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  1. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  2. AlterNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
  3. Beyond Voting
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    By all means vote if you feel like it. But don’t stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
  4. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  5. The Buzz Hargrove election controversy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
  6. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
  7. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  8. A Citizen Legislature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  9. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  10. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  11. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  12. The Election, Economy, War, and Peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky points out that the Democratic triumph in the 2008 election was indeed historic, but also relatively slight. He explores the factors that played a role in preventing a landslide victory for President Obama.
  13. Elections 2000
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky reviews the details of the 2000 elections and reveals the tendency of dysfunction in democratic electoral models.
  14. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  15. How US Democracy Triumphed Again
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky explores the discrepancies of the Bush-Gore tie in the 2000 elections such as income correlation and the lack of voter participation, revealing meaningful flaws in the democratic system.
  16. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  17. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
  18. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  19. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  20. The Other Mexico
    The North American Triangle Completed
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  21. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
  22. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  23. The Policy of Abstention
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1887
    Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
  24. Politics of Illusion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
  25. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  26. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
  27. Review falsifies history
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
  28. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  29. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  30. Suffrage (Voting Rights)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
  31. 2004 Elections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Chomsky explores potential implications of the 2004 election results in America, concluding they are, in fact, of little significance. For insight, he points instead to those public opinions which were not included in the process.
  32. Voting Patterns and Abstentions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky analyzes the phenomena of low voter participation and income correlation with election results as symptoms of an unhealthy democracy.
  33. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Rick Salutin's of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
  34. What Went Wrong in Ohio
    The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Documents fraud in the 2004 U.S. election.
  35. Worthington provokes election controversy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
    The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.

Experts on Elections in the Sources Directory

  1. Brock University
  2. Citizens for Public Justice
  3. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
  4. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  5. Organization of American States
  6. Parliamentary Names & Numbers
  7. Simon Fraser University
  8. Wilfrid Laurier University


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