Research Catalog

Title

The limits of participation : members and leaders in Canada's Reform Party / Faron Ellis.

Author

Ellis, Faron, 1962-

Publication

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

xxii, 225 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Limits of Participation is the only book-length analysis of Reform Party activists and early members. Outlining key stages in party evolution, such as the recruitment of activists into the party and the search for a national profile, this is the first comprehensive history of Reform Party development. This is a detailed study of the grassroots phenomenon that was the Reform Party and is the only systematic analysis of its evolving constitutional and organizational efforts. The Limits of Participation is a fascinating glimpse of a political party attempting to bridge the participatory demands of its members and the strategic plans of its leaders in a bid to secure national political power."--Jacket.

Subject

• Reform Party of Canada > History
• Since 1980
• Geschichte
• Canada > Politics and government > 1984-1993
• Canada > Politics and government > 1993-2006
• Canada > Politics and government > 1980-

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The founding 1987-1989 -- The maturing membership: the 1989 assembly -- Expanding beyond the west: 1900 to 1992 -- Opinion structure of delegates attending reform's 1992 assembly -- The road to official opposition -- The decommissioning.

ISBN

1552381560 :

OCLC

• 58054123
• SCSB-12071218

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library