caa a22 4500 388107065 CHVBK 20180307125342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900010489 doi S0008423900010489 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900010489 Making Sense of Regional Voting in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election: Liberal and Reform Support Outside Quebec [Elektronische Daten] This article uses a regression decomposition approach to explore the meaning of the gaps in electoral support for the federal Liberal party between Ontario, the West and Atlantic Canada, as well as the gap in Reform party support between the West and Ontario in the 1997 federal election. The analysis proceeds in two stages. The first stage involves determining whether the regional vote gaps reflect "true” regional differences or whether they can be explained simply in terms of differences in the sociodemographic makeup of the regions. Having ascertained that the gaps are not spurious, the second stage of the analysis probes the beliefs and attitudes that underlie them. The authors conclude that the gaps are driven not just by differences in political orientations and beliefs from one region to another, but also by more fundamental differences in basic political priorities. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1999 Gidengil Elisabeth McGill University Blais André Université de Montréal Nadeau Richard Université de Montréal Nevitte Neil University of Toronto Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 247-272 0008-4239 32:2<247 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010489 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010489 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gidengil Elisabeth McGill University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Blais André Université de Montréal NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nadeau Richard Université de Montréal NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nevitte Neil University of Toronto NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 247-272 0008-4239 32:2<247 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge