Jane Jenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Jenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenson |
| SIGNATURE | JENSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3152-7457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 947 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 107 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
Finding Emotion in a Rural Diary, 1916–18: A Research Note
A 65-year old farmer and forestry worker in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, John Buzzell, kept a diary from March 1916 until December 1918. Although in the third year he lived in the urban setting of Paris, Ontario, it is a typical example of a rural work diary, recording the weather, listing details of his workday, and describing family’s and neighbours’ activities and health. Such journals furnish social historians with rich detail about rural life…
Bordering a War: Transnational Volunteers to the American Civil War from the Eastern Townships
Transnational volunteering during the Civil War by soldiers born in British North America (BNA) continues to intrigue Canadians. Nonetheless, distinguishing between those who crossed the border to enlist and the many BNA-born soldiers already living in the United States has proven difficult. With a new database of volunteers who left the Eastern Townships to enlist in Vermont, this article assesses three propositions drawn from historians' work. …
Transnational Volunteers: A Research Note on Border-crossing to Enlist in the American Civil War
Historians of transnational and global relations have increasingly reminded us that fighting in “someone else’s war” is not a new phenomenon. Despite the past two centuries being ones of state building and bordering, transnational volunteers have participated in many conflicts. These include soldiers who left British North America (bna) to enlist in the American Civil War. This research note describes a method for distinguishing cross-border enli…
Fixing Ownership: Land Agents, Settlers, and Property Relations in Two Eastern Townships, 1840–1865
The general fluidity and ambiguity of property relations during colonization meant settlers, who were often "squatters," relied on land agents to fix their relationship with property-owners. In turn, the latter needed the agent's on-the-ground expertise to manage their affairs and responsibilities for "improvements." Land agents thus became intermediaries between cash-poor settlers and absentee owners. George Bonnallie, active in the northern par…
Frédéric Boily, Droitisation et populisme: Canada, Québec et États-Unis, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2020, 203 p
Frédéric Boily, Droitisation et populisme : Canada, Québec et États-Unis, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020, 203 p.. Un article de la revue Recherches sociographiques (La gentrification de 1970 à nos jours) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Comparing two complementary accounts of the surging opposition to gender and equality in Europe
Comparing two complementary accounts of the surging opposition to gender and equality in Europe
The Difficulties of Combating Inequality in Time
Scholars have argued that disadvantaged groups face an impossible choice in their efforts to win policies capable of diminishing inequality: whether to emphasize their sameness to or difference from the advantaged group. We analyze three cases from the 1980s and 1990s in which reformers sought to avoid that dilemma and assert groups’ sameness and difference in novel ways: in U.S. policy on biomedical research, in the European Union's initiatives …
Social Policy Instruments in Motion. Conditional Cash Transfers from Mexico to Peru
Social policy prescriptions for Latin America have shifted significantly over recent decades. This article tracks a process by which a conditional cash transfer (CCT) to mothers, begun in a Mexican programme with some pretensions to promoting gender equality, was standardized by international organizations, becoming a policy instrument characterized by gender sensitivity, but having little attention to equality. In addition to involving certifica…
The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work
"This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to recognize two things. First, the situation facing women is different from that of the 1960s when the conceptual apparatuses for analyzing "women and work" were created. Labour markets are dominated by flexible, non-standard work, precarious contractual relations and income disparities. Therefore, it i…
Reconsidering Jacques Delors’ leadership of the European Union
Jacques Delors’ presidency of the European Commission (1985–1994) is a major example of transformative leadership at a moment of significant innovation in a transnational institution. Leadership by the president involves both leading the supranational Commission, and exercising leadership in the intergovernmental setting of the European Council, which takes key decisions about major innovations for the European Union. This analysis uses a typolog…
Modernising the European Social Paradigm: Social Investments and Social Entrepreneurs
Policy perspectives of the European Union as well as those of member states currently link the concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship in order to advocate both where and how to intervene. The argument of this article is that the explicit linking of these two notions, by policy-makers at several different levels and scales of authority, constitutes an emerging policy paradigm. The article identifies three characteristics of any …
Social Innovation
Social Innovation: Redesigning the Welfare Diamond
