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farce

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a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.

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quixotic

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exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.

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oligarchy

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a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

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amorphous

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without a clearly defined shape or form.

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tacit

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understood or implied without being stated.

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nascent

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(especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.

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meteoric

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resembling the appearance of a meteor - sudden

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goad

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to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.

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milieu

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a person’s social environment: he grew up in a military milieu.

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What is “brokerage politics”?

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a flexible centrist style of politics, devoid of ideological appeals.

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What was the National Policy of 1878–1879?

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A unifying vision for Canada that included:

  1. Tariffs designed to promote manufacturing in ON and QC.
  2. Encouragement of western settlement to protect form American encroachment
  3. Creation of the transcontinental railway
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What’s “patronage” in the election context?

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the act of trading votes for favours

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French Sociologist Andre Siegfried Canada between 1898 and 1904. What did Canada’s preoccupation with “material interest” and “public works” apparently lead to?

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Lowered the general level of political life in Canada.

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What was the formation of the Reform Party in 1987 all about?

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Western discontent.

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What are all the parties which formed as a response to western discontent?

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Progressive Party, Social Credit, CCF, Western Canada Concept, Reform Party, and Canadian Alliance

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What is the role of “minor” parties such as the Reform/Alliance in Canada’s brokerage party system?

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To poke and prod the dominant political parties into innovating new policies.

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What was a bombshell year for brokerage style politics?

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‘93 - Liberals, Reform Party and BQ jumped the Conservatives and NDP.

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Chief virtue of the single-member, simple plurality electoral system:

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Ability to produce majority governments

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How dd Robert Alford echo Andre Siegfried?

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Class voting isn’t a thing in Canada