Rights and Institutional Relationships brings together political scientists and legal scholars to explore rights and their limitations, along with the governmental and legislative processes affecting them within Canada’s parliamentary system. It also examines how these elements shape broader institutional relationships under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and in comparative perspective.
This interdisciplinary volume offers valuable, in-depth analyses of timely issues, cases, and controversies involving rights and institutional dynamics. The book employs an array of methods, including legal analysis, qualitative case studies, content analysis, legal theory, research interviews, and policy analysis.
With a forward-looking perspective, Rights and Institutional Relationships investigates how rights-based processes influence specific policies and provides new insights into how aspects of parliamentary democracy affect governments, legislators, and the public. The book ultimately reveals how the institutional relationships at stake operate to protect—or fail to protect—rights in relation to government policy objectives.