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Political Science Canadian

Big City Elections in Canada

edited by Jack Lucas & R. Michael McGregor

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2021
Category
Canadian, Urban, Elections
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487528553
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $89.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487528584
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $35.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487528560
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $35.95

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Local elections are an increasingly popular area of research among scholars of Canadian political behaviour, offering invaluable insights into the attitudes and motivations of Canadian electors. The Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES) has collected unparalleled individual-level survey data in eight major Canadian municipal elections: Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Mississauga, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. These elections, which took place in 2017 and 2018, were high-profile, contentious, and often surprising, featuring mayoral defeats, record-breaking turnouts, provincial-municipal tensions, and the first ranked-ballot election in Canada in decades.

 

Combining unprecedented individual-level survey data from the CMES with local expertise from political scientists across Canada, Big City Elections in Canada provides a data-driven overview of each election, while also highlighting the more general lessons the elections teach us about municipal politics and voting behaviour. The chapters in this book make substantial empirical and theoretical contributions to the voting behaviour and urban political science subfields and will appeal to students, journalists, and engaged citizens who are interested in learning more about municipal elections in their cities.

About the authors

Jack Lucas is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

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R. Michael McGregor is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University.

R. Michael McGregor's profile page