A Comparison of North-South and West-East Differences in Political Attitudes in Canada

Authors

  • Boris DeWiel

Abstract

Using data from the 2000 Canadian Election Study, this paper compares
diff erences in political values and attitudes from west to east with correspon
ding diff erences from north to south. On social issues, the West is not
gen erally more traditional or conservative than the East, but the North
is some what more conservative than the South. On economic issues, the
West is somewhat more libertarian than the East, while the North does
not diff er much from the South. In attitudes toward Ottawa, the North
shows greater signs of alienation than the West.

Author Biography

Boris DeWiel

Boris DeWiel <dewielb@unbc.ca> is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at
the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of Democracy: A History
of Ideas (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000).

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Published

09/30/2005

Issue

No. 25/26: Summer 2005

Section

Special Collection: Governance in the Provincial Norths

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