The People's House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention (Book Review)

By Canadian Parliamentary Review

Release Date: 2007-06-22
Genre: Law

Description

The People's House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention by David E. Smith, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2007. For forty years David Smith has been a pillar of the Political Science establishment. This is the last of a trilogy devoted to Parliament along with The Invisible Crown and The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective.

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