J A Laponce
Biographic Data
| ID | 362372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Laponce |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Laponce |
| SIGNATURE | LAPONCE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
One-way conversation with Philippe Van Parijs
This essay reacts to Philippe Van Parijs’s arguments in favor of English as the global lingua franca and in favor of the territorial protection of the languages of minority nations. I agree with both arguments. But I see the case for the lingua franca as a matter of convenience rather than justice. And I don’t link territorial protection to the emergence of English, but instead ground it as a fundamental right of national self-determination
Language, Ethnic Identity and the State
Language and Sovereignty Referendums
The hypothesis that sovereignty referendums tend to bring closer together the boundaries of states and languages is tested on 80 referendums ranging from 1791 to 2011. The hypothesis is supported for union, transfer, as well as separation referendums though less clearly so in the latter case. The data show also that the boundary convergence is more significant if the zone-by-zone option, rather than the traditional majoritarian rules, is properly…
Research on Ethnies and Nations
Many are the terms used to describe either groups or communities having in common actual or assumed inherited characteristics. So many and so ill-defined are these terms that they stand in the way of proper comparative research, at least when the comparison involves many ethnies, nations, and countries. The article recommends the use of more discriminating criteria to avoid confusion between “origin” and “identity,” between “grouping” and “commun…
Using a role by role interview to measure the minority effect
This report on research in progress is based on data obtained through written questionnaires administered to UBC (University of British Columbia) and Ottawa University students who were asked to rank the importance and the degree of satisfaction associated with 14 characteristics of either the self or the social environment (gender, age, nationality, profession, religion, preferred political party, place of birth, province of residence, city of r…
Minority Languages and Globalization
Globalization causes weak and powerful languages to be in increasingly frequent contact. Weaker languages are thus increasingly at risk of being sidelined and lost. The author considers some defensive strategies and concludes that the most likely to be effective are territorial concentration and diglossia and that government support is a major protection
Turning votes into territories
National self‐determination and referendums
Since the end of the eighteenth century, two democratic revolutions have occurred in the way people, territories, and governments are related to one another. The first took place in Avignon in 1791 when, for the first time, people voted to change sovereignty; the second concerned Schleswig when, in 1920, people voted not only to change sovereignty but also to draw a new border. This article focuses on the latter type of plebiscite and uses as exe…
Retour à Babel (Conférence Karl Deutsch 2000)
La plus grande fréquence et la plus grande densité de communication, au niveau local comme au niveau mondial, ont des effets profonds sur le système des langues. De nombreuses petites langues parlées aujourd'hui ont peu de chance de passer le siècle et de grandes langues perdront, en partie du moins, le contrôle qu'elles exercent sur de hautes fonctions de communication, notamment dans le domaine du commerce et des sciences. La meilleure stratég…
Retour à Babel
La plus grande fréquence et la plus grande densité de communication, au niveau local comme au niveau mondial, ont des effets profonds sur le système des langues. De nombreuses petites langues parlées aujourd’hui ont peu de chance de passer le siècle et de grandes langues perdront, en partie du moins, le contrôle qu’elles exercent sur de hautes fonctions de communication, notamment dans le domaine du commerce et des sciences. La meilleure stratégi…
Le centre du monde
Politics and the Law of Babel
The world language system is profoundly affected by the increase in the frequency and density of communication on a world scale. Most of the languages spoken today are not expected to survive the century and most of those surviving will lose or fail to get control of some higher functions of communication, notably in the fields of commerce and science. The minority languages best able to resist the pressure of more powerful competitors are those …
The Practice of Language Rights in CanadaC. Michael MacMillan Toronto
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The Quebec sovereignty referendum of 1995
The first part of the article uses a bare tactic‐strategy model to explain the passivity of the Canadian government in the face of Quebec's near approval of the sovereignty option of the 1995 referendum. The second part considers some of the cultural and sociological obstacles to Canada changing its political system to adapt it to the needs of a multinational society. The analysis is restricted to the relations between Quebec and Canada to the ex…
