POLI 101 Lecture Notes - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Peelite
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This topic connects to elections and parties. Social activist (support of progressive reform and the ndp) Electoral system rewards centralist parties leading to less reforms being accomplished. Liberal party successful because of centralist beliefs (didn"t appear to stand for anything- too pragmatic) Remaining classes will be spent on political participation and interest groups. The format of the final (will be covered in more detail next week) will be similar to that of the midterm, but longer and with more questions. Poem by frank scott (fr scott) who was also a constitutional lawyer. Poem is a concentration of the critique of canada"s political party/electoral system. After death of king, scott wrote poem about distain for liberal party (and king as it"s leader) Conservatives and ndp are more likely to be programmatic, ideological. In a sense these parties have stolen" the centre away from the liberal party. Liberal party has lost support because of the centralizing features of.
