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Government and Politics in Alberta
Author | : Allan Tupper,Roger Gibbins |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0888642431 |
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Alberta's politics are changing in response to powerful economic, social and political forces. The contributors focus on developments since the election of the Progressive Conservatives in 1971.
Orange Chinook
Author | : Duane Bratt,Keith Brownsey,Richard Sutherland,David Taras |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1773850253 |
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In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives -- who had won every provincial election since 1971 -- they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this election. It examines the legacy of the Progressive Conservative dynasty, the PC and NDP campaigns, polling, and online politics, providing context and setting the stage. It highlights the importance of Alberta's energy sector and how it relates to provincial politics with focus on the oil sands, the carbon tax, and pipelines. Examining the NDP in power, Orange Chinook draws on Indigenous, urban, and rural perspectives to explore the transition process and government finances and politics. It explores the governing style of premier Rachel Notley, paying special attention to her response to the 2016 For McMurray wildfire and to the role of women in politics. Orange Chinook brings together Alberta's top political watchers in this fascinating, multi-faceted analysis.
Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century
Author | : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center |
Publsiher | : University of Regina Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0889771510 |
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From the optimism associated with provincial status in 1905, through the trials of Depression and war, the boom times of the post-war period, and the economic vagaries of the 1980s and the 1990s, the twentieth century was a time of growth and hardship, development and change, for Alberta and its people. And during the century, twelve men, from a variety of political parties and from very different backgrounds, led the government of this province. The names of some--like William Aberhart, Ernest Manning, and Peter Lougheed--are still household names, while others--like Arthur Sifton, Herbert Greenfield and Richard Reid--have been all but forgotten. Yet each in his unique way, for better or for worse, helped to mould and steer the destiny of the province he governed. These are their stories.
Alberta s Local Governments Politics and Democracy
Author | : Jack Masson,Edward C. LeSage |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0888642512 |
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During the last decade, Alberta municipalities have endured hardships they have not faced since the Great Depression. Changes in the province's political structures appear to have been made primarily to transfer a greater share of the costs of local government to the municipalities, yet surprisingly few municipal politicians have resisted the province's financial policies.
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
Author | : Meenal Shrivastava,Lorna Stefanick |
Publsiher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781771990295 |
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In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.
The Liberal Party in Alberta
Author | : Lewis Gwynne Thomas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B566672 |
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Shredding the Public Interest
Author | : Kevin Taft |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1997-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781772124071 |
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Alberta had the tightest controls on spending in Canada during the very period when the Klein government has claimed costs were soaring out of control. Now, public programs in Alberta-including health care-have become the most poorly supported in Canada. (6 weeks on the Financial Post national best-seller list!)
First World Petro Politics
Author | : Laurie Adkin |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781442699427 |
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First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism. A wide-ranging and richly documented study of Alberta’s political ecology – the relationship between the province’s political and economic institutions and its natural environment – the volume tackles questions about the nature of the political regime, how it has governed, and where its primary fractures have emerged. Its authors examine Alberta’s neo-liberal environmental regulation, institutional adaptation to petro-state imperatives, social movement organizing, Indigenous responses to extractive development, media framing of issues, and corporate strategies to secure social license to operate. Importantly, they also discuss policy alternatives for political democratization and for a transition to a low-carbon economy. The volume’s conclusions offer a critical examination of petro-state theory, arguing for a comparative and contextual approach to understanding the relationships between dependence on carbon extraction and the nature of political regimes.