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  • Formaat: Hardback, 168 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 400 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-1991
  • Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press
  • ISBN-10: 0774803789
  • ISBN-13: 9780774803786
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 168 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 400 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-1991
  • Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press
  • ISBN-10: 0774803789
  • ISBN-13: 9780774803786
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Grassroots Politicians is the first systematic account of party activists at the provincial level in Canada. To understand the pattern of political polarization in British Columbia, the authors examine the values and beliefs of those at the party cores -- the people behind the party images who elect leaders, nominate candidates, and work in electoral campaigns. In the New Democratic Party they play a crucial role in determining policy, in the Social Credit they help to shape party direction and governing style by their choice of leader, and, among the Liberals, they form the small band that keeps the party alive in the province.

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Grassroots Politicians is highly readable. And it is a book that provides terrific background for anyone who salivates at the prospect of following the intricate power plays so integral to the pageantry of a British Columbia election. This timely book convincingly demonstrates that party activists have shaped the contours of BC's distinctively oddball politics. And Grassroots Politicians provides a unique perspective from which to view the political battle lines that have so decisively shaped the province and that will help determine the outcome of the electoral warfare on the near horizon. - David Mitchell (The Vancouver Sun) A first-class scholarly study, by three accomplished political scientists, of party activists and activism in British Columbia. The first effort of its kind, this work is based on surveys, personal interviews with the politicians themselves, direct observation, and soundly rooted background analysis. - P. Regenstreif (Choice)

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Preface

1. The Polarization of BC Politics

2. Party Activists in British Columbia

3. Continuity and Change: Party Activists, 1973-87

4. Social Credit: Pragmatic Coalition or Ideological Right?

5. The New Democrats: What Kind of Left?

6. The Liberals: Centre or Fringe?

7. Leadership Selection in the BC Parties

8. The Social Credit Grassroots Recapture Their Party

9. Resisting Polarization: The Survival of the Liberals

10. Towards the Centre?: The Dynamics of Two-Party Competition

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Donald E. Blake is a professor and head of theDepartment of Political Science at the University of British Columbiaand the author of Two Political Worlds: Parties and Voting inBritish Columbia (1985). R.K. Carty is anassociate professor in the Department of Political Science at theUniversity of British Columbia. He is the co-editor of NationalPolitics and Community in Canada (1986). LyndaErickson is an assistant professor in the Department ofPolitical Science at Simon Fraser University.