The Canadian Regime. Rev. ed.

Joseph Garcea is a professor of political Studies at the University of
Saskatchewan.

This introductory book on Canadian government and politics has the
requisite chapters on the Constitution, the legislature, the executive,
the judiciary, elections, political parties, and interest groups, as
well as the requisite appendix of the constitutional documents of 1867
and 1982. Each chapter opens with a topic outline and concludes with a
list of key terms. To stimulate debate in a class or group setting,
there is an appendix that contains questions for discussion.

The introductory chapter discusses Aristotle’s typology of political
regimes, various types of democracies (direct and representative), and
key features of the Canadian political regime or system (including its
parliamentary and democratic nature). The Canadian Regime provides a
clear and concise overview of each of those topics. The book is intended
for high-school students, college and university students enrolled in
introductory social studies or political science courses, and general
readers looking for a basic manual on civic education. That readership
would have been better served by diagrams of the key organizational
features of the legislative and executive branches of government
comparable to those found in the chapter on the judiciary.