Olivier Jacques
Biographic Data
| ID | 313720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier Jacques |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacques |
| SIGNATURE | JACQUES O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3864-1773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Navigating the state-market nexus
Across Asia, large-scale land redevelopments have become a defining feature of market-driven urbanization. In Vietnam, as in other rapidly urbanizing contexts, these projects are not only privately financed and developed but also planned by private consultants. While such private-sector practices are increasingly widespread in Asia, they have received limited scholarly attention, particularly regarding how they shape planning processes and profes…
Why Some Want Something for Nothing
Several studies have documented ‘something for nothing’ (SFN) attitudes among citizens: preferences for increased government spending and lower taxes. Such a demand for unfunded public spending may generate unsustainable fiscal pressures. However, it is unclear what causes SFN attitudes at the individual level. While previous research emphasizes the role of political information, we explore how SFN attitudes also represent a rational response to …
The Politics of Preferences for Public Mental Health Insurance in Quebec
We study public demand for the extension of public health insurance to psychological services. Previous research neglects the interplay of self‐interest and ideology to explain individuals’ willingness to pay for public mental health care. Relying on an original survey of the Quebec population, we show that support for the extension of mental health insurance is relatively weak on average, but find constituencies of support among the youth, those…
Explaining Social Policy Expansion
Since late 2015, the successive Justin Trudeau Liberal governments have enacted significant social policy expansion, including the adoption of new programs or the expansion of existing social policies in areas such as childcare, dental care, family benefits, old‐age security, and income support for the working poor. This expansion came as a surprise to many political observers and contrasts with the era of “permanent austerity” (Paul Pierson) tha…
Damned if you, damned if you don’t
In this article, we shed light on the politics of preparation for a pandemic. We show why the existing literature fails to explain the puzzling case of France, which became one the best prepared countries in the world, only to discontinue its efforts to find itself unprepared when COVID hit. To investigate what happened, we conduct a qualitative process-tracing analysis of pandemic preparation efforts for two decades. From this, we induce the cau…
Between Decentralization and Asymmetry
In most federations, the division of power between central and subnational governments represents an important cleavage dividing voters and structuring party systems. Yet we lack a robust body of research regarding individuals’ preferences for different forms of devolved decision-making such as decentralization and asymmetrical federalism. This article contributes to this research agenda by analyzing the effects of identity and grievances on publ…
Les contraintes politiques et institutionnelles au règlement du déséquilibre fiscal
Pourquoi le déséquilibre fiscal persiste-t-il dans la fédération canadienne ? Cet article présente deux solutions pour résoudre ce déséquilibre : d’un côté, la vision néolibérale réduit les taxes et la présence de l’État fédéral pour maximiser l’autonomie des provinces et, de l’autre, la perspective sociale-démocrate augmente les transferts intergouvernementaux de manière conditionnelle pour diminuer les inégalités entre les provinces. Or, des co…
Les préférences des Québécois envers la redistribution
Est-ce que le modèle québécois de politiques sociales reflète une opinion publique plus favorable aux services publics et à la redistribution de la richesse? Pour répondre à cette question, les auteurs utilisent trois séries de sondages portant sur deux questions centrales dans l’étude comparée des préférences des citoyens à l’État-providence : l'appui à la redistribution du revenu (1986 à 2021) et les préférences quant à la taille des services p…
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations
We study how welfare states regimes influence the effect of episodes of fiscal consolidations on the four main components of the welfare state: social investment, pensions, healthcare and labour market insurance. Welfare state regimes are associated with distinct social policy legacies that feedback into political competition by shaping the size and influence of different coalitions of constituents. Using data from 1980 to 2014 in 16 OECD countri…
Who's to blame for the crisis of the healthcare system
Using an original survey, we probe Canadians' evaluation of the performance of their healthcare system and their attribution of the blame for the system's problems. We show that more vulnerable and left‐wing respondents are more likely to believe that the system is in crisis. In turn, respondents having negative performance evaluations are more likely to blame poor provincial organization rather than insufficient federal funding. Perceiving that …
Divergences et convergences idéologiques sur les dépenses sociales et de santé
Cet article se penche sur l'impact de l'orientation idéologique du gouvernement sur les réformes de politiques sociales et de santé dans les pays de l'OCDE. Nous assemblons une base de données regroupant 21 pays de 1970 à 2019 et proposons un nouvel indice de démarchandisation des soins de santé. Nous appuyant sur le concept de partage et de concentration des risques sociaux, nous démontrons que l'idéologie des partis politiques a plus d'impact s…
