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Networks of Alliances between Quebec Feminists : A Re-reading of the “Velvet Triangle” Notion : This article aims to evaluate the descriptive scope of the “velvet triangle” notion in order to understand the success of certain feminist collaborations with the Quebec state. The notion of the velvet triangle was developed by Alison Woodward in 2003 as a way to describe the alliances established among grassroots feminists, academic experts, and state feminists in order to permit the incorporation of equality struggles into public policies. This notion will be used in the Quebec context to capture the complexity and breadth of alliances among feminists during the struggles for freedom of abortion and pay equity. The main materials for our analysis are semi-structured interviews with feminists engaged in these struggles in Quebec.

Keywords: triangle de velours, alliances, mouvement féministe au Québec, avortement, équité salariale, velvet triangle, alliances, feminist movement in Quebec, abortion, pay equity

This review covers the book Là, tout de suite? La gestion de crise gouvernementale à l’ère de l’instantanéité numérique, in which Véronique Prince, supervised by Thierry Giasson, reflects on Quebec’s government strategies of crisis management in the context of the new hybrid media system. The research offers a refreshed overview of the government’s public relations crisis strategies, insisting on the media’s new temporalities and the government’s deficiencies in its digital communication strategies.

Ce mémoire rend compte d'une recherche sur l'évaluation en tant qu'outil utilisé par les gouvernements pour légitimer et guider leurs politiques publiques. L'évaluation des politiques publiques s'est développée au cours des dernières années dans le contexte des réformes adoptées par les gouvernements occidentaux pour moderniser l'État, rationaliser ses politiques, accroître l'efficacité de son appareil administratif, mais aussi pour renouveler la légitimité démocratique de leurs décisions et améliorer leurs rapports avec les citoyens. Notre recherche sur l'évaluation des politiques publiques a été menée au sein de l'un des champs d'intervention du gouvernement du Québec, le développement régional. Ce domaine a été choisi en raison du fait qu'