Alain Noël
Biographic Data
| ID | 349992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Noël |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain |
| FAMILY NAME | Noël |
| SIGNATURE | NOËL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1592-3145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 538 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Left and Right as a Narrative of the Global
The left–right narrative is the most universal macro‐story to make sense of global politics. Although the political opposition between the left and the right originated in the West, it has now spread to all continents. Nation‐states remain the primary locus of the politics of left and right, but the distinction has become a global divide that permeates foreign policies, transnational relations, and global governance debates. Building on the conce…
The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures: Evidence from the Canadian provinces, 1980–2018
Les petites nations et la redistribution
Peu de travaux ont porté sur la relation entre la taille des nations et la distribution des revenus, à l’exception de l’ouvrage pionnier de Peter Katzenstein, Small States in World Markets (1985), qui démontrait que les petites nations européennes avaient une capacité supérieure de se concerter et de concilier la croissance économique et une généreuse protection sociale. Nous revisitons cette question pour les années récentes (1990-2019) et avec …
Dialogues or polemics: Social science expertise and welfare reform in Quebec
The development of social assistance and poverty reduction policies has been informed by social scientific knowledge. Social scientists, however, are not of one mind on such matters. They tend to be divided along disciplinary and ideological lines and may even foster political divisions and conflicts. This article draws on the author's experience as an academic policy adviser to the Quebec government to analyse from up close the institutional con…
The politics of public health investments
Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States: Autonomy, Equality, and Diversity
Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States: Autonomy, Equality, and Diversity
The political construction of the left-right divide: A Comparative Perspective
How universal and effective is the left-right opposition? We use public opinion data collected in 83 societies between 2008 and 2014 through the World Values Survey and the European Values Study, to look at the relationships, in each society, between individual ideological self-positioning and attitudes towards a set of eleven issues that capture the standard dimensions of the left-right political distinction. We observe varying levels of nationa…
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…
Quebec’s resilient redistribution model: Activation policies in the 2010s
Compared to the rest of Canada, Quebec has an ambitious and redistributive social model, which includes an elaborate set of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP), with higher expenditures as a percentage of GDP, an encompassing coverage, and collaborative, multipartite governance arrangements. Since the 2008 recession, however, most OECD countries have implemented retrenchment measures, market enforcement, and individual action plans to their ALMP…
The Politics of Minimum Income Protection in the Canadian Provinces
This article compares social assistance incomes, or minimum income protection, for four household types in the 10 Canadian provinces between 1990 and 2017 and relates these incomes to a number of factors, including partisan dominance over time, trade union density, the presence or absence of poverty reduction strategies, provincial social expenditures, overall redistribution efforts, debt service costs and social assistance recipiency rates. In l…
Is social investment inimical to the poor
In the last two decades, the social investment strategy has been the main approach to welfare state reform. Concretely, two spending programs have dominated the agenda: the expansion of active labor market programs and the development of childcare services. Many authors have suspected, however, that these social investments were realized at the expense of income protection for the poor. This article assesses this potential trade-off with time-ser…
The Politics of Minimum Income Protection in OECD Countries
Minimum income protection (MIP) determines the disposable income a person obtains when she has no market or social insurance income, few assets and no family support. This last-recourse income, usually social assistance benefits plus associated transfers, constitutes a significant indicator of a country's commitment to social justice. Yet, we know little about the politics of MIP, in part because welfare state scholars have focused on more encomp…
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…
The politics of poverty in the European Union: How States Respond to the Open Method of Coordination on Social Inclusion
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 sharing between governments, the OMC could not produce strong convergence. A thorough analysis of the OMC documents indeed points to the enduring power of national institutions and partisan politics, for the three dimensions of soci…
The Forgotten Side of Partisanship: Negative Party Identification in Four Anglo-American Democracies
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 negative identification into account tended to portray it as a marginal factor that went “hand-in-hand” with positive preferences. Recent scholarship in psychology reaffirms, however, that negative evaluations are not simply the bipo…
Studying Your Own Country: Social Scientific Knowledge for Our Times and Places
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 international/national dichotomy, there are indeed rival conceptions of social science and important ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. This article discusses these assumptions and stresses the cr…
