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Is the involvement of cooperatives in public policy the sign of a necessary decline of state intervention, as seems to be the case in the neoliberal era? This article tackles this question through the case of rural cooperatives in Wisconsin between 1910 and 1940. It examines the battery of measures put in place by the state to help cooperatives while distinguishing different forms of intervention (inquiry, education, protection and organization). It thus shows that the state may enlist the help of cooperatives in the context of high levels of public intervention as vehicles for public policy rather than alternatives to public action. Finally, the article demonstrates that public intervention is not neutral. It leads to prioritizing a certain type of cooperative and increasing centralization and restructuring, but it can also guarantee more democratic practices.
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If multiple state and community interventions are made to prevent homelessness in Quebec, there is however no overall policy on this phenomenon. This paper presents a comparison between two models of social policies on homelessness : a needs-focused model and a rights-focused model. The comparison shows three main tensions within these two models : tension about the logic of the intervention of social policies (segmentation or holistic), tension about the values of social policies (individual responsibility or collective responsibility), tension about the conception of the beneficiaries of social policies (customers or citizenship). This analysis addresses the strengths and limitations of social policies on homelessness in Quebec.
Keywords: itinérance, politiques sociales, besoins, droits, Québec, homelessness, social policies, needs, rights, Quebec
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AbstractThe importance of the governmental sector increased at a particularly high rate. This has been made possible by higher taxes, especially taxes on personal income. Those taxes increased at an average annual rate of 18% since 1965. One may question on the possibility of increasing again taxes without deteriorating the general performance of the economy. In other words, is it possible to maintain in the future the present scenario, that is to increase the relative importance of the public sector without this being detrimental to the other sectors of the economy? In this article, the author tries to answer these questions.
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AbstractThis article concerns the construction of Inuit collective identity in the context of negotiations and consultations related to the forthcoming establishment of a regional government in Nunavik. It covers the main representations of contemporary Inuit identity as expressed in official discourses of the regional political leaders and in the more informal ones of the local population. On the one hand, ethnic identity seems more salient among the local population that does suggest an overview of the anthropological literature on the subject. On the other hand, the affirmation of collective identity is reliant on the social position of individuals.
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AbstractIn this article, the author analyzes the social construction of political problems in public policies, through the study of the links between politics and technique, in urban planning projects in Paris, France. Both technical aspects and political aspects are likely to change. In particular, technical problems sometimes become political problems through action. Those processes, which we will call “political problematisation” of technical questions, can lead to the construction of the legitimacy of those questions in the public debate, as well as that of the actors who are able to ask those questions.