The Keystone Province
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The definitive study of Manitoba politics for our time.
The Keystone Province: Politics and Governance in Manitoba brings together leading experts to examine Manitoba’s diverse political institutions, processes, sectors, and actors. This comprehensive collection presents an engaging analysis of Manitoba’s governments from Louis Riel to Wab Kinew.
Examining Manitoba’s unique political culture, from its first breaths on the battlefields to the steady pulse of the structures, communities, parties, and elections that make up its modern body politic, editors Kelly Saunders and Christopher Adams demonstrate that, throughout its history of continuity and change, the “middle province” remains politically exciting and worthy of study and debate.
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Persons
Kelly Saunders is a Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, where she teaches a variety of courses in Canadian and provincial politics. Her work on the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party has been published in Disengaged? Fixed Date, Democracy, and Understanding the 2011 Manitoba Election (2014) and Manitoba Politics and Government (2010).
Christopher Adams holds a PhD from Carleton University and was a pollster from 1995 to 2012. He is the author of Politics in Manitoba and a frequent media commentator on social and political issues. He currently serves as the Rector of St. Paul’s College at the University of Manitoba.
Content
- Introduction by Kelly Saunders and Christopher Adams
- Part One: Manitoba's Political Landscape
- 1. "All the Rights We Are Entitled To": Louis Riel and the Creation of Manitoba by Robert Coutts
- 2. Political Culture in Manitoba by Jared Wesley and Lauren Hill
- 3. Structure and Change: An Overview of the Manitoba Economy by Fletcher Baragar
- Part Two: Institutions and Processes
- 4. Westminster on the Prairies: The Manitoba Legislature, Past and Present by Christopher Adams
- 5. Still Politicized? The Partial Evolution of Manitoba's Crown Corporations by Malcolm G. Bird
- 6. Manitoba's Public Service under the Pallister/Stefanson Government and Beyond by Andrea Rounce and Karine Levasseur
- 7. The News Media and Public Opinion in Manitoba by Curtis Brown and Mary Agnes Welch
- Part Three: Politics and Communities
- 8. Women, Gender, and Legislative Politics in Manitoba by Joan Grace
- 9. Where in History? Indigenous Peoples and Rights in Twenty-First Century Manitoba by Jeremy Patzer
- 10. Municipal Government and Politics in Manitoba by Aaron Moore Part Four: Parties and Elections
- 11. The Manitoba Progressive Conservatives by Royce Koop
- 12. The Manitoba New Democratic Party by Christopher Adams
- 13. The Manitoba Liberal Party by Kelly Saunders Conclusion by Kelly Saunders and Christopher Adams
- Appendix A: Evolution of Voting and Elections in Manitoba
- Appendix B: Manitoba Election Results, 1870 to 2023
- Contributors