By Donald E. Blake
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This suggests a degree of accountability in the leadership selection process that certainly does not exist in the national parties. At the federal level, party leadership conventions dominated by one-time delegates of uncertain political background look more like political happenings than aspects of a sophisticated Continuity and Change 31 institutional process. Our record of the BC parties over time suggests that there is more, rather than less, to them than meets the eye. FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL LINKS British Columbians exist in two political worlds.
1 NOTE: figures for 1973 based on party identification; for 1986 and 1987 on reported vote in the 1984 federal election. Unfortunately the data are not strictly comparable. In the 19705, those attending the provincial conventions were asked for their 32 Grassroots Politicians party identification in federal politics. In the 19805, the relevant question asked how they voted in the previous (1984) federal general election. A question about vote might have produced different results among Socreds in 1973, whereas the scale of the Conservative landslide in 1984 may have somewhat altered the typical Socred pattern in 1986.
But they must also have dropped out of active political life for they are not showing up at provincial conventions of the two major parties. Table 4 also shows that the long-term commitment of activists described in Chapter 2 is a continuing phenomenon in these parties. Indeed in the case of Social Credit and the NDP, the number who had been members for more than five years increased in the 19805. At the same time we discovered that a fairly large proportion (43%) of the Liberals had joined over the past half decade.
