Preface
I. Setting the Scene
Introduction: Out of an Orange Coloured Sky
Richard Sutherland
II. The Tory Fall and the NDP Victory
Politics, Alberta Style: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Conservatives, 1971-2015
David Taras
Death of a Dynasty: The Tories and the 2015 Election
Duane Bratt
Ready for Rachel: The Alberta NDP's 2015 Campaign
Melanee Thomas
Marginally Better: Polling in the 2015 Alberta Election
Janet Brown and John B. Santos
Alberta Politics Online: Digital Retail Politics and Grassroots Growth, 2006-16
Peter Malachy Ryan
III. Oil Sands, Carbon Tax, and Pipelines
Betting on Bitumen: Lougheed, Klein, and Notley
Gillian Steward
The Politics of Alberta's Carbon Tax
Kevin Taft
Notley: The Accidental Pipeline Advocate
Deborah Yedlin
IV. The NDP in Power
After Forty-Four Years: The Alberta New Democrats and the Transition to Government
Keith Brownsey
Fiscal Constraints on the Orange Chinook
Ron Kneebone and Jennifer Zwicker
Beyond the "Lovey-Dovey Talk": The Orange Chinook and Indigenous Activism
Brad Clark
Alberta's Cities under the NDP
James Wilt
The End of Exceptionalism: Post-rural Politics in Alberta
Roger Epp
V. Notley's Governing Style
A League of Their Own: Alberta's Women Party Leaders
Lori Williams
Notley and the Beast: An Analysis of the Crisis Communication of Rachel Notley During the 2016 Wildfire
Chaseten Remillard and Sheridan McVean
VI. Alberta's Future Political System
What's Past is Prologue: Ontario 1990 and Alberta 2015
Graham White
Out of the Blue: Goodbye Tories, Hello Jason Kenney
Anthony M. Sayers and David K Steward
Appendices
Index