Patrons, Clients, Brokers : : Ontario Society and Politics, 1791–1896 / / S.J.R. Noel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Noel, S.J.R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: The Culture of Clientelism --; Part One. Upper Canada --; 1. The Upper Canadian Outlook --; 2. Political Ideals and Economic Realities --; 3. Patrons and Clients --; 4. Clientelism and Reform --; Part Two. Canada West --; 5. The Broker's Art --; 6. The Reign of Harmony --; 7. Francis Hincks and the Politics of Accommodation --; 8. The Juggling of Men and Money --; 9. Brokerage and the Politics of Power-Sharing --; 10. The Majoritarian Challenge --; 11. George Brown, the Great Reform Convention, and the Transition to Federalism --; Part Three. Ontario --; 12. The Patent Combination --; 13. Oliver Mowat and the Politics of Husbandry --; 14. Northern Ontario: The Boundary Issue and the Bribery Plot --; 15. The Mowat Machine --; 16. The Anti-Party Reaction --; Conclusion: Clientelism in Practice and Theory --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487578541; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487578541
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: S.J.R. Noel.

At the heart of social and economic structures in Ontario at the end of the eighteenth century was land. The relationships that centred around land – who controlled it, who needed it, who got access to it – developed along patron/client lines. Professor Noel argues that these relationships eventually became the basis of provincial party politics in post-Confederation Ontario. As the province evolved through various stages of agricultural, resource-based, and industrial development, so too did the patron-client bond. This bond became the cement holding together the decentralized, brokerage-based political formations of the mid-nineteenth century. Later, to meet the new exigencies of post-Confederation politics, it was brilliantly crafted into the structure of Ontario’s first large-scale, cohesive, recognizably modern political party: the Liberals of Oliver Mowat. The primary focus of this study is on political practices rather than ideologies; political processes rather than institutions; political economy rather than the administrative organization of government; leaders, parties, and factions rather than legislatures or cabinets; and above all, after 1867, on Ontario politics rather than federal politics in Ontario. Noel develops a theory of clientelism to explain the gradual evolution of the key linkages in the political process from simple patron-client dyads to progressively more complex forms of brokerage and machine politics. He presents a revealing study of the nature of political relationships, the influences that shape them, and their consequences.