POLB50Y3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Fourth Party System, First Party System, Third Party System
24 Apr 2015
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Catch-all parties that mainly want to maximize their votes (eg. liberals, cons). Programmatic parties that retain a somewhat ideological: historical evolution of canadian parties agenda (eg. ndp, bloc), the first party system (1867-1921) Can be subdivided into two parts, before and after 1896: one party dominance, two party dominance, the second part system (1921-1957) The depression was the catalyst for the creation of several new political parties, and marks the division between two parts of the second party system. Two and a half party system: the third party system (1957-1993) Three party system: the fourth party system (1993-2011) Interpretations of the canadian party system: the broker system. Most traditional explanation of canadian political parties. Given the multiple cleavages in canadian society and the function of parties to aggregate interests, political parties in. Canada should be conciliators, mediators, or brokers among the cleavages already identified (ie. regions, ethnic and linguistic groups, genders, classes, religions, ages, urban/rural locations).
