Canadian Parties in Transition, Fourth Edition

by Alain-G. Gagnon (Editor), Brian Tanguay (Editor)

Overview

Canadian Parties in Transition examines the transformation of party politics in Canada and the possible shape the party system might take in the near future. With chapters written by an outstanding team of political scientists, the book presents a multi-faceted image of party dynamics, electoral behaviour, political marketing, and representative democracy.

The fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and includes fifteen new chapters and several new contributors. The new material covers topics such as the return to power of the Liberal Party, voting politics in Quebec, women in Canadian political parties, political campaigning, digital party politics, and municipal party politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442634701
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Publication date:	09/07/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Alain-G. Gagnon holds the Canada Research Chair in Québec and Canadian Studies in the Department of Political Science at UQAM. He is author of Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty (2014), which has been translated into 18 languages.

A. Brian Tanguay is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was the lead author of the Law Commission of Canada's report Voting Counts: Electoral Reform for Canada (2004).

Table of Contents

Preface
Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay

Part I: Origins and Evolution of the Canadian Party System

1.The Evolution of the Canadian Party System: From Brokerage Politics to Marketing-Oriented Politics
Steve Patten

2. Money, Politics, and the Canadian Party System
Lisa Young

3. Parties and Regions: Representation and Resistance
James Bickerton

4. Polarized Pluralism in the Canadian Party System
Richard Johnston

5. The Waning of Political Parties?
Grant Amyot

Part II: Ideologies and Party Politics

6. Ideological Competition in the Canadian Party System
Nelson Wiseman

7. The Liberal Party of Canada: Rebuilding, Resurgence, and Return to Power
Brooke Jeffrey

8. The Conservatives: Rebuilding and Rebranding, Yet Again
Peter Woolstencroft

9. Ideological Moderation and Professionalization: The NDP under Jack Layton and Tom Mulcair
David McGrane

10. Third Parties in Canada: Variety and Success
Éric Bélanger

Part III: Representation and Democracy

11. Party Politics and Voting Systems in Canada
Dennis Pilon

12. Back to the Future: Encoding and Decoding Interest Representation Outside of Parties
Jacquetta Newman

13. Party Politics in a Distinct Society: Two Eras of Block Voting in Quebec
Alain-G. Gagnon and François Boucher

14. Where Are the Women in Canadian Political Parties?
Joanna Everitt

15. The Promise of Direct Democracy: Is That All There Is?
A. Brian Tanguay

Part IV: New Paths for Research

16. From Brokerage to Boutique Politics: Political Marketing and the Changing Nature of Party Politics in Canada
Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson

17. Political Campaigning
Richard Nadeau and Frédérick Bastien

18. Two Decades of Digital Party Politics in Canada: An Assessment
Tamara A. Small

19. Participation, Mobilization, and the Political Engagement of the Internet Generation
Henry Milner

20. Municipal Political Parties: An Answer to Urbanization or an Affront to Traditions of Local Democracy?
Kristin R. Good

Statistical Appendix
List of Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

Neil Bradford

For more than 25 years, Canadian Parties in Transition has been an indispensable tool for teaching and research about Canadian political parties. With this fourth edition, Gagnon and Tanguay continue, and signicantly extend, an outstanding scholarly tradition. Blending insights from established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection offers both comprehensive field coverage and innovative interpretations of emerging trends. All students of Canadian parties will welcome the conceptual clarity and up-to-date analysis presented in each of the chapters.

John Courtney

Canadian Parties in Transition remains a classic. It brings together works by many of Canada's pre-eminent students of parties, elections, and representation, and addresses questions of fundamental importance to our understanding of electoral reform, social movements, party organization, and political communication in the twenty-first century. Students of Canadian politics will be well served by this collection of informative papers.

Munroe Eagles

Since the appearance of the first edition of Canadian Parties in Transition in 1987, the book has become essential reading for students of Canadian political parties. This thoroughly revised fourth edition continues the book's tradition of comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the Canadian party system with its shifting sociological, ideological, and technological environments. With contributions from a blue-ribbon group of political scientists, the collection continues to break new ground in scholarship on Canadian parties. I'll be assigning it in my courses with enthusiasm.