POLSCI 3J03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Party System, Senate Of Canada, Spasm

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3J03
• Professor: Henry J Jacek

Document Summary

The regionalization of canadian politics associated with the changes wrought by the 1993 federal election results, confirmed the profound influence of region on canadian politics and the canadian party system. Many voters turned their back on pan-canadian parties that had pursued national integration. In effect they were rejecting that particular mode of interparty competition and political representation, that is referred to as the third party system. In 1993, two new regional parties, the bloc quebecois and the reform party displaced on the (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455)"s traditio(cid:374)al (cid:374)atio(cid:374)al parties, the progressi(cid:448)e co(cid:374)ser(cid:448)ati(cid:448)es. Regio(cid:374)al frag(cid:373)e(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) had replaced national integration as the predominant motif of political representation. This development was widely interpreted as a kind of party system failure (the national brokerage party) and hegemonic discourse. Canada"s political parties are usually described as brokers. They bring together diverse interests, and engineer compromises that allow policies to be adopted, and positions to be taken.