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The green economy challenge to IPE
(Université de Montréal. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, 2012)
Calls for a transition to a low-carbon energy system, favouring renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and conservation are now entering the mainstream of policy discourse in many sectors and parts of the world, with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reforming Federal Systems: Insights from Australia, Canada, Germany and Switzerland
(Université de Montréal. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, 2014-11)
Reform represents a distinct mode of change within federal systems that can be distinguished from passive adaptation. Through reform, political actors deliberately seek to alter parts of the federal institutional architecture ...
The Mobilization against the 2005 treaty establishing a constitution for Europe : a French mobilization for another Europe
(2010-11)
Why did a majority of French voters reject the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe in the 2005 referendum? We argue here that the collective mobilization of the left-wing ‘No’ camp made the decisive difference ...
Mobilizing in borderline citizenship regimes : a comparative analysis of undocumented migrants’ collective actions
(2011-06)
This article seeks to explain how and why groups and networks of undocumented migrants mobilizing in Berlin, Montréal, and Paris since the beginning of the 2000s construct different types of claims. The authors explore the ...
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 ...
Marginalization and Transnationalizing Movements: How Does One Relate to the Other?
(Springer, 2013)
The main objective of this chapter is to address the following theoretical issue: How are the transnationalization and the marginalization processes related? We suggest that in order to understand more accurately how ...