POLI 222 Chapter Notes -Class Conflict, Bourgeoisie, Bwe Karen Language
2 Apr 2013
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Er 15: the party system (janine brodie and jane jenson) + persistence of ndp two-and-a-half-party system? is difficult two major parties generally called cadre parties, seeking consensus. Ccf/ndp depicted as mass party and a party of program, principle, or protest cultural cleavage b/w fr. and eng. Canada: neither attempt explains inability to modernize in predicted ways. Canada is a middle-class society where material and social benefits are widely shared: brokerage thesis observations about the nature of the federal parties themselves. Assumes direct relationshop b/w economic and partisan development economic marxist analyses political sociology"s observation that labour or socialist parties and class-based voting emerged and endured in industrialized countries. Assumes voters" political demands, attitudes, and behaviour automatically reflect their class position. This means that parties are crucial to the selection of which tensions, differences, and inequalities in society will be defined as political alternatives in electoral process.
