Democracy in Alberta : : Social Credit and the Party System / / C.B. MacPherson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: MacPherson, C.B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©1962
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Preface to the Second Edition --; Preface to the First Edition Contents --; Contents --; 1 Delegate Democracy and Political Economy --; 2 The U.F.A.: Social and Political Theory --; 3 The U.F.A.: Democracy in Practice --; 4 English Social Credit: The Social and Economic Theory --; 5 English Social Credit: The Political Theory and Practice to 1935 --; 6 Social Credit in Alberta: Aberhart Theory and Practice, 193 2-7 --; 7 Social Credit in Alberta: The Recrudescence and Decline of Douglasism --; 8 The Quasi-Party System --; Index --; CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PAPER-BOOKS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442673793; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442673793
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: C.B. MacPherson.

Democracy in Alberta was the first book by the hugely influential political scientist C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987). In this study, Macpherson examines the distinctive quasi-party political system that emerged in Alberta in the first half of the twentieth century, represented by the United Farmers of Alberta and Social Credit governments and the movements behind them. The author presents the UFA and Social Credit, which grew independently of federal politics, as having produced a new species of democratic governance in Canada and he develops an innovative theory of the party system in the context of national politics at the time he wrote the book in 1953.In addition to offering an original analysis of the party system and Alberta’s political structures and institutions, Democracy in Alberta presents a fascinating micro-history of the social and economic characteristics of Alberta. An introduction by Nelson Wiseman contextualizes the original publication and discusses the unique characteristics of Alberta politics still evident to this day.