POLSCI 3J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: President Of The United States, Social Forces, Bob Speller

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3J03
• Professor: Jacek Henry

Document Summary

Oct 26 week - bob speller (tentative) Honours issues in canadian politics and canadian public policy. Most of the time liberals were in power. Steven harper wished to end that o ( t opinion: devoted life to this) Saw increase of (immigrants?) to oil fields: wanted to do what reagan did in america) Leader of the party, peter mckay (ns) became cabinet minister under sh. Goes against paul martin (who was at the end of an era) Sh recognized that the popular vote is distorted o. Cad system magnifies the seats for the largest party. False majority (electoral votes in us for potus works the same way) Concerned over electoral systems heighten 80 years ago, because of hitler"s win in. Political scientist involved focused on the electoral systems. While they were american, they did not give them an american electoral system. To weaken small extremist parties so that they could not grow into a major party.