André Lecours
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 217199 |
|---|---|
| NOME | André Lecours |
| PRENOMES | André |
| SOBRENOME | Lecours |
| ASSINATURA | LECOURS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8938-0286 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 85 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 539 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
The Politics of Territorial Resistance to Federal Authority
Federalism involves political struggles around the territorial division of powers. Typically, these struggles tend to occur when the federal government seeks to act in areas of constituent unit jurisdiction. Yet, recent political developments in Texas (Operation Lone Star) and Alberta (Alberta Sovereignty in a United Canada Act) have showcased state/provincial governments seeking to reject federal legislation within seemingly federal jurisdiction…
Nationalism and the transformation of party systems
Majority Nationalism and the Trump Administration
This article examines how the Trump administration’s embrace of ethnic majority nationalism—rooted in white identity and anti-Latino sentiment—shaped its policies toward Puerto Rico and Latino communities more broadly. It argues that Puerto Rico’s treatment following Hurricane María in 2017 exemplified this dynamic: despite devastation comparable to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in the mainland, federal aid to the island was slower, smaller, and mor…
Islands and Self-Determination in the Caribbean
The politics of self-determination in non-independent Caribbean islands features both common and divergent outcomes. The common outcome is a weakness of secessionism. The divergent outcome is the broader politics over status. Using a comparison of Puerto Rico (where secessionism is weak and the constitutional status is strongly contested) and Aruba (where secessionism is also weak but the status broadly accepted), this article refines arguments f…
The political consequences of the end of nationalist violence
A francophone political culture? Similarities and differences among French speakers in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and France
This paper explores whether language shapes political culture by examining the case of French and a possible transnational francophone political culture. Using original survey data from Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and France collected in autumn 2020, we find only small within-country differences between francophones and non-francophones and limited transnational alignment. National patterns dominate even in multilingual federations with divided…
Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Public Policy Research, and Fiscal Federalism in Canada
Dans le présent article, nous nous appuyons sur notre expérience en tant que chercheurs issus de trois disciplines distinctes, l'économie, le droit et la science politique, pour discuter de la valeur ajoutée que chacune d'elle apporte à l'étude du fédéralisme fiscal au Canada et pour réfléchir plus largement à la manière dont ces disciplines peuvent se compléter dans le cadre d'une collaboration interdisciplinaire. Bien que les approches pluridis…
Putting Federalism in Its Place
What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It has frustrated many, with federalism seeming to matter in all sorts of combinations with all sorts of issues, from nationalism to racism to intergovernmental competition. The diffuse federalism literature has not come to compelling answers for very basic questio…
The State of Nationalism (SoN)
Territory and solidarity are two central components of contemporary politics whose connection has come to be embodied in two quite different political phenomena: nationalism and the welfare-state. Nationalism is a form of politics linking territory (a homeland) to a special sense of solidarity deemed to supersede all others (i.e., non-national cleavages). The welfare state represents the tangible manifestation of social solidarity between citizen…
Nationalism, Regionalism, and Strategic Learning in Federal Systems
Territorial and intergovernmental tensions are particularly strong in multinational federations like Canada. In this article, we study how Quebec has become an explicit model for Alberta in its own quest for greater autonomy and influence within the Canadian federation. After discussing the notion of strategic learning as it relates to different types of territorial politics (substate nationalism, regionalism, and jurisdictionalism), the article …
National standards or territorial autonomy? Public opinion and the politics of fiscal federalism for healthcare in Canada
Focusing on public opinion, this paper studies the politics of fiscal federalism by analysing support for the level and conditionality of intergovernmental transfers for healthcare. Leveraging a representative survey of the Canadian population conducted in 2022, we show that preferences for fiscal federalism reflect territorial identity and ideology. Left-wing respondents are more likely than right-wing ones to prefer higher, conditional transfer…
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU
This article compares Basque and Catalan mobilization towards the EU over the period from 1992 to 2022. The contrasting trajectories of these regions are approached through the conceptual framework of ‘paradiplomacy’ and ‘protodiplomacy’. Building on a combination of primary and secondary sources, six explanatory variables are selected and the observed patterns compared across time. Both cases alternate between cooperation and benign neglect, bec…
Canada and Comparative Territorial Politics
