Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de science politique - Travaux et publications by Issue Date
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How IMET your mother : revisiting foreign military training, human capital, and coup risk
(2020)How does foreign aid in the form of military training impact civil-military relations in recipient states? Savage and Caverley (2017) find that US foreign military training alters the balance of power between recipient state militaries and their ... -
Sur l'amitié pleine et entière chez Aristote
(2019-12-03)Dans sa conférence sur l’amitié et la connaissance de soi donnée à Munich, le 12 juillet 1983 lors du colloque « Wissenschaft und Existenz : Ein interdisziplinäres Symposium », Gadamer, manifestement interpellé par la mise en garde heideggérienne en ... -
The abiding voter : the lengthy horizon of retrospective evaluations
(Wiley, 2019-11-29)Although the theory of retrospective voting receives wide support in the literature on voting behavior, less agreement exists on voters’ time horizon when assessing the government’s performance – i.e., whether voters are myopic. Previous studies on ... -
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 ... -
10 Downing Street: who’s next? Seemingly unrelated regressions to forecast UK election results
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-02-01)In recent years, the British polling industry has encountered difficulties in its attempts to measure voting intentions in important popular consultations, notably the referendum on Scottish independence, the 2015 general election and the EU membership ... -
Le grand paradoxe de la famine temporelle
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Le devenir robot de l’humain
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The loyalty trap : regime ethnic exclusion, commitment problems, and civil war duration in Syria and beyond
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-10-30)This article examines the impact of the ethnic exclusiveness of regimes on commitment problems and hence on civil conflict duration. It argues that members of privileged in-groups in highly exclusive regimes can be trapped into compliance with the ... -
Are the supporters of populist parties loyal voters? Dissatisfaction and stable voting for populist parties
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-09-17)Scholars of electoral behaviour regularly link political dissatisfaction to two types of behaviour: voting for populist parties and unstable voting behaviour. It is therefore not surprising that the electorates of populist parties are generally assumed ... -
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 ... -
Explaining the Trump vote : the effect of racist resentment and anti-immigrant sentiments
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-04-12)The campaign leading to the 2016 US presidential election included a number of unconventional forms of campaign rhetoric. In earlier analyses, it was claimed that the Trump victory could be seen as a form of protest voting. This article analyzes the ... -
Rapport de la Déclaration de Montréal pour un développement responsable de l'intelligence artificielle
(2018)Ce rapport revient en détail sur le processus de co-construction ayant mené à la Déclaration de Montréal pour un développement responsable de l'intelligence artificielle (IA). Le document présente la Déclaration, la méthodologie utilisée pour son ... -
Regulating Assisted Reproduction in Canada, Switzerland, and the USA: Comparing the Judicialization of Policy-making
(2017-02-14)This article analyses the extent to which courts shape policies for assisted reproduction. While the USA is considered to be the most litigious country, Canada has observed a growing involvement of the courts from the 1980’s onward, and Switzerland is ... -
Compulsory voting, inequality, and quality of the vote : the impact of compulsory voting on accountability and proximity voting
The impact of compulsory voting on inequality and the quality of the vote
(Routledge, 2017-01-18)Democratic elections imply that the electorate holds incumbents accountable for past performance, and that voters select the party that is closest to their own political preferences. Previous research shows that both elements require political sop ... -
When Doctors Shape Policy: The Impact of Self-Regulation on Governing Human Biotechnology
(2016-09)This paper investigates the development and adoption of governance modes in the field of human biotechnology. As the field of human biotechnology is relatively new, voluntary professional self-regulation constituted the initial governing mode. In the ... -
Syrie fédérale : la proposition kurde
(Université de Montréal. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, 2016-04-16) -
L’érosion de la classe moyenne américaine
(Université de Montréal. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, 2016-03-29)Cette note de recherche revient dans un premier temps sur la trajectoire empruntée par la classe moyenne américaine depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. L’affaiblissement de ce pilier de l’économie nationale, en plus d’être une composante symbolique ...
