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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 ...
Diverging against all odds? Regulatory Paths in Embryonic Stem Cell Research across Western Europe
(2013-03-20)
An interest-driven account of Embryonic Stem Cell Research would, given the considerable financial and scientific concerns, likely predict regulations to converge towards permissive policies. However, across Western Europe, ...
Critical Junctures and Missed Opportunities: The Case of Lebanon's Cedar Revolution
(2014-06-11)
This article addresses three shortcomings in the path dependency literature on critical junctures: the neglect of negative cases, non-state actors and of power asymmetries. The 2005 Cedar Revolution had the makings of a ...
A Journey of a Thousand Steps: The Challenges of State and Nation Building in South Sudan
(2011)
On July 9th, 2011, South Sudan will officially become independent. When southern Sudanese voted in the January 9 referendum on independence, they sought to affirm their African identity and shed the Arab identity that they ...
Norm Transmission in Peace- and State-building: Lessons from Democracy Promotion in Sudan and Lebanon
(2012)
This article examines the transmission and reception of democratic norms in the context of liberal peace interventions. It identifies two reasons for the failure to promote democracy: the strategies favored by liberal peace ...
Social Cohesion as Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic and Beyond
(2015-04)
Social cohesion has increasingly been touted as a tool of peacebuilding. Theoretically, the concept is linked with efforts to address inequality and build social capital. Practically, social cohesion is bandied about in ...
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 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 ...