This presidential address on Canada and the study of territorial politics makes four main arguments. The first is that territory is a central component of politics, especially of Canadian politics, and that it should remain a focal point of specialists of Canadian and comparative politics. The second is that territory matters in contemporary politics because it serves as grounding for political communities, their claims, and their politics. The t…
La Coalition Avenir Québec est-elle une nouvelle Union nationale
Ce texte propose une analyse de la Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) à partir d'une comparaison avec l'Union nationale (UN) de Maurice Duplessis. Il s'agit de montrer que la CAQ se compare à l'UN dans la mesure où elle propose de regrouper des courants politiques insatisfaits de l'évolution politique et de les canaliser dans une approche nationaliste similaire à celle défendue par Duplessis, laquelle insiste aussi sur les enjeux économiques. Après av…
Federalism and the politics of oil and gas pipelines in Canada (Alberta) and the United States (Texas)
In recent years, pipeline policy has been a significant and controversial issue in Canadian politics. In the United States, pipeline projects to increase transportation capacity for Texas oil have also been high on the energy agenda, but they have not permeated national politics like in Canada. In fact, new pipelines to transport oil and gas out of Texas' Permian Basin have multiplied without generating serious national controversy or intergovern…
Response to Sean Mueller's review of Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy
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Nationalism and the strength of secessionism in Western Europe
Contrary to the dominant expectations of the late 20th century, secessionism surged in two West European minority national communities, Catalonia and Scotland, over the last decade. Yet, in two others enjoying similar degrees of autonomy, Flanders and South Tyrol, secessionism did not gain strength. This outcome suggests that focusing on the degree of autonomy afforded to minority national communities is misplaced. This article shows that the nat…
Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies
Nationalism, Secularism, and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Quebec
An ongoing debate over the intersections between secularism and ethno-cultural diversity is taking place in contemporary societies. For example, in just over a decade, Quebec has witnessed multiple attempts to reframe its approach to issues of nationalism in the context of secularism and the regulation of ethno-cultural diversity. This qualitative and historically minded article studies the relationship among nationalism, secularism, and the regu…
L’Alberta, l’aliénation de l’Ouest et le programme fédéral de péréquation
Depuis quelques années, la péréquation fait la manchette au Canada. Tel que suggéré ici, la raison pour laquelle la question de la péréquation a été inscrite à l’agenda politique est liée en grande partie aux efforts de cadrage idéologique du gouvernement albertain, qui mobilise cette question comme arme politique contre Ottawa et le Québec dans les débats sur la construction de pipelines. L’argument formulé souligne la façon dont le premier mini…
Multinationalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic
The introduction to the special issue offers a six-points framework for analyzing both the impact of the pandemic on nationalism and the broader multinational state as well as the significance of multinationalism for the response to the pandemic. These points correspond to the following questions: (1) How has multinationalism (as a sociological fact and/or a political culture that has conditioned governance practices and institutional frameworks)…
Fiscal federalism, social identity and place-based resentment
We highlight the importance of social identity and place-based resentment rather than economic positions to explain preferences for interregional fiscal redistribution. We use the 2019 Confederation of Tomorrow survey to study the equalization programme in Canada, the main vehicle for interregional fiscal redistribution in the country. We find that among respondents living in richer provinces, support for equalization depends on identification to…
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the Covid-19 Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic produced more significant immediate intergovernmental conflict in the U.S. than in Australia and Canada. This article considers three variables for this cross-national divergence: presidentialism versus parliamentarism; vertical party integration; and strength of intergovernmental arrangements. We find that the U.S. presidential system, contrary to parliamentarism in Canada and Australia, provided an opportunity for a populi…
Ideas, federalism and policy feedback
Federalism and policy feedback are central issues within the institutionalist tradition, but scholars who study the role of ideas within that tradition have paid surprisingly limited attention to these two issues. More specifically, within the public policy literature, little has been published about the relationship between federalism and the ideational dimension of policy feedback. The objective of this article is to explore this relationship a…
A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to Covid-19
The COVID-19 crisis could trigger a critical juncture for several institutional arrangements in Canada, potentially leading to notable changes in fiscal federalism. This research note combines insights from historical institutionalism with recent economic and fiscal projections to explore avenues for reform in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Given the magnitude of the crisis, provincial governments may be unable to absorb the fiscal costs on the…