When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide
Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the help of fiscal policy, resulting in some surprisingly public efforts from central banks to influence the size and direction of government budget balances. But do voters find central bank appeals persuasive and what are the reputational consequences of engaging the public on this sensitive issue, particularl…
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…
Minding the time gap
Scholars in several fields share a desire to better understand the inter-temporal dimensions of policy-making. While several studies analysed individuals' preferences regarding policies whose benefits unfold in the future, little is known about policy-makers' own perceptions of inter-temporal trade-offs in politics. Using an original survey of municipal politicians in Sweden, we demonstrate that factors found important in macro-level research on …
Explaining willingness to pay taxes
While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified, the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 ISSP on the Role of Government and the 2018 OECD Risks that Matter surveys to identify which groups of voters are more likely to be willing to pay taxes. It shows that ideology mediates the correlations between education or income and willingness to pay. Among the…
The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures
The Right and the (Provincial) Welfare State
In this article, we study how political parties located on the right of the political spectrum adapt to changing electoral and political constraints. Drawing on the concept of policy feedback, we turn to the politics of social policy in the province of Quebec to show that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), a right-wing party, embraced a more centrist strategy than the preferences of its electoral base would suggest. The CAQ has rejected the auste…
Antoine Franzini, Un siècle de révolutions corses. Naissance d’un sujet politique, 1729-1802, Paris, Vendémiaire, 2017, 600 p
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Electoral competition and the party politics of public investments
When do political parties propose long-term investments? Electoral competitiveness should be a key variable explaining parties’ investment priorities: parties can be less responsive to voters’ short-term priorities and overcome time inconsistencies when they are more likely to win the next election. The article distinguishes the characteristics of three types of investments in education, environmental protection and technology and infrastructure,…
Deficit or Austerity Bias? The Changing Nature of Canadians’ Opinion of Fiscal Policies
Public choice theory suggests that citizens have a deficit bias: they approve governments for running large deficits that increase spending or reduce taxes. In contrast, others contend that citizens reward governments for balanced budgets. We contribute to this debate by modelling a popularity function for the Canadian federal government and show that the impact of fiscal policies on the executive's popularity changes over time. Until the early 1…
The politics of public health investments
Plongés dans la tourmente de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
This article results from the exploitation of a documentary fund relating to a French officer of Jewish confession, taken prisoner after the defeat of 1940, then retained in a prison camp, in Austria first, in the oflag XVIIIA of Lienz, then in Germany in the Lübeck oflag XC. With the letters exchanged between the officer and the members of his family who remained in France, the reader is projected into the past, on the brink of World War II, plu…
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…
Austerity and the path of least resistance
What policies do government prioritize when they implement austerity? I argue that governments choose the path of least resistance when they engage in fiscal consolidations. Positive policy feedback protects programmes from retrenchment when they cover large segments of the population. In contrast, policies involving discounting short-term benefits for long-term gains are more exposed to austerity as they are subject to an intertemporal trade-off…
Are governments paying a price for austerity? Fiscal consolidations reduce government approval
What are the political effects of fiscal consolidations? Theoretical considerations suggest that consolidations should reduce the public’s support for their governments, but empirical studies have found surprisingly small effects on government support. However, most of these studies analyze electoral outcomes, which are separated from the consolidation by a multi-link causal chain. We argue that more direct measures of government support, such as…
The case for welfare state universalism, or the lasting relevance of the paradox of redistribution
In 1998, Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme proposed a political and institutional explanation to account for the greater redistributive success of welfare states that relied more on universal than on targeted programmes. Effective redistribution, they argued, resulted less from a Robin Hood logic – taking from the rich to give to the poor – than from a broad and egalitarian provision of services and transfers. Hence, the paradox: a country obtained m…
