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Playing the synthesizer with Canadian data : adding polls to a structural forecasting model
(Elsevier, 2020-07-04)
Election forecasting has become a fixture of election campaigns in a number of democracies. Structural modeling, the major approach to forecasting election results, relies on ‘fundamental’ economic and political variables ...
Does business influence government regulations? Newevidence from Canadian impact assessments
(Wiley, 2020-04-27)
Regulatory impact assessments frequently embed stakeholder consultations in their design.
Canada was one of the early adopters of such an approach and therefore has systematic
documentation on the actors taking part in ...
Did you see it coming? Explaining the accuracy of voter expectations for district and (sub)national election outcomes in multi-party systems
(Elsevier, 2021-03-19)
The expectations of voters regarding election outcomes appear to be mostly influenced by their own political preferences. This raises two important questions. First, once partisan predispositions have been accounted for, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is Decentralization Conservative? Federalism and the Contemporary Debate on the Canadian Welfare State
(Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1999)