Politics is Local

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
1. The Constituency Foundations of Canadian Party and Electoral Life
The Importance and Diversity of Federal Constituencies
An Ecological Perspective on Canadian Politics
Constituency Characteristics and Ecological Models
Outline of the Book
2. The Local Bases of Party Organization
Organization, Environment, and Canadian Political Parties
The Local Basis for Constituency Organization
Grassroots Organizations
3. Grassroots Money and Constituency Campaigns
The Regulatory Framework for Local Campaign Finance
Constituency-Based Campaign Fund-Raising
Constituency-Based Campaign Spending
Constituency Money
4. Competition in the Constituency Parties
Nomination Contests and Intra-Party Democracy
Contested Nominations: Organizational Impact and Campaign Strength
Contested Nominations and Electoral Impacts
Competition in Constituency Parties
5. Candidates and Local Campaigns
Nominating Local Candidates
Candidate Types and Campaign Teams
Candidate Types, Campaign Autonomy, and Resources
A Multivariate Test of the Four Types
Grassroots Campaigns
6. Local Campaigns in National Elections
The Candidate-Party Balance in Canadian Elections
Are Local Campaigns Party Campaigns?
Do National Parties Conduct Strategic Campaigns
Parties and Constituency Electoral Campaigns in Canada
7. Leaders' Tours and Constituency Electoral Politics
The 2000 Campaign and the Leaders' Tours
The Geography of Leaders' Visits
What Kinds of Candidates and Districts Attract Leaders?
Do Leaders' Visits Have an Impact on the Local Vote?
Tours and Elections
8. Do Local Campaigns Matter?
Do Local Campaigns Matter? Current Interpretations
Local Campaign Effects in Canada in the 1988 Election
Local Spending and the Vote, 1993-2000
Local Campaigns Do Make a Difference
9. Media Coverage of Constituency Electoral Politics
Media Coverage of Constituency Campaigns
Local Campaigners' Satisfaction with Media Coverage of Their Campaigns
The Media and Local Campaigns
10. Small Worlds and Local Strongholds
Identifying the Local Dimension of Party Support
Local Bastions of Party Strength, 2000
Party Strongholds and Wastelands, 1993-2000
The Small Worlds of Canadian Constituency Politics
11. Politics is Local
A Nationalization of Political Life?
A Decline of Grassroots Politics?
A Highly Localized Franchise Bargain?
Making the Most of What is Locally Available
Nurturing Grassroots Democracy
Notes
References
Index

R. Kenneth Carty is at Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia. Munroe Eagles is at Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Special Features

• Provides a re-examination of critical issues in Canadian politics from a new perspective
• Presents a sophisticated analysis of political behaviour patterns in a clear and straightforward manner