Austerity and the path of least resistance
What policies do government prioritize when they implement austerity? I argue that governments choose the path of least resistance when they engage in fiscal consolidations. Positive policy feedback protects programmes from retrenchment when they cover large segments of the population. In contrast, policies involving discounting short-term benefits for long-term gains are more exposed to austerity as they are subject to an intertemporal trade-off…
Are governments paying a price for austerity? Fiscal consolidations reduce government approval
What are the political effects of fiscal consolidations? Theoretical considerations suggest that consolidations should reduce the public’s support for their governments, but empirical studies have found surprisingly small effects on government support. However, most of these studies analyze electoral outcomes, which are separated from the consolidation by a multi-link causal chain. We argue that more direct measures of government support, such as…
Partisan Priorities under Fiscal Constraints in Canadian Provinces
Fiscal federalism, aging, and rising health care costs are constraining Canadian provinces’ fiscal room to maneuver. Can provincial government partisanship influence policy choices when governments face fiscal pressures? This article studies the impact of fiscal pressures on provincial governments’ expenditure priorities, conditional on government partisanship. It argues that policy feedback and the preferences of the governing party’s core const…
Targeting within universalism
The idea of targeting within universalism has been evoked frequently, usually as a best of both worlds’ strategy. The approach remains difficult to identify, however, because targeting is usually measured as the opposite of universalism. This article proposes to consider targeting and universalism as two distinct dimensions of the welfare state, the opposite of universalism being more usefully understood as residualism, and not as pro-poor target…
The politics of public health investments
Explaining willingness to pay taxes
While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified, the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 ISSP on the Role of Government and the 2018 OECD Risks that Matter surveys to identify which groups of voters are more likely to be willing to pay taxes. It shows that ideology mediates the correlations between education or income and willingness to pay. Among the…
Electoral competition and the party politics of public investments
When do political parties propose long-term investments? Electoral competitiveness should be a key variable explaining parties’ investment priorities: parties can be less responsive to voters’ short-term priorities and overcome time inconsistencies when they are more likely to win the next election. The article distinguishes the characteristics of three types of investments in education, environmental protection and technology and infrastructure,…
Youth-Driven Tactics of Public Space Appropriation in Hanoi
Starting in the 2000s, there has been a rise in youth-led appropriation of public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. Through case studies of skateboarders and traceurs (practitioners of parkour) in two of the city’s formal public spaces, we explore and analyze the tactics deployed by these young urbanites to claim a part of the characteristically overcrowded and socio-politically restrictive public spaces of the Vietnamese capital. These case studies show…
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…
Between Decentralization and Asymmetry
In most federations, the division of power between central and subnational governments represents an important cleavage dividing voters and structuring party systems. Yet we lack a robust body of research regarding individuals’ preferences for different forms of devolved decision-making such as decentralization and asymmetrical federalism. This article contributes to this research agenda by analyzing the effects of identity and grievances on publ…
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…
The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures
The Right and the (Provincial) Welfare State
In this article, we study how political parties located on the right of the political spectrum adapt to changing electoral and political constraints. Drawing on the concept of policy feedback, we turn to the politics of social policy in the province of Quebec to show that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), a right-wing party, embraced a more centrist strategy than the preferences of its electoral base would suggest. The CAQ has rejected the auste…
Deficit or Austerity Bias? The Changing Nature of Canadians’ Opinion of Fiscal Policies
Public choice theory suggests that citizens have a deficit bias: they approve governments for running large deficits that increase spending or reduce taxes. In contrast, others contend that citizens reward governments for balanced budgets. We contribute to this debate by modelling a popularity function for the Canadian federal government and show that the impact of fiscal policies on the executive's popularity changes over time. Until the early 1…
Minding the time gap
Scholars in several fields share a desire to better understand the inter-temporal dimensions of policy-making. While several studies analysed individuals' preferences regarding policies whose benefits unfold in the future, little is known about policy-makers' own perceptions of inter-temporal trade-offs in politics. Using an original survey of municipal politicians in Sweden, we demonstrate that factors found important in macro-level research on …