Élections 2014: La Force Des Grands Clivages Idéologiques
Élections 2014 : la force des grands clivages idéologiques. Un article de la revue Bulletin d'histoire politique (Les années 1960 : quand le Québec s’ouvrait sur le monde) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Quebec’s New Politics of Redistribution
Délibération démocratique et innovations politiques
En dépit d’un regain d’intérêt pour la question en science politique, l’incidence de la délibération démocratique sur l’innovation politique demeure mal comprise. Trois questions, en particulier, se posent : D’où viennent les nouvelles conceptions de la justice que véhiculent les acteurs et pourquoi émergent-elles à certains moments et à certains endroits? Quelles sont les conditions du succès et quel rôle jouent les acteurs sociaux? Et quelle pl…
Les fils respectueux de l’économétrie
Les principaux critiques de l’approche de la régulation y voient une tentative infructueuse de construire des modèles de croissance formels, propres à chaque période de stabilité. Le problème est réel, et relève d’une tension entre la recherche de déterminants économiques et la reconnaissance du caractère exogène du politique. Cette tension se traduit par une coupure en deux phases, une plus économique, où les rapports sociaux sont à peu près fig…
La restructuration de la protection sociale en Amérique du Nord et en Europe
Au cours des années quatre-vingt, la rhétorique conservatrice qui s’est imposée aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne, et avec moins de panache au Canada, a alimenté les spéculations au sujet d’une crise de l’État-providence. Dans le contexte actuel de mondialisation, il importe de saisir si ce cheminement nord-américain ou anglo-saxon connaît une extension en Europe, participant de ce fait à un phénomène de convergence des systèmes de protection …
Left and Right in Global Politics
Few notions are as universal as the idea of a left-right divide in politics. Despite its death being frequently foretold, the left-right metaphor remains the most common lens through which to interpret political life locally, nationally and globally. Left and Right in Global Politics argues that the left-right divide connects these different levels into a world political debate. Interpreting the left-right dichotomy as an enduring debate about eq…
Left and right in global politics
Gouverner à plusieurs: La protection sociale au Canada et au Québec
Peu de fédérations ont autant de débats et de conflits que le Canada autour du respect de la division des pouvoirs et des revenus. La mise en œuvre de ces principes constitutionnels ne va en effet jamais de soi. Pour la protection sociale, ces interrogations mettent en cause respectivement le partage des compétences, la distribution des revenus dans la fédération, et les grandes orientations de politiques sociales à privilégier pour l’ensemble du…
The Forgotten Side of Partisanship: Negative Party Identification in Four Anglo-American Democracies
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 negative identification into account tended to portray it as a marginal factor that went “hand-in-hand” with positive preferences. Recent scholarship in psychology reaffirms, however, that negative evaluations are not simply the bipo…
Political Parties and Foreign Aid
The influence of partisan politics on public policy is a much debated issue of political science. With respect to foreign policy, often considered as above parties, the question appears even more problematic. This comparison of foreign aid policies in 16 OECD countries develops a structural equation model and uses LISREL analysis to demonstrate that parties do matter, even in international affairs. Social-democratic parties have an effect on a co…
From domestic to international justice: The Welfare State and Foreign Aid
Foreign aid often is interpreted as an international projection of domestic income redistribution mechanisms, and many authors suggest that differences between welfare states account for variations in donor behavior. A new understanding of the welfare state can improve traditional explanations of this linkage. Existing studies of the welfare–aid relationship use two welfare state indicators: domestic spending and partisan politics. We propose a t…
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…
The New Global Politics of Poverty
In recent years, governments, international institutions, and a broad array of social movements have converged around what an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report has described as an emerging 'global anti-poverty consensus'. This new global social policy agenda has changed the terms of the debate between the left and the right, and redefined the world of policy possibilities, in global but also in domestic politics…
Public Opinion and Global Justice
The concept of global justice has been developed to stress the worldwide implications of moral problems. Not much, however, has been written about the actual politics of global justice. This article focuses on public opinion and argues that attitudes about international redistribution are not a simple projection of attitudes about the domestic situation. In countries where domestic income redistribution is seen as an important priority, foreign a…
Accumulation, regulation, and social change: An essay on French political economy
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Does Federalism Really Matter
Six Books in Search of a Subject or Federalism Exist and It Matter?.'1 As the title suggests, the conclusions of the review were not very kind to the field of comparative federalism. Riker, in fact, questioned the very existence of itself by stating that federalism is no more than a constitutional legal fiction which can be given whatever content seems appropriate at the moment.2 When it came to whether or not mattered, he was equally harsh. Does…
Divided over Internationalism: The Canadian Public and Development Assistance