Introduction
Ethnicity and Culture in Canada
Ethnicity or class? The communist electorate in English Canada, 1945–77
Proceeding from bivariate correlations to multivariate analysis, the article tests the hypothesis that ethnic factors ‐ measured by minority religion (Jewish) and minority language (mother tongue other than French or English) ‐ are more powerful predictors of support for the Communist party of Canada than class factors measured by profession and trade union membership. The hypothesis is not verified on all measures, but the factor ‘minority mothe…
Ethnicity and citizenship as generators of each other
IV. On three nationalist options
Les dix commandements entre la gauche et la droite
L'etude, menee aupres d'etudiants canadiens, s'interesse a la perception des dix commandements bibliques selon une interpretation politique (droite-gauche) de la position de chacun d'eux. L'A. affirme que dans toutes les cultures et civilisations, la notion de droite est associee a celle de chef, de prise de decision. Or, les commandements etant des precepts religieux devraient donc tous etre situes a droite. Or ce n'est pas le cas, car tous ne s…
Do languages behave like animals
L'auteur utilise des analogies avec le monde animal (controle territorial, dominance sociale) pour etudier les interferences linguistiques et les types de reaction (conflit, isolement social, influence reciproque) qui apparaissent lorsque differents groupes linguistiques entrent en contact
A Review of Primate Politics
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Politics between the positive and the negative
The heroes' trade
Le pouvoir politique et les languesJean-William Lapierre Paris
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Note On the Use of the Left-Right Dimension
Political Science
In Search of the Stable Elements of the Left-Right Landscape
An Experimental Method to Measure the Tendency to Equibalance in a Political System
Politics is both game and warfare: game when it seeks to keep uncertain the outcome of a competition and to keep the opponent not only alive but eager to play; warfare when it seeks to destroy or permanently weaken the enemy. Depending upon the issues over which it is fought, politics will be more or less game, more or less warfare. A given society may keep its politics in a state of game unless certain issues, social status or religious freedom …
Left or Centre? The Canadian Jewish Electorate, 1953–1983
The partisan preferences of Canadian Jews are compared with those of Catholics and Protestants using a sample of 218,738 electors obtained by merging 235 Gallup surveys from the period 1953–1983. The hypothesis guiding the analysis, that Jews are more likely to support left and centre parties (specifically the NDP and the Liberals), is derived from theories that seek to explain Jewish political inclinations. Controlling for the influence of educa…
Left and right
Spatial Archetypes and Political Perceptions
Assuming that the symbols demonstrated to be important to the understanding of art, literature and religion are likely to be equally useful in the study of politics leads the author to identify seven basic notations: the point, the circle, the square, the dividing line (either vertical or horizontal), and the directional line (either vertical or horizontal). The article speculates on the consequences of casting political thoughts in spatial frame…
Post-dicting Electoral Cleavages in Canadian Federal Elections, 1949–68
The first systematic correlation of socio-demographic factors and party preference in Canadian federal elections was made by Escott Reid in 1933. No expansion or even replication followed until the mid-1950s when John Meisel, using data obtained by sample survey of individuals, continued the enquiry begun by Reid on the basis of aggregate statistics. Since then – especially after 1960 – many data have been collected and some studies made on the l…
National self‐determination and referendums
Since the end of the eighteenth century, two democratic revolutions have occurred in the way people, territories, and governments are related to one another. The first took place in Avignon in 1791 when, for the first time, people voted to change sovereignty; the second concerned Schleswig when, in 1920, people voted not only to change sovereignty but also to draw a new border. This article focuses on the latter type of plebiscite and uses as exe…
Introduction
The Multilingual Mind and Multilingual Societies
Languages are territorial. They tend to occupy homogeneous, well bounded areas. When they do not, they lessen their chances of survival, especially if they are languages of minority groups. Reaching beyond the usual sociological causes of this phenomenon, this article searches the neurophysiological and the psychological literature for explanation of the tendency of closed, equalitarian systems with a high density of communication to move toward …
Measuring Electoral Cleavages in a Multiparty System
Dieu – à droite ou à gauche
