Of passionate intensity : right-wing populism and the Reform Party of Canada
What can the rise of the Reform party tell us about the rise of populist parties and movements generally? Questions such as this lie at the heart of Trevor Harrison's book. What factors, for example, ensured the Reform party's emergence as a right-wing party? Was a left-wing alternative possible? What was the influence, in general, of economic factors in creating popular discontent in the West during the 1980s? What are the ideological roots of the Reform party? Is Reform merely a northern offshoot of American neo-conservatism? What was the structural, ideological, and political relationship between the Reformers and the fringe parties that sprang up in the West during the early 1980s? What are the structural locations of Reform party supporters? Why does the party's support appear to be greater in Alberta and British Columbia than in Saskatchewan and Manitoba? Is the Reform party supported by a particular class or elements of a particular class?
xiv, 325 pages ; 25 cm
9780802006004, 9780802072047, 0802006000, 0802072046
37269316
1. The 'Problem' of Populism
2. The Roots of the Reform Party
3. The Rise of the Reform Party
4. The Legitimation of Reform
5. The Transformation of Reform
6. The Great Realignment
7. The 'Problem' of Populism Revisited
Includes index