Political Science / Canadian Politics / Parties & Elections

This volume offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour in Montreal and Quebec City, two of Canada’s most important urban centres.

Open Federalism Revisited provides a systematic, encompassing assessment of Canadian federalism in the "Harper era," offering a fresh perspective in federalism scholarship.

This collection offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour during local elections in eight of Canada’s largest cities.

This book sheds light on why access to political power remains outside the grasp of most women in Canada and around the world.

This book offers a thorough account of the attitudes and behaviour of electors towards the 2014 Toronto Mayoral Election.

Road to Redemption is an insider’s account of the Liberal Party’s struggles to rebuild and rebrand the party after the unexpected loss of power in 2006 and devastating defeat in 2011.

The seventh edition of Canadian Politics enriches the work of earlier editions in bringing together a highly respected group of scholars to offer a comprehensive account of Canadian government and politics.

In this work, the authors employ a series of experiments to assess the strategies used to win elections and stay in power once elected.

Motifs or recurring elements in Canadian party politics speak to dominant ideas of the era. Partisan Odysseys looks at how political parties have adjusted, adapted, and sometimes reinvented themselves in response to these cultural cues.

Bridging Canadian party politics and legislative studies, Lost on Division is the most authoritative study available on the development of parliamentary institutions in Canada.

Dominated by discussions of broad national problems, media tactics gone amiss, and the personal lives of party leaders, Canadian election campaigns have led to substantial public discontent.

Organized into three sections focused on turnout, vote choice, and electoral systems, the volume seeks to provide novel insights into the most pressing questions for scholars of vote choice and voting behavior.

In this collection, J.P. Lewis and Joanna Everitt bring together a group of up-and coming-political scientists as well as senior scholars to explore the recent history of the Conservative Party of Canada, covering the pre-merger period (1993–2003) and both the minority and majority governments under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

New material in the fourth edition covers topics such as the return to power of the Liberal Party, voting politics in Quebec, women in Canadian political parties, political campaigning, digital party politics, and municipal party politics.

The Fate of Labour Socialism is a fundamental reexamination of the CCF and Canadian working-class politics in the 1930s, one that will help historians better understand Canada’s political, intellectual, and labour history.

Based on extensive data collection, Big Worlds examines Canada's ten provinces and three territories as distinct democratic "worlds."