LEADER 04959nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910780677803321 005 20230912133600.0 010 $a1-283-22495-X 010 $a9786613224958 010 $a0-7748-5321-2 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774853217 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000406 035 $a(OCoLC)243567201 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10134743 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382057 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11938023 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382057 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10391862 035 $a(PQKB)10058771 035 $a(CaPaEBR)404221 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00327115 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412145 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141255 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL322495 035 $a(OCoLC)923442130 035 $a(DE-B1597)662037 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774853217 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/0kv85q 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/404221 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412145 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000406 100 $a19901120d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr 200 10$aGrassroots politicians $eparty activists in British Columbia /$fDonald E. Blake, R.K. Carty, Lynda Erickson 210 1$aVancouver :$cUBC Press,$d1991. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 155 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-7748-0384-3 311 0 $a0-7748-0378-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-150) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tTables and Figures -- $tPreface -- $tThe Polarization of BC Politics -- $tParty Activists in British Columbia -- $tContinuity and Change: Party Activists, 1973-87 -- $tSocial Credit: Pragmatic Coalition or Ideological Right? -- $tThe New Democrats What Kind of Left? -- $tThe Liberals: Centre or Fringe? -- $tLeadership Selection in the BC Parties -- $tThe Social Credit Grassroots Recapture Their Party -- $tResisting Polarization: The Survival of the Liberals -- $tTowards the Centre?: The Dynamics of Two-Party Competition -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aGrassroots Politicians is the first systematic account of party activists at the provincial level in Canada. To understand the pattern of political polarization in British Columbia, the authors examine the values and beliefs of those at the party cores -- the people behind the party images who elect leaders, nominate candidates, and work in electoral campaigns. In the New Democratic Party they play a crucial role in determining policy, in the Social Credit they help to shape party direction and governing style by their choice of leader, and, among the Liberals, they form the small band that keeps the party alive in the province. The authors challenge the view that Social Credit is a homogeneously right-wing party and that the New Democrats have clearly opted for the political centre. They record how party profiles have changed over the years -- Social Credit activists becoming better educated, wealthier, and less diverse in terms of ties to national parties, while the NDP is now more middle-class, white collar, and professional. They explore such questions as why individuals stay in a weak party like the B.C. Liberals, how the New Democrats interpret successive Social Credit victories, and to what extent B.C. activists are similar to those in other provinces or in national parties. They offer an analysis of the leadership selection process in each party and a detailed account of the convention that chose Bill Vander Zalm. By examining the attitudes and ideologies of party activists, they are able to pinpoint their locations on the left/right spectrum, identify internal divisions, and assess the problems and opportunities they pose for party leaders and election strategies. As the British Columbia case illustrates, party militants carry distinctive subcultures which have a significant impact on the ongoing dynamics and immediate outcomes in competitive party systems. The study also shows that the partisan involvement of activists in national political parties is one of the major forces that links the otherwise separate provincial and federal political worlds inhabited by British Columbians. 606 $aPolitical activists$zBritish Columbia 606 $aPolitical parties$zBritish Columbia 607 $aBritish Columbia$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical activists 615 0$aPolitical parties 676 $a324.2711 700 $aBlake$b Donald E.$f1944-$01499691 701 $aErickson$b Lynda$01499692 701 $aCarty$b R. Kenneth$01103005 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780677803321 996 $aGrassroots politicians$93725942 997 $aUNINA