Thesis
French
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33747>
Abstract
In 2012 and 2014, major changes to the Quebec Electoral Law transformed the way political parties finance themselves in Quebec. The maximum individual contribution has been drastically reduced and public funding of political parties has been increased. This quantitative case study attempts to measure the impact of this reform on electoral turnout, constituency party spending and partisan political offer. Using multiple linear regression, we show that an effect on participation can be possible. We also show that the reform does not seem to have affected the way in which parties finance themselves in constituencies. Using automated textual analysis, we show that the partisan offer converged significantly between 2003 and 2014. This memory is part of a general research focus of the Research Chair on Democracy and Parliamentary Institutions.