Orange Chinook : : Politics in the New Alberta /

Orange Chinook : : Politics in the New Alberta / / edited by Duane Bratt [and three others].

In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives -- who had won every provincial election since 1971 -- they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of...

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Superior document:Arts in action
TeilnehmendeR:
Bratt, Duane, 1967-
Place / Publishing House:Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, 2019.
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:Spanish
English
Series:Arts in action.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 453 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:
  • Includes index.
  • MRU author.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Setting the Scene
  • Out of an Orange-Coloured Sky
  • The Tory Fall and the Ndp Victory
  • Politics, Alberta Style: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Conservatives, 1971–2015
  • Death of a Dynasty: The Tories and the 2015 Election
  • Ready for Rachel: The Alberta NDP’s 2015 Campaign
  • Marginally Better: Polling in the 2015 Alberta Election
  • Alberta Politics Online: Digital Retail Politics and Grassroots Growth, 2006–16
  • Oil Sands, Carbon Tax, and Pipelines
  • Betting on Bitumen: Lougheed, Klein, and Notley
  • The Politics of Alberta’s Carbon Tax*
  • Notley: The Accidental Pipeline Advocate
  • The Ndp In Power
  • After Forty-Four Years: The Alberta New Democrats and the Transition to Government
  • Fiscal Constraints on the Orange Chinook
  • Beyond the “Lovey-Dovey Talk”: The Orange Chinook and Indigenous Activism
  • Alberta’s Cities under the NDP
  • The End of Exceptionalism: Post-rural Politics in Alberta
  • Notley’s Governing Style
  • A League of Their Own: Alberta’s Women Party Leaders
  • Notley and the Beast: An Analysis of the Crisis Communication of Rachel Notley during the 2016 Wildfire
  • Alberta’s Future Political System
  • What’s Past is Prologue: Ontario 1990 and Alberta 2015
  • Out of the Blue: Goodbye Tories, Hello Jason Kenney
  • Appendices
  • Alberta Voter Turnout, 1975–2015
  • Party Votes in the 5 May 2015 Alberta Provincial Election (87 seats)
  • Non-Renewable Resource Revenues Tables, 2005-6 to 2017-18 (current dollars)
  • A GDP Expenditure-Based, 2005-16
  • Alberta Provincial Revenues and Expenditures, 2007-17 (billions of current dollars)
  • Alberta Provicial Government Per Capita Health Expenditure, 2008–17 (current dollars)
  • Alberta Provincial Government Health Expenditure, 2008–17 (millions of current dollars)
  • Contributors
  • Index

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