Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics
Seiten
2000
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-0778-4 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-0778-4 (ISBN)
This book is about the collapse of Canadian party politics in the early 1990s, about the end of a party system that had governed Canada's national politics for several decades, and about the ongoing struggle to build its successor.
Canadian party politics collapsed in the early 1990s. This book is about that collapse, about the end of a party system, with a unique pattern of party organization and competition, that had governed Canada’s national politics for several decades, and about the ongoing struggle to build its successor. Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics discusses the breakdown of the old party system, the emergence of the Reform Party and the Bloc Québécois, and the fate of the Conservative and New Democratic Parties. It focuses on the internal workings of parties in this new era, examining the role of professionals, new technologies, and local activists.
To understand the ambiguities of our current party system, the authors attended local and national party meetings, nomination and leadership meetings, and campaign kick-off rallies. They visited local campaign offices to observe the parties’ grassroots operations and conducted interviews with senior party officials, pollsters, media and advertising specialists, and leader-tour directors.
Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will interest students of party politics and Canadian political history, as well as general readers eager to make sense of the changes reshaping national politics today.
Canadian party politics collapsed in the early 1990s. This book is about that collapse, about the end of a party system, with a unique pattern of party organization and competition, that had governed Canada’s national politics for several decades, and about the ongoing struggle to build its successor. Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics discusses the breakdown of the old party system, the emergence of the Reform Party and the Bloc Québécois, and the fate of the Conservative and New Democratic Parties. It focuses on the internal workings of parties in this new era, examining the role of professionals, new technologies, and local activists.
To understand the ambiguities of our current party system, the authors attended local and national party meetings, nomination and leadership meetings, and campaign kick-off rallies. They visited local campaign offices to observe the parties’ grassroots operations and conducted interviews with senior party officials, pollsters, media and advertising specialists, and leader-tour directors.
Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will interest students of party politics and Canadian political history, as well as general readers eager to make sense of the changes reshaping national politics today.
R. Kenneth Carty, William Cross, and Lisa Young are members of the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Mount Allison University, and the University of Calgary respectively.
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Party Politics at Century's End
2 The Party Question in Canada
3 Challenging the Consensus: Two New Parties
4 Struggling to Survive: Three Old Parties
5 Representing Interests 6. Remaking Party Democracy
7 Paying for Parties
8 On the Ground: The Local Campaign
9 In the Air: National Campaign Communication
10 Rebuilding the Canadian Party System
Appendix: Formal Interview Schedule
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Zusatzinfo | 22 b&w illustrations, 3 tables |
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Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 380 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-0778-4 / 0774807784 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-0778-4 / 9780774807784 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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