In his study of the spatial symbolism of primitive societies, Robert Hertz noted that the left was the side associated with weakness and evil, the right being on the contrary linked to purity, strength, and religion. The works of I. Wile and V. Fritsch, among others, have confirmed this privileged – though not universal – association of right with the positive side of the dichotomies which together with left-right form symbolic constellations use…
Language and Sovereignty Referendums
The hypothesis that sovereignty referendums tend to bring closer together the boundaries of states and languages is tested on 80 referendums ranging from 1791 to 2011. The hypothesis is supported for union, transfer, as well as separation referendums though less clearly so in the latter case. The data show also that the boundary convergence is more significant if the zone-by-zone option, rather than the traditional majoritarian rules, is properly…
Minority Languages and Globalization
Globalization causes weak and powerful languages to be in increasingly frequent contact. Weaker languages are thus increasingly at risk of being sidelined and lost. The author considers some defensive strategies and concludes that the most likely to be effective are territorial concentration and diglossia and that government support is a major protection
Politics and the Law of Babel
The world language system is profoundly affected by the increase in the frequency and density of communication on a world scale. Most of the languages spoken today are not expected to survive the century and most of those surviving will lose or fail to get control of some higher functions of communication, notably in the fields of commerce and science. The minority languages best able to resist the pressure of more powerful competitors are those …
Heroes and villains
The Protection of Minorities by the Electoral System
AMONG THE instructions given to its electoral commission by the Parliament of newly independent Ceylon was a provision that the electoral law should be such as to protect the minorities.1 More recently the French government has been hopeful that the protection of the French Algerian minority could be obtained through an adequate electoral system even if separate electorates were to be ruled out.2 The idea of using the electoral system to take car…
Do languages behave like animals
L'auteur utilise des analogies avec le monde animal (controle territorial, dominance sociale) pour etudier les interferences linguistiques et les types de reaction (conflit, isolement social, influence reciproque) qui apparaissent lorsque differents groupes linguistiques entrent en contact
Of Gods, Devils, Monsters, and One-Eyed Variables
Propos sur les dieux, les démons, les monstres et les variables qui ne voient que d'un œil Trois yeux pour observer simultanément, l'un l'aspect positif, l'autre l'aspect négatif et le troisième l'élément neutre des phénomènes étudiés; quatre bras qui symbolisent quatre groupes de facteurs explicafes : le biologique, le culturel, le libre arbitre et le hasard; l'habitude de renverser les formulations théoriques et les modèles devenus trop familie…
Research on Ethnies and Nations
Many are the terms used to describe either groups or communities having in common actual or assumed inherited characteristics. So many and so ill-defined are these terms that they stand in the way of proper comparative research, at least when the comparison involves many ethnies, nations, and countries. The article recommends the use of more discriminating criteria to avoid confusion between “origin” and “identity,” between “grouping” and “commun…
Turning votes into territories
Le centre du monde
Les dix commandements entre la gauche et la droite
L'etude, menee aupres d'etudiants canadiens, s'interesse a la perception des dix commandements bibliques selon une interpretation politique (droite-gauche) de la position de chacun d'eux. L'A. affirme que dans toutes les cultures et civilisations, la notion de droite est associee a celle de chef, de prise de decision. Or, les commandements etant des precepts religieux devraient donc tous etre situes a droite. Or ce n'est pas le cas, car tous ne s…
Relating Physiological, Physical, and Political Phenomena
We cannot easily avoid structuring our explanations of self and society as well as of in-groups and out-groups without recourse to the center-periphery archetype. The capital city of one's country is typically located in the center of Mercator maps, and subjects who locate the self at the center of a symbolic space give a more rapid interpretation of that symbolic system than subjects not locating the self in the center. These 'central' tendencie…
The Protection of Minorities by the Electoral System
AMONG THE instructions given to its electoral commission by the Parliament of newly independent Ceylon was a provision that the electoral law should be such as to protect the minorities.1 More recently the French government has been hopeful that the protection of the French Algerian minority could be obtained through an adequate electoral system even if separate electorates were to be ruled out.2 The idea of using the electoral system to take car…
Mendès-France and the Radical Party
