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- Title
Policy Interests of Provincial Backbenchers and the Effects of Political Ambition.
- Authors
Atkinson, Michael
- Abstract
This article examines the policy interests of backbenchers in the Ontario and Nova Scotia legislatures and tests the hypothesis that the manner in which interests are defined is dependent upon the nature of political ambition. In both provinces those members who aspire to cabinet positions are more inclined than others to define their interests in broad terms and to omit any discussion of their constituency in describing their interests. These relationships are sustained in the presence of control variables. The conclusions of this paper bear on the issue of parochialism in provincial politics and the problem of generating and sustaining challenges to political executives.
- Subjects
NOVA Scotia; LEGISLATIVE bodies; LEGISLATIVE power; LEGISLATION; POLITICAL science; PRACTICAL politics; CONSTITUTIONAL law; LEGISLATORS; REPRESENTATIVE government
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1978, Vol 3, Issue 4, p629
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439618