Decades of neoliberal economics and politics have resulted in major shifts in much of the world in the ways that policy and research communities now understand, shape and work to organise relations between civil society and the state and within civil society itself. Over the last fifteen years, as neoliberalism clearly revealed its limits, these communities began to deploy a range of new or reworked concepts to address ongoing challenges. Social …
The Fading Goal of Gender Equality: Three Policy Directions that Underpin the Resilience of Gendered Socio-economic Inequalities
Despite rhetorical commitment to gender equality as a fundamental value at international, supranational and national level, we continue to see economic and social inequalities in long-familiar areas. This article explores public policy communities' contribution to this resilience of inequalities in income, work and care by focussing on three responses to socio-economic restructuring and new social risks: labour force activation; the social invest…
Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Era
What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the …
Narratives and Regimes of Social and Human Rights
The Jack pine (pin gris in French) is an icon of Canadian art. It anchors the thin soil of the Canadian Shield even as it is subjected to harsh and howling winds. For some, its bent and twisted form is a sign of deformity. For others, it is a symbol of endurance. The social and human rights regimes are currently much like this Jack pine. Evaluated by some as deformed by neoliberalism, they are dismissed as incapable of promoting the values with w…
Standardization for Transnational Diffusion: The Case of Truth Commissions and Conditional Cash Transfers
The study of the transnational transfer of practices and institutions generally looks at the intermediary and final stages of the process, with much less attention devoted to its initial steps. In contrast, this article theorizes the early part of the trajectory of transfer, conceptualized as the process through which local ideas and practices are turned into a “standard model,” which we term the process of standardization. Drawing upon the publi…
Women, the State, and Welfare
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A New Politics for the Social Investment Perspective
The last decade of the 20th century was marked by significant innovation in social policy, involving a move away from both the Keynesian welfare state and the standard neo-liberalism of the 1980s. The label of the ‘social investment perspective’ captures this congeries of ideas about the objectives, areas of intervention and instruments. The development of the perspective reflects the pre-eminence of ministries of finance and the extension of the…
La standardisation et les mécanismes du transfert transnational
L’étude du transfert transnational des pratiques et des institutions porte généralement sur les étapes intermédiaires et finales d’un processus dont les phases initiales sont rarement examinées. À l’inverse, dans cet article nous nous concentrons sur les premières étapes d’une trajectoire de transfert conceptualisée en tant que processus de conversion des idées et des pratiques locales en « modèles standard ». Nous appelons ce processus la « stan…
Redesigning citizenship regimes after neoliberalism: Moving towards social investment
This chapter compares the social investment perspective with two other policy perspectives: Keynesianism and neoliberalism. In the last decades of the twentieth century, neoliberals made concerted efforts to roll back existing guarantees to social protection and practices of interest intermediation, in the name of a larger role for the market, families and communities. Then, as neoliberalism reached its limits in the mid-1990s, the ‘social invest…
Thinking (a Feminist) History: The Regulation Approach as Theatre
The approach elaborated here is derived from feminist analyses which take seriously the notion that gender relations are social constructions. Using the metaphor of theatre, the article proposes an analysis which takes meaning systems as well as practices seriously. From this point of view, both the mode of regulation and the societal paradigm depend upon actors' strategies in creating their representational systems and thereby constructing their…
Governing without a majority. What consequences in Westminster systems
Politiques publiques et investissement social: Quelles conséquences pour la citoyenneté sociale des femmes
Lancée au milieu des années 1990, l’approche d’investissement social s’est étendue dans les pays de l’ ocde et en Amérique latine. Si depuis les années 1960 les régimes de protection sociale avaient laissé, au nom de l’égalité, une certaine place aux revendications des mouvements des femmes, les politiques publiques valorisant l’investissement social en réduisent aujourd’hui l’importance, et ceci malgré le fait qu’une ‘sensibilité au genre’ fasse…
Lost in Translation: The Social Investment Perspective and Gender Equality
The social investment perspective is replacing standard neoliberalism in Latin America as well as Europe. With it come ideas about social citizenship that reconfigure the citizenship regimes of the three regions. The responsibility mix is equilibrated to give a greater role for the state, although as investor rather than spender; access to citizenship rights shifts to incorporate the excluded and marginalized; and governance practices alter to em…
Building blocks for a new social architecture: The Legotm paradigm of an active society
