Jon H. Pammett & Christopher Dornan 
The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 [EPUB ebook] 

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Written by the foremost authorities, The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 provides a complete investigation of the election.



A comprehensive analysis of the campaigns and the election outcome, this collection of essays examines the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties: the Conservatives, the Liberals, the New Democrats, the Bloc Québécois, and the Green Party.



Also featured are chapters on the changes in electoral rules, the experience of local campaigning, the play of the polls, the campaign in the new media, the role of the debates, and the experience of women in the campaign. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of voting behaviour in 2015 and an assessment of the Stephen Harper dynasty. Appendices contain all of the election results.




The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 is the tenth volume in a series that has chronicled every national election campaign since 1984.

Spis treści

• CHAPTER 1: The Long Goodbye: The Contours of the Election by Christopher Dornan 


• CHAPTER 2: Stephen Harper and the 2015 Conservative Campaign: Defeated but Not Devestated by Faron Ellis 


• CHAPTER 3: Back to the Future: The Resurgent Liberals by Brooke Jeffrey 


• CHAPTER 4: From Third to First and Back to Third: The 2015 NDP Campaign by David Mc Grane 


• CHAPTER 5: The Bloc Québécois in a Rainbow-Coloured Quebec by Eric Belanger and Richard Nadeau 


• CHAPTER 6: Opportunities and Obstacles: The Green Party’s 2015 Campaign by Susan Harada 


• CHAPTER 7: Roll Back! The Conservatives Rewrite Election Laws, 2006–2015 by Louis Massicotte 


• CHAPTER 8: Mounting a Local Campaign by Allan Thompson 


• CHAPTER 9: Like, Share, Vote. The CTV/Facebook Partnership and the 2015 Election by Mary Francoli, Josh Greenberg, and Christopher Waddell 


• CHAPTER 10: A Debate About Debates by Andre Turcotte 


• CHAPTER 11: 'Because It’s 2015′: Gender and the 2015 Federal Election by Brenda O’Neill and Melanie Thomas 


• CHAPTER 12: Polling and the 2015 Federal Election by David Coletto 


• CHAPTER 13: It’s Spring Again! Voting in the 2015 Federal Election by Harold D. Clarke, Jason Reifler, Thomas J. Scotto, and Marianne C. Stewart 


• CHAPTER 14: The Fall of the Harper Dynasty by Jon H. Pammett and Lawrence Le Duc 




• APPENDIX A: The Results in Summary 


• APPENDIX B: Vote Percentages by Riding 


• Note on Contributors 

O autorze

Christopher Dornan is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University and co-editor of this and four previous volumes of Canadian election studies.