What can the rise of the Reform party tell us about the rise of populist parties and movements generally? Questions such as this lie at the heart of Trevor Harrison's book. What factors, for example, ensured the Reform party's emergence as a right-wing party? Was a left-wing alternative po...

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1. Verfasser:	Harrison, Trevor (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Toronto u.a. Univ. of Toronto Press 1995
Schlagworte:	Parti réformiste du Canada Reform Party of Canada Populisme - Canada Politik Populism > Canada Canada - Politique et gouvernement - 1984-1993 Canada - Politique et gouvernement - 1993- Kanada Canada > Politics and government > 1980- Canada > Politics and government > 1984-1993 Canada > Politics and government > 1993-
Zusammenfassung:	What can the rise of the Reform party tell us about the rise of populist parties and movements generally? Questions such as this lie at the heart of Trevor Harrison's book. What factors, for example, ensured the Reform party's emergence as a right-wing party? Was a left-wing alternative possible? What was the influence, in general, of economic factors in creating popular discontent in the West during the 1980s? What are the ideological roots of the Reform party? Is Reform merely a northern offshoot of American neo-conservatism? What was the structural, ideological, and political relationship between the Reformers and the fringe parties that sprang up in the West during the early 1980s? What are the structural locations of Reform party supporters? Why does the party's support appear to be greater in Alberta and British Columbia than in Saskatchewan and Manitoba? Is the Reform party supported by a particular class or elements of a particular class Alternatively, are there aspects of nativism in the Reform party? What other social characteristics underlie Reform party support? What was the role of political-institutional and/or organizational factors in the rise of the Reform party? And, finally, what is the likely fate of Reform
Beschreibung:	XIV, 325 S.
ISBN:	0802006000 0802072046