table of contents
Introduction: Out of an Orange-Coloured Sky
Richard Sutherland
II. The Tory Fall and the NDP Victory
1. Politics, Alberta Style: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Conservatives, 1971–2015
David Taras
2. Death of a Dynasty: The Tories and the 2015 Election Duane Bratt
3. Ready for Rachel: The Alberta NDP’s 2015 Campaign Melanee Thomas
4. Marginally Better: Polling in the 2015 Alberta Election Janet Brown and John B. Santos
5. Alberta Politics Online: Digital Retail Politics and Grassroots Growth, 2006–16
Peter Malachy Ryan
III. Oil Sands, Carbon Tax, and Pipelines
6. Betting on Bitumen: Lougheed, Klein, and Notley
Gillian Steward
7. The Politics of Alberta’s Carbon Tax
Kevin Taft
8. Notley: The Accidental Pipeline Advocate
Deborah Yedlin
9. After Forty-Four Years: The Alberta New Democrats and the Transition to Government
Keith Brownsey
10. Fiscal Constraints on the Orange Chinook
Ron Kneebone and Jennifer Zwicker
11. Beyond the “Lovey-Dovey Talk”: The Orange Chinook and Indigenous Activism
Brad Clark
12. Alberta’s Cities under the NDP
James Wilt
13. The End of Exceptionalism: Post-rural Politics in Alberta
Roger Epp
14. A League of Their Own: Alberta’s Women Party Leaders
Lori Williams
15. Notley and the Beast: An Analysis of the Crisis Communication of Rachel Notley during the 2016 Wildfire
Chaseten Remillard and Sheridan McVean
VI. Alberta’s Future Political System
16. What’s Past is Prologue: Ontario 1990 and Alberta 2015 Graham White
17. Out of the Blue: Goodbye Tories, Hello Jason Kenney Anthony M. Sayers and David K. Stewart
Appendix 1. Alberta Voter Turnout, 1975–2015
Appendix 2. Party Votes in the 5 May 2015 Alberta Provincial Election
Appendix 3. Non-Renewable Resource Revenues Tables, 2005-6 to 2017-18
Appendix 4.
a. GDP Expenditure-Based, 2005-16
b. Provincial Per Capita Expenditure-Based Spending, 2005-16
c. Provincial Population, 2005-17
Appendix 5. Alberta Provincial Revenues and Expenditures 2007–17
Appendix 6. Alberta Provicial Government Per Capita Health Expenditure 2008–17
Appendix 7. Alberta Provincial Government Health Expenditure 2008–17