Long read: Why Canada has a labor party and the US does not

Eidlin, Barry (2016) Long read: Why Canada has a labor party and the US does not. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (19 Oct 2016). Website.

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In this year’s Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders ran as a Democrat, despite describing himself as a ‘socialist’. In other countries, Sanders would have run as part of a ‘labor’ party, a political grouping that the US lacks. Barry Eidlin explores why the US does not have such a party, while its neighbor, Canada, does. He writes that in the 1930s, President Roosevelt co-opted labor and workers’ interests into the New Deal coalition; while at the same time, Canadian parties’ repression and neglect for workers’ created an opportunity for a new party to emerge which eventually became the New Democratic Party.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Authors, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science © CC BY-NC 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	E History America > E11 America (General) F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1001 Canada (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited:	29 Nov 2016 09:42
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:23
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68416

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