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Sep 16, 2019 • 9 tweets • 9 min read
New on #TheLastPage, just in time for #elxn19 by Kevin Page, Mostafa Askari, and IFSD analyst Emily Woolner:
IFSD Platform Assessment Framework: Fiscal Credibility of 2019 Federal Party Election Platforms ifsd.ca/en/blog/last-p…
Why do platforms matter? 1. They signal what matters for political parties/with whom they engage, 2. they predict government behavior; and 3. they are an important tool for citizens and parliamentarians to hold a new government to account.