Money, Politics, and Democracy
Canada’s Party Finance Reforms
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2011
- Category
- Elections, Democracy, Political Parties
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774818926
- Publish Date
- Jul 2011
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774818919
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774818933
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $125.00
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Description
In 2004, Jean Chrétien’s Liberals banned corporations and unions from contributing financially to political parties. In 2008, opposition leaders were prepared to defeat the Conservative Party over its proposal to eliminate public subsidies to parties. In this book, prominent political scientists explore the underlying issues that led to the showdown. Are publicly funded parties compatible with democracy? What effects has party finance reform had on elections and on the balance of power between parties and donors and between national parties and local organizations? Contributors show that campaign finance reforms have shaped party organization and electoral competition, contributing to successive minority governments.
About the authors
Lisa Young’s work has appeared in Jones Av., Misunderstandings Magazine, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Rampike, among others. She is a fiction editor and senior poetry editor for Existere. She belongs to the Plasticine Poetry Collective, and Moosemeat as well as a few other long-standing writing groups in Toronto. When the Earth is her first poetry collection.
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