With contributions from a blue-ribbon collection of political scientists, the collection continues to break new ground in scholarship on Canadian parties. I'll be ...
Canadian Parties in Transition remains a classic. It brings together works by many of Canada’s preeminent students of parties, elections, and representation, and addresses questions of fundamental importance to our understanding of electoral reform, social movements, party organization, and political communication in the 21st century. Students of Canadian politics will be well served by this collection of informative papers. --John Courtney, University of Saskatchewan “For more than 25 years, Canadian Parties in Transition has been an indispensable tool for teaching and research about Canadian political parties. With this fourth edition, Gagnon and Tanguay continue, and significantly extend, an outstanding scholarly tradition. Blending insights from established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection offers both comprehensive field coverage and innovative interpretations of emerging trends. All students of Canadian parties will welcome the conceptual clarity and up-to-date analysis presented in each of the chapters.” --Neil Bradford, Huron University College “Since the appearance of the first edition of Canadian Parties in Transition in 1987, the book has become essential reading for students of Canadian political parties. This thoroughly revised fourth edition continues the book’s tradition of comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the Canadian party system with its shifting sociological, ideological, and technological environments. With contributions from a blue-ribbon collection of political scientists, the collection continues to break new ground in scholarship on Canadian parties. I’ll be assigning it in my courses with enthusiasm.” --Munroe Eagles, SUNY Buffalo The fourth edition of Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay’s popular anthology, Canadian Parties in Transition, presents a multi-faceted image of party dynamics, electoral behaviour, political marketing, and representative democracy, with chapters written by an outstanding team of political scientists. The book examines the origins and evolution of the Canadian party system, the ideologies and values of party politics, representation and democracy within political parties, and political party campaigning, marketing, and communications. This edition has been thoroughly updated and contains 15 new chapters and several new contributors. Alain-‐G. Gagnon holds the Canada Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Studies in the department of political science at UQAM. He is the author of Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty (UTP, 2014) which has been translated into 18 languages.
A. Brian Tanguay is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was the lead author of the Law Commission of Canada’s report, Voting Counts: Electoral Reform for Canada (2004).
