Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
Richard Johnston's article is addressed to an article of mine and to another, co-authored with Haim Gold.2 It is much more relevant to the former than to the latter, despite the fact that Johnston uses the data from the 1974 National Election Survey on which the Irvine and Gold article was based. The purpose of that article was to discover whether, if at all, a cleavage between two groups is sustained by social processes involving members of those groups.
1 “The Reproduction of the Religious Cleavage in Canadian Elections,” this JOURNAL 18 (1985), 99–113.Google Scholar
2 Irvine, W. P., “Explaining the Religious Basis of the Canadian Partisan Identity: Success on the Third Try,” this JOURNAL 7 (1974), 560–63;Google Scholar and Irvine, W. P. and Gold, H., “Do Frozen Cleavages Ever go Stale? The Bases of the Canadian and Australian Party Systems,” British Journal of Political Science 10 (1980), 187–218.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3 On the Walter Gordon-Keith Davey strategy, see McCall-Newman, Christina, Grits (Toronto: Macmillan, 1982), 42Google Scholar, and Wearing, Joseph, The L-Shaped Party (Toronto: McGraw-Hill, Ryerson, 1981), 35–36 and 69–73.Google Scholar