Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fourth Party System, Plurality Voting System, Second Party System
13 Apr 2016
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Party systems, 1867-1921: paries were loose coaliions of groups, conservaive party (1854) with ontario tories and moderates, quebec english. Second party system, 1921-1957: two and a half party system, mackenzie-king and st. laurent. Alberta is mainly a conservaive province: muliparty compeiion: 2004, consolidaion of right-wing paries. Reform party became the canadian alliance party in the late 1990"s. In 2004, the canadian alliance and the progressive conservaives conjoined and became the canadian conservaive party: rise of green party. 2015 elecion: strengthened liberal party, weakened conservaive, greatly weakened ndp and. Overview of topic: introductory thoughts about elecions, single member plurality electoral system, issues underlaying electoral system: consitutency size, boundaries and paricipaion, arguments for and aginst change. Elecions are the deining insituions of modern democracy. (richard katz) Do elecions guarantee democracy: not everyone votes. Country divided into 338 geographic units called consituencies. One candidate from each consituency elected to house of commons. Decision rule: candidate with the most votes wins.
