Special interests and/or new right economics? The ideological bases of Reform Party support in Alberta in the 1993 federal election.

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: May 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The recent growth in public support for the Reform Party has the potential to transform the Canadian political landscape. This paper argues that the conditions for Reform's success are broader factors also observed in other advanced industrial democracies in the 1980s and 1990s, namely the crisis of welfare-state expenditures and the attendant resurgence of conservatism. But while the fiscal crisis established the conditions that made Reform possible, it has been the populist elements of its project that have provided the strongest attraction for voters. Analysis of 1994 province-wide survey ...

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