Polity Atlas
Book

Nunavut: Rethinking Political Culture

Ailsa Henderson · UBC Press · 2007

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Type
Book
Author
Ailsa Henderson
Identifier
DOI 10.59962/9780774855655
Accessed
2026-09-01
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ISBN 9780774814249 (paperback). Chapter 6, 'Consensus Politics'.

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EstablishedNunavut's Legislative Assembly operates without political parties: after each election all members elect the Premier and the ministers, and they can remove them by a vote of non-confidence.DisputedHenderson finds that the party-free 'consensus government' Nunavut took over from the Northwest Territories arose from the territorial council's history rather than from Aboriginal values, although Nunavut's government has since presented consensus as traditionally Inuit.