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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Canadian elections"”.
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Absent Mandate? The Role of Positional Issues in Canadian Elections
… prevalent in Canada. An enduring view holds that Canadian parties engage in "brokerage politics" wherein they avoid taking clear policy stances in order to avoid alienating segments of a fragmented electorate.This thesis challenges the conventional characterization of Canadian electoral dynamics …
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A Comparative Content Analysis of Televised Political Advertising in the United States and Canada in 2004 and 2008.
… function of ads in presidential and federal elections. Results indicate that there is no statistical difference in the use of issue or image ads and no statistical difference in the function of ads in both nations in 2004 and 2008. Issue ads are found to be more commonly used in Canada than …
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Comparing Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change During Election Campaigns in the United States, Canada and Australia
… change and global warming during the national elections in Australia, Canada and the U.S. during 2007 and 2008. Using a census of newspaper coverage and in-depth interviews with reporters, editors and columnists in the three countries, the study confirmed the findings of earlier studies that …
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Long-run patterns in the participation and representation of women in western Canadian provincial elections: 1917-2019.
Using the Canadian Elections Database, this thesis codes the gender of all candidates in western Canada’s provincial elections from 1917 to 2019. It then explores the trends and patterns apparent in women’s rate of participation (running for office), and representation (elected to office). A …
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Central Party Authority and Constituency Campaign Discipline in Canadian Federal Elections
Canadian political parties are known for their centralized power and strong party discipline (Godbout 2020; Marland 2020; Savoie 1999; 2019). However, there are conflicting expectations for how these tendencies are reflected during federal elections, which are composed of 338 distinct constituency …
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“Be Professional, Private and Pleasant”: The Conscious and Unconscious Gendering of Campaign Messages in Canadian and Australian Local Elections
This dissertation examines Australian and Canadian local campaigns to investigate the extent to which gender and gendered stereotypes consciously affect candidates’ campaign messaging. The data for this study was gathered via in-depth interviews with 92 candidates who contested elections at the …