R. Kenneth Carty

Pivot or Pirouette? The 1993 Canadian General Election tells the story of the most surprising election in Canadian history.

How did Canada’s Liberal Party become one of the most successful parties in the democratic world? Will it be able to reinvent itself for the twenty-first century?

This book is about the collapse of Canadian party politics in the early 1990s, about the end of a party system that had governed Canada's national politics for several decades, and about the ongoing struggle to build its successor.

Written by well-known experts, this book provides an up-to-date portrait and analysis of one of the many dynamic faces of BC politics.

The first systematic account of party activists at the provincial level in Canada.