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The author analyses the position of libraries and reading as expressed in government decisions taken during the Quiet Revolution. The results allow one to conclude that the objectives of reading, such as the governement intended libraries to exercice, were essentially linked to teaching and knowledge in order that French-speaking Québecers join the modern world and affirm their cultural identity.
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Public action has historically been organized according to the idea of sectors (Muller, 2019). In the 1980s, work by Jobert and Muller (1987) on public policy referentials suggested a trend towards a crisis of sectoriality, resulting in a weakening of sectors. Thirty years later, Muller (2015, 2018) announced the advent of this crisis of sectoriality through the eruption of new global and intersectoral issues that go beyond the ability of state action to manage. From this perspective, we make a number of observations on the current recomposition of university policies in Quebec as a result of digital transformations to higher education. We advance the idea that the emergence of new open and shared tools for the transmission of knowledge, and of platforms produced by artificial intelligence, substantiate this crisis of sectoriality by calling into question the ability of public action to ensure their regulation.
Keywords: sectorialité, référentiel, action publique, transformation numérique, enseignement supérieur, Sectoriality, referential, public action, digital transformation, higher education, sectorialidad, referencial, acción pública, transformación numérica, enseñanza superior
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AbstractRoyal commissions have traditionally been dismissed as legitimizing mechanisms aimed at achieving consensus on government policy. This article rejects this argument and calls for a more dynamic interpretation of royal commissions. The increased complexity of policy-making due the rapidity of technological and social change, along with the growing demand for participatory politics, stresses the need for both democratic practices and expert knowledge in policy analysis. This article suggests that royal commissions have the capacity to engage in discursive policy analysis by providing a forum for both expert and nonexpert forms of knowledge in the policy process. These arguments are made in relation to the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. The article contends that while the Commission generated and accommodated alternative forms of knowledge on the issue of reproductive technologies, its discursive capacity was ultimately constrained by internal political and ideological battles.
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In recent years, the debate on inequalities became a central issue in order to understand the social, economic and political dynamics in Latin American countries since the beginning of the century. Indeed, this debate is in the heart of the discussion about the effectiveness with behalf to poverty reduction of the “progressive”, so called “left-wing” social policies, implemented in many countries of the region during the first decade of the 2000s. The debate evolves around the sustainability of the transformations brought by these social policies. These transformations, are they punctual or rather structural improvements? In this article we propose to explore these transformations, focusing on the analysis of the relationship between different public policies (work and employment, social, educational and housing policies) and a wider range of forms of state intervention. The analysis focuses on two main issues: the ability of this articulation of public policies to transform / improve the living and working conditions of large segments of the population, on the one hand; its effects on forms of identity construction, subjectivities and class relations, on the other.
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Between 1960 and 1989, public libraries in Québec underwent an expansion in two parts. The first took place between 1961 and 1980 and was characterised by the simultaneous growth in the numbers of users, books acquired, and books loaned. Since 1980, library collections have grown at a greater rate than the number of users. The number of books loaned has exceeded the number of books acquired. This second phase took place during an economic recession. Not only has this tendency been maintained, but it has grown largely due to the influence of baby-boomers and adult readers 55 years and older.