Conventional Choices?

Ian Stewart is a professor of political science atAcadia University and author of Roasting Chestnuts: The Mythologyof Maritime Political Culture. David K. Stewartis a professor of political science at the University of Calgary andauthor of Quasi-Democracy? Parties and Leadership Selection inAlberta.

"A monumental achievement of impeccable scholarship. Conventional Choices combines astute quantitative analysis of a remarkably wideranging data set with a thorough familiarity with the secondary literature of Maritime (and Canadian) politics and an encyclopaedic culling of newspaper sources. The analysis is never less than sure-footed and the conclusions are insightful. It will take its place among the key contributions to Maritime politics and to the study of leadership conventions. - Graham White, author of Cabinets and First Ministers"

• Tables and FiguresAcknowledgments1 Choosing Leaders2 The Conventions3 From J. Buchanan to A. Buchanan: Candidates and Voters4 Tourists or Partisans? Political Background and ElectorEngagement5 Leadership Election Support Patterns: Friends and Neighbours?6 Town versus Country: Urban Rural Divisions7 Brothers and Sisters? Gender-Based Voting at Party Conventions8 Inter- and Intraparty Attitudinal Differences9 Rebels without a Cause? Supporters of Fringe Candidates10 Going My Way? "Delivering" Votes after the FirstBallot11 Prince Edward Island and the Garden Myth12 New Brunswick: The Politics of Language13 Nova Scotia: The Challenge of Social Democracy14 The End of the Affair? Political Scientists and the DelegatedConvention15 ConclusionAppendix: Leadership Election Profiles for Nova Scotia, NewBrunswick, and Prince Edward IslandNotesBibliographyIndex