POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Official Party Status, Canadian Alliance, Visible Minority
6 Dec 2012
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The canadian elections act underscores the primary role as electoral machines. Political party: an organization that endorses one or more of its members as candidates and supports their election. Jean blondel identified 4 distinct patterns of party competition: Two a half party system pattern of competition whereby two major parties win at least of the vote, and a third party receives a much smaller share of the vote. Multi-party system with a dominant party one large party receives about 40% of the vote and the two largest parties together win about 2/3 of the voter support. Multi-party system without a dominant party competition where there is no dominant party and three or four parties are well placed to form coalitions. The co-operative commonwealth federation: universal pensions, universal health care, unemployment insurance, the ccf never attracted more than 16% of the popular vote.