English Social policy communities now often focus on ‘new social risks’. Despite a clear preference for controlling state spending, they also consider that these risks call for ‘social investments’. Concentration on investments, activation and the future is considered an optimal anchor for redesigning their welfare systems. Convergence around three ideas prompt us to speak of a shift towards a LEGOTM paradigm: learning over the life-course; a fut…
Paradigms and Political Discourse: Protective Legislation in France and the United States Before 1914
This article examines the differences in pre-1914 France and the United States in two kinds of state policies regulating women's behaviour, those “protecting” the condition under which women participated in certain occupations and those providing infant and maternal protection. Those policies are examined to illuminate the argument that politics, including state policies, makes an important contribution to the maintenance and change of ongoing sy…
Diffusing Ideas for After Neoliberalism: The Social Investment Perspective in Europe and Latin America
By the mid-1990s neo-liberalism had begun to reach its economic, social and political limits. International as well national and even sub-national social policymakers in and concerned with Latin America and Europe began to converge around new ideas about doing social policy, characterized here as the social investment perspective. The first section of the article documents this convergence across two regions. The second section then identifies th…
Gender and Reproduction: Or, Babies and the State
The capitalist state's contribution to the oppression of women has been relatively under analysed in recent Marxist feminists' debates about the material bases of gender oppression. Nevertheless, Marxist feminists can not escape a concern with the capitalist state which obviously continues to have a major effect on the structure of the family and gender relations
New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State
Jane Jenson, Denis Saint-Martin, New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue on Social Cohesion in Canada (Winter, 2003), pp. 77-99
Representations in Crisis: The Roots of Canada's Permeable Fordism
This article utilizes the “regulation approach” in order to rethink the origins and resolution of crisis. It provides an account of the political conflicts of the 1930s and 1940s which gave rise to a model of development in Canada which can be labelled “permeable fordism.” Rapid economic growth after the Second World War had specific national traits but these were based on wage relations and macro-economic policies similar to other countries whic…
Partisan Instability in Canada: Evidence from a New Panel Study
One of the critical questions in the debate about the concept of party identification is its stability over time, particularly its stability relative to that of voting behavior. This article utilizes data from a new three-wave panel study to assess the properties of party identification in Canada, and to compare levels of partisan stability in Canada with those in Great Britain and the United States. In addition to directional stability, other fe…
Different’ but not ‘exceptional’: Canada's permeable fordism
Cet article explique que le Canada n'a pas vécu la periode d'après guerre de la même façon que des autres pays industrialisés. L'état providence canadien et les politiques keynesiennes ont été moins soutenus par un système de partis fondé sur les classes sociales que par les institutions fédérates. Cette difference dans les politiques économiques n'est pas vraiment une ‘exception’ ‐ comme beaucoup d'analystes de l'économie politique l'ont pensé. …
Fated to Live in Interesting Times: Canada's Changing Citizenship Regimes
This article presents a way of thinking about citizenship which incorporates theoretical elements of historical institutionalism and political economy. These provide the tools for identifying patterns of change in visions of the proper form of the triangular relationship among the state, the market and communities. These discourses, as well as the practices which result from it, are labelled the citizenship regime. The history of this concept is …
Party Loyalty in Canada: The Question of Party Identification
In a recent article in this Journal, Paul M. Sniderman, H. D. Forbes, and Ian Melzer challenge the proponents of what they characterize as the “textbook theory” of Canadian parties. They claim that their examination of the 1965 and 1968 Canadian national election studies contradicts the conclusions of almost every analyst of parties and voting in Canada. While a little debunking of long-held interpretations is always valuable in any discipline, o…
The European Union's Citizenship Regime. Creating Norms and Building Practices
Writing Women Out, Folding Gender In: The European Union "Modernises" Social Policy
Over the last fifteen years, most of the countries with liberal and social democratic welfare regimes have redesigned their social policy. This trajectory can be labeled the LEGO policy paradigm. In it, the definition of the best policy mix often targets children and youth and redeploys policy instruments to achieve goals for the future. There is a growing commitment by the European Union to this supply-side understanding of social policy. Thus, …
Naming nations: Making nationalist claims in Canadian public discourse
En tant que mouvements sociaux, les mouvements nationalistes font le choix d'un ‘nom’, autour duquel ils créent leur identités collectives. Au Canada ces dernières décennies les mouvements qui revendiquent les droits et les pouvoirs politiques aux noms des Québécois et des peuples autochtones ont recomposé l'univers de discours politique et la structure des possibilités politiques. Cet article maintient que le choix d'un nom a des conséquences im…
