PHGY 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Forces, Canadian Social Credit Movement, Political Machine

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Week 4 – Social Credit and Democracy in Alberta Friday, February 2nd, 2018
Last Week:
- Relationship between constitutional analysis and constitutional level of analysis
- most important course of inequality = destruction of authority between those who are governed
and those who govern and there are variations
Social Credit in Alberta
- Social scientists in Canada trying to understand what was going on in the West
- Major challenge: how do we understand democracy
- The Canadian experience provides us with a rich laboratory by the way different generations have
tried to understand this issue
- Comparison/parallels with the social credit vs. united farmers  neither intended to become
political parties
- 1935: Social Credit movement had a majority government, remained very successful during the
1950’s
- Earnest Manning leadership
- Trying to adopt the British theory of economic management, tied with a religious dynamic  in
the context of the depression
Trying to instill hope for the future within people
-Social credit = economic theory that economic hardships resulted from an inefficient capitalist
economy that failed to provide people with enough purchasing power for them to enjoy the fruits
of a society’s economic production
- Example of how people in particular area of Canada sought to reform/refine the institutions of
government because they found the present form of government unpreferable
- Sense that the federal government is a government for central Canada for the most part
- Reemphasis on the important of time and place contingencies
- How human beings try to re-work the government
- Role of the farmers – between the capital and labour production
- Common thread of evangelicalism
- What motivates people to act in particular ways – class was often used as a way to explain the
way people behave
- Alberta created in 1905, but in 1911 it was estimated that 22% of Albertans were from the US
Not just farmers some of the American influence continued
- Ideas developed from local but also from a system of beliefs
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