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 shallow, unmatched by a commitment to undertake concrete actions. Second, the attitudes Canadians hold toward development assistance indicate that there is a clear division in the country’s public between liberal and conservative internati…
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
Studying Your Own Country: Social Scientific Knowledge for Our Times and Places
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 international/national dichotomy, there are indeed rival conceptions of social science and important ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. This article discusses these assumptions and stresses the cr…
The political construction of the left-right divide: A Comparative Perspective
How universal and effective is the left-right opposition? We use public opinion data collected in 83 societies between 2008 and 2014 through the World Values Survey and the European Values Study, to look at the relationships, in each society, between individual ideological self-positioning and attitudes towards a set of eleven issues that capture the standard dimensions of the left-right political distinction. We observe varying levels of nationa…
Welfare Institutions and Foreign Aid: Domestic Foundations of Canadian Foreign Policy
This article examines the relationship between Canada's development assistance policy and its welfare state institutions. Through an analysis of the Canadian experience, the article argues that the differences between the social policies of developed countries help to understand the nature of their participation in the international aid regime. Although this hypothesis is not entirely new, it is here refined with the help of the comparative liter…
The Politics of Minimum Income Protection in the Canadian Provinces
This article compares social assistance incomes, or minimum income protection, for four household types in the 10 Canadian provinces between 1990 and 2017 and relates these incomes to a number of factors, including partisan dominance over time, trade union density, the presence or absence of poverty reduction strategies, provincial social expenditures, overall redistribution efforts, debt service costs and social assistance recipiency rates. In l…
The Politics of Minimum Income Protection in OECD Countries
Minimum income protection (MIP) determines the disposable income a person obtains when she has no market or social insurance income, few assets and no family support. This last-recourse income, usually social assistance benefits plus associated transfers, constitutes a significant indicator of a country's commitment to social justice. Yet, we know little about the politics of MIP, in part because welfare state scholars have focused on more encomp…
Quebec’s resilient redistribution model: Activation policies in the 2010s
Compared to the rest of Canada, Quebec has an ambitious and redistributive social model, which includes an elaborate set of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP), with higher expenditures as a percentage of GDP, an encompassing coverage, and collaborative, multipartite governance arrangements. Since the 2008 recession, however, most OECD countries have implemented retrenchment measures, market enforcement, and individual action plans to their ALMP…
Is social investment inimical to the poor
In the last two decades, the social investment strategy has been the main approach to welfare state reform. Concretely, two spending programs have dominated the agenda: the expansion of active labor market programs and the development of childcare services. Many authors have suspected, however, that these social investments were realized at the expense of income protection for the poor. This article assesses this potential trade-off with time-ser…
The politics of poverty in the European Union: How States Respond to the Open Method of Coordination on Social Inclusion
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 sharing between governments, the OMC could not produce strong convergence. A thorough analysis of the OMC documents indeed points to the enduring power of national institutions and partisan politics, for the three dimensions of soci…
The Gainers Strike: Capitalist Offensive, Militancy, and the Politics of Industrial Relations in Canada
The unions are very self-serving. In Taiwan workers get $300 a month for the same job. And Taiwan isn't that far away by air. They need to find out what the new realities of business are
The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures: Evidence from the Canadian provinces, 1980–2018
L'héritage de la Commission Tremblay: Penser l'Autonomie Dans Un Cadre Fédéral Rigide
L’héritage de la Commission Tremblay : penser l’autonomie dans un cadre fédéral rigide. An article from journal Bulletin d'histoire politique (La Commission Tremblay (1953-1956) : cinquante ans de débats sur le déséquilibre fiscal), on Érudit
Democratic Deliberation in a Multinational Federation
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 essay surveys the Canadian debate about democratization and constitutional politics to better understand the significance of democratic deliberation in a concrete case, when principles are evoked in a context where institutions…
Understanding the Leader-Strategy Interface: Application of the Strategic Relationship Interview Method
The argument that leaders substantially affect organizational outcome is presented. In order to better understand the leader/strategy/environment interface, however, the question of what leaders do has to be supplemented with why they are doing it. It is argued that the assessment of a leader's preoccupations will make for more effective human resource planning by facilitating the match between leader and organization. Unfortunately, the accurate…
Élections 2014: La Force Des Grands Clivages Idéologiques
Élections 2014 : la force des grands clivages idéologiques. Un article de la revue Bulletin d'histoire politique (Les années 1960 : quand le Québec s’ouvrait sur le monde) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
