Troy Riddell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4373575 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Troy Riddell |
| PRENOMES | Troy |
| SOBRENOME | Riddell |
| ASSINATURA | RIDDELL T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Guelph |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Does Patronage Matter? Connecting Influences on Judicial Appointments with Judicial Decision Making
The federal government's power to appoint judges has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. While many suggest that partisan affiliation, gender and professional background may be influencing the Canadian appointment process, and some have called into question the fairness of such influences, little attention has been directed at determining whether these characteristics influence the outcome of cases. This paper studies decisions made by…
The RCMP 's “ M r. B ig” sting operation
This paper analyses the RCMP 's “ M r. B ig” undercover investigation technique, which involves the use of undercover officers posing as high‐ranking members of a criminal organization. These officers befriend a target (the suspect) and promise the suspect that their leader ( M r. B ig) can help the target in several ways; in exchange, the officers demand that the suspect truthfully reveal past criminal activity to establish credibility and prote…
Exploring the Links between Party and Appointment
Studies of federal judicial appointments made before 1988 discovered significant partisan ties between judicial appointees and the governments appointing them. In 1988, in response to criticism of these “patronage appointments,” the Mulroney government introduced screening committees to the process. This article explores the impact of these committees. Using information gained from surveys of legal elites, we trace the minor and major political c…
Federal Judicial Appointments
The article investigates whether the new screening system introduced by the federal government in 1988 for appointing judges (below the Supreme Court level) has reduced the influence of patronage in the federal judicial appointment process. To analyse this question, we examined whether judicial appointees from 1989 through 2003 donated to a political party, particularly the party that appointed them, up to five years prior to their appointment. W…
Canada's Francophone Minority Communities
Canada's Francophone Minority Communities: Constitutional Renewal and the Winning of School Governance , Michael D. Behiels, Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2004, pp. 442. Michael Behiels straightforwardly sets out the purpose of his book in the very first sentence: “This study is a descriptive analysis of Canada's francophone minority communities' quest for renewal and regeneration through constitutional reform and the wi…
Government Use of Strategic Litigation
This study examines how the Alberta government used litigation--the Alberta Exported Gas Tax Reference--as part of its efforts to combat the federal government's National Energy Program (NEP) in the early 1980s; in doing so, the study posits some general theories of government use of strategic litigation and highlights the need for further research in this area. While the increased use of strategic litigation by interest groups as a political tac…
The Changing Nature of Public Support for the Supreme Court of Canada
This paper investigates the relationship between diffuse support for the Canadian Supreme Court (general, lasting attachments to the institution) and specific support (attitudes toward its policy outputs). We hypothesize that diffuse support for the Court will not be closely related to specific support until after 1988, when the Court began making a number of controversial decisions. Using data from 1987 and 1997 we test multivariate models of th…
The Impact of Legal Mobilization and Judicial Decisions
The article investigates the impact of legal mobilization and judicial decisions on official minority-language education (OMLE) policy in the Canadian provinces outside Quebec, using the "factor-oriented" and "dispute-centered" theories of judicial impact developed by U.S. scholars. The Canadian Supreme Court's decision in Mahé v. Alberta (1990), which broadly interpreted Section 23 of the Charter of Rights to include management and control of OM…
Official minority‐language education policy outside Quebec
This article argues that Section 23 of the Charter, litigation and judicial decisions have played key roles in expanding and homogenizing official minority‐lanpage education ( omle ) policy outside Quebec. The importance of looking beyond Charter jurisprudence to the broader policy impact of litigation and judicial decisions is revealed. The Supreme Court's Mah é decision was particularly important in putting omle policy on the agenda and for pro…
Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy
The controversy raises challenging questions about the role of a powerful judiciary in a democracy. In Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy, a series of essays commissioned by the Institute for Research on Public Policy, some of Canada's foremost commentators - academics, politicians, and Supreme Court judges themselves - take up the debate. Some tangle over the pivotal question: should judges have the decisive say on issues involving entrenched…
Reasonable Limitations, Distinct Society and the Canada Clause
