The big red machine : how the Liberal Party dominates Canadian politics / / Stephen Clarkson

• Autore: Clarkson Stephen
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 324.27106
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Politics and government 1945-
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-324) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Party Systems and Liberal Leaders -- Victory, Fall, and Recovery -- 1974: The Liberal Party and Pierre Trudeau: The Jockey and the Horse -- 1979: The Government's Defeat, the Party's Decline, and the Leader's (Temporary) Fall -- 1980: Hiding the Charisma: Low-Bridging the Saviour -- From Disappointment to Despair -- 1984: The Dauphin and the Doomed: John Turner's Debacle -- 1988: Election or Referendum? Disoriented in Defeat -- Power without Purpose -- 1993: Yesterday's Man and His Blue Grits: Backwards into Jean Chrétien's Future -- 1997: Securing Their Future Together -- 2000: The Liberal Threepeat: The Multi-System Party in the Multi-Party System -- Saved By the Far Right -- Disaster and Recovery: Paul Martin As Political Lazarus -- Conclusion -- The Liberal Party As Hegemon: Straddling Canadian History -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "In The Big Red Machine, Liberal observer Stephen Clarkson tells the story of the Liberal Party's performance in the last nine elections, providing essential historical context for each and offering incisive, behind-the-scenes detail about how the party has planned, changed, and executed its successful electoral strategies. Arguing that the Liberal Party has opportunistically straddled the political centre since Sir John A. Macdonald - leaning left or right as circumstances required - Clarkson also shows that the party's grip on power is becoming increasingly uncertain, having lost its appeal not just in the West but now in Quebec. Its campaigns now reflect the splintering of the party system and the integration of Canada into the global economy."--Jacket
• Titolo autorizzato: The big red machine
• ISBN: 1-282-74074-1; 9786612740749; 0-7748-5165-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825225303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II