Keith Archer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Archer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Archer |
| SIGNATURE | ARCHER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education
Values in Conflict is a clarion call to policy-makers, business leaders, and the public at large to rethink the current direction of the contemporary university. Paul Axelrod demonstrates that liberal education, the core of higher learning, is threatened by the constricting pressures of the marketplace and shows how political and economic pressures are redefining higher learning. Axelrod demonstrates how, in the race for riches - symbolized by en…
Social Capital and Civic Community in Alberta
We investigate the nature of civic community and social capital in Alberta. We find a civic community with high levels of interpersonal trust and civic participation, that values formal political equality and direct participation, yet expresses high levels of alienation from and low levels of confidence in its governments. While exogenous variables contribute to a strong civic community, only endogenous variables can account for the comparatively…
Political Activists: The NDP in Convention
Do Conventions Matter? Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada
Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chretien, Campbell, and Manning. Courtney compares leadership selection practices in Canada with those in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and shows that Canadian conventions remain a distinctive …
The Eclipse of the NDP
THE NDP APPEARS to be in its death throes, an expiring force in Canadian politics. It is intellectually bankrupt, financially broke, and reeling politically. Consider the coming and passing of 1994 — exactly a half century since the election of the Saskatchewan CCF as North America's first socialist government —with the absence of a major celebration. Although the party then only ruled in Manitoba, there was a strong sense that its fortunes were …
Opinion Structure of Party Activists: The Reform Party of Canada
This article provides a systematic examination of the social bases and ideological and policy orientations of the Reform party of Canada through a study of the attitudes of delegates attending its 1992 national assembly. We identify the core political attitudes of Reform activists, and examine whether their positions on policy matters are distinctive and whether they are characterized by internal cohesion or division. We then examine the party's …
Canadian Political Science Association/Association canadienne de science politique
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Société québécoise de science politique
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Conflict and Confusion in Drawing Constituency Boundaries: The Case of Alberta
Political Choices and Electoral Consequences: A Study of Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party
Political Choices and Electoral Consequences: A Study of Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party
Opinion Structure Among New Democratic Party Activists: A Comparison with Liberals and Conservatives
There is substantial disagreement over the extent to which political parties in Canada can be distinguished on ideological grounds. Research on mass publics has usually concluded that ideology plays only a modest role in structuring orientations towards parties. However, a growing body of survey data on party activists suggests a greater degree of ideological clarity and policy cohesiveness. This note extends earlier research by Blake, Johnston a…
On the Study of Political Parties in Canada
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Selection bias in human rights tribunals: An exploratory study
Quasi‐judicial tribunals are bound by the principle of natural justice, including the obligation to avoid bias or the apprehension of bias in the selection of adjudicators, as was affirmed for human rights commissions in the McBain case. This paper statistically analyses all decisions rendered by Canadian human rights tribunals, both federal and provincial, in the years 1956 to 1984. The main conclusion is that there is a tendency toward the reap…
Inflation, Unemployment and Canadian Federal Voting Behaviour
Identifying the effect of macro-economic performance on levels of partisan support in Canada has attracted considerable attention. Findings in Canada, as elsewhere, often diverge depending upon whether aggregate or individual-level data are used. This study employs individual-level data from 1974 to 1984 to examine the effect of changes in unemployment and inflation on support for the various parties. Controlling for partisan and leader effects, …
A Simultaneous Equation Model of Canadian Voting Behaviour
Recent research on voting in United States presidential elections has begun to disentangle long-term and short-term components of electoral choice. This has been achieved through the use of complex models involving instrumental variables and two-stage or three-stage least squares regression. These techniques are particularly appropriate to understanding the voting decision in Canada because of the short-term variability of partisan identification…
Canadian Unions, the New Democratic Party, and the Problem of Collective Action
LE PARTI CCF S'EST TRANSFORME en Nouveau Parti democratique dans le but de fortifier les liens entre ce parti politique et le travail organise. Un haut taux d'affiliation des syndicats au parti devait fournir un appui financier, organisational et symbolique. Ce taux d'affiliation demeura cependant faible. Cet article utilise l'approche du choix pour expliquer le faible taux d'affiliation au NPD. Nous maintenons que les avantages ne valent pas le …
Issue Perceptions and Electoral Behavior in an Age of Restraint, 1974–1980
The Failure of the New Democratic Party: Unions, Unionists, and Politics in Canada
