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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 ...
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 ...
The New Global Politics of Poverty
(2006-12)
In recent years, governments, international institutions, and a broad array of
social movements have converged around what an OECD report has described as an
emerging “global anti-poverty consensus.” This new global ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The Gainers Strike: Capitalist Offensive, Militancy, and the Politics of Industrial Relations in Canada
(1990)
The history of Alberta's meatpacking workers is closely connected with the broader historical struggles of the working class in North America. Like their counterparts from the packinghouses in Toronto and Montreal, the ...
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 ...
Public Opinion and Global Justice
(2002-08)
The concept of global justice has been developed to stress the worldwide implications of moral problems. Not much, however, has been written about the actual politics of global justice. This article focuses on public opinion ...
Political Parties and Foreign Aid
(2000-03)
The influence of partisan politics on public policy is a much debated issue of political science. With respect to foreign policy, often considered as above parties, the question appears even more problematic. This comparison ...