By Jon H. Pammett, Lawrence LeDuc, André Turcotte, Judith I. McKenzie
Dynasties and Interludes offers a finished and exact evaluate of elections and balloting in Canada from Confederation to the new spate of minority governments. Its crucial argument is that the Canadian political panorama has consisted of lengthy classes of hegemony of a unmarried get together and/or chief (dynasties), punctuated via brief, sharp disruptions led to via the unexpected upward push of latest events, leaders, or social hobbies (interludes).
Changes within the composition of the citizens and within the expertise and professionalization of election campaigns also are tested during this booklet, either to supply a greater realizing of key turning issues in Canadian background and a deeper interpretation of present-day electoral politics.
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It also survived the phenomenon of “Trudeaumania” in 1968, when Trudeau brought the country into what seemed to be a “new politics” during the period of rapid social and cultural change now commonly associated with the 1960s. The competition in the dramatic election of 1988, focused around the historic Free Trade Agreement with the United States, was also between the Conservatives, the Liberals and the NDP. Things were to change shortly thereafter. The “earthquake” election of 1993 all but destroyed the old Progressive Conservative party, and brought two newcomers — the Bloc Québécois and Reform — to the political scene in its place.
The competition in the dramatic election of 1988, focused around the historic Free Trade Agreement with the United States, was also between the Conservatives, the Liberals and the NDP. Things were to change shortly thereafter. The “earthquake” election of 1993 all but destroyed the old Progressive Conservative party, and brought two newcomers — the Bloc Québécois and Reform — to the political scene in its place. The effects of that dramatic election still reverberate in the political life of Canada today.
Indb 34 03/09/10 12:52 PM CHAPTER 1 | CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS to escape its regional and ideological past (see Chapter 13). However, the 2006 and 2008 elections yielded a new and more electorally successful turn, with the Conservatives winning both of those elections with a more centrist strategy. While there is still considerable uncertainty about the future of the Canadian party system in this new political environment, the fact remains that it has more often than not demonstrated a tendency to revert to the brokerage model — a characterization that extends back through much of Canadian electoral history.
