Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local and National Politics
Awards:   Commended for The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2012 (Canada). Winner of Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award, American Political Science Association 2014 (United States) Winner of Seymour Martin Lipset Book Prize, American Political Science Association 2014 (United States)
Author:   Royce Koop
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:  

9780774820981


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   01 January 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Commended for The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2012 (Canada).
  • Winner of Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award, American Political Science Association 2014 (United States)
  • Winner of Seymour Martin Lipset Book Prize, American Political Science Association 2014 (United States)

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Author:   Royce Koop
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780774820981


ISBN 10:   0774820985
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   01 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Multi-Level Politics and the Liberal Party 2 Grassroots Party Activists 3 Constituency Associations: Organization and Party Life in the Ridings 4 Local Campaigns and Grassroots Armies 5 Small Worlds: The Riding Context 6 Little Fiefdoms: MPs, MLAs, and Their Local Organizations 7 Conclusion: The Local Political Worlds of the Liberal Party Appendices References

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Koop makes a compelling case that local diversity is an unavoidable feature of a big tent entity such as the Liberal Party of Canada. -- Martha Hall Findlay, former Liberal MP for Willowdale, Ontario Literary Review of Canada <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN > Too often the study of politics is remote from the experiences of those who are engaged in it. Grassroots Liberals is an important corrective to this tendency and Koop is to be commended for taking the activities and insights of those who make their parties work at the local level seriously. -- David Stewart, University of Calgary Party Politics


An interesting and unusual treatment of Canada's natural governing party. Koop's ethnographic approach, relying heavily on interviews with party officials and focusing on the nature of their locally conditioned interactions across federal and provincial levels, is revealing of a complex set of interrelationships that have not been appreciated in the literature on political parties. The result is a far more nuanced understanding of the nature of Canadian political life.<br> - Munroe Eagles, co-author of


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Royce Koop is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.

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