In 1961, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation collaborated with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic party. The CLC urged its affiliates to affiliate with the new party; and assumed that widespread affiliation would lead to a more competitive party. Increased electoral support, however, was not forthcoming. This note argues that levels of union support forthe NDP(measured by rates of affiliation) are very low, and thus the …
A Simultaneous Equation Model of Canadian Voting Behaviour
Recent research on voting in United States presidential elections has begun to disentangle long-term and short-term components of electoral choice. This has been achieved through the use of complex models involving instrumental variables and two-stage or three-stage least squares regression. These techniques are particularly appropriate to understanding the voting decision in Canada because of the short-term variability of partisan identification…
The Failure of the New Democratic Party: Unions, Unionists, and Politics in Canada
In 1961, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation collaborated with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic party. The CLC urged its affiliates to affiliate with the new party; and assumed that widespread affiliation would lead to a more competitive party. Increased electoral support, however, was not forthcoming. This note argues that levels of union support forthe NDP(measured by rates of affiliation) are very low, and thus the …
Inflation, Unemployment and Canadian Federal Voting Behaviour
Identifying the effect of macro-economic performance on levels of partisan support in Canada has attracted considerable attention. Findings in Canada, as elsewhere, often diverge depending upon whether aggregate or individual-level data are used. This study employs individual-level data from 1974 to 1984 to examine the effect of changes in unemployment and inflation on support for the various parties. Controlling for partisan and leader effects, …
Social Capital and Civic Community in Alberta
We investigate the nature of civic community and social capital in Alberta. We find a civic community with high levels of interpersonal trust and civic participation, that values formal political equality and direct participation, yet expresses high levels of alienation from and low levels of confidence in its governments. While exogenous variables contribute to a strong civic community, only endogenous variables can account for the comparatively…
Opinion Structure of Party Activists: The Reform Party of Canada
This article provides a systematic examination of the social bases and ideological and policy orientations of the Reform party of Canada through a study of the attitudes of delegates attending its 1992 national assembly. We identify the core political attitudes of Reform activists, and examine whether their positions on policy matters are distinctive and whether they are characterized by internal cohesion or division. We then examine the party's …
Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education
Values in Conflict is a clarion call to policy-makers, business leaders, and the public at large to rethink the current direction of the contemporary university. Paul Axelrod demonstrates that liberal education, the core of higher learning, is threatened by the constricting pressures of the marketplace and shows how political and economic pressures are redefining higher learning. Axelrod demonstrates how, in the race for riches - symbolized by en…
Do Conventions Matter? Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada
Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chretien, Campbell, and Manning. Courtney compares leadership selection practices in Canada with those in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and shows that Canadian conventions remain a distinctive …
Opinion Structure Among New Democratic Party Activists: A Comparison with Liberals and Conservatives
There is substantial disagreement over the extent to which political parties in Canada can be distinguished on ideological grounds. Research on mass publics has usually concluded that ideology plays only a modest role in structuring orientations towards parties. However, a growing body of survey data on party activists suggests a greater degree of ideological clarity and policy cohesiveness. This note extends earlier research by Blake, Johnston a…
The Eclipse of the NDP
THE NDP APPEARS to be in its death throes, an expiring force in Canadian politics. It is intellectually bankrupt, financially broke, and reeling politically. Consider the coming and passing of 1994 — exactly a half century since the election of the Saskatchewan CCF as North America's first socialist government —with the absence of a major celebration. Although the party then only ruled in Manitoba, there was a strong sense that its fortunes were …
Conflict and Confusion in Drawing Constituency Boundaries: The Case of Alberta
On the Study of Political Parties in Canada
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Selection bias in human rights tribunals: An exploratory study
Quasi‐judicial tribunals are bound by the principle of natural justice, including the obligation to avoid bias or the apprehension of bias in the selection of adjudicators, as was affirmed for human rights commissions in the McBain case. This paper statistically analyses all decisions rendered by Canadian human rights tribunals, both federal and provincial, in the years 1956 to 1984. The main conclusion is that there is a tendency toward the reap…
Issue Perceptions and Electoral Behavior in an Age of Restraint, 1974–1980
The Failure of the New Democratic Party: Unions, Unionists, and Politics in Canada
In 1961, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation collaborated with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic party. The CLC urged its affiliates to affiliate with the new party; and assumed that widespread affiliation would lead to a more competitive party. Increased electoral support, however, was not forthcoming. This note argues that levels of union support forthe NDP(measured by rates of affiliation) are very low, and thus the …
A Simultaneous Equation Model of Canadian Voting Behaviour
Recent research on voting in United States presidential elections has begun to disentangle long-term and short-term components of electoral choice. This has been achieved through the use of complex models involving instrumental variables and two-stage or three-stage least squares regression. These techniques are particularly appropriate to understanding the voting decision in Canada because of the short-term variability of partisan identification…
Canadian Unions, the New Democratic Party, and the Problem of Collective Action
LE PARTI CCF S'EST TRANSFORME en Nouveau Parti democratique dans le but de fortifier les liens entre ce parti politique et le travail organise. Un haut taux d'affiliation des syndicats au parti devait fournir un appui financier, organisational et symbolique. Ce taux d'affiliation demeura cependant faible. Cet article utilise l'approche du choix pour expliquer le faible taux d'affiliation au NPD. Nous maintenons que les avantages ne valent pas le …
Selection bias in human rights tribunals: An exploratory study
Quasi‐judicial tribunals are bound by the principle of natural justice, including the obligation to avoid bias or the apprehension of bias in the selection of adjudicators, as was affirmed for human rights commissions in the McBain case. This paper statistically analyses all decisions rendered by Canadian human rights tribunals, both federal and provincial, in the years 1956 to 1984. The main conclusion is that there is a tendency toward the reap…
Inflation, Unemployment and Canadian Federal Voting Behaviour
Identifying the effect of macro-economic performance on levels of partisan support in Canada has attracted considerable attention. Findings in Canada, as elsewhere, often diverge depending upon whether aggregate or individual-level data are used. This study employs individual-level data from 1974 to 1984 to examine the effect of changes in unemployment and inflation on support for the various parties. Controlling for partisan and leader effects, …
On the Study of Political Parties in Canada
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Opinion Structure Among New Democratic Party Activists: A Comparison with Liberals and Conservatives
There is substantial disagreement over the extent to which political parties in Canada can be distinguished on ideological grounds. Research on mass publics has usually concluded that ideology plays only a modest role in structuring orientations towards parties. However, a growing body of survey data on party activists suggests a greater degree of ideological clarity and policy cohesiveness. This note extends earlier research by Blake, Johnston a…
Political Choices and Electoral Consequences: A Study of Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party
Political Choices and Electoral Consequences: A Study of Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party
Conflict and Confusion in Drawing Constituency Boundaries: The Case of Alberta
Opinion Structure of Party Activists: The Reform Party of Canada
This article provides a systematic examination of the social bases and ideological and policy orientations of the Reform party of Canada through a study of the attitudes of delegates attending its 1992 national assembly. We identify the core political attitudes of Reform activists, and examine whether their positions on policy matters are distinctive and whether they are characterized by internal cohesion or division. We then examine the party's …
Canadian Political Science Association/Association canadienne de science politique
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Société québécoise de science politique
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Eclipse of the NDP
THE NDP APPEARS to be in its death throes, an expiring force in Canadian politics. It is intellectually bankrupt, financially broke, and reeling politically. Consider the coming and passing of 1994 — exactly a half century since the election of the Saskatchewan CCF as North America's first socialist government —with the absence of a major celebration. Although the party then only ruled in Manitoba, there was a strong sense that its fortunes were …
Do Conventions Matter? Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada
Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chretien, Campbell, and Manning. Courtney compares leadership selection practices in Canada with those in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and shows that Canadian conventions remain a distinctive …
Political Activists: The NDP in Convention
Social Capital and Civic Community in Alberta
We investigate the nature of civic community and social capital in Alberta. We find a civic community with high levels of interpersonal trust and civic participation, that values formal political equality and direct participation, yet expresses high levels of alienation from and low levels of confidence in its governments. While exogenous variables contribute to a strong civic community, only endogenous variables can account for the comparatively…
Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education
Values in Conflict is a clarion call to policy-makers, business leaders, and the public at large to rethink the current direction of the contemporary university. Paul Axelrod demonstrates that liberal education, the core of higher learning, is threatened by the constricting pressures of the marketplace and shows how political and economic pressures are redefining higher learning. Axelrod demonstrates how, in the race for riches - symbolized by en…
Political science (19 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Canadian Identity and History (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Democracy (6 works)