Distributive Politics in Canada
This article examines the presence of geographically targeted spending in the allocation of infrastructure projects in Canada. Building on formal models of distributive politics, we expect government districts, core government districts and swing districts to be advantaged in terms of infrastructure projects. We also investigate whether characteristics of Members of Parliament (MPs), such as seniority or holding a cabinet position, influence the …
La dynamique de confiance-méfiance dans les démocraties multinationales
La dynamique de confiance-méfiance dans les démocraties multinationales : le Canada sous l'angle comparatif, Dimitrios Karmis et François Rocher (dir.), Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec, 2012, 395 pages - Volume 46 Issue 3
Youth-Driven Tactics of Public Space Appropriation in Hanoi
Starting in the 2000s, there has been a rise in youth-led appropriation of public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. Through case studies of skateboarders and traceurs (practitioners of parkour) in two of the city’s formal public spaces, we explore and analyze the tactics deployed by these young urbanites to claim a part of the characteristically overcrowded and socio-politically restrictive public spaces of the Vietnamese capital. These case studies show…
The case for welfare state universalism, or the lasting relevance of the paradox of redistribution
In 1998, Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme proposed a political and institutional explanation to account for the greater redistributive success of welfare states that relied more on universal than on targeted programmes. Effective redistribution, they argued, resulted less from a Robin Hood logic – taking from the rich to give to the poor – than from a broad and egalitarian provision of services and transfers. Hence, the paradox: a country obtained m…
Targeting within universalism
The idea of targeting within universalism has been evoked frequently, usually as a best of both worlds’ strategy. The approach remains difficult to identify, however, because targeting is usually measured as the opposite of universalism. This article proposes to consider targeting and universalism as two distinct dimensions of the welfare state, the opposite of universalism being more usefully understood as residualism, and not as pro-poor target…
Partisan Priorities under Fiscal Constraints in Canadian Provinces
Fiscal federalism, aging, and rising health care costs are constraining Canadian provinces’ fiscal room to maneuver. Can provincial government partisanship influence policy choices when governments face fiscal pressures? This article studies the impact of fiscal pressures on provincial governments’ expenditure priorities, conditional on government partisanship. It argues that policy feedback and the preferences of the governing party’s core const…
Plongés dans la tourmente de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
This article results from the exploitation of a documentary fund relating to a French officer of Jewish confession, taken prisoner after the defeat of 1940, then retained in a prison camp, in Austria first, in the oflag XVIIIA of Lienz, then in Germany in the Lübeck oflag XC. With the letters exchanged between the officer and the members of his family who remained in France, the reader is projected into the past, on the brink of World War II, plu…
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…
Austerity and the path of least resistance
What policies do government prioritize when they implement austerity? I argue that governments choose the path of least resistance when they engage in fiscal consolidations. Positive policy feedback protects programmes from retrenchment when they cover large segments of the population. In contrast, policies involving discounting short-term benefits for long-term gains are more exposed to austerity as they are subject to an intertemporal trade-off…
Are governments paying a price for austerity? Fiscal consolidations reduce government approval
What are the political effects of fiscal consolidations? Theoretical considerations suggest that consolidations should reduce the public’s support for their governments, but empirical studies have found surprisingly small effects on government support. However, most of these studies analyze electoral outcomes, which are separated from the consolidation by a multi-link causal chain. We argue that more direct measures of government support, such as…
Distributive Politics in Canada
This article examines the presence of geographically targeted spending in the allocation of infrastructure projects in Canada. Building on formal models of distributive politics, we expect government districts, core government districts and swing districts to be advantaged in terms of infrastructure projects. We also investigate whether characteristics of Members of Parliament (MPs), such as seniority or holding a cabinet position, influence the …
Antoine Franzini, Un siècle de révolutions corses. Naissance d’un sujet politique, 1729-1802, Paris, Vendémiaire, 2017, 600 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Electoral competition and the party politics of public investments
When do political parties propose long-term investments? Electoral competitiveness should be a key variable explaining parties’ investment priorities: parties can be less responsive to voters’ short-term priorities and overcome time inconsistencies when they are more likely to win the next election. The article distinguishes the characteristics of three types of investments in education, environmental protection and technology and infrastructure,…
