Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Setting the Scene
5. Out of an Orange-Coloured Sky 1
6. The Tory Fall and the Ndp Victory
7. Politics, Alberta Style: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Conservatives, 1971–2015 15
8. Death of a Dynasty: The Tories and the 2015 Election 35
9. Ready for Rachel: The Alberta NDP’s 2015 Campaign 57
10. Marginally Better: Polling in the 2015 Alberta Election 79
11. Alberta Politics Online: Digital Retail Politics and Grassroots Growth, 2006–16 103
12. Oil Sands, Carbon Tax, and Pipelines
13. Betting on Bitumen: Lougheed, Klein, and Notley 147
14. The Politics of Alberta’s Carbon Tax^* 165
15. Notley: The Accidental Pipeline Advocate 191
16. The Ndp In Power
17. After Forty-Four Years: The Alberta New Democrats and the Transition to Government 209
18. Fiscal Constraints on the Orange Chinook 227
19. Beyond the “Lovey-Dovey Talk”: The Orange Chinook and Indigenous Activism 247
20. Alberta’s Cities under the NDP 271
21. The End of Exceptionalism: Post-rural Politics in Alberta 293
22. Notley’s Governing Style
23. A League of Their Own: Alberta’s Women Party Leaders 319
24. Notley and the Beast: An Analysis of the Crisis Communication of Rachel Notley during the 2016 Wildfire 353
25. Alberta’s Future Political System
26. What’s Past is Prologue: Ontario 1990 and Alberta 2015 377
27. Out of the Blue: Goodbye Tories, Hello Jason Kenney 399
28. Appendices
29. Alberta Voter Turnout, 1975–2015 427
30. Party Votes in the 5 May 2015 Alberta Provincial Election (87 seats) 428
31. Non-Renewable Resource Revenues Tables, 2005-6 to 2017-18 (current dollars) 429
32. A GDP Expenditure-Based, 2005-16 430
33. Alberta Provincial Revenues and Expenditures, 2007-17 (billions of current dollars) 433
34. Alberta Provicial Government Per Capita Health Expenditure, 2008–17 (current dollars) 434
35. Alberta Provincial Government Health Expenditure, 2008–17 (millions of current dollars) 435
36. Contributors 437
37. Index 441