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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 ...
Une loi contre la pauvreté : La nouvelle approche québécoise de lutte contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale
(2002)
Le 12 juin 2002, le gouvernement du Québec rendait public un projet de loi visant à lutter contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale. Le projet de loi 112 fait de la lutte contre la pauvreté une priorité gouvernementale ...
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 ...
La démocratisation du social
(2002)