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What is a political party? |
organizations that offer slates of candidates to voters at election time |
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Functions of political parties (5) |
1. integrating citizens into the political system |
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5 parties and their leaders |
1. liberal, justin trudeau |
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what is a brokerage party |
avoidance of ideological appeals and inflexible policy positions in favour of an adaptable centrist style of politics |
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Liberals vs Conservatives |
historically, they have little differences and these dominant parties have been much more flexible, opportunistic, dominated by their leaders and wary of ideological appeals |
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what does the brokerage theory say about conservatives and liberals (2) |
1. they do not appeal to specific socio-economic groupings and they lack cohesive ideological views |
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what does andre siegfried say about the brokerage theory |
agreed with it. said when he came to canada the government was preoccupied with "material interests" and "public works" |
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do brokerage parties represent all points of views |
no, it does not allow some points of view and interests to be expressed through the major parties, these interests go to smaller parties |
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when did canada have a 2 party system |
1867-1930 |
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when did canada have a 2 and a half party system |
1935-1988 |
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when did canada have a multi party system |
1993-present |
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what is the realignment of a party |
a durable change in the parties bases of electoral support |
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what happened with the bloc quebecois in 1993 |
captured the second largest number of seats causing people to think there was a realignment because of dissatisfaction with brokerage style politics, weakness of party loyalty and erosion of NDP support |
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what kind of electoral system do we have |
first past the post: single member, simple plurality electoral system |
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single member definiton |
one person is elected to represent the citizens of a particular area (constituency) |
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plurality electoral system |
the candidate that recieves the most votes in constituency election becomes the member of parliament for that constituency |
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what do critics say about a majority not being necessary |
say it produces distorted representation with over-rewarding the single most popular party and under-rewarding minor parties with deep but not wide support |
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proportional representation |
alternative to plurality electoral system and under it the number of members elected by each party coincides with its share of the popular votes |
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what happened in the 2011 election |
NDP made crazy gains in quebec and became most popular party in quebec |
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what are the liberal, conservative and NDP strengths |
1. liberal, french-speaking, catholic and quebec voters |
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party fiances and campaign spending pre 1974 |
no transparency and most of the major parties money came from big businesses |
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election expenses act 1974 |
transparency, tax credits and paid/free broadcast time during campaigns
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what did parties become more dependent on after 1974 |
individual contributions |