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Reviving Social Democracy: The Near Death and Surprising Rise of the Federal NDP
David Laycock (Ed.)
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Hardback. Focused on the NDP's stunning 2011 breakthrough as Canada's Official Opposition, this volume traces the party's history from its emergence in the 1960s through moments of modernization and ideological refinement to its current presence in Canada. Editor(s): Laycock, David; Erickson, Lynda. Num Pages: 696 pages, 29 graphs, 34 tables. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
In the 2011 general election, the New Democratic Party stunned political pundits by becoming the Official Opposition in the House of Commons. After near collapse in the 1993 election, how did the NDP manage to win triple the seats of its Liberal rivals and take more than three-quarters of the ridings in Quebec?
Reviving Social Democracy examines the federal NDP’s transformation from “nearly dead party” to new power player within a volatile party system. Its early chapters – on the party’s emergence in the 1960s, its presence in Quebec, and the Jack Layton factor – pave the way for insightful analyses ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
696
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774828499
SKU
V9780774828499
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About David Laycock (Ed.)
David Laycock is a professor, and Lynda Erickson a professor emerita, in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. Contributors: Éric Bélanger, Amanda Bittner, Jean-François Godbout, Frédéric Mérand, François Petry, Mark Pickup, Steven Weldon, Colin Whelan, Maria Zakharova
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