Conventional Choices?
Conventional Choices?
Maritime Leadership Politics, 1971–2003
Awards
- 2008, Short-listed - Donald Smiley Book Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
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.
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
