Canadian Politics Ch. 11

Question 1

farce

Answer 1

a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.

Question 2

quixotic

Answer 2

exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.

Question 3

oligarchy

Answer 3

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

Question 4

amorphous

Answer 4

without a clearly defined shape or form.

Question 5

tacit

Answer 5

understood or implied without being stated.

Question 6

nascent

Answer 6

(especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.

Question 7

meteoric

Answer 7

resembling the appearance of a meteor - sudden

Question 8

goad

Answer 8

to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.

Question 9

milieu

Answer 9

a person’s social environment: he grew up in a military milieu.

Question 10

What is “brokerage politics”?

Answer 10

a flexible centrist style of politics, devoid of ideological appeals.

Question 11

What was the National Policy of 1878–1879?

Answer 11

A unifying vision for Canada that included:

1. Tariffs designed to promote manufacturing in ON and QC.
2. Encouragement of western settlement to protect form American encroachment
3. Creation of the transcontinental railway

Question 12

What’s “patronage” in the election context?

Answer 12

the act of trading votes for favours

Question 13

French Sociologist Andre Siegfried Canada between 1898 and 1904. What did Canada’s preoccupation with “material interest” and “public works” apparently lead to?

Answer 13

Lowered the general level of political life in Canada.

Question 14

What was the formation of the Reform Party in 1987 all about?

Answer 14

Western discontent.

Question 15

What are all the parties which formed as a response to western discontent?

Answer 15

Progressive Party, Social Credit, CCF, Western Canada Concept, Reform Party, and Canadian Alliance

Question 16

What is the role of “minor” parties such as the Reform/Alliance in Canada’s brokerage party system?

Answer 16

To poke and prod the dominant political parties into innovating new policies.

Question 17

What was a bombshell year for brokerage style politics?

Answer 17

‘93 - Liberals, Reform Party and BQ jumped the Conservatives and NDP.

Question 18

Chief virtue of the single-member, simple plurality electoral system:

Answer 18

Ability to produce majority governments

Question 19

How dd Robert Alford echo Andre Siegfried?

Answer 19

Class voting isn’t a thing in Canada