere, representative democracy is under attack by both populists and rights advocates. The populist challenge comes mainly from Preston Manning's wing of the Reform party. The rights-based challenge is grounded on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These two challenges are different in obvious ways, but from the point of view of representative government—and ultimately of liberal democratic constitutionalism—what they …
Social Capital and Civic Community in Alberta
We investigate the nature of civic community and social capital in Alberta. We find a civic community with high levels of interpersonal trust and civic participation, that values formal political equality and direct participation, yet expresses high levels of alienation from and low levels of confidence in its governments. While exogenous variables contribute to a strong civic community, only endogenous variables can account for the comparatively…
The Charter Revolution and the Court Party
Legislative Versus Judicial Checks and Balances
There is a longstanding debate in liberal constitutionalism over which method of rights protection – legislative or judicial – best achieves the moderate policy outcomes envisioned by democratic theorists. This article examines this question by comparing two Commonwealth countries, Canada and Australia, which explicitly placed themselves on opposite sides of the debate. After outlining the historical debate, a case study design compares the polic…
Australian Federalism and the Debate Over a Bill of Rights
Successive Australian Labor governments have tried to nationalize standards for the protection of rights either by means of a statutory bill binding on the states under the Commonwealth's much expanded external affairs power, or by further entrenching specific rights in the Constitution. All these attempts have failed for a variety of political and constitutional reasons including, importantly, the strength of Australia's established system of fe…
On Proving Discrimination
Human Rights and Social Technology
Canadian Federalism, The Charter of Rights, and the 1984 Election
Journal Article Canadian Federalism, The Charter of Rights, and the 1984 Election Get access Roger Gibbins, Roger Gibbins University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rainer Knopff, Rainer Knopff University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. L. Morton F. L. Morton University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Quebec's “Holy War” as “Regime” Politics
La dernière partie du XIXe siècle au Québec a été marquée par la querelle de l'ultramontanisme et du libéralisme que l'on appelle parfois la « guerre sainte». Cette querelle s'est même déroulée devant les tribunaux à travers certains procès. L'un d'eux dût déterminer si l'Eglise avait le droit de priver Joseph Guibord d'un enterrement religieiix parce qu'il avait été membre de l'Institut canadien, société de pensée de tendance libérale combattue …
Selection bias in human rights tribunals
Quasi‐judicial tribunals are bound by the principle of natural justice, including the obligation to avoid bias or the apprehension of bias in the selection of adjudicators, as was affirmed for human rights commissions in the McBain case. This paper statistically analyses all decisions rendered by Canadian human rights tribunals, both federal and provincial, in the years 1956 to 1984. The main conclusion is that there is a tendency toward the reap…
What do Constitutional Equality Rights Project Canadians Against
It is frequently argued that section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be interpreted to protect Canadians not only against intentional discrimination based on the prohibited grounds, but also against “systemic discrimination.” Since systemic discrimination against one group can always be described as intentional discrimination against another, this approach seems redundant in the context of an open-ended list of prohibited…
Federalism, the Charter and the Court
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Quebec's “Holy War” as “Regime” Politics
La dernière partie du XIXe siècle au Québec a été marquée par la querelle de l'ultramontanisme et du libéralisme que l'on appelle parfois la « guerre sainte». Cette querelle s'est même déroulée devant les tribunaux à travers certains procès. L'un d'eux dût déterminer si l'Eglise avait le droit de priver Joseph Guibord d'un enterrement religieiix parce qu'il avait été membre de l'Institut canadien, société de pensée de tendance libérale combattue …
Federalism, the Charter and the Court
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Canadian Federalism, The Charter of Rights, and the 1984 Election
Journal Article Canadian Federalism, The Charter of Rights, and the 1984 Election Get access Roger Gibbins, Roger Gibbins University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rainer Knopff, Rainer Knopff University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. L. Morton F. L. Morton University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
On Proving Discrimination
What do Constitutional Equality Rights Project Canadians Against
It is frequently argued that section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be interpreted to protect Canadians not only against intentional discrimination based on the prohibited grounds, but also against “systemic discrimination.” Since systemic discrimination against one group can always be described as intentional discrimination against another, this approach seems redundant in the context of an open-ended list of prohibited…
Selection bias in human rights tribunals
Quasi‐judicial tribunals are bound by the principle of natural justice, including the obligation to avoid bias or the apprehension of bias in the selection of adjudicators, as was affirmed for human rights commissions in the McBain case. This paper statistically analyses all decisions rendered by Canadian human rights tribunals, both federal and provincial, in the years 1956 to 1984. The main conclusion is that there is a tendency toward the reap…
Human Rights and Social Technology
Australian Federalism and the Debate Over a Bill of Rights
Successive Australian Labor governments have tried to nationalize standards for the protection of rights either by means of a statutory bill binding on the states under the Commonwealth's much expanded external affairs power, or by further entrenching specific rights in the Constitution. All these attempts have failed for a variety of political and constitutional reasons including, importantly, the strength of Australia's established system of fe…
Charter Politics
Populism and the Politics of Rights
In Canada as elsewhere, representative democracy is under attack by both populists and rights advocates. The populist challenge comes mainly from Preston Manning's wing of the Reform party. The rights-based challenge is grounded on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These two challenges are different in obvious ways, but from the point of view of representative government—and ultimately of liberal democratic constitutionalism—what they …
The Charter Revolution and the Court Party
Ghosts and Straw Men
Readers of Miriam Smith's article1 who have not also read our recent book, The Charter Revolution and the Court Party, may conclude that she is critical of everything in that book. This would be a mistake, since nowhere in her article does she challenge the two central claims of the book: (1) that there has been a “Charter revolution,” and (2) that this revolution can be explained only in terms of a supporting constituency. Smith accepts these ce…
Social Capital and Civic Community in Alberta
We investigate the nature of civic community and social capital in Alberta. We find a civic community with high levels of interpersonal trust and civic participation, that values formal political equality and direct participation, yet expresses high levels of alienation from and low levels of confidence in its governments. While exogenous variables contribute to a strong civic community, only endogenous variables can account for the comparatively…
Legislative Versus Judicial Checks and Balances
There is a longstanding debate in liberal constitutionalism over which method of rights protection – legislative or judicial – best achieves the moderate policy outcomes envisioned by democratic theorists. This article examines this question by comparing two Commonwealth countries, Canada and Australia, which explicitly placed themselves on opposite sides of the debate. After outlining the historical debate, a case study design compares the polic…
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