Campaign organizers and the media appear to agree that voters' perceptions of party leaders have an important impact in elections: considerable effort is made to ensure that leaders look good, speak w
Curious about how to make sense of the past two decades of change in Canadian politics, Bittner (political science, Memorial U., Canada) and Koop (public policy, Simon Fraser U., Canada) organized a w
On 2 May 2011, Canadians watched as the Stephen Harper Conservativeswon their first majority government, ending a string of minoritygovernments. Jack Layton led the NDP to its best performance ever,be
The first major comparative analysis of parenthood in politics, Mothers and Others brings together leading scholars of gender and politics to discuss the role of parental status in political life. Exa
