Class, Regional, and Institutional Sources of Party Support Within British Columbia

In addition, she has suggested that analyses of electoral cleavages within B.C. require further attention to institutional differences among members of the employed population. This paper will examine some of the issues raised by Marchak. First, however, it will be useful to summarize Marchak's conceptualization of class, region and institutional sector. For "class" Marchak suggests a fourclass model which includes the policy-directing class, the managerial class, workers and the permanently unemployed or marginally employed. By "institutional sector" Marchak means groupings of organizations which possess varying degrees of control over industrial wealth. Six of these are discussed: industrial and financial corporations operating within an oligopolistic market; government and the public sector; unions; small businesses, independent professional practices and independent farms; nongovernment and non-commercial institutions, particularly churches; and the family. For the regional dimension, Marchak distinguishes between the metrop-