PSC 345 CANADIAN POLITICS

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PSC 345CANADIAN POLITICS

• PARTY STRUCTURE IDEOLOGY

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PARTY STRUCTURE

• Very Similar for All Parties
• National Congress every two years
• Militants Participation
• Mass Parties NDP, PQ, BQ, and Alliance
• Cadre Parties Liberal and Conservatives

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PARTY STRUCTURE (contd)

• National Executive
• Executive Committee
• County Commissions
• County Organizations

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PARTY STRUCTURE ORGANIGRAM
NATIONAL CONGRESS
COMMITTEES
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
COUNTY ORGANIZATION
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LEADERSHIP CONCENTRATION

• Michels Iron Law of Oligarchy
• What is it?
• Why is it like that?
• Ellersfelds Stratarchical Model
• Open Membership
• Pluralism

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CANADIAN APPLICATION

• European and American Influence
• Mainly Oligarchic
• Monocracy
• Party Decline
• Lack of Regional Representation
• Welfare State
• Lack Societal Adaptation
• Technological Changes

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PARTY IDEOLOGY(See Figure 13.1 in Dyck)

• Liberal vs. Conservatives
• Little Ideological Differences
• Policy Differences
• Outward Orientation
• Regionalism
• Trade Policy
• Federal/Provincial Relations
• The Flip Flop

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DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM

• Individualism vs. Capitalism
• Collectivism
• Government Planning
• Regulation
• State Ownership
• Progressive Taxation
• Income Redistribution
• CCF vs. NDP

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LIBERALISM

• Welfare Liberalism
• Individual Liberty
• Interventionist
• Business Liberalism
• Small State
• Liberal Party

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CONSERVATISM

• Individualism/Business Liberalism
• Natural Inequalities
• Red Tories
• Social Hierarchy
• Paternalism
• See Figure 13.2 in Dyck.

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

• Shift to the Right/Neoconservatism
• Social Program Cuts
• Privatization
• Dusting off the Civil and Criminal Code
• Debt Reduction
• Reducing the size of the State
• Influence of the Reform Party/Canadian Alliance,
  but also a Global Phenomenon

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WHAT NOW?

• The Current Liberal Government
• Impact of Globalization and Interdependence
• Redistributive Taxes? No...
• Regulation? No
• Private Enterprise? Yes
• Protectionism? No
• Why? Fear of retaliation.
• A Possible Shift back to the Left?