The Politics of Territorial Solidarity
Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, little has been written to explore the possible interaction between the two. This article explores two essential aspects of the relationship between substate nationalism and welfare-state development in Canada (Québec), the United Kingdom (Scotland), and Belgium (Flanders). First, the article shows how the processes of identity formation/consolidation and territor…
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing Dynamic De/Centralization in Federations
This article develops a conceptual, methodological, and theoretical framework for analyzing dynamic de/centralization in federations. It first reviews the literature and outlines the research design and methods adopted. It then conceptualizes static de/centralization and describes the seven-point coding scheme we employed to measure it across twenty-two policy areas and five fiscal categories at ten-year intervals since the establishment of a fed…
Sub-state nationalism and the welfare state
This article examines the relationship between sub-state nationalism and the welfare state through the case of Québec in Canada. It argues that social policy presents mobilisation and identity-building potential for sub-state nationalism, and that nationalist movements affect the structure of welfare states. Nationalism and the welfare state revolve around the notion of solidarity. Because they often involve transfers of money between citizens, s…
Federalism and Fiscal Policy
Fiscal equalization is a key political issue in many federal countries, including Canada. Yet, relatively few scholars have paid systematic attention to the political dimensions of Canada's federal equalization program. Taking an historical and institutionalist perspective, this article explores the politics of equalization policy in Canada, with a focus on the mid-2000s, a period when equalization policy suddenly became a major source of intergo…
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the Covid-19 Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic produced more significant immediate intergovernmental conflict in the U.S. than in Australia and Canada. This article considers three variables for this cross-national divergence: presidentialism versus parliamentarism; vertical party integration; and strength of intergovernmental arrangements. We find that the U.S. presidential system, contrary to parliamentarism in Canada and Australia, provided an opportunity for a populi…
Dynamic De/Centralization in Federations
This article presents the conclusions of the project Why Centralization and Decentralization in Federations?, which analyzed dynamic de/centralization in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Switzerland, and the United States over their entire life span. It highlights six main conclusions. First, dynamic de/centralization is complex and multidimensional; it cannot be captured by fiscal data alone. Second, while centralization was the dominant trend…
Nationalism, development, and social policy
This article examines the relationship between nation-building and social policy in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It argues that post-independence nationalist leaders used health, housing, and education programmes to foster a sense of national unity that would transcend the existing ethnic divisions created by the arbitrary drawing of state boundaries during colonization. Yet, in SSA, the neo-liberal turn of the 1980s favoured the d…
Theorizing Cultural Identities
The interest of philosophers in the politics of cultural identity was one of the most interesting developments in this field in the 1990s. Their involvement in an area dominated by historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists2 has been particularly evident in Canada where scholars such as Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor have shaped the way many academics understand cultural identity politics. These theorists have favoured a…
Ethnic and Civic Nationalism
The distinction between ethnic and civic nationalism is firmly rooted in a conception of development that rests on the dichotomy between traditional and modern societies. The traditional understanding of the relationship between socio-economic structures and types of nationalism is that the transition from ethnic to civic nationalism is a necessary consequence of development. This paper argues that socio-economic conditions are not the only deter…
A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to Covid-19
The COVID-19 crisis could trigger a critical juncture for several institutional arrangements in Canada, potentially leading to notable changes in fiscal federalism. This research note combines insights from historical institutionalism with recent economic and fiscal projections to explore avenues for reform in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Given the magnitude of the crisis, provincial governments may be unable to absorb the fiscal costs on the…
The Institutional Politics of Territorial Redistribution
A key challenge for comparative politics is to explain the varying degrees of political conflict triggered by the territorial redistribution of financial resources. Federal systems pose this question particularly acutely since they typically operate equalization programs that generate different levels and patterns of intergovernmental conflict. For instance, in Canada equalization has generated serious conflict between federal and provincial gove…
New Institutionalism
Featuring discussions of comparative politics, public policy, and international relations, this collection from editor André Lecours is a comprehensive examination of the subject, making it a crucial addition to any political scientist?s library.
