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This paper mobilizes the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) to examine the policy shift towards the diaspora, which was long perceived as a threat to Cameroon's security and stability by government authorities and, since the mid-2000s, has become an actor to be mobilized for the country's socio-economic development. It appears that ACF is applicable to policy changes in an African state characterized by a relatively unstable political context. Our analysis, which is based on a survey of civil servants, experts, and professionals, shows that political learning can have an impact on the fundamental beliefs of a coalition.
Keywords: coalitions plaidantes, changements de politiques dans les pays en développement, option diaspora, Cameroun, advocacy coalition framework, policy change in developing countries, diaspora option, Cameroon
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Les instances régionales de concertation (IRC) sur la persévérance scolaire et la réussite éducative
More informationKeywords: Instances régionales de concertation (IRC), décrochage scolaire, réussite éducative, Québec, Analyse politique
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The text aims to think about the middle class and its role in the 2018 presidential elections, which took Jair Messias Bolsonaro, from the Social Liberal Party (PSL), to the Planalto Palace. As a main thesis, the text argues that the middle class does not have a class identity of its own and thus assimilates the cultural references of the upper classes. As a consequence of this absence of its own ideology, the middle class, in an attempt to differentiate itself, demonstrates prejudice against the popular classes. To understand this issue, the text is divided into three parts. Initially, a historical analysis of the formation of the middle class is made; then the emergence of the “new” middle class is discussed; in a third moment, the perception of the middle class about the global economic crisis that started in 2008 is presented.
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This article provides a topography of business think tanks in Quebec. It discusses three important think tanks (the Conseil du patronat du Québec, the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations, and the Montreal Economie Institute), underlining their placement in a network that links them with Quebec business and the State, and assessing the ideological content of their research and discourses. The article concludes with a discussion of the research questions that this topography raises.
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This study reports on the institutionalization of political science in Cameroonian higher education from the analytical perspective of the international transfer of standards. It makes it possible to discover that the managerial organization of the discipline, the development of training courses, the initiation to the manipulation of founding theories and the development of research trajectories are based on Western experiences. The corollary is the formation of an extrovert university space for emulation of the political scientist who, however, imposes himself as a player in the global scientific market through the alternative but cumulative knowledge he offers.
Keywords: science politique, enseignement supérieur, transfert des normes, champ politiste, globalisation, political science, higher education, transfer of standards, political scientist field, globalization
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In Québec, in Canada and elsewhere in the world, expert advisory committees advise and guide government decision-makers in the choice of new drugs, vaccines to be used or interventions to be put in place. In parallel, these experts are receiving increasing support from private companies to conduct their research or to disseminate the results of their research. Such situations place them at risk of conflicts of interest and may eventually undermine confidence in public decision-making. This case study stimulates reflection into what constitutes sound and optimal management of conflict of interest situations by expert members and the organizations in which they have an advising role.
Keywords: conflit d'intérêts, comité d'experts, immunisation, politiques publiques, santé de la population, vaccination, conflict of interest, expert committees, immunization, public policies, population health, vaccination
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Community intervention is related to the changes in public policy, social movements and more widely to those social issues. New Public Management and private initiatives based on consultation and community mobilization challenge community organizers in their practice and ethics. The proliferation of community development workers and the emergence of territory development invite community practitioners to open up their practice and challenges of a new type to better support systems for collective action targeting local issues around cross-cutting an integrated development project.
Keywords: Intervention communautaire, action collective, développement des communautés, développement de territoire, organisation communautaire, agents de développement, Community intervention, collective action, community development, territory development, community organization, community practice, community practitioners
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The Quebec municipal political scene is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of political parties in cities of all sizes. This article analyzes the effects of the presence of political municipal parties on the conquest and exercise of municipal power. Our research is motivated by the presumption that the onset of this proliferation is part of a “Westminsterization” process of municipal politics, that is to say, a polarization between a government and its opposition in municipal politics. In order to explore this hypothesis, we analyze Quebec political municipal parties from three angles that have been identified in literature on their national counterparts, namely, their role of organization, the electoral machine, and representation and governance. Our analysis shows that Quebec municipal political parties resemble their provincial and federal counterparts in many respects. They recruit candidates with the aim to get them elected. Moreover, through the intermediary of their elected government officials, they take part in decision-making, and even in structuring the decision-making process. Nevertheless, Quebec municipal parties have not yet become fully assimilated to provincial and federal parties to the extent that they exhibit a lower degree of formalization, manifested, among others, in a looser control over their staff and crew, a more pronounced role of the chief candidate for the position of mayor, and less assurance of the longevity of partisan organizations.
Keywords: Partis politiques municipaux, régime de Westminster, élections municipales, Québec, municipal political parties, Westminster system, municipal elections, Quebec
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This article challenges the common assumption that security policies are the outcome of a security-liberty balance. Drawing on constructivist and cognitive approaches of public policies, it shows through an analysis of the debates on several laws taken by the Israeli Parliament, that these laws must be understood as the reflection and the outcome of a struggle between conflicting referentials of political regimes. Deconstructing security policies this way allows us to overcome the static notion of the balance between security and liberty and helps us better grasp the construction process of political regime referentials through discourses.