Description
Book SynopsisMotifs or recurring elements in Canadian party politics speak to dominant ideas of the era. Partisan Odysseys looks at how political parties have adjusted, adapted, and sometimes reinvented themselves in response to these cultural cues.
Trade Review"Partisan Odysseys is well-written, engaging, and an important body of work that offers a condensed look at the history of Canada’s political parties. Partisan Odysseys ‘falls between the cracks of history and political science. It reflects a wide reading of materials and may be read as a history of the parties through the lens of Canadian history or as a history of Canada through the lens of the history of the parties.’" -- Kate Malloy * The Hill Times *
“Partisan Odysseys is a timely celebration of Canadian-style democracy in an era of minority parliaments and the guillotine of surprise elections. It’s a first-rate observance of a hundred years of hell-raising. It makes you proud to be Canadian.” -- Holly Doan *
Blacklock’s Reporter *
"Partisan Odysseys: Canada’s Political Parties, by the well-known and respected political scientist Nelson Wiseman, summarizes the emergence, successes, failures, and fates of almost two dozen political parties from the early nineteenth century to today. Among the book’s many pleasures are numerous conclusions about national governance that are not generally accepted or well known. Those who know or know of Nelson Wiseman will not be disappointed by this work." -- Ron Hikel *
Literary Review of Canada *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Four Party Types: Nineteenth-Century Party Politics 2. Imperialism, Continentalism, Nationalism 3. Industrialization, Urbanization, and Depression: The Rise of Third Parties 4. Parties of Warfare and Welfare 5. Minority Governments: The Diefenbaker-Pearson Years 6. Economy, Language, Unity 7. Trading Places 8. Division and Reconfiguration 9. Conservatism: Old and New Conclusion: The Ever-Changing Party
