Who Wrote It? Flashcards
The Electoral System and the Party System
- Discusses Canada’s non-proportional electoral system and how it encourages sectional cleavages
Cairns
Polarized Pluralism in the Canadian Party System
- Discusses how a large party controls the centre
- Explores how Canada is an exception to Duverger’s law
Johnston
The Party System
- Discusses why Canada’s party system is an anomoly, in that it lacks class based organization
Brodie and Jenson
Party Identification and Campaign Dynamics
- Explores the relationship between partisan ID and vote choice
- Uses the 1988 Free Trade Election between Turner and Mulroney as its primary assessor
Johnston
Growing Apart? Partisan Sorting in
Canada 1992-2015
- Explores how Canada’s proximity to the US results in increased partisan sorting on redistributive issues
Kevins and Sororka
The Changing Nature of
Class Voting in Canada, 1965-2019
- Explores how Canada’s electorate rejects the modernity thesis, as working class voters have gravitated to culturally conservative policy
Polacko
Who’s in the Game? Framing the 2000 Canadian Election
- Inspects game framing among Globe and Mial and National Post headlines
Trimble
The Effects of Information and Social Cleavages Explaining Issue Attitudes and Vote Choice in Canada
- Explores the impoact of information on attitudes held by members of social groups
Bittner
Courts Legislatures and Executives in the Post-Charter Era
- Defends the Supreme Court of Canada’s position as interpreters of the Canadian Charter
- States that Courts had been deciding legislative powers even before the Charter
- No evidence that the Court wanted the Charter, the role of interpretation was given by the Canadian government, the Notwithstanding Clause exists
- Law will always be changed if it is found not to hold up
Beverly McLachlin
Judges and the Charter Revolution
- Attacks the Supreme Court’s use of the Charter to interfere with legislation
- Claims the Court has removed limitations to ruling like mootness and standing
- Text and Original Intent are not being used in Court decisions
- Says the Courts have become oracles of the Consitution, issuing broad declarations of constitutional policy
Morton & Knopff
The Rise of Court Governments in Canada
- The PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) has gained more power and the Cabinet is left with less
- The Prime Minister leads this “court” of other bureaucrats, who act upon his agenda to execute it in Parliament
- The Cabinet is often left out of discussions
Savoie
Who Do You Know In The PMO?
- Focuses on the effectiveness of lobbyists and their success rate in reaching the Prime Minister’s Office
- Finds that scope and intesity of lobbying to the government increases incidence of meeting with the PMO
- There are revolving door and consultant lobbyists
- Business interested organizations were responsible for 68% of all lobbying in the registry
- Communications/info, health and defence increased chances of meeting with the PMO by substantial amounts
Boucher
Bureaucratic Implemention Practices and the Making of Canada’s Merit Bas
- Before official policy in the 60s made Canada’s immigration policy merit based, bureaucrats were experimenting with non-race based criteria to admit immigrants.
- This was based on personal traits, middle class values and skills
- This was partially due to bureaucrats seeking to further Canada’s global reputation as a “good” country, and mitigate lack of skilled labour in Canada from only Western based immigrants
Elrick
Historical Legacies and Policy Reform: Diverse Regional reactions to British Columbia’s Carbon Tax
- Sought to explain why Northern British Columbians opposed the carbon tax, even though it would impact Southerners more
- Found that politicians in Northern BC were playing the region card
- Preconcieved notions of the rural northern area demonized the tax without due evaluation
- Theory of Collective action and Rational choice theory explain why politicians and voters would oppose the tax but not organize to oppose it
- Prior world views explain why there was opposition in the North
Peet and Harrison
Interest Groups and Social Movements
- Discusses how lobbying and litigation progressed the LGBTQ movement in Canada from the 1960s
- Primarily through Court decisisions
- Shows that the political process model hedl the most weight in obtaining victories for the movement, as the Charter enabled discriminatory practices to be struck due to unconstitutionality
Smith
