This past week there were two breaches of decorum that were (somewhat) newsworthy. Provincial Opposition Leader Marit Styles was ejected from Queen’s Park for calling the PC government corrupt and refusing to apologize. If you watch the video, toward the end MPP Styles made the accusation of corruption, and the Speaker said “I will askContinue reading “Putting a Nice Face on Things”
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What Shapes a Government?
We tend to think that governments are shaped by ideology, and that’s true, but what does that really mean, and how much does political ideology really matter? The forces shaping how a government behaves go much further than being liberal or conservative, but it’s still beliefs all the way down: conventions, norms, ideologies and values,Continue reading “What Shapes a Government?”