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- 1973-2009 (Creation)
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0.8 m of textual records
198 digital files (18 MB)
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This series documents the research and writing of the book, The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics, published in 2005 by UBC Press. This book tells the story of the Liberal Party of Canada’s performance over the course of nine elections from 1974-2004.
Records include research materials, notes, and drafts; a copy of the contract and correspondence with UBC Press, readers’ reviews and information about the book launches in Toronto and Ottawa. Also included are notes and correspondence relating to public policy forum pre-election events in Toronto from January 2006 around the topic “Is Canada on a course of continuous minority governments?”; notes for a lecture given in the course POL356 taught by Michael Stein on participation and elitism in Canadian political parties; correspondence relating to a lecture given at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston; editorials written for the Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen in 2005; correspondence with the Canadian Journal of Political Science from 2001 and 2002 regarding the article “The Liberal Threepeat: The Multi-System Party in the Multi-Party System” co-authored by Clarkson and his former student Vivek Krishnamurthy; printed material relating to a conference on the evolution of Canadian party systems in the 20th century held at the Centre for Election Studies and Department of Political Sciences at the University of Waterloo on June 3, 1999; students papers from the course POL387Y; and notes and correspondence relating to “How the Big Red Machine Became the Little Red Machine”, a supplement to The Big Red Machine.
Some records refer to the book as its working title The Liberal Party at War, or LPAW.
B2019-0003 digital files consist of further drafts, research, and correspondence.
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Series 13 - Research on Canadian Federal Politics