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... ->

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... ->

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... ->

Within the scope of this research, we will assess the factors that accounted for continuous rule of Conservative party in Ontario in the post war period. In Ontario, the Liberals did not win a single provincial election from the late 1930s to the mid-1980s but, with the exception of 1984, they frequ... ->

For many years, it could never be denied that rice is a major element for eating that has been given attention by many food enthusiasts in the human society. The production of the different kinds of rice grains has also lead to the different views of human individuals towards the said food source. I... ->