EFORE WORLD WAR II, the Radical party' was already among the more deeply conservative of French parties. Its once radical and once socialist program had either become law or had been discarded altogether.2 The Radicals had kept the warm rhetoric and the particular style of invective that belong to left-wing opposition parties, but they had ceased to be reformists: they were satisfied with the existing social and economic order, and they acknowled…
Mendes-France and the Radical Party
The Religious Background of Canadian M.P.s
The Government of the Fifth Republic
Tragedy in Algeria
The Protection of Minorities
Bipartisme de droit et bipartisme de fait
Laponce Jean. Bipartisme de droit et bipartisme de fait. In: Revue française de science politique, 12e année, n°4, 1962. pp. 877-887
Action Française
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An Experimental Method to Measure the Tendency to Equibalance in a Political System
Politics is both game and warfare: game when it seeks to keep uncertain the outcome of a competition and to keep the opponent not only alive but eager to play; warfare when it seeks to destroy or permanently weaken the enemy. Depending upon the issues over which it is fought, politics will be more or less game, more or less warfare. A given society may keep its politics in a state of game unless certain issues, social status or religious freedom …
France
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Canadian Party Labels
Les étiquettes des partis politiques, les termes qu'utilisent les parlementaires pour définir leur affiliation partisanne sont autant d'idéologies, de programmes sous forme concentrée. Etudier l'évolution linguistique de tels termes, c'est étudier l'évolution de tout un ensemble de forces et d'idées politiques. L'avantage de lier l'étude politique à l'étude sémantique consiste à réduire un ensemble de données trop complexes à des proportions rédu…
Note On the Use of the Left-Right Dimension
Dieu – à droite ou à gauche
In his study of the spatial symbolism of primitive societies, Robert Hertz noted that the left was the side associated with weakness and evil, the right being on the contrary linked to purity, strength, and religion. The works of I. Wile and V. Fritsch, among others, have confirmed this privileged – though not universal – association of right with the positive side of the dichotomies which together with left-right form symbolic constellations use…
In Search of the Stable Elements of the Left-Right Landscape
Post-dicting Electoral Cleavages in Canadian Federal Elections, 1949–68
The first systematic correlation of socio-demographic factors and party preference in Canadian federal elections was made by Escott Reid in 1933. No expansion or even replication followed until the mid-1950s when John Meisel, using data obtained by sample survey of individuals, continued the enquiry begun by Reid on the basis of aggregate statistics. Since then – especially after 1960 – many data have been collected and some studies made on the l…
Es posible la experimentación en ciencia política? [Experimentation and Simulation in Political Science]
Of Gods, Devils, Monsters, and One-Eyed Variables
Propos sur les dieux, les démons, les monstres et les variables qui ne voient que d'un œil Trois yeux pour observer simultanément, l'un l'aspect positif, l'autre l'aspect négatif et le troisième l'élément neutre des phénomènes étudiés; quatre bras qui symbolisent quatre groupes de facteurs explicafes : le biologique, le culturel, le libre arbitre et le hasard; l'habitude de renverser les formulations théoriques et les modèles devenus trop familie…
Measuring Electoral Cleavages in a Multiparty System
Political Community, Legitimacy and Discrimination
Relating the notion of political community to those of discrimination and legitimacy — and, consequently, setting up a typology which will contrast communities by the criteria they use to distinguish members from non-members and by the location they give to legitimacy, placed either in a ruler or in a process — will be made easier if we consider first of all certain striking similarities which exist between the most private of social groups, the …
Hirschman's voice and exit model as spatial archetype
Relating Linguistic to Political Conflicts. The Problem of Language Shift in Multilingual Societies
Spatial Archetypes and Political Perceptions
Assuming that the symbols demonstrated to be important to the understanding of art, literature and religion are likely to be equally useful in the study of politics leads the author to identify seven basic notations: the point, the circle, the square, the dividing line (either vertical or horizontal), and the directional line (either vertical or horizontal). The article speculates on the consequences of casting political thoughts in spatial frame…
Temps, espace et politique
Conflictos lingüísticos y conflictos políticos
J. A. Laponce, Conflictos lingüísticos y conflictos políticos: cambios de idioma en sociedades multilingües, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 38, No. 3, Poder, Diversidad y Cambio Social (Jul. - Sep., 1976), pp. 687-706
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