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Association canadienne de science politiqueProgramme du congrès annuel de l'ACSP 2025
Les politiques d’appartenance : conflit,
communauté, curriculum
Organisé au Collège George Brown, Toronto, CANADA
3 juin au 5 juin 20252025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College
June 3 to June 5, 2025
Politique canadienne
A18(a) - Author Meets Critic Session: No I in Team: Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics by Alex Marland, Jared Wesley and Mireille Lalancette.
Date: Jun 5 | Heure: 12:00pm to 01:30pm | Salle:
Chair/Président/Présidente : Ian Brodie (University of Calgary)
Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Graham White (University of Toronto)
Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Tracey Raney (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Alex Marland (Acadia University)Jared Wesley (University of Alberta)
Mireille Lalancette (UQTR)
Abstract: Canadian legislators routinely face tests of loyalty as they navigate the competing demands of party allegiance, leadership support, constituent advocacy, and personal career ambitions. Unless you’re a politician, you can’t really understand the pressures they are under to be publicly united. Until now. In "No In in Team: Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics" (published by University of Toronto Press, 2025) scholars Alex Marland, Mireille Lalancette and Jared Wesley delve into the complex institutional, sociological and psychological pressures that shape the experiences of Canadian parliamentarians. They argue that the evolving communications landscape has transformed party discipline into an all-encompassing message discipline, and along with it most MPs and provincial legislators behave as team players who avoid causing trouble. These contentions are put to the test in this Authors Meet Critics session.