Democracy in Alberta
Social Credit and the Party System
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2013
- Category
- Canadian, General, State & Provincial
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442615755
- Publish Date
- Sep 2013
- List Price
- $43.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442673793
- Publish Date
- Apr 1977
- List Price
- $40.95
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Description
Democracy in Alberta was the first book by the hugely influential political scientist C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987). In this study, Macpherson examines the distinctive quasi-party political system that emerged in Alberta in the first half of the twentieth century, represented by the United Farmers of Alberta and Social Credit governments and the movements behind them. The author presents the UFA and Social Credit, which grew independently of federal politics, as having produced a new species of democratic governance in Canada and he develops an innovative theory of the party system in the context of national politics at the time he wrote the book in 1953.
In addition to offering an original analysis of the party system and Alberta’s political structures and institutions, Democracy in Alberta presents a fascinating micro-history of the social and economic characteristics of Alberta. An introduction by Nelson Wiseman contextualizes the original publication and discusses the unique characteristics of Alberta politics still evident to this day.
About the author
C.B. Macpherson was a renowned writer and academic who held the position of Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He was also an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Macpherson's books include Democracy in Alberta, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, Burke, and the Rise and Fall of Economic Justice, and Other Papers. He died in 1987.
Other titles by
The Future of Canadian Federalism/L'Avenir du federalisme canadien
The Rise and Fall of Economic Justice and Other Essays
Reissue
Burke
Reissue
The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Hobbes to Locke
Property
Mainstream and Critical Positions
