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Quiet Constitutionalism in Canada: The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2003
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The idea that Canada is experiencing a "post-constitutional" era is misleading because it is based only on lack of changes to the formal codified constitution. Through an examination of international economic agreements, considered as untraditional mechanisms having a constitutional effect, a case is made that Canada's constitution has undergone significant, but little noticed, change over the last decade. Using Stephen Krasner's typology of sovereignty, it is shown that several aspects of Canada's sovereignty have been diminished. The effect is that the balance between liberalism and democracy in Canada's liberal democratic polity has been altered, to the detriment of the democratic component.
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- Research Article
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- Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 251 - 273
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- © The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique
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