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Good Government? Good Citizens?

Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Changing Canada

By (author) W.A. Bogart
Categories: Jurisprudence and general issues, Law
Series: Law and Society
Publisher: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774811651, 264 pages, January 2006
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Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: The Society that Was

1 Before the Transformation

Part 2: Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Society in Transition

2 The Ascendance of Courts

3 Representative Politics in Disarray

4 Chasing Choice: The Market Abounding

Part 3: Some Examples of a Changing Canada

5 Aboriginals: Two Row Wampum, Second Thoughts, and Citizens Plus

6 Citizens in Cyberspace: The Internet and Canadian Democracy

7 The Youngest Citizens and Education as a Public Good?

8 Evermore Citizens Who Are Senior: An Ageing Canada Conclusion: "The Dance of Adjustment"

Notes

Index

Description

Three forces are at work in reconstituting the citizen in this society: courts, politics, and markets. Many see these forces as intersecting and colliding in ways that are fundamentally reshaping the relationship of individuals to the state and to each other. How has Canadian society actually been transformed? Good Government? Good Citizens? examines the altered roles of courts, politics, and markets over the last two decades. It includes chapters on the Aboriginal peoples, cyberspace, education, and on an ageing Canada. The book concludes with reflections on the “good citizen. ”

Reviews

Bogart offers an important thesis about the power of judges and rights that demands further inquiry both in Canada and elsewhere in the West.

- Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., Dept of Political Science, West Virginia University

Any reader who would cares about the future of democracy in Canada would do well to read this broad-ranging and thought-provoking book.

- Miriam Smith, Department of Political Studies, Trent University

In Good Government? Good Citizens? W. A. Bogart provides a thoughtful analysis of the drama of social and political change in Canada over the last several decades.

- Mike Hogeterp