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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account in decades of major party system change in Canada.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Change and Continuity in Canadian Parties and Elections / Amanda Bittner and Royce Koop
1 Has Brokerage Politics Ended? Canadian Parties in the New Century / R. Kenneth Carty
2 Candidate Recruitment in Canada: The Role of Political Parties / William Cross and Lisa Young
3 The Effects of Constantly Campaigning upon the Canadian Parliament / Kelly Blidook and Matthew Byrne
4 Constituency and Personal Determinants of MPs’ Positions on Social Conservative Issues in the 37th and 38th Canadian Parliaments / Munroe Eagles
5 City Ministers: The Local Politics of Cabinet Selection / Anthony M. Sayers
6 Women Candidates, Voters, and Legislators: A Gender Perspective on Recent Party and Electoral Politics / Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
7 Revisiting the “Ethnic” Vote: Liberal Allegiance and Vote Choice among Racialized Minorities / Allison Harell
8 The Canadian Party System: Trends in Election Campaign Reporting, 1980-2008 / Blake Andrew, Patrick Fournier, and Stuart Soroka
9 Parties, Politics, and Redistribution: The Constitutional and Practical Challenges of Politicized Apportionment / Russell Alan Williams
10 Too Little, Too Soon: State Funding and Electoral District Associations in the Green Party of Canada / Harold Jansen and L.A. (Lisa) Lambert
11 When Partisans Are Attacked: Motivated Reasoning and the New Party System / J. Scott Matthews
12 Coping with Political Flux: The Impact of Information on Voters’ Perceptions of the Political Landscape, 1988-2011 / Amanda Bittner
13 Situating the Canadian Case / Richard Johnston
14 Parties and Elections after 2011: The Fifth Canadian Party System? / Royce Koop and Amanda Bittner
