Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. THE CONTEXT
6. Understanding Democracy 21
7. Understanding the Roots of Canadian Democracy 42
8. Canada: Setting, People, and Culture 72
9. Canada Then 91
10. Canadian Federalism Now 110
11. Everything Canadian Is Regional, Except National Political Institutions 131
12. THE CHANGING FACE OF CANADIAN DEMOCRACY
13. Getting Elected: The Deinstitutionalization of Political Parties 155
14. The Commons: The Institution that Fails 176
15. The Senate: The Institution That Never Was 199
16. The Cabinet: The Institution That Once Was 219
17. The Media: The Lost Institution 239
18. A Nowhere Man, in a Nowhere Land: Public Servants Now Operate in Two Institutions 259
19. The Public Service: An Institution with Six Goalies 287
20. New Forces above the Fault Line 307
21. WHY AND WHAT NOW?
22. Is Canadian Democracy Failing? 325
23. Looking Ahead 348
24. Notes 369
25. Index 453