Product Description Throughout the Western world, the rise of the so-called New Right is a growing phenomenon. In Canada, it has taken the form of the Canadian Alliance Party. This book is the first critical examination of the Canadian Alliance and Reform Party ideology. It addresses the most distinctive andpolitically significant dimensions of the party's understanding of and agenda for democratic politics in contemporary Canada. About the Author David Laycock, associate professor at Simon Fraser University, is well-known as an expert on Prairie populism and the Canadian Alliance. He is the author of Poulism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Praires, 1910-1945 ( UTP Press, 1990 ).