Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Reilly, Jack
Area of Concentration
Political Science
Abstract
The Liberal Party of Canada has governed for 78 of the past 110 years. Current analyses of Liberal success tend to focus on the impact of population distribution, and fail to adequately explain how the Party has continued to succeed despite electoral losses and changes in electorate composition. To explore the origins of party success and failures, I form a theory that ties long-term success to cultural accommodation and electoral losses to conflict. I will use the implications of this theory to test two hypotheses with a regression analysis of electoral districts from 1997 to 2019. The results demonstrate that recent Liberal Party victories are due to the successful management of bilingual coalitions, and that past losses were caused by coalitional collapse.
Recommended Citation
Kothe, Angela, "PLURALISM IN POLITICAL TIME: A THEORY OF POLITICAL TRANSITION" (2022). Theses & ETDs. 6257.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/6257