Fiscal federalism and American exceptionalism
This article addresses the absence of a federal equalisation programme in the United States, which is a significant aspect of “American exceptionalism”. Comparing the United States with Australia and Canada, we argue that three factors are relevant when accounting for this absence. On one hand, we turn to two societal factors to explain why there was never much political appetite for the creation of a stand-alone equalisation programme in the Uni…
Dynamic De/Centralization in Canada, 1867–2010
There is an exceptional character to the Canadian federation when it comes to dynamic de/centralization. Despite expectations that forces of modernization and globalization centralize federations, Canada’s overall “federal balance” has remained largely stable since 1867. Early in the federation’s life, there was decentralization in the fiscal realm and in a few policy fields (e.g., finance and securities as well as employment relations). The last…
Sub-state Nationalism in the Western World
What explains the appeal of sub-state nationalism in developed liberal democracies such as Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom and Canada? This article suggests six main reasons: the power of the notion of self-determination; the institutionalization of national identity and nationalist politics in decentralized arrangements featuring autonomous government; the presence of powerful nationalist narratives; institutional and constitutional questions…
Nationalism, Public Policy, and Institutional Development
The relationship between nationalism and public policy remains largely unexplored. Focusing on the link between sub-state nationalism and social policy, this article formulates three main arguments. The first is that social policy is likely to factor into processes of identity- and nation-building spearheaded by sub-state nationalism, and that nationalist movements typically trigger pressures for the decentralization of social policy. The second …
Ethnonationalism in the west
This article suggests that explaining the specifics of ethnonationalism (its timing, claims, institutionalization in the political system) and addressing its contingencies, cross-national differences and historical irregularities requires illuminating three processes: identity construction and transformation; interest definition; and identity politicization and mobilization. It argues that approaches to ethnonationalism in the West have tended to…
Nationalism, religion, and abortion policy in four Catholic societies
Over the last decade, a growing number of scholars have tackled the changing relationship between national identity and social policy. In this article, we explore the relationship between abortion policy and the historical and political construction of national identity as it relates to religious norms and symbols. Focusing on two main cases, Ireland and Poland, Catholic societies in which abortion rights are severely restricted, we argue that, i…
Federalism, policy change, and social security in Belgium
The debate on social policy change is not only about the evolving nature of social benefits but also about change in their territorial organization. This territorial issue is central in Belgium. In 2011, the Sixth State Reform featured the decentralization of family allowances, a component of social security. This article explains why such decentralization occurred in Belgium despite the fact that Francophone parties, which effectively have veto …
The Question of Federalism in Nepal
In 2012, a Nepali Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting a federal constitution was dissolved after four years of wrangling over federalism issues. This article develops three explanations for why federal structures have yet to take shape in Nepal. It argues that consensus on federalism hides a reluctance by key actors to build a federal system; that while some political forces want federal structures based on ethnic identities, two of the thr…
The Ideational Dimension of Federalism
This article examines the ideational dimension of federalism and its consequences for the analysis of policy development. With this objective in mind, the article offers an explanation for Canada's rejection of the two main aspects of the 'Australian model' of equalisation: the assessment of expenditure needs and the existence of an arms-length commission to determine payments. As argued, the ideological prevalence of provincial autonomy in Canad…
Federalism, Nationalism and Social Policy Decentralization in Canada and Belgium
This article looks at the relationship between federalism, sub-state nationalism and social policy in Canada and Belgium up to the early 2000s. It argues that nationalism represents a powerful force for the decentralization of social policy since it seeks to make the national community congruent with the community of redistribution. Nationalist mobilization over social policy is occurring in both Québec and Flanders, although there are ideologica…
The Political Consequences of Independence Referenda in Liberal Democracies
