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.
Jon H. Pammett is a political science professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University and co-author of Dynasties and Interludes: Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics.
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.
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 McGrane
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 LeDuc