Remaining loyal : social democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan / David McGrane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGrane, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--Québec (Province).

Socialism.

Socialism--Saskatchewan.

Québec.

Saskatchewan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 373 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal : Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Summary:

When social democratic politicians in the 1990s moderated their ideas and policies as part of a turn towards the "third way," they were assailed as traitors to the cause. Remaining Loyal demonstrates that while third way social democrats in Quebec and Saskatchewan supplemented certain social democratic ideas with more right-wing economic programs, their public policies remained true to the original spirit of social democracy. Drawing on a range of archival resources, David McGrane traces the evolution of social democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan from their respective origins in social Catholic thought and agrarian protest movements at the turn of the twentieth century to the most recent Party Quebécois and New Democratic Party governments. In doing so, he reconstructs the public policies of traditional social democracy from the postwar era and the third way in the 1990s and early 2000s and finds both differences and continuities. McGrane contends that remaining loyal to core social democratic values is exactly what differentiates the third way from neo-liberalism in Saskatchewan and Quebec. The first historical comparison of social democracy in Saskatchewan and Quebec, Remaining Loyal challenges how we think about the recent ideological evolution of left-wing parties in Canada and the rest of the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Social Democratic Ideology 13

2 Western Alienation, Québécois Nationalism, and Social Democracy 45

3 Why Saskatchewan? Why Quebec? 74

4 The State Reigns Supreme 103

5 The Golden Age of Social Democracy 140

6 Remaining Loyal 166

7 Explaining the Emergence of the Third Way 207

8 Is the Third Way the Only Way? 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

McGrane, David, author. Remaining loyal.

ISBN:

9780773544161

077354416X

9780773544178

0773544178

OCLC:

877364261