Identifying Local Identity and its Importance to Contemporary Democracy: Evidence from Canadian Provincial Election Studies

• In Event: Intergovernmental Politics

Brief Overview

Using a series of multi-level models, our findings reaffirm the validity of the neo-Tocquevillian perspective of civil society by demonstrating the importance of local attachment and the substantive impacts of local identity on Canadian democracy.

Authors

• Cameron Anderson, University of Western Ontario

• Michael Hunter Driggers, University of Western Ontario