Deficit or Austerity Bias? The Changing Nature of Canadians’ Opinion of Fiscal Policies
Public choice theory suggests that citizens have a deficit bias: they approve governments for running large deficits that increase spending or reduce taxes. In contrast, others contend that citizens reward governments for balanced budgets. We contribute to this debate by modelling a popularity function for the Canadian federal government and show that the impact of fiscal policies on the executive's popularity changes over time. Until the early 1…
The politics of public health investments
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…
Minding the time gap
Scholars in several fields share a desire to better understand the inter-temporal dimensions of policy-making. While several studies analysed individuals' preferences regarding policies whose benefits unfold in the future, little is known about policy-makers' own perceptions of inter-temporal trade-offs in politics. Using an original survey of municipal politicians in Sweden, we demonstrate that factors found important in macro-level research on …
Explaining willingness to pay taxes
While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified, the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 ISSP on the Role of Government and the 2018 OECD Risks that Matter surveys to identify which groups of voters are more likely to be willing to pay taxes. It shows that ideology mediates the correlations between education or income and willingness to pay. Among the…
The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures
The Right and the (Provincial) Welfare State
In this article, we study how political parties located on the right of the political spectrum adapt to changing electoral and political constraints. Drawing on the concept of policy feedback, we turn to the politics of social policy in the province of Quebec to show that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), a right-wing party, embraced a more centrist strategy than the preferences of its electoral base would suggest. The CAQ has rejected the auste…
Les contraintes politiques et institutionnelles au règlement du déséquilibre fiscal
Pourquoi le déséquilibre fiscal persiste-t-il dans la fédération canadienne ? Cet article présente deux solutions pour résoudre ce déséquilibre : d’un côté, la vision néolibérale réduit les taxes et la présence de l’État fédéral pour maximiser l’autonomie des provinces et, de l’autre, la perspective sociale-démocrate augmente les transferts intergouvernementaux de manière conditionnelle pour diminuer les inégalités entre les provinces. Or, des co…
Les préférences des Québécois envers la redistribution
Est-ce que le modèle québécois de politiques sociales reflète une opinion publique plus favorable aux services publics et à la redistribution de la richesse? Pour répondre à cette question, les auteurs utilisent trois séries de sondages portant sur deux questions centrales dans l’étude comparée des préférences des citoyens à l’État-providence : l'appui à la redistribution du revenu (1986 à 2021) et les préférences quant à la taille des services p…
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations
We study how welfare states regimes influence the effect of episodes of fiscal consolidations on the four main components of the welfare state: social investment, pensions, healthcare and labour market insurance. Welfare state regimes are associated with distinct social policy legacies that feedback into political competition by shaping the size and influence of different coalitions of constituents. Using data from 1980 to 2014 in 16 OECD countri…
Who's to blame for the crisis of the healthcare system
Using an original survey, we probe Canadians' evaluation of the performance of their healthcare system and their attribution of the blame for the system's problems. We show that more vulnerable and left‐wing respondents are more likely to believe that the system is in crisis. In turn, respondents having negative performance evaluations are more likely to blame poor provincial organization rather than insufficient federal funding. Perceiving that …
Divergences et convergences idéologiques sur les dépenses sociales et de santé
Cet article se penche sur l'impact de l'orientation idéologique du gouvernement sur les réformes de politiques sociales et de santé dans les pays de l'OCDE. Nous assemblons une base de données regroupant 21 pays de 1970 à 2019 et proposons un nouvel indice de démarchandisation des soins de santé. Nous appuyant sur le concept de partage et de concentration des risques sociaux, nous démontrons que l'idéologie des partis politiques a plus d'impact s…
When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide
Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the help of fiscal policy, resulting in some surprisingly public efforts from central banks to influence the size and direction of government budget balances. But do voters find central bank appeals persuasive and what are the reputational consequences of engaging the public on this sensitive issue, particularl…
Political science (25 works) · Politics (21 works) · Economics (15 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (15 works) · Government (linguistics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Public economics (8 works) · Austerity (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works)