No One Can Serve Two Masters: The Religious Conundrum of Conservative Party Leaders in Canada

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa

• This 100-page Honors thesis paper is a comprehensive examination of why Conservative party leaders tend to have a difficult time winning a general federal election in Canada. The research question that this thesis will address is the following: What do the cases of Manning, Day, Harper, and Scheer tell us about the relationship between the conservative party and religion in Canada? I will argue that their cases illustrate the struggle of conservative leaders to build a party that could simultaneously appeal to Christian social conservatives and to enough moderates and socially progressive median voters. This paper includes a detailed background of the historical and present-day relationship between the Christian religion and partisan politics in Canada.

• Date created

  2020-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Canadian politics
  • social conservatism
  • Conservative Party of Canada
  • Conservative Party Leaders
  • Religion in Canada

• Type of Item

  Book

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-0e9t-bj54

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International