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• Grades updated to include all first and second term assignments and all revised grades as of April 25.
• Starting to think about summer jobs? Read one student's story of how he got a summer job related to Politics 230E two years ago year.

• Course Outline in pdf format.
• Assignments in pdf format
• How Canadians Govern Themselves. By Hon. Eugene Forsey
• How Government Works: A Primer - created by the Institute on Governance and the Public Service Commission as a training tool for government employees who didn't take 230 at university.
• Constitution Act, 1867, edited version.

• Lecture 1 - Interest Groups
• Lecture 2 - The Courts
  • Read the case of Regal Confections v. Deputy Min of National Revenue before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.
  • Canada's Court System, prepared by the Dept of Justice.
• Lecture 3 - Rational Choice and Game Theory
• Lecture 4 - The Lubicon Standoff
• Lecture 5 - Coordination and Assurance - Measurement and Language Policy
• Lecture 6 - Voting Games
• Lecture 7 - Parliamentary Voting
• Lecture 8 - Party Competition
• Lecture 10 - The Supreme Court's Shifting Role
• Lecture 11 - The Concept of the "Disadvantaged Group"
• Lecture 12 - The Court Challenges Program
  
  

• All grades as of April 25.