Good Government? Good Citizens?

Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., Dept of Political Science, West Virginia University:
Bogart offers an important thesis about the power of judges and rights that demands further inquiry both in Canada and elsewhere in the West.

Mike Hogeterp:
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.

Damian Collins, Ph.D Simon Fraser University, 2006:
This remarkably thorough and wide-ranging book charts, frequently in exquisite detail, an array of important changes in Canada’s society, economy and polity. Notwithstanding this breadth, it has a clear central concern: Canadians’ loss of trust and confidence in representative government and the related rise of courts and markets as the institutions in which fundamental choices are made ... For Bogart, this message is ethically and politically troubling ...

Harry W. Arthurs, University Professor of Law and Political Science, York University:
Bogart’s well-written and important book, drawing on a diverse body of scholarship and evidence, traces the transformations in Canadian law and politics over the past twenty years. His analysis of the rise of judicial power, the disarray of electoral politics, “the market abounding,” the place of First Nations, our treatment of children, and prospects for cyber-citizenship is ambitious, insightful, provocative, and timely.

Eleanore A. Cronk, Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario:
This book is a timely, thoughtful, and provocative exploration of many of the important issues facing contemporary Canadian society. It is a useful and vibrant contribution to our continuing dialogue regarding law, politics, and the marketplace. Whatever the reader's perspective, it will not disappoint.