The Big Blue Machine: How Tory Campaign Backrooms Changed Canadian Politics Forever

by J. Patrick Boyer

An inside account of the Progressive Conservative's campaign organization. The Progressive Conservative Party's "big blue machine" pioneered electoral techniques of centralized control, communications, campaign advertising, polling, policy-presentation, and fund-raising. Inspired by Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins, its widespread yet close-knit network of organizers and specialists changed how Canadian campaigns were fought, even as their "political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459724496
• ISBN13: 9781459724495
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"