My final column of 2013 is now up on Loonie Politics, which looks at the notion that somehow the PMO is really pulling all of the strings in the Senate. Given the chamber's institutional independence and the fleeting ways in which the PMO can try to influence or persuade, I deconstruct this assertion, and show just how illusory that kind of control tends to be.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
The illusion - and delusion - of Senate control
My final column of 2013 is now up on Loonie Politics, which looks at the notion that somehow the PMO is really pulling all of the strings in the Senate. Given the chamber's institutional independence and the fleeting ways in which the PMO can try to influence or persuade, I deconstruct this assertion, and show just how illusory that kind of control tends to be.
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