With the Canadian federal election now upon us, Absent Mandate offers a well-timed insight into Canadian voting behaviour. The authors develop the crucial concept of policy mandates – distinguished from other interpretations of election outcomes – and addresses the disconnect between election issues and government actions. In this talk, the authors Dr. Jon Pammett and Dr. Lawrence LeDuc discuss the 2019 election: what we can expect to see? Has anything really changed since elections back in 1965? And are Canadian electoral politics now following a new, or even unfamiliar, path?

Harold D. Clarke, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc, and Jon H. Pammett, Absent Mandate:Strategies and Choices in Canadian Elections, University of Toronto Press, 2019.