Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

• Hoofdauteur: Edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Athabasca University Press 2015
• Onderwerpen: resource-rich economies; oil; C.B. Macpherson; Progressive Conservatives; oil industry; climate change
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces i...