POLI 1P98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bloc Québécois, Big Tent

• School: Brock University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 1P98
• Professor: Tim Heinmiller

Document Summary

Canadian liberty party is not an actual party. Policy convention all members come together to debate new policy ideas. Are the leaders, cannot ignore their members or the caucus could have a revolt and turfed as party leader. Federal and provincial political parties are separate organizations, even if they share the same name. Interest articulation what your party stands for based on society interest. Interest aggregation when u bring together a variety of different interest and find a common ground big tent party try to attract many society of wide set of interests: parties and policy making: Election platforms, policy promises if they get into government. Two types of parties: ideological parties and brokerage party. In canadian politics, brokerage parties dominate: 2 major parties are brokerage party, an ideologi(cid:272)al pa(cid:396)ty has (cid:374)eve(cid:396) fo(cid:396)(cid:373)ed gove(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t at the fede(cid:396)al level, although , the harper conservatives were probably the most ideological party to hold government in.