This article presents a case study of the recent merger between the Progressive-
Conservative Party and the Reform/Canadian Alliance parties. The selection of this case …

While the past twenty to thirty years has seen increasing academic contestation around the
concept of “identity,”'identity'has maintained a conceptual presence in mainstream Canadian …

According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to
stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a pre-electoral coalition with another party …

Based on an examination of constitutional and other party documents, Canadian political
parties have been described as stratarchically organized (Carty, 2002). We identify four …

The traditional understanding of union-party relations in Canada suggests that the social-
democratic New Democratic Party (NDP) is the party of organized labour. Reality, however …

This article seeks to engage Jansen and Young's recent research on the impact of changing
federal campaign finance laws on the relationship between organized labour and the New …

This article asserts that Canadian politics underwent a major transition beginning in late
2003 and represents the rise of a new era in Canadian politics: the fifth-party system. This …

For approximately two decades, the federal regulation for third‐party election spending was
the focus of repeated constitutional debate. However, with the 2004 S upreme C ourt …

Third party campaigners are widely noted to have the power to change the landscape of an
election. Yet, in Canada, we know little about whether there is consistency behind third …

This thesis compares the public policies of campaign finance in Canada with those in the US
and the UK in the period 2000-2011. The majority of the Canadian literature on party finance …