The King Can Do No Wrong: The Expulsion of the Douglasites, Intra-Party Conflict Resolution, and Dominant Party Ideological Moderation

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dc.contributor.advisorSayers, Anthony Michael
dc.contributor.advisorStewart, David
dc.contributor.authorTot, Brian Istvan
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-18T16:58:28Z
dc.date.available2022-05-18T16:58:28Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-18
dc.descriptionSupervised by Dr. Anthony Michael Sayers and Dr. David Stewart. Peer-reviewed and accepted by Dr. Sayers and a blind reviewer. Received honours designation.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn 1947-1948, Premier of Alberta, Ernest Manning, expelled the rabidly anti-Semitic sect of his caucus and Government known as the Douglasites. In this purge, Manning would end up expelling numerous members of his caucus, Party (the Alberta Social Credit League), and Government, paving the way for a drastic shift in espoused socio-political rhetoric and ideology from the Party away from the anti-Semitic. Although Social Credit’s anti-Semitic roots run deep, it is the case that Premier Manning was the primary catalysing actor that set the de-facto natural law of the Party from his ascension to the premiership. When Manning said that he “condemned, repudiated, and completely dissociated” himself from the group, whether his intentions were actually grounded in his moral framework – as is hinted towards by the author – or were instead a measure of his political acumen, may perhaps only have been known by the premier himself. But, what is strongly evidence is the fact that Manning played a primary role in this dramatic shift. Without Ernest Manning, this movement ideologically was not necessarily a given, and rather, what the historical record implies is that Manning in many ways served as the primary catalyst and driving factor in this shift. My thesis considers this course of events, their socio-political implications, and grounds itself theoretically in an application of Orbell and Fougere’s intra-party conflict resolution model for understanding the dominant party ideological moderation/decay.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTot, B. I. (2022). The King Can Do No Wrong: The Expulsion of the Douglasites, Intra-Party Conflict Resolution, and Dominant Party Ideological Moderation (Unpublished undergraduate thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114680
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39791
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.departmentPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectAlberta politicsen_US
dc.subjectAlberta historyen_US
dc.subjectAlberta political historyen_US
dc.subjectSocial Crediten_US
dc.subjectIntra-partyen_US
dc.subjectIntra-party conflict resolutionen_US
dc.subjectIdeological decayen_US
dc.subjectParty moderationen_US
dc.subjectPrairie politicsen_US
dc.subjectPrairie historyen_US
dc.subjectErnest Manningen_US
dc.subjectWilliam Aberharten_US
dc.subjectCanadian anti-Semitismen_US
dc.subjectSocial Credit anti-Semitismen_US
dc.subjectAlberta anti-Semitismen_US
dc.titleThe King Can Do No Wrong: The Expulsion of the Douglasites, Intra-Party Conflict Resolution, and Dominant Party Ideological Moderationen_US
dc.typebachelor thesisen_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
ucalgary.scholar.levelUndergraduateen_US
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