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Class voting essay (class consciousness? + middle class (Affluence ('…
Class voting essay
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Conclusion
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social conservatism among working class partial reason for the relative succes of Social Credit and United Farmers of Alberta Vs CCF and NDP?
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Intro
Define class
Objective vs subjective
See own class in terms of occupation and others in terms of affluence (Pammett, 1987, pg 275)
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knowledge regarding such matters remains fraught with incompleteness, ambiguity, contradiction and controversy Gidengil pg 563 Class and region in canadian voting
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Class formation
Party system
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NDP has had to dilute ideology rather than by brodenaing class consciousness in electorate. Pammett 285.
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Electoral system
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MMP? increase chance of oalition governments and strength of minor parties. Greater influence. pg 11-13 alford.
NDP weakness
Union focused on members rather than social justice. No solidarity. Poor education of members about class issues.
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Of people who can correctly identify left-right position of parties, class voting is higher (Erikson, 1981)
electorally viable increase class voting and decrease strategic voting (Zipp and Smith, 1982: 738 and 753)
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NDP like with organized labour. Provides funding, but seen as special interest group only pushing agenda for unionized workers. material advancement for own workers. Unions identified with more affluent part of working class.interests of unionized and nonunionized not necessarily the same (281 Pammett 1987)
unions not all behind NDP. increase in vote for NDP more to do with middle class identity that working class.(282 Pammett)
Canadian unions more likely to be non-manual public workers. Teachers and farmers identify as middle class. 282 Pammett.
Slightly more working class than Liberal and Conserviaive, but still high identification as middle class. 284 PAmmett)
Parties represent regional, religious, and ethnic groupings (Alford pg 251; Zipp and Smith pg 749). People identify with these pg 257. other cleavages determine party support.
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Internal struggle betweein ideological purity and broadening their appeal for electoral success (Zipp and Smith 754) Przeworski and Sprague argue impossible to achieve electoral success without expanding base of support.
Liberals have coopted CCF and NDP positions in order to attain success. Affecting change, but not rewarded with elections. national healthcare system, old age security. Reduces perception as realistic alternative to Liberals. Leads to strategic voting to keep out Conservatives. 754 Zipp and Smith.
Tie 2 together with Ogmundson and Schwartz within Zipp and Smith 739. pockets of class voting indicate that there is a desire for class politics but indicates that there may not always be an outlet.