L'industrie de la faimFrances Moore Lappé et Joseph Collins Montréal: Editions l'Etincelle, 1978, 596 p
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Histoire de la pensée politique. Tomes 1 et 2 Jean-Jacques Chevallier Paris: Payot (Bibliothèque Historique), 1979, 370 p. et 249 p
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La Vie politique sous la Ve RépubliqueJacques Chapsal Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (Thémis), 1981, 708 p
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Les patrons face à la gaucheJean-Gabriel Fredet Denis Pingaud Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1982, 431 p
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La confrontation sociale en France: 1936–1981François Sellier Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1984, 240 p
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Le droit sans l'État: Sur la démocratic en France et en AmériqueLaurent Cohen-Tanugi Paris: Presses universitaires de France (Recherches politiques), 1985, 206 p
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Un syndicalisme pur et simple: Mouvements ouvriers et pouvoir politique aux États-Unis, 1919–1939Serge Denis Montréal: Boréal Express, 1986, 512 p
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Capitalismes fin de siècleRobert Boyer (sous la direction de) Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1986, 268 p
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Accumulation, regulation, and social change: An essay on French political economy
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Les grèves au Canada: Causes et conséquencesRobert Lacroix Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1987, 168 p
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The Gainers Strike: Capitalist Offensive, Militancy, and the Politics of Industrial Relations in Canada
The unions are very self-serving. In Taiwan workers get $300 a month for the same job. And Taiwan isn't that far away by air. They need to find out what the new realities of business are
Histoire du syndicalisme au Québec: Des origines à nos joursJacques Rouillard Montréal: Boréal, 1989, 535 p
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Le Bazar: Des anciens Canadiens aux nouveaux QuébécoisDaniel Latouche Montréal: Boréal, 1990, 287 p
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Goodbye… et bonne chance: Les adieux du Canada anglais au QuébecDavid J. Bercuson et Barry Cooper Montréal: Le Jour, 1991, 209 p
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Flawed Polish
Understanding the Leader-Strategy Interface: Application of the Strategic Relationship Interview Method
The argument that leaders substantially affect organizational outcome is presented. In order to better understand the leader/strategy/environment interface, however, the question of what leaders do has to be supplemented with why they are doing it. It is argued that the assessment of a leader's preoccupations will make for more effective human resource planning by facilitating the match between leader and organization. Unfortunately, the accurate…
Welfare Institutions and Foreign Aid: Domestic Foundations of Canadian Foreign Policy
This article examines the relationship between Canada's development assistance policy and its welfare state institutions. Through an analysis of the Canadian experience, the article argues that the differences between the social policies of developed countries help to understand the nature of their participation in the international aid regime. Although this hypothesis is not entirely new, it is here refined with the help of the comparative liter…
L’État dans la tourmente
Les contrôles à l'aide sociale: L'expérience québécoise des visites à domicile
James Iain Gow, , Patrick Villeneuve, Les contrôles à l'aide sociale: l'expérience québécoise des visites à domicile, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 31-52
From domestic to international justice: The Welfare State and Foreign Aid
Foreign aid often is interpreted as an international projection of domestic income redistribution mechanisms, and many authors suggest that differences between welfare states account for variations in donor behavior. A new understanding of the welfare state can improve traditional explanations of this linkage. Existing studies of the welfare–aid relationship use two welfare state indicators: domestic spending and partisan politics. We propose a t…
Présentation du numéro: Vers un nouvel État-providence? Enjeux démocratiques
L'tat-providence apparat comme un arrangement politique et institutionnel bien dfini et remarquablement stable. Aprs la Deuxime Guerre mondiale, et surtout dans les annes 1960 et 1970, les diffrents pays de l'Organisation de coopration et de dveloppement conomiques (OCDE) se sont donn diverses institutions et pratiques afin d'assurer la protection sociale et, sans ncessairement aller plus loin, ils ont par la suite largement maintenu ce qui tait …
Société québécoise de science politique
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Canadian Political Science Association/Association canadienne de science politique
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Canadian Political Science Association 1999 Programme Committee/Association canadienne de science politique, Comité du programme 1999
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Political Parties and Foreign Aid
The influence of partisan politics on public policy is a much debated issue of political science. With respect to foreign policy, often considered as above parties, the question appears even more problematic. This comparison of foreign aid policies in 16 OECD countries develops a structural equation model and uses LISREL analysis to demonstrate that parties do matter, even in international affairs. Social-democratic parties have an effect on a co…
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