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Posted Jan. 11/07
At the outset of the 2006 election campaign, the Liberal government’s infusion of cash into the health care system, agreements with the provinces to provide additional public day care spaces and increased support to post-secondary institutions allowed them to claim to be the party that would guarantee an improved level of social services. But these seeming advantages in social policy weren’t enough to extend the Liberals 12-year reign in Canadian politics.
In The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 — edited by Jon Pammett, professor of political science and associate dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs, and Christopher Dornan, BJ/78, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication — political scientists and journalists provide a comprehensive analysis of the campaign and 2006 federal election. The role of the media coverage and the performance and influence of public opinion polls are explored.
Carleton contributors are William Cross, associate professor of political science; Susan Harada, assistant professor of journalism; André Turcotte, assistant professor of mass communications; and Christopher Waddell, Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism and associate director of the School of Journalism and Communication.
The book is published by Dundurn Press, Toronto.