CANADA'S POLITICAL SYSTEM
By Samatha Oliver
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Political Systems
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Agricultural Age Political Systems:
Pre-democractic political ystems of various kinds, in feudal systems and ancient empires.
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Industrial Age Political Systems:
Representative democracy and a multiparty political system for the rising middle class in West, with democracy based on an informed, educated middle class; democractic centralism in socialist countries, with population also educated.
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Information Age Political Systems:
Global democratization trends, in former communtnist and South countries today, with modern information technologies making control of information to citizens by dictators difficult. Social-political change on important issues initated by direct grassroots, participatory democracy involving media coverage, electronic networking on interenet FAX's and other forms of "electronic democracy." Increasing numbers of issues (arms control, free trade; AIDS; pollution; and terriosm) require global cooperation and/or local action, not just national policies, to solve them.
Information/Data on Canada's Political System
Officialy, Canada is a confederation with parliamentary democracy. That means Canada's system is patterned partly after Great Britian's, but also has a federal system like that in the United States. The federal government holds considerable power in areas of national concern, such as health insurance, trade, the military, and development. Provincial governments have authority over education, property laws, and medical facilities.
Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Political System)
In the industrial age moving to the information age.
Additional Online Sources on Canada's Political System
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Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Canada's Political System
- Encyclopedia of the Nations
- Encyclopedia Briticana
- CIA World Fact Book (no author).
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