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Author Dirks, Patricia G

Title The failure of l'Action libérale nationale / Patricia Dirks
Published Montreal, Qué. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 198 pages)
Contents Contents -- Preface -- 1 La Survivance in an Industrial Quebec -- 2 Socio-economic Change and Political Continuity: The Antecedents of the ALN -- 3 A Third Quebec Party Is Born -- 4 L'Action libérale nationale: The Initial Challenge -- 5 The Federal and Provincial Elections: Catalyst for Union -- 6 The Union Nationale Duplessis-Gouin: Near Victory Breeds Disintegration -- 7 The Waning of ALN Influence within Duplessis's Union Nationale -- 8 Resuscitation Fails: The Demise of the ALN -- 9 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D
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Summary The ALN gained widespread business, popular, and church support by promising francophones both control of a modern Quebec economy and preservation of the traditional social order. As Dirks shows, however, this support came from people with different and sometimes contradictory objectives, causing internal tensions which weakened the ALN from the outset. This weakness was compounded by poor leadership, financial difficulties, and the tactics of the other political parties in Quebec. The Quebec Liberal and Conservative Parties worked independently to undermine the ALN and any possibility of its gaining power in Quebec. Maurice Duplessis, leader of the Quebec Conservative party, skilfully exploited the ALN's weaknesses in the interests of his own party by the formation of the Union Nationale. This coalition of the ALN and the provincial Conservatives capitalized on the popularity of the ALN to win the provincial election of 1935 but ensured that power remained in the hands of what was essentially the Quebec Conservative Party. Dirks' insight into the political history of Quebec is informed by a multitude of sources. She conducted interviews with many of the leading political players of the time, including the late Paul Gouin, the original leader of the ALN. She also consulted many public and private archives, including Gouin's, and was allowed unrestricted access to Duplessis' papers for the period up to 1939, the year the ALN ceased to exist. In relating the rise and fall of the ALN to the socio-economic, ideological, and political developments which shaped Quebec during the early decades of the twentieth century, Dirks reveals its long-term impact on the operation and organization of political parties in Quebec and Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Action libérale nationale -- History
SUBJECT Action libérale nationale fast
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- State.
Politics and government
Geschichte
SUBJECT Québec (Province) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85109777
Subject Québec
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Union Nationale.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773562875
0773562877