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Changements climatiques et stratégies de mitigation : Assistons-nous à une décarbonisation de l’économie mondiale ?
(Université de Montréal. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, 2015-11)
En juin 2015, les dirigeants des pays du G7 se sont engagés à décarboniser l’économie mondiale d’ici à la fin du siècle. La question se pose alors de savoir si une telle transition est d’ores et déjà observable, objet de ...
Practices of Local Social Forums: The Building of Tactical and Cultural Collective Action Repertoires
(2013)
Since the first edition of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2001, similar initiatives have flourished at the local scales. In the existing literature, local social forums are generally considered to be a ...
L’apolitisme municipal
(2012)
Les trois modèles municipaux de participation publique au Québec
(2011)
Dans le présent article, nous décrivons les trois façons d’organiser la participation
publique à l’échelle municipale au Québec. D’une part, le modèle de participation préconisé
par la Loi sur l’aménagement et l’urbanisme ...
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, ...
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 ...
A Journey of a Thousand Steps: The Challenges of State and Nation Building in South Sudan
(2011)
On July 9th, 2011, South Sudan will officially become independent. When southern Sudanese voted in the January 9 referendum on independence, they sought to affirm their African identity and shed the Arab identity that they ...
Norm Transmission in Peace- and State-building: Lessons from Democracy Promotion in Sudan and Lebanon
(2012)
This article examines the transmission and reception of democratic norms in the context of liberal peace interventions. It identifies two reasons for the failure to promote democracy: the strategies favored by liberal peace ...
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 ...
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 ...