Absent Mandate : Strategies and Choices in Canadian Elections - Harold Clarke

Absent Mandate

Strategies and Choices in Canadian Elections

By: Harold Clarke, Jane Jenson, Larry LeDuc, Jon Pammett

Paperback | 1 January 2019

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Absent Mandate develops the crucial concept of policy mandates, distinguished from other interpretations of election outcomes, and addresses the disconnect between election issues and government actions. Emphasizing Canadian federal elections between 1993 and 2015, the book examines the Chretien/Martin, Harper, and Trudeau governments and the campaigns that brought them to power. Using data from the Canadian Election Studies and other major surveys, Absent Mandate documents the longstanding volatility in Canadian voting behaviour. The failure of elections to provide genuine policy mandates stimulates public discontent with the political process and widens the gap between the promise and the performance of Canadian democracy.

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Absent Mandate follows a long tradition of examining continuity and change in the Canadian electorate. A first-rate group of authors updates trends during recent decades and the role of partisanship, issues, and performance in voting behaviour and campaigns. Essential reading for students of elections and voting behaviour, campaigns, and Canadian politics, this edition brings developments into the twenty-first century.

- Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

In Absent Mandate, the authors revisit arguments first presented four decades ago to demonstrate how they continue to account for the volatility commonly found in Canadian elections. In doing so, they find a striking continuity in electoral behaviour despite changes in parties, leaders, and policy platforms. The authors argue that the increasingly personalized nature of what have virtually become permanent campaigns in Canada continues to encourage voters to focus on party leadership and the 'team' more than policies when they go to the ballot box.

- Joanna Everitt, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

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