Challenging the Citizenship Regime: The James Bay Cree and Transnational Action
Mapping, naming and remembering: Globalization at the end of the twentieth century
This article contends that struggles over maps, names, and stories about the past are a crucial aspect of globalization. Specific results are never driven simply by macro sociological and economic structural processes. They follow, rather, from the politics out of which such struggles emerge, including revitalized and modernized nationalist movements. This article examines three movements active in Canadian politics today ‐ Québécois ‘English‐Can…
Reconsidering Jacques Delors’ leadership of the European Union
Jacques Delors’ presidency of the European Commission (1985–1994) is a major example of transformative leadership at a moment of significant innovation in a transnational institution. Leadership by the president involves both leading the supranational Commission, and exercising leadership in the intergovernmental setting of the European Council, which takes key decisions about major innovations for the European Union. This analysis uses a typolog…
All the World’s a Stage: Ideas, Spaces and Times In Canadian Political Economy
One of the consequences of two decades of 'crisis' economics and 'crisis' politics has been the reconceptualization of some basic categories of political economy. Whereas in the 1960s and even the 1970s social theory was relatively content with methods which stressed the stability - or reproduction - of society and social relations, the last decade has seriously challenged such approaches
Sociology, institutionalism and the European Union
Some Dimensions of Partisan Choice in Quebec, 1969
Depuis 1960 la situation politique au Québec a accrédité deux types d'explications pour rendre compte de la faveur dont out joui les partis politiques qui, tous, ont pris position sur la question nationale et lui ont accordé leur appui, quoique à des degrés divers. La première de ces deux explications veut que la faveur dont jouissent les partis nationalistes, spécialement le Parti québécois (PQ), soit redevable aux caractéristiques sociales des …
The Fading Goal of Gender Equality: Three Policy Directions that Underpin the Resilience of Gendered Socio-economic Inequalities
Despite rhetorical commitment to gender equality as a fundamental value at international, supranational and national level, we continue to see economic and social inequalities in long-familiar areas. This article explores public policy communities' contribution to this resilience of inequalities in income, work and care by focussing on three responses to socio-economic restructuring and new social risks: labour force activation; the social invest…
A National Sample Design
The construction of national survey samples in Canada involves a number of theoretical and practical problems that range well beyond purely statistical considerations. Sample sizes for instance will tend to be large in comparison with those employed in many other nations not for greater accuracy but primarily because of the sheer diversity and geographical dispersion of the Canadian population. Likewise, the high cost of survey research at the na…
War and Comparative Politics
Struggling for identity: The women's movement and the state in Western Europe
1985). Struggling for identity: The women's movement and the state in Western Europe. West European Politics: Vol. 8, Women and Politics in Western Europe, pp. 5-18
Politiques publiques et investissement social: Quelles conséquences pour la citoyenneté sociale des femmes
Lancée au milieu des années 1990, l’approche d’investissement social s’est étendue dans les pays de l’ ocde et en Amérique latine. Si depuis les années 1960 les régimes de protection sociale avaient laissé, au nom de l’égalité, une certaine place aux revendications des mouvements des femmes, les politiques publiques valorisant l’investissement social en réduisent aujourd’hui l’importance, et ceci malgré le fait qu’une ‘sensibilité au genre’ fasse…
Some Dimensions of Partisan Choice in Quebec, 1969
Depuis 1960 la situation politique au Québec a accrédité deux types d'explications pour rendre compte de la faveur dont out joui les partis politiques qui, tous, ont pris position sur la question nationale et lui ont accordé leur appui, quoique à des degrés divers. La première de ces deux explications veut que la faveur dont jouissent les partis nationalistes, spécialement le Parti québécois (PQ), soit redevable aux caractéristiques sociales des …
A National Sample Design
The construction of national survey samples in Canada involves a number of theoretical and practical problems that range well beyond purely statistical considerations. Sample sizes for instance will tend to be large in comparison with those employed in many other nations not for greater accuracy but primarily because of the sheer diversity and geographical dispersion of the Canadian population. Likewise, the high cost of survey research at the na…
Governing Metropolitan Toronto: A Social and Political Analysis, 1953-1971
Party Loyalty in Canada: The Question of Party Identification
In a recent article in this Journal, Paul M. Sniderman, H. D. Forbes, and Ian Melzer challenge the proponents of what they characterize as the “textbook theory” of Canadian parties. They claim that their examination of the 1965 and 1968 Canadian national election studies contradicts the conclusions of almost every analyst of parties and voting in Canada. While a little debunking of long-held interpretations is always valuable in any discipline, o…
Party Strategy and Party Identification: Some Patterns of Partisan Allegiance
