@inbook{10.3138/9781442674707.14, ISBN = {9780802037855}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442674707.14}, abstract = {On 21 September 1999, Manitobans elected the New Democratic party (NDP) led by Gary Doer, a signal perhaps that voters were ready for a change.¹ Indeed, since 1988 Manitoba had been governed by the Progressive Conservative party under the leadership of Gary Filmon. Just prior to the election, however, some political observers were questioning whether the NDP government would be any different from its predecessor. As one analyst pointed out, social democratic political parties around the world were increasingly ’coming to terms with the political reality’ that to be elected, a pragmatic, turn-to-the-right politics was a necessity. Furthermore, the NDP’s}, author = {JOAN GRACE}, booktitle = {Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government}, pages = {171--183}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Cabinet Structure and Executive Style in Manitoba}, year = {2005} }