This article investigates the extent to which independence referenda that do not lead to independence affect the politics of national minority communities and the larger multinational states that contain them. Using the cases of Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia, the article analyzes the consequences of independence referenda for the nationalist party that initiated them, for popular support for the independence option, and for the state's practice…
Voice or Recognition? Comparing Strategies for Accommodating Territorial Minorities in Multinational States
Like many Commonwealth countries, Canada and the United Kingdom have faced challenges to their territorial integrity from assertive minority nationalist movements, especially in Québec and Scotland. Successive governments have faced the task of identifying strategies to accommodate these nations within the territorial framework of the existing state. The accommodation of national minorities is a central task of territorial management within multi…
Accommodation and the politics of fiscal equalization in multinational states
The politics of accommodation in multinational states sometimes features an important, yet often overlooked, fiscal dimension. In fact, the scholarly literature on the accommodation of nationalist movements emphasizes territorial autonomy, access to power and representation within central institutions, and the promotion of the state national identity, but it is virtually silent on how patterns of territorial fiscal redistribution, and more specif…
Sprachlich Neugebildete Segmente und Glossolalie
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Biologie de l’écriture
Les troubles de l’écriture dans l’aphasie
La schizographie ou l’écriture indocile
Comment retourner avec plaisir l'ordre tabli, quand vous avez vu s'estomper les frontires entre les vocables, et se recomposer sous vos yeux un trsor verbal fait de mlanges incongrus, criards, ou trs doux? Pour les toxicos du langage, c'est toujours une dconvenue de regagner les certitudes de la parole courante aprs avoir prouv les saveurs du ple-mle et de la confusion. F1NK1KLKRAUT'(1979) Depuis sa cration par Kraepelin (Porot, 1975), le terme d…
La zone du langage et l’aphasie
Cerveau et langage
Literacy and the Brain
Agrammatism in sentence production without comprehension deficits
Agrammatisme dans la production de phrases en l'absence de troubles de la compréhension
Nespoulous Jean-Luc, Dordian Monique, Roch Lecours André. Agrammatisme dans la production de phrases en l'absence de troubles de la compréhension : disponibilité réduite des morphèmes grammaticaux et/ou des structures syntaxiques ?. In: Langages, 24e année, n°96, 1989. De quelques aspects de la neurolinguistique en Amérique, sous la direction de Charles-Pierre Bouton, Jean-Luc Nespoulous et André Roch Lecours. pp. 64-82
Les partis politiques en BelgiquePascal Delwit et Jean-Michel De Waele, sous la direction de Bruxelles
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Ethnic and Civic Nationalism
The distinction between ethnic and civic nationalism is firmly rooted in a conception of development that rests on the dichotomy between traditional and modern societies. The traditional understanding of the relationship between socio-economic structures and types of nationalism is that the transition from ethnic to civic nationalism is a necessary consequence of development. This paper argues that socio-economic conditions are not the only deter…
Theorizing Cultural Identities
The interest of philosophers in the politics of cultural identity was one of the most interesting developments in this field in the 1990s. Their involvement in an area dominated by historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists2 has been particularly evident in Canada where scholars such as Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor have shaped the way many academics understand cultural identity politics. These theorists have favoured a…
Ethnonationalism in the west
This article suggests that explaining the specifics of ethnonationalism (its timing, claims, institutionalization in the political system) and addressing its contingencies, cross-national differences and historical irregularities requires illuminating three processes: identity construction and transformation; interest definition; and identity politicization and mobilization. It argues that approaches to ethnonationalism in the West have tended to…
Political Institutions, Elites, and Territorial Identity Formation in Belgium
Territorial identities in Belgium require a political rather than a cultural or structural explanation. The forces behind the development of identities in Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking area are similar to the ones that produced the Belgian identity they are challenging. Political institutions and elites are at the heart of the process of territorial identity formation in Belgium. The emergence of Walloon and Flemish identit…
Political Institutions, Elites, and Territorial Identity Formation in Belgium
