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Délocalisation outre frontière de l’emploi : Le point sur l’activité législative aux États-Unis
(Université de Montréal. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, 2004-06)Cette note explore les réactions législatives récentes du gouvernement fédéral et des états américains face au phénomène de la délocalisation outre frontière de l’emploi. Elle propose un définition de ce type de politiques, un aperçu de son évolution ... -
Democratic Deliberation in a Multinational Federation
(2006-09)Democratic deliberation is an aspiration that, in the most favorable conditions, remains difficult to achieve. In divided or multinational societies, the requirements of democratic theory appear particularly daunting. This essay surveys the Canadian ... -
La démocratisation du social
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Développements constitutionnels au Royaume-Uni : vers un Parlement fédéral ?
(Université de Montréal. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, 2016-02-24)Dans la foulée de la dévolution de nombreux pouvoirs au Parlement écossais, Westminster a adopté l’automne dernier quelques réformes parlementaires afin de renforcer la position de l’Angleterre au sein de l’union britannique. Grâce au nouveau système ... -
Le devenir robot de l’humain
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Did you see it coming? Explaining the accuracy of voter expectations for district and (sub)national election outcomes in multi-party systems
(Elsevier, 2021-03-19)The expectations of voters regarding election outcomes appear to be mostly influenced by their own political preferences. This raises two important questions. First, once partisan predispositions have been accounted for, how much do other variables ... -
Dire oui à la technique moderne tout en lui disant non : avec Heidegger
(2020-03)Le 25 mars 2020, l’équipe de l’émission « Le Temps du débat » – émission diffusée sur la station de radio culturelle nationale publique française « France Culture » – m’a demandé de rédiger un article sur la question suivante : « du moment que pour ... -
Disloyalty and logics of fratricide in Civil War : executions of officers in republican Spain, 1936-19391
(Sage, 2018-05-14)Violence within armed groups in civil wars is important and understudied. Linking literatures on civil war violence and military politics, this article asks when this fratricidal violence targets soldiers who try to defect, and when it does not. It ... -
Distinct in the House of Commons: The Bloc Québécois as Official Opposition
(Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1994)Le succès électoral du Bloc québécois était prévisible. Il s'est également avéré significatif à court terme et aura des implications majeures dans les mois à venir. La première section de ce chapitre explique le caractère prévisible de la performance ... -
Diverging against all odds? Regulatory Paths in Embryonic Stem Cell Research across Western Europe
(2013-03-20)An interest-driven account of Embryonic Stem Cell Research would, given the considerable financial and scientific concerns, likely predict regulations to converge towards permissive policies. However, across Western Europe, national regulations of ... -
Divided Over Internationalism : The Canadian Public and Development Assistance
(2004-03)This analysis of public opinion towards foreign aid shows that Canadians are divided over internationalism. First, while most citizens agree that development assistance is important, their support often remains shallow, unmatched by a commitment to ... -
Do women vote less correctly? The effect of gender on ideological proximity voting and correct voting
(University of Chicago Press, 2020-05-11)Studies on political knowledge routinely find that women have lower levels of political knowledge than men. This gender gap in political knowledge is usually interpreted as troublesome for democracy, because a lack of political knowledge could imply ... -
Does business influence government regulations? Newevidence from Canadian impact assessments
(Wiley, 2020-04-27)Regulatory impact assessments frequently embed stakeholder consultations in their design. Canada was one of the early adopters of such an approach and therefore has systematic documentation on the actors taking part in these consultations. This article ... -
Le droit et l’administration de la justice face aux instruments managériaux : rationalité juridique vs. rationalité managériale ?
(2013-09-23)Ce dossier est issu d’un atelier qui s’est tenu au Congrès de la Société québécoise de science politique en 2010, sous le titre « Les instruments juridiques dans le jeu politique ». Plusieurs contributions à cet atelier s’intéressaient non seulement ... -
Economic Policy Voting and Incumbency: Unemployment in Western Europe
(2013-06)The economic voting literature has been dominated by the incumbency-oriented hypothesis, where voters reward or punish government at the ballot box according to economic performance. The alternative, policy-oriented hypothesis, where voters favor parties ... -
The economic voter and economic crisis
(2014-10)Theories of economic voting have a long tradition in political science and continue to inspire a large group of scholars. Classical economic voting theory assumes a reward-and-punishment mechanism (Key, 1966). This mechanism implies that incumbents are ... -
The Effects of Civic Education on Political Knowledge
A Two Year Panel Survey among Belgian Adolescents
(2011-09)Traditionally political knowledge was regarded as an important potential outcome for civic education efforts. Most of the currently available research, however, tends to focus on non-cognitive goals, despite the fact that studies repeatedly have shown ... -
The efficacy of ethnic stacking : military defection during uprisings in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05-10)Does ethnic stacking in the armed forces help prevent military defection? Recent research, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, suggests so; by favoring in-groups, regimes can keep in-group soldiers loyal. In-group loyalty comes at the cost of ... -
Election Forecasting under Opaque Conditions
A Model for Francophone Belgium, 1981-2010
(2012)Election forecasting models assume retrospective economic voting and clear mechanisms of accountability. Previous research indeed indicates that incumbent political parties are being held accountable for the state of the economy. In this article we ... -
Electoral Volatility, Political Sophistication, Trust and Efficacy
A Study on Changes in Voter Preferences during the Belgian Regional Elections of 2009
(Springer, 2012-01)In this article we investigate voter volatility and analyze the causes and motives of switching vote intentions. We test two main sets of variables linked to volatility in literature; political sophistication and ‘political (dis)satisfaction’. Results ...
