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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 ... -
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 ... -
Punishing Local Incumbents for the Local Economy
Economic Voting in the 2012 Belgian Municipal Elections
(2016-03)After decennia of research on economic voting, it is now established that the state of the economy affects voting behaviour. Nevertheless, this conclusion is the result of a focus on predominantly national-level economies and national-level elections. ... -
Social Cohesion as Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic and Beyond
(2015-04)Social cohesion has increasingly been touted as a tool of peacebuilding. Theoretically, the concept is linked with efforts to address inequality and build social capital. Practically, social cohesion is bandied about in post-conflict settings such as ... -
A Comparative Investigation into The Effects of Party-System Variables on Party Switching using Individual-Level Data
(2015-03-23)Previous comparative electoral studies using aggregate data indicate the importance of party-system variables, such as polarization and the number of parties, with regard to the level of volatility between two elections. Research using individual level ... -
Studying Your Own Country. Social Scientific Knowledge For Our Times and Places; Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, St Catharines, May 28, 2014
(2014-12)Political science is both a generalizing and an anchored, nationally defined, discipline. Too often, the first perspective tends to crowd out the latter, because it appears more prestigious, objective, or scientific. Behind the international/national ... -
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 ... -
Macroeconomics, economic crisis and electoral outcomes: A national European pool
(2014-10)An abundance of comparative survey research argues the presence of economic voting as an individual force in European elections, thereby refuting a possible ecological fallacy. But the hypothesis of economic voting at the aggregate level, with ... -
Political Sophistication and Vote Intention Switching
The Timing of Electoral Volatility in the 2009 German Election Campaign
(2014-09-01)This article investigates the link between political sophistication and electoral volatility. Showing that there is disagreement in the literature on whether switching party preferences is related to low or high levels of political sophistication, it ... -
Quand les mouvements sociaux changent la politique. Le cas du mouvement étudiant de 2012 au Québec
(2014-09)À travers l'analyse du conflit étudiant du printemps 2012 au Québec, nous montrons comment les mouvements sociaux peuvent changer, temporairement, le politique. Le politique est entendu ici comme l'ensemble des règles et pratiques individuelles et ... -
The Politics of Poverty in the European Union: How States Respond to the Open Method of Coordination on Social Inclusion
(2014-07)This article assesses the responses of EU-15 member states to the poverty reduction objectives of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) on social inclusion between 2001 and 2006. As a flexible mechanism of information sharing between governments, the ... -
Critical Junctures and Missed Opportunities: The Case of Lebanon's Cedar Revolution
(2014-06-11)This article addresses three shortcomings in the path dependency literature on critical junctures: the neglect of negative cases, non-state actors and of power asymmetries. The 2005 Cedar Revolution had the makings of a critical juncture. Yet despite ... -
The Forgotten Side of Partisanship: Negative Party Identification in Four Anglo-American Democracies
(2014-06)Early studies of electoral behavior proposed that party identification could be negative as well as positive. Over time, though, the concept became mostly understood as a positive construct. The few studies that took negative identification into account ... -
Transfert de voix, flux électoraux et électeurs mobiles
(2014)Ruth Dassonneville et Pierre Baudewyns révèlent que, derrière les pourcentages des résultats électoraux, se cachent bien des mouvements et transferts d’électeurs. Ils se penchent sur la « volatilité nette », c’est-à-dire sur la somme des avancées et ... -
Partisan Dealignment in Germany: A rejoinder to Russell Dalton
(2014)The work of Russell Dalton has undoubtedly played a seminal role in the study of the relation between political sophistication and partisan dealignment. We furthermore acknowledge the presence of a consensus on the occurrence of lower levels of ... -
Party Members as an Electoral Linking Mechanism
An Election Forecasting Model for Political Parties in Belgium, 1981-2010
(2014)While party membership figures are clearly in decline in several Western countries, different interpretations have been offered on the likely consequences of this trend. Some authors stress that members have lost most of their importance for political ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Comparing the Protests of Undocumented Migrants Beyond Contexts: Collective Actions as Acts of Emancipation
(2013-03)In this article, we demonstrate that the collective actions of undocumented migrants possess similar symbolic dimensions, even if the contexts of their actions differ. We explain this finding by focusing on the power relations that undocumented migrants ...
