An Election to be Remembered: Canada 1993

Alan C. Cairns

Canadian Public Policy, 1994, vol. 20, issue 3, 219-234

Abstract: This paper analyses the 1993 Canadian federal election from three perspectives; (1) the significance of the campaign; (2) the contribution of institutional variables, especially the electoral system, to the outcome; (3) and most important, the election as the vehicle for a paradigm shift with respect to, (i) a new relationship of the party system to the constitutional issue, (ii) a repudiation of several basic constitutional assumptions of the last decade, (iii) the retreat of the interventionist expenditure state, (iv) a strong challenge to elitism in the party system and in parliament, and (v) the overt emergence of lifestyle, cultural issues into partisan politics.

Date: 1994
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