Le concept d'identification partisane a été très employé dans les études électorales mais il s'est révélé moins utile pour expliquer les choix électoraux dans certain pays. L'objet de cet article est de présenter une nouvelle façon de conceptualiser l'identification partisane en vue de réduire l'information nécéssaire pour voter. Cela induit à prédire une instabilité partisane au sein des systèmes de partis caractérisé par la mobilité des positio…
The Perception and Impact of Issues in the 1974 Federal Election
A l'aide de données provenant d'un sondage, les auteurs analysent l'influence exercée par certaines questions politiques sur la campagne électorale fédérale de 1974. Ils constatent (1) qu'on ne saurait attribuer la victoire libérate qu' à un ensemble pluridirectionnel de transferts d' allégeances électorales dont, en particulier les gains faits par les Libéraux auprès des nouveaux électeurs et des abstentionnistes de 1972; (2) qu'aucune des trois…
Strategic divisions within the French Left: The case of the first elections to the European parliament∗
Political Choice in Canada
Partisanship, Voting Behavior, and Election Outcomes in Canada
Perhaps the most salient feature of Canadian federal elections in the recent past has been the similarity of their outcomes. In the period since the end of World War II, the Liberal party has dominated the electoral arena, winning seven of ten general elections. This party has formed the government of Canada continuously since 1963, its share of the popular vote varying on average by only 4.8 percent over the last five elections. At present, howe…
One Robin Doesn't Make Spring: French Communist Alliance Strategies and the Women's Movement
The Uncharted Waters of De-Stalinization: The Uneven Evolution of the Parti Communiste Francais
Sovereignty-Association “Non”-Parti Québécois “Oui”: Trends in Political Support in Quebec
Voting Behaviour and the Outcome of the 1979 Federal Election: The Impact of Leaders and Issues
Given the Liberal party's dominant position in Canadian federal politics, it has been extremely difficult for the Progressive Conservatives to effect an electoral breakthrough and win enough parliamentary seats to form a government. In this century, the Conservatives have been in power for only 22 years. The last time the party formed a majority government was in the spectacular Diefenbaker victory of 1958 which gave the Conservatives 208 of 265 …
Crisis and France’s “Third Way” Genesis, Implementation and Contradictions of a Left Strategy out of Economic Crisis
Economic crises have always been critical moments in the history of modern capitalism - crucibles for new relationships between state and society, as well as new arrangements between social classes. One has only to remember the change which occurred in Western societies following the Great Depression and World War II. Such privileged moments have invariably been prolific creators of new ideas and devastating critics of conventional wisdom, whethe…
Partisan Instability in Canada: Evidence from a New Panel Study
One of the critical questions in the debate about the concept of party identification is its stability over time, particularly its stability relative to that of voting behavior. This article utilizes data from a new three-wave panel study to assess the properties of party identification in Canada, and to compare levels of partisan stability in Canada with those in Great Britain and the United States. In addition to directional stability, other fe…
The View from inside: A French Communist Cell in Crisis
Struggling for identity: The women's movement and the state in Western Europe
1985). Struggling for identity: The women's movement and the state in Western Europe. West European Politics: Vol. 8, Women and Politics in Western Europe, pp. 5-18
Pluralism and the Decline of Left Hegemony: The French Left in Power
Gender and Reproduction: Or, Babies and the State
The capitalist state's contribution to the oppression of women has been relatively under analysed in recent Marxist feminists' debates about the material bases of gender oppression. Nevertheless, Marxist feminists can not escape a concern with the capitalist state which obviously continues to have a major effect on the structure of the family and gender relations
The View from Inside: A French Communist Cell in Crisis
Women and European Politics: Contemporary Feminism and Public Policy
Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars
The Tragedy of the French Left
In 1981 the French Left came to power for the first time in decades. Here was a Left which had never made peace with the consumer capitalism of the postwar period. The Communists, lesser partners in the new governing coalition, remained committed to the socialist transformation of France
Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars
Journal Article Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. Ed. by Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret Collins Weitz. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. ix + 310 pp. $22.50.) Get access Maurine Weiner Greenwald Maurine Weiner Greenwald University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 294–295…
Different’ but not ‘exceptional’: Canada's permeable fordism
Cet article explique que le Canada n'a pas vécu la periode d'après guerre de la même façon que des autres pays industrialisés. L'état providence canadien et les politiques keynesiennes ont été moins soutenus par un système de partis fondé sur les classes sociales que par les institutions fédérates. Cette difference dans les politiques économiques n'est pas vraiment une ‘exception’ ‐ comme beaucoup d'analystes de l'économie politique l'ont pensé. …
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