Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2013
- Category
- Elections, Political Parties, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774824095
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774824088
- Publish Date
- Feb 2013
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774824101
- Publish Date
- Mar 2013
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
On May 2, 2011, as Canadians watched the federal election results roll in and Stephen Harper’s Conservatives achieve a majority, it appeared that we were witnessing a major shift in the political landscape. In reality, Canadian politics had been changing for quite some time. This volume provides the first account of the political upheavals of the past two decades and speculates on the future of the country’s national party system. By documenting how parties and voters responded to new challenges between 1993 and 2011, this book sheds light on one of the most tumultuous periods in Canadian political history.
About the authors
Amanda Bittner is a professor of political science and director of the Gender and Politics Laboratory at Memorial University.
Royce Koop writes about political parties, representation, local politics, and online political communication. He is the author of Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local National Politics (UBC Press, 2015), which won the 2014 Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association, and, with Peter J. Loewen, Jaime Settle, and James H. Fowler, “A Natural Experiment in Proposal Power and Electoral Success,” American Journal of Political Science 58, no. 1 (2014).
Awards
- Commended, The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013