List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1: Power to the People?
2: Why Citizen Assemblies and How Did They Work?
3: Who Were the participants?
4: How Did the Decisions Come About?
5: Did the Citizen Assemblies Make the Right Decisions?
6: Did the Participants Decide by Themselves?
7: Did Participants Become Better Citizens?
8: Why Were the Assemblies' Reform Proposals Rejected?
9: Should we let Citizens Decide?
Appendix 1: Description of Electoral Systems
Appendix 2: Question Labels, Wordings, and Codings for Chapter
5
Appendix 3: Question Labels, Wordings, and Codings for Chapter
7
Appendix 4: Question Labels, Wordings, and Codings for Chapter
8
References
Patrick Fournier is principal investigator for the next two
Canadian Election Studies, and was co-investigator of the CES for
the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections. He is Associate Professor in
the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal.
His research interests include political behaviour, political
psychology, citizen competence, opinion change, and survey
methodology. Henk van der Kolk co-directed the Dutch Parliamentary
Election
Studies in 1998, 2006, and 2010. He is Associate Professor in the
Political Science Department at the University of Twente. In 2006,
he was involved in educating the citizen assembly on electoral
reform in the
Netherlands. His research interests are: electoral systems,
electoral behavior, political participation, and local politics. R.
Kenneth Carty has held the Brenda & David McLean Chair in Canadian
Studies, served as the Director of the UBC Centre for the Study of
Democratic Institutions, and is a past President of the Canadian
Political Science Association. He is Professor in the Department of
Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is a
specialist on the structure,
organization, and behaviour, of political parties and competitive
party systems. André Blais is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada and a past President of the Canadian Political Science
Association. He is
Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université
de Montréal. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies.
He is the principal investigator for the Making Electoral Democracy
Work project. His research interests are elections, electoral
systems, turnout, public opinion, and methodology. Jonathan Rose
served as the Academic Director of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly
on Electoral Reform. He is Associate Professor in the Department of
Political Studies at
Queen's University. He has held visiting positions at Victoria
University of Wellington, the International Study Centre, and
Kwansei Gakuin University. His research interests include Canadian
politics, mass media,
political communication, political advertising, and propaganda.
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