Local party association activity and electoral success.




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Local party association activity and electoral success.

Bill Cross teaches in the Political Science Department at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Most election study in Canada is focused on the leaders' tours and debates, and the perceptions of the campaign as relayed by the national media. This view of elections, prevalent in many parliamentary democracies, leaves little room for significant involvement by local party activists. Recent case studies of local election campaigns during the 1988 federal election conducted for the Royal...

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