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Conventional Choices
Maritime Leadership Politics
Ian Stewart   David K. Stewart  

$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 5/21/2007
ISBN: 9780774813419    


$34.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2008
ISBN: 9780774813426    
320 Pages


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About the Book

• Shortlisted, 2008 Donald Smiley Book Prize, Canadian Political Science Association

Selecting a leader is a momentous and defining choice for a political party. Leaders symbolize their party and are a primary factor in election outcomes. While much is known about the selection of national party leaders, less is known about the provincial selection process, particularly in the Maritimes. Breaking new ground, Conventional Choices examines twenty-five different leadership elections in three maritime provinces. The analysis draws on an extraordinarily rich data set spanning thirty-two years to explore the backgrounds, attitudes, and motivations of those who select party leaders. It is an impressive study that offers fresh insights into leadership selection and Maritime party politics.

About the Author(s)

Ian Stewart is a professor of political science at Acadia University and author of Roasting Chestnuts: The Mythology of Maritime Political Culture . David K. Stewart is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary and author of Quasi-Democracy? Parties and Leadership Selection in Alberta.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments

1 Choosing Leaders
2 The Conventions
3 From J. Buchanan to A. Buchanan: Candidates and Voters
4 Tourists or Partisans? Political Background and Elector Engagement
5 Leadership Election Support Patterns: Friends and Neighbours?
6 Town versus Country: Urban Rural Divisions
7 Brothers and Sisters? Gender-Based Voting at Party Conventions
8 Inter- and Intraparty Attitudinal Differences
9 Rebels without a Cause? Supporters of Fringe Candidates
10 Going My Way? "Delivering" Votes after the First Ballot
11 Prince Edward Island and the Garden Myth
12 New Brunswick: The Politics of Language
13 Nova Scotia: The Challenge of Social Democracy
14 The End of the Affair? Political Scientists and the Delegated Convention
15 Conclusion

Appendix: Leadership Election Profiles for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

A monumental achievement of impeccable scholarship. Conventional Choices combines astute quantitative analysis of a remarkably wide-ranging data set with a thorough familiarity with the secondary literature of Maritime (and Canadian) politics and an encyclopaedic culling of newspaper sources. The analysis is never less than sure-footed and the conclusions are insightful. It will take its place among the key contributions to Maritime politics and to the study of leadership conventions.
- Graham White, author of Cabinets and First Ministers

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Front Matter and Chapter One

Related Topics

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Political Science > Canada

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