Saskatchewan Politics: Crowding the CentreHoward A. Leeson In his 2001 volume on politics in Saskatchewan, Howard Leeson observed that vast changes were underway in the Saskatchewan polity, and he predicted that the familiar politics of the past would soon look jarringly antiquated. The contributors to this new volume--Saskatchewan Politics: Crowding the Centre--come to the conclusion that this process of change is now largely complete. As its subtitle makes clear, this new study suggests that political parties in the province have crowded closer and closer to the ideological centre. Without the fulcrum of ideological division, politics in the province appears to be more and more about personal and administrative clashes and less and less about substantive differences as to how the economy and society should be organized. In short, left and right are increasingly being left out of provincial politics. Includes a dvd of the 2006-08 Throne and budget debates between NDP leader Lorne Calvert and Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall. |
Contents
An Institution Renewed | 11 |
A Battle for Sovereignty? | 37 |
Forming Shadow Cabinets and Cabinets in Saskatchewan from 19872001 | 61 |
The History of Legislative | 101 |
Election | 119 |
Which Third Way? A Comparison of | 143 |
The Saskatchewan Party and the Politics of Branding | 165 |
Saskatchewans Political Party Systems | 189 |
Saskatchewan and Canadian Federalism | 297 |
Saskatchewans Fiscal and Economic Challenges | 321 |
PostSecondary Education in Saskatchewan | 355 |
The Political Challenge of Implementing | 385 |
Climate Change and Saskatchewan Public Policy | 405 |
Electoral Results in Saskatchewan 19052007 | 469 |
Premiers of Saskatchewan 19052007 | 475 |
Contributors | 489 |
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