The Keystone Province: Politics and Governance in Manitoba

The definitive study of Manitoba politics for our time.

The Keystone Province: Politics and Governance in Manitoba brings together leading experts to examine Manitoba’s diverse political institutions, processes, sectors, and actors. This comprehensive collection presents an engaging analysis of Manitoba’s governments from Louis Riel to Wab Kinew.

Examining Manitoba’s unique political culture, from its first breaths on the battlefields to the steady pulse of the structures, communities, parties, and elections that make up its modern body politic, editors Kelly Saunders and Christopher Adams demonstrate that, throughout its history of continuity and change, the “middle province” remains politically exciting and worthy of study and debate.

Kelly Saunders is a Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, where she teaches a variety of courses in Canadian and provincial politics. Her work on the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party has been published in Disengaged? Fixed Date, Democracy, and Understanding the 2011 Manitoba Election (2014) and Manitoba Politics and Government (2010).

Christopher Adams holds a PhD from Carleton University and was a pollster from 1995 to 2012. He is the author of Politics in Manitoba and a frequent media commentator on social and political issues. He currently serves as the Rector of St. Paul’s College at the University of Manitoba.