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Political Science Essays

The Canadian Federal Election of 2008

edited by Jon H. Pammett & Christopher Dornan

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
Essays, Elections, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554884070
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $36.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459718647
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $9.99

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The Canadian Federal Election of 2008 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters are written by leading professors of political science, journalism, and communications. They examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties – the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft), Liberals (Brooke Jeffrey), New Democrats (Lynda Erickson and David Laycock), Bloc Québécois (Eric Belanger and Richard Nadeau), and Green Party (Susan Harada).

Also featured in this comprehensive volume are chapters on the media coverage (Christopher Waddell) and the way Canada’s party finance laws affected the campaign (Tom Flanagan and Harol J. Jansen). The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the voting behaviour of Canadians in 2008 by Harold D. Clarke, Allan Kornberg, and Thomas J. Scotto, and an overview of the long – and short – term forces influencing the future of Canadian electoral politics by Lawrence LeDuc and Jon H. Pammett. The introduction by Christopher Dornan discusses the post-election crisis, while the appendices include all of the election results.

About the authors

Jon H. Pammett is a political science professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University and co-editor of several studies of Canadian elections, including, most recently, Dynasties and Interludes: Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics.

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Christopher Dornan is former director of the School of Journalism and Communication and former director of the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University.

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