Regionalism

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Regionalism
@@politics of territory,@@ bounded as politically significant, territorialization of politics.

@@Politics create boundaries@@ from trying to accomplish a political goal, @@some of them are natural@@ (The rockies)

Canadian politics = highly regionalized → @@re-enforcing mechanism@@
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Defining features
==Historical dev==: common/shared historical past that must be managed, sometimes provincial history (Je me souviens)

==Different geog + econ realities==: Alberta w/ oil and gaz vs QC with hydroelectricity…

==Cultural differences== (language, linked to history…)
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Beyond fragments
Article from Wesley and Wong, arguing that Albertan political culture is also %%the result of the federal idea of what the West should be%%, therefore regionalism is indeed linked to federalism.
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Political culture
refers to deferrenceofauthority,efficacyetcdeferrence of authority, efficacy etc… One of many variables with culture (language, ethnicity…), political behaviour (vote choice) and region.

For HendersonHenderson, is an independantvariableindependant variable that we can analyze through the provincialscopeand/ortheregionsclusteranalysisprovincial scope and/or the regions cluster analysis

Province is important, but not as simple as that: in certain situations, morerelevanttostudypoliticalculturethroughregionsandnotprovinces.more relevant to study political culture through regions and not provinces. It is not a better or a worse way of analizing it, just highlights different elements that may be more relevant depending on what we are trying to explain.
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Perpetuating regionalism
Party system is __highly regionalized__

__Federal parties__ are highly associated with __regional base__
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Managing regionalism
^^House of Commons^^: nuanced with rules that ^^protect nbr of seats^^ per province/region per nbr of pop.

^^Senate^^: ^^by region representation^^, sometimes by province

^^Supreme Court^^: 9 judges w/3 from ^^QC^^, 3 ^^ONT^^ and the r^^est from other regions^^

^^First Minister’s conferences^^: executive federalism with provinces’ PM

^^Cabinet^^: advising head of state, chosen by fed PM but needs ^^balance of talent and region^^.