Conventional Choices?
Maritime Leadership Politics, 1971–2003
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Conventional Choices?
Maritime Leadership Politics, 1971–2003

Table of Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Choosing Leaders
2 The Conventions
3 From J. Buchanan to A. Buchanan: Candidates and Voters
4 Tourists or Partisans? Political Background and Elector Engagement
5 Leadership Election Support Patterns: Friends and Neighbours?
6 Town versus Country: Urban Rural Divisions
7 Brothers and Sisters? Gender-Based Voting at Party Conventions
8 Inter- and Intraparty Attitudinal Differences
9 Rebels without a Cause? Supporters of Fringe Candidates
10 Going My Way? "Delivering" Votes after the First Ballot
11 Prince Edward Island and the Garden Myth
12 New Brunswick: The Politics of Language
13 Nova Scotia: The Challenge of Social Democracy
14 The End of the Affair? Political Scientists and the Delegated Convention
15 Conclusion
Appendix: Leadership Election Profiles for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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