Territorial identities in Belgium require a political rather than a cultural or structural explanation. The forces behind the development of identities in Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking area are similar to the ones that produced the Belgian identity they are challenging. Political institutions and elites are at the heart of the process of territorial identity formation in Belgium. The emergence of Walloon and Flemish identit…
Regionalism, Cultural Diversity and the State in Spain
Spain is a crucial case study in assessing the relationship between cultural distinctiveness and regional identities. The Spanish case suggests that the state is a key variable in shaping regional-cultural identification in Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia and other areas, more so than the cultural markers themselves. This article uses historical institutionalism, a general approach to politics that gives theoretical importance to political…
Anartria Pura
O marco do nascimento da neurolingüística é considerado a publicação do livro A síndrome de Desintegração Fonética, em 1939, que teve como autores: um neurologista, um psicólogo e uma lingüista. Dez anos mais tarde foi publicado, pela mesma equipe de pesquisadores franceses, o distúrbio de fala do paciente portador de anartria pura. No presente artigo, situaremos as polêmicas históricas a respeito de um distúrbio seletivo de fala de origem telenc…
La revanche des petites nations. Le Québec, l’Écosse et la Catalogne face à la mondialisation de Stéphane Paquin, Montréal, VLB éditeur, 2001, 219 p
La revanche des petites nations. Le Québec, l’Écosse et la Catalogne face à la mondialisation de Stéphane Paquin, Montréal, VLB éditeur, 2001, 219 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (Volume 21, numéro 1, 2002, p. 3-157) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
L’approche néo-institutionnaliste en science politique
Cet article est une introduction à ce numéro spécial sur le néo-institutionnalisme. Il accomplit trois tâches. Tout d’abord, il contextualise l’émergence du néo-institutionnalisme dans la trajectoire de la science politique, principalement américaine. Dans ce contexte, il explique que cette approche est divisée en trois branches (historique, du choix rationnel et sociologique) dont il présente les variantes internes. Ensuite, il mesure l’étendue …
Moreno's multiple ethnoterritorial concurrence model
Luis Moreno has argued that ethnoterritorial politics in Spain is best explained by a model of multiple ethnoterritorial concurrence. This article re-formulates the model in a way that makes it a helpful heuristic tool for understanding territorial politics in other multinational states with decentralized structures such as Canada and Belgium. The discussion of the two cases suggests that this re-formulated model provides a framework for understa…
Nationalisme et protection sociale
The following article explores the links between sub-state nationalism and social policy. Instead of focusing only on the québécois-Canadian situation, the aim is to offer a comparative perspective that could enrich our understanding of the relationship between nationalism and social policy. In order to achieve that, this work sketches a theoretical framework that allows for a better understanding of the increasingly common meshing of national id…
New Institutionalism
Featuring discussions of comparative politics, public policy, and international relations, this collection from editor André Lecours is a comprehensive examination of the subject, making it a crucial addition to any political scientist?s library.
Nationalism, Public Policy, and Institutional Development
The relationship between nationalism and public policy remains largely unexplored. Focusing on the link between sub-state nationalism and social policy, this article formulates three main arguments. The first is that social policy is likely to factor into processes of identity- and nation-building spearheaded by sub-state nationalism, and that nationalist movements typically trigger pressures for the decentralization of social policy. The second …
The Politics of Territorial Solidarity
Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, little has been written to explore the possible interaction between the two. This article explores two essential aspects of the relationship between substate nationalism and welfare-state development in Canada (Québec), the United Kingdom (Scotland), and Belgium (Flanders). First, the article shows how the processes of identity formation/consolidation and territor…
The European Union and Sovereignist Politics in Quebec
You know, at fifty plus one, I was not about to let go the country, Chretien himself later reflected. You don't break your country because one guy forgets his glasses at home. (2) Introduction While the last provincial election in Quebec ushered the Liberal party to power, the defeated Parti Quebecois (PQ) is already debating a new referendum on Quebec sovereignty should it be reelected. The question that has arisen subsequently to the last refer…
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