Arising from a conference held at the University of Calgary in honour of Mildred Schwartz, Regionalism and Party Politics in Canada brings together current scholarship on regionalism and parties in order to make sense of the transition of the party system.

Foreword: Politics and Territory Revisited ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Region as a Social Construction ; 3. Political Geography and the Study of Regionalism ; 4. The Forest for the Trees: Regional (Dis)Similarity and Political Culture in Contemporary Culture ; 5. Revisiting Western Alienation ; 6. Regionalism, Political Culture and Some Canadian Political Myths ; 7. When Voice encourages Exit: Nations and Legislatures in the Developed West ; 8. The Increasing Importance of Region to Canadian Election Campaigns ; 9. Making Sense of Reform as a Western Party ; 10. Regionalism and Restructuring in the Progressive Conservative Party ; 11. Ontario: A One-Party System? ; 12. Political Realignment in Atlantic Canada ; 13. Regionalism, Political Parties and Parliamentary Politics in Canada and Australia ; 14. Contemporary Ethno-Regionalism: Post-Modern and Global or Pre-Modern and Parochial? ; 15. Reassessing Gendered and Territorial Identities in Western Canada at Century's End