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Reframing climate change as a public health issue : a Canadian case study, 2008-2020
(2021-10-21)
Les changements climatiques représentent une menace majeure pour la santé publique au Canada et ailleurs. À l’inverse, l’action climatique pourrait procurer des éventuels co-bénéfices santé. Bien que la recherche en matière ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is Decentralization Conservative? Federalism and the Contemporary Debate on the Canadian Welfare State
(Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1999)
Policy change and information search : a test of the politics of information using regulatory data
(Springer, 2023-03-18)
Some policy scholars insist that any policy change is difficult to achieve, while others argue that large change occurs more frequently than we imagine. The work of Baumgartner and Jones reconciles these arguments, suggesting ...