This article connects the conflict in Canada over formal constitutional amendments—patriation (1982), the Meech Lake (1987) and the Charlottetown (1992) Accords—with constitutional litigation and interpretation. The authors posit that governments and organized social interests compete with and among themselves for constitutional advantage in both forums of constitutional modification, and that outcomes in each forum have predictable consequences …
The Changing Nature of Public Support for the Supreme Court of Canada
This paper investigates the relationship between diffuse support for the Canadian Supreme Court (general, lasting attachments to the institution) and specific support (attitudes toward its policy outputs). We hypothesize that diffuse support for the Court will not be closely related to specific support until after 1988, when the Court began making a number of controversial decisions. Using data from 1987 and 1997 we test multivariate models of th…
Does Patronage Matter? Connecting Influences on Judicial Appointments with Judicial Decision Making
The federal government's power to appoint judges has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. While many suggest that partisan affiliation, gender and professional background may be influencing the Canadian appointment process, and some have called into question the fairness of such influences, little attention has been directed at determining whether these characteristics influence the outcome of cases. This paper studies decisions made by…
Exploring the Links between Party and Appointment
Studies of federal judicial appointments made before 1988 discovered significant partisan ties between judicial appointees and the governments appointing them. In 1988, in response to criticism of these “patronage appointments,” the Mulroney government introduced screening committees to the process. This article explores the impact of these committees. Using information gained from surveys of legal elites, we trace the minor and major political c…
The Impact of Legal Mobilization and Judicial Decisions
The article investigates the impact of legal mobilization and judicial decisions on official minority-language education (OMLE) policy in the Canadian provinces outside Quebec, using the "factor-oriented" and "dispute-centered" theories of judicial impact developed by U.S. scholars. The Canadian Supreme Court's decision in Mahé v. Alberta (1990), which broadly interpreted Section 23 of the Charter of Rights to include management and control of OM…
Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy
The controversy raises challenging questions about the role of a powerful judiciary in a democracy. In Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy, a series of essays commissioned by the Institute for Research on Public Policy, some of Canada's foremost commentators - academics, politicians, and Supreme Court judges themselves - take up the debate. Some tangle over the pivotal question: should judges have the decisive say on issues involving entrenched…
Official minority‐language education policy outside Quebec
This article argues that Section 23 of the Charter, litigation and judicial decisions have played key roles in expanding and homogenizing official minority‐lanpage education ( omle ) policy outside Quebec. The importance of looking beyond Charter jurisprudence to the broader policy impact of litigation and judicial decisions is revealed. The Supreme Court's Mah é decision was particularly important in putting omle policy on the agenda and for pro…
Federal Judicial Appointments
The article investigates whether the new screening system introduced by the federal government in 1988 for appointing judges (below the Supreme Court level) has reduced the influence of patronage in the federal judicial appointment process. To analyse this question, we examined whether judicial appointees from 1989 through 2003 donated to a political party, particularly the party that appointed them, up to five years prior to their appointment. W…
The RCMP 's “ M r. B ig” sting operation
This paper analyses the RCMP 's “ M r. B ig” undercover investigation technique, which involves the use of undercover officers posing as high‐ranking members of a criminal organization. These officers befriend a target (the suspect) and promise the suspect that their leader ( M r. B ig) can help the target in several ways; in exchange, the officers demand that the suspect truthfully reveal past criminal activity to establish credibility and prote…
Reasonable Limitations, Distinct Society and the Canada Clause
This article connects the conflict in Canada over formal constitutional amendments—patriation (1982), the Meech Lake (1987) and the Charlottetown (1992) Accords—with constitutional litigation and interpretation. The authors posit that governments and organized social interests compete with and among themselves for constitutional advantage in both forums of constitutional modification, and that outcomes in each forum have predictable consequences …
Canada's Francophone Minority Communities
Canada's Francophone Minority Communities: Constitutional Renewal and the Winning of School Governance , Michael D. Behiels, Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2004, pp. 442. Michael Behiels straightforwardly sets out the purpose of his book in the very first sentence: “This study is a descriptive analysis of Canada's francophone minority communities' quest for renewal and regeneration through constitutional reform and the wi…
Reasonable Limitations, Distinct Society and the Canada Clause
