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Intro -- 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 Ever More Citizens Who Are Senior: An Ageing Canada -- Conclusion: " The Dance of Adjustment" -- Notes -- Index.

Broad citizen participation in decision making by administrative bodies is important in achieving fairness, improving the quality of decisions, and realizing accountability and legitimacy. Yet such broad participation often hinges on adequate financial capacity. In this regard, the authors review a number of mechanisms used for funding citizen participation. These mechanisms are variations of essentially two models: public funding (direct and indirect) and direct funding by proponents. The article concludes with a plea for such mechanisms--even in a time of severe financial restraint-as one reflection of a vigorous participatory democracy.

Most of the provinces and the Federal Court have adopted class action procedures influenced by the U.S. model, with certification and opt out, but differing rules on costs apply. A significant number of cases are brought, most of which settle. There are unresolved transborder issues. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

In Russia, as the confrontation over the constitutional distribution of authority raged, Boris Yeltsin's economic program regularly wended its way in and out of the Constitutional Court until Yeltsin finally suspended that court in the aftermath of his clash with the hard-line parliament. In Europe, French and German legislators and executives now routinely alter desired policies in response to or in anticipation of the pronouncements of constitutional courts. In Latin America and Africa, courts are--or will be-- important participants in ongoing efforts to establish constitutional rules and policies protect new or fragile democracies from the threats of military intervention, ethnic conflict, and revolution. This global expansion of judicial power, or judicialization of politics is accompanied by an increasing domination of negotiating or decision making arenas by quasi- judicial procedures. For better or for worse, the judicialization of politics has become one of the most significant trends of the end of the millenium.In this book, political scientists, legal scholars, and judges around the world trace the intellectual origins of this trend, describe its occurence--or lack of occurence--in specific nations, analyze the circumstances and conditions that promote or retard judicialization, and evaluate the phenomenon from a variety of intellectual and ideological perspectives