15 Result(s)
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Conservatism and Religion in the United States
In modern politics conservatism and religion have been considered natural bedfellows by many an enlightened political scientist. This point of view explains the overriding interest of European as well as Ameri...
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The Changing Ideological Landscape in North America: Evidence from the World Values Surveys (1981–2000)
There is a longstanding tradition of identifying the differences and similarities of the political cultures of Canada and the United States, and comparisons of their respective ideological landscapes have been...
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The Canadian Citizenship Regime in a Conservative Era
In the post-1945 decades the Canadian citizenship regime was constructed by a Liberal government, one that was in power for all but eight years of the four decades between 1944 and 1984, and which dominated th...
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Populism, Conservatism and the New Right in English Canada: Blending Appeals, Constructing Constituencies and Reformulating Democracy
Over the past fifteen years, Canadians have seen particularly complicated contests for right of centre voters. Since 1993, these contests in English Canada have taken their dynamics and dramas primarily from a...
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Toward a New Model of Coalition Politics in the Russian State Duma
Article 10 of the 1993 Russian Constitution provides that “State power in the Russian Federation is exercised on the basis of the separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers. Bodies of legislative...
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Finding the “There” There: Membership and Organization of the Republican Party in the United States
The title of this study is based on the famous characterization of Oakland, California, by Gertrude Stein: “There’s no there, there.” Similarly, the major parties of the United States are, by comparative stand...
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Conservative Think Tanks in the United States and Canada
An analysis of the contemporary (neo)-conservative landscape in North America would be incomplete without a contribution on the role of think tanks — and a wide spectrum of conservative think tanks in particul...
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The Promises Kept by Our Rivals — New Budgetary Strategies of the Conservatives in Canada
Between 1984 and 1993, when the Progressive Conservatives were in office in Ottawa, they initiated a breakthrough in Canadian budgetary politics both with regard to the policy-making process and with regard to...
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Mission Accomplished? A Comparative Exploration of Conservatism in the United States and Canada
When analyzing institutions and events in the “New World,” observers from the “Old World” have rarely been motivated just by curiosity. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, both liberals and conservative...
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Political Ideology in the United States: Conservatism and Liberalism in the 1980s and 1990s
To describe the American public’s political ideology, previous research has used two methods of classification: self-designation and classification based on policy preferences. These two methods produce differ...
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Looking Back: The Emergence of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Canadian West and their Performance in Government
Throughout the 20th century, structural changes to the Canadian party system generally originated in the West. The western provinces have served as a stage for the emergence of third parties like the CCF and S...
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Party Membership on the Canadian Political Right: The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Parties
The upheaval on the Canadian political right in the past decade is well documented (Carty 2000; Woolstencroft 2001; Ellis 2001). Today, the two parties of the right, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive C...
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Women and Conservative Parties in Canada and the United States
The mobilization of the second-wave women’s movement in North America in the 1970s was one of the phenomena that catalyzed the neo-conservative movement of the 1980s and beyond. Organized feminism contributed ...
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The Economic Dimension: Fiscal Conservatism, Deficit Reduction, and Welfare Retrenchment in the United States
In the American context, it is important to understand that contemporary conservative fiscal policy represents the extension over time of certain class interests that have been championed by political parties ...
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A Paradoxical Miracle: The politics of Coalition Government and Social Concertation in Dutch Welfare Reform
Until the recent slowdown in the world economy, the Dutch economy has prospered uninterruptedly for practically two decades. As sustained economic growth, low inflation and unprecedented job creation concurred...
