Lost on Division

Compared to other countries, Canada’s Parliament shows a high level of party unity when it comes to legislative voting. This was not always the case, however. One hundred years ago, this sort of party discipline was not as evident, leading scholars to wonder what explains the growing influence of political parties in the Canadian Parliament. In Lost on Division , Jean-François Godbout analyses more than two million individual votes recorded in the House of Commons and the Senate since Confederat