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Hardcover Of Passionate Intensity -OS Book

ISBN: 0802072046

ISBN13: 9780802072047

Of Passionate Intensity -OS

What can the rise of the Reform party tell us about the rise of populist parties and movements generally? Questions such as this lie at the heart of Trevor Harrison's book. What factors, for example, ensured the Reform party's emergence as a right-wing party? Was a left-wing alternative possible? What was the influence, in general, of economic factors in creating popular discontent in the West during the 1980s? What are the ideological roots of the...

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For sociologists who are usually transparently left-wing, Harrison does quite good. The research of the roots and formation of the party is quite through and his analysis of the its future have turned out to be surprisingly accurate. Harrison suggests the success of Reform will depend on the success of the neo-conservative Ralph Klein government of Alberta. He said it would also depend on whether the Chretien administration would continue with the excesses of the Trudeau and Mulroney administrations, which he predicted would be highly unlikely. Considering the book was published in 1995, Harrison was pretty dead on. The Liberals were moderate incrementalists while Klein's government was highly successful. These two contradicting results helped form the current situation of the expansion of Reform into the Canadian Alliance, but not without eventually having to cede to merging the Progressive Conservative Party. Harrison was also quite correct in his early assessment of the intentions of current leader Stephen Harper, by suggesting he is more interested in the economic issues, although he would accomodate social conservatism for electoral purposes. Harrison's left-wing bias does come through though when he suggests that Reform's belief in market fundamentalism is naive and unsustainable and that they would instead embrace an alignment with big business. The recent Klein government in Alberta has demonstrated by passing anti-business subsidy laws that such an approach is not impossible but desirable to obtain.
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