Voting Behaviour in Canada

1 The Puzzle of Elections and Voting in Canada / Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson

Part 1: Long-Standing Attachments and Voting

2 Who Votes for Women Candidates and Why? Evidence from Recent Canadian Elections / Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant

3 The New Immigrant Voter, 1965-2004: The Emergence of a New Liberal Partisan? / Antoine Bilodeau and Mebs Kanji

4 The Catholic-Liberal Connection: A Test of Strength / Laura B. Stephenson

5 Parties and Partisans: The Influence of Ideology and Brokerage on the Durability of Partisanship in Canada / Éric Bélanger and Laura B. Stephenson

Part 2: Short-Term Influences on Voting Behaviour

6 Economic Voting in Canada: Assessing the Effects of Subjective Perceptions and Electoral Context / Cameron D. Anderson

7 Third-Party Support in Canadian Elections: The Role of the Economy / Éric Bélanger and Richard Nadeau

8 Personality Matters: The Evaluation of Party Leaders in Canadian Elections / Amanda Bittner

Part 3: Proximate Considerations in Vote Choice

9 Enlightenment, Equalization, or What? Campaigns, Learning, and the Economy in Canadian Elections / J. Scott Matthews

10 Election Campaign Polls and Democracy in Canada: Examining the Evidence behind the Common Claims / Mark Pickup

11 Reflecting on Lessons from the Canadian Voter / Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson

Index