@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt1287qt1.6,
 ISBN = {9780802090003},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287qt1.6},
 abstract = {In his classic study of social class and power in Canada,The Vertical Mosaic(1965), the sociologist John Porter wrote: ‘It would probably be difficult to find another modern political system with such a paucity of participation from its scholars.’ Canadian academics, he stated, were generally loath to become involved in party politics, whether as candidates for office or as party insiders. What or who was responsible for this state of affairs? Porter discerned the towering academic stature and legacy of the University of Toronto economic historian Harold Adams Innis (1894–1952).‘No one played a more important role in},
 author = {MICHIEL HORN},
 booktitle = {Historical Identities: The Professoriate in Canada},
 pages = {63--83},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Running for Office: Canadian Professors, Electoral Politics, and Institutional Reactions, 1887–1968},
 year = {2006}
}