This article connects the conflict in Canada over formal constitutional amendments—patriation (1982), the Meech Lake (1987) and the Charlottetown (1992) Accords—with constitutional litigation and interpretation. The authors posit that governments and organized social interests compete with and among themselves for constitutional advantage in both forums of constitutional modification, and that outcomes in each forum have predictable consequences …
Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy
The controversy raises challenging questions about the role of a powerful judiciary in a democracy. In Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy, a series of essays commissioned by the Institute for Research on Public Policy, some of Canada's foremost commentators - academics, politicians, and Supreme Court judges themselves - take up the debate. Some tangle over the pivotal question: should judges have the decisive say on issues involving entrenched…
Official minority‐language education policy outside Quebec
This article argues that Section 23 of the Charter, litigation and judicial decisions have played key roles in expanding and homogenizing official minority‐lanpage education ( omle ) policy outside Quebec. The importance of looking beyond Charter jurisprudence to the broader policy impact of litigation and judicial decisions is revealed. The Supreme Court's Mah é decision was particularly important in putting omle policy on the agenda and for pro…
Government Use of Strategic Litigation
This study examines how the Alberta government used litigation--the Alberta Exported Gas Tax Reference--as part of its efforts to combat the federal government's National Energy Program (NEP) in the early 1980s; in doing so, the study posits some general theories of government use of strategic litigation and highlights the need for further research in this area. While the increased use of strategic litigation by interest groups as a political tac…
The Changing Nature of Public Support for the Supreme Court of Canada
This paper investigates the relationship between diffuse support for the Canadian Supreme Court (general, lasting attachments to the institution) and specific support (attitudes toward its policy outputs). We hypothesize that diffuse support for the Court will not be closely related to specific support until after 1988, when the Court began making a number of controversial decisions. Using data from 1987 and 1997 we test multivariate models of th…
The Impact of Legal Mobilization and Judicial Decisions
The article investigates the impact of legal mobilization and judicial decisions on official minority-language education (OMLE) policy in the Canadian provinces outside Quebec, using the "factor-oriented" and "dispute-centered" theories of judicial impact developed by U.S. scholars. The Canadian Supreme Court's decision in Mahé v. Alberta (1990), which broadly interpreted Section 23 of the Charter of Rights to include management and control of OM…
Canada's Francophone Minority Communities
Canada's Francophone Minority Communities: Constitutional Renewal and the Winning of School Governance , Michael D. Behiels, Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2004, pp. 442. Michael Behiels straightforwardly sets out the purpose of his book in the very first sentence: “This study is a descriptive analysis of Canada's francophone minority communities' quest for renewal and regeneration through constitutional reform and the wi…
Federal Judicial Appointments
The article investigates whether the new screening system introduced by the federal government in 1988 for appointing judges (below the Supreme Court level) has reduced the influence of patronage in the federal judicial appointment process. To analyse this question, we examined whether judicial appointees from 1989 through 2003 donated to a political party, particularly the party that appointed them, up to five years prior to their appointment. W…
Exploring the Links between Party and Appointment
Studies of federal judicial appointments made before 1988 discovered significant partisan ties between judicial appointees and the governments appointing them. In 1988, in response to criticism of these “patronage appointments,” the Mulroney government introduced screening committees to the process. This article explores the impact of these committees. Using information gained from surveys of legal elites, we trace the minor and major political c…
The RCMP 's “ M r. B ig” sting operation
This paper analyses the RCMP 's “ M r. B ig” undercover investigation technique, which involves the use of undercover officers posing as high‐ranking members of a criminal organization. These officers befriend a target (the suspect) and promise the suspect that their leader ( M r. B ig) can help the target in several ways; in exchange, the officers demand that the suspect truthfully reveal past criminal activity to establish credibility and prote…
Does Patronage Matter? Connecting Influences on Judicial Appointments with Judicial Decision Making
The federal government's power to appoint judges has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. While many suggest that partisan affiliation, gender and professional background may be influencing the Canadian appointment process, and some have called into question the fairness of such influences, little attention has been directed at determining whether these characteristics influence the outcome of cases. This paper studies decisions made by…
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