Alphabet organizations generally fail to function as responsible parties because they have been used mainly as campaign vehicles by candidates who act as independents when elected. Faced with an overwhelming majority of Ontario residents opposed to local party politics, members of electoral slates h... ->

The proponents of nonpartisan politics argue that their position has been misrepresented by the advocates of partisan politics. David Siegel explains that one of the proponents’ favourite arguments "is that those who oppose party politics are like the turn of the century reformers who s... ->

One thing needs to remember that the price that the government pays for prescription drugs is critically important. They affect the cost of new drug benefits and the incentives for manufactures to develop new pharmaceutical agents. It should be mentioned that pharmaceutical companies determine dru... ->

Given a high percentage of "don’t know" responses, these results must be considered tentative, but it would appear that councils do have a partisan bias. Lightbody notes that in Edmonton, as in other Canadian cities, municipal elections "are essentially a middle class sport.&quo... ->

In recent years there has been a substantial decline in the fortunes of municipal parties in the larger cities. In the 1989 election, for instance, no parties ran candidates in Calgary, and in Edmonton all but one of the parties had been disbanded. (Nossal 1989) Walter Walchuk offers a provocative e... ->

The existence of music can be categorized within six major periods i.e. Middle Age, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th century. The music style has been changed from era to era. Out of the other eras, the classical era can be described as 1750-1825. The era meant for industrial rev... ->

A major reason the electorate was so receptive to the call for nonpartisanship was a basic anti-party tradition pre-dating the establishment of the province itself. From 1888 through 1905 the territorial government operated along strict nonparty lines; even when partisanship was introduced with the ... ->

Municipal councils in Ontario were composed of pragmatic grass-roots working and lower-middle-class politicians, each of whom controlled a neighbourhood fiefdom. They were not concerned with efficiency, since inefficiencies, "sweetheart" municipal contracts, and the diversion of public f... ->