Slip, sliding away or le plus ca change ...: Canadian and American partisanship in comparative perspective.

Introduction

The 1993 Canadian national election has been characterized as a "critical election," one in which widespread partisan dealignment grounded in the electorate's weak and unstable psychological identification with the three old-line parties, the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives (PC), and New Democratic Party (NDP), led to the emergence of two relatively new parties, Reform and the Bloc Quebecois (BQ) (Clarke, Kornberg, and Wearing, 2000). More specifically, the election resulted in the virtual disappearance of the governing Tories who lost 167 of their 169 ...

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