POL224Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Party System, American Literature, Canadian Alliance
8 Dec 2016
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Lecture 6 party systems, political behaviour, vote choice (october 24th, 2016) (continued from lecture 5) Idea that canadian parties could include many demographics and sectors of society. E(cid:454)plai(cid:374)s the surge of li(cid:271)eral prese(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s politi(cid:272)al histor(cid:455) Three fragments of old european culture: feudal, liberal, radical. This theor(cid:455) sa(cid:455)s that the a(cid:271)se(cid:374)(cid:272)e of a (cid:449)orker(cid:859)s part(cid:455) i(cid:374) north a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) can be explained: By how the radical fragment of european culture never made it there. Contrasting the canadian party system and the american system. Despite their stances in the recent decades, the democrats are actually the party of the right throughout a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:859)s histor(cid:455) (1792 1820): Parties were divided between democrat-republicans and federalists. Federalists disappeared while some democrats within jeffersonians had moved to the right. While the jeffersonians themselves evolved into the whigs & free soldiers (1850s 1930s): Republicans become the more progressive party of the two.
