Commissioned Ridings
Designing Canada's Electoral Districts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11969902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sylvie Arend (corresponding author), John C Courtney |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 328-328 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3552333 |
| OpenAlex | W1978278558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Where did the idea for nonpartisan constituency redistributions come from? What were the principal reasons that Canada turned to arm's-length commissions to design its electoral districts? In Commissioned Ridings John Courtney addresses these questions by examining and assessing the readjustment process in Canada's electoral boundaries. Defining electoral districts as building blocks, Courtney compares federal and provincial electoral readjustments in the last half of the twentieth century, showing how parliamentarians and legislators, boundary commissions, courts, and interested members of the general public debated representational principles to define the purposes of electoral redistricting in an increasingly urban, ethnically mixed federal state such as Canada
Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Canadian Identity and History · Political Systems and Governance
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |