Minority Government in Ontario, 1975–1981
An Assessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6236678 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vaughan Lyons, Vaughan Lyon (Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 685-706 |
| Publication date | 1984-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900052549 |
| OpenAlex | W2033820885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
Ontario's two minority governments provide political scientists an opportunity to analyze how a government and legislature will function when executive control is curtailed by the electorate. It also affords an opportunity to observe the dynamics of legislative reform in a situation where backbenchers have unaccustomed clout. Relying on a survey of “insider” opinion, the article finds that MPPs showed little interest in reforms other than those which improved their services. Further, it finds that all the normal functions attributed to the legislature were performed better in a minority situation. However, while the majority of respondents had positive overall assessments of the minority experience, they had a variety of reservations about perpetuating it in some way. The article points up the dilemma that there appears to be no way to “capture” the widely recognized positive aspects of minority administrations within the norms of parliamentary government accepted by legislators and no willingness on their part to vary these norms
Dilemma · Economics · Function (biology · Government (linguistics · Insider · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public relations · Variety (cybernetics · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2024 (39) |
| Highly cited | No |