Chapter 8 Further Resources

Web Links

• The Symbols of Canada (www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/symbl/index-eng.cfm). Government of Canada page that explains symbolic emblems of Canadian culture.

• Free Press: Reform Media; Transform Democracy (www.freepress.net). Nonprofit organization seeking to expand free media in the US and abroad.

• Diversity and Multiculturalism (www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/sujct/divers-multi/index-eng.cfm). Government of Canada page that looks at gender, Aboriginal, language and other issues of diversity in Canada.

• Lobbying Data for the US (www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists); Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada (www.ocl-cal.gc.ca/eic/site/lobbyist-lobbyiste1.nsf/eng/home). Two websites that document lobbying in Canada and the United States.

Podcasts

• “Can our democracy survive social media?”, Attention Control, September 2, 2019. https://www.attentioncontrolpod.com/episodes
  
  This podcast episode explores the challenges online misinformation poses for journalists covering the election campaign and for Canadians trying to identify fake news.

• “Lobbying”, Civics 101: A Podcast, April 2, 2017. https://www.civics101podcast.org/civics-101-episodes/ep39
  
  This podcast episode explores how lobbying works in the American political system. Jimmy Williams, former lobbyist, spills the beans.

• “How Has the US Gun Lobby Been So Successful?”, The Inquiry, BBC, January 26, 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03fx16x
  
  The National Rifle Association (NRA) is the most powerful interest group in the US. This podcast episode discovers the reasons behind this interest group’s successes in lobbying the US government.

Further Readings

• Almond, Gabriel, & Sidney Verba (1989). The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. New York: Sage.

• Althaus, Scott (2003). Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Ascher, Herbert B. (1992). Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly.

• Berger, Suzanne (1981). Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism, and the Transformation of Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Dahl, Robert (1971). Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Gamson, William, & David Meyer. “Framing Political Opportunity.” In Doug McAdam et al. (Eds.), Comparative Perspectives of Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Linz, Juan J. (1975). “Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes.” In Fred I. Greenstein & Nelson W. Polsby (Eds.), Handbook of Political Science. New York: Addison Wesley.

• Middlebrook, Kevin (2004). Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico. Center for US–Mexican Studies UCSD.

• Milner, Helen V. (1997). Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• Mingst, Karen A. (2004). Essentials of International Relations. New York: W.W. Norton.

• Norris, Pippa (2004). Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Olson, Mancur (1971). The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

• Takashi Inogushi (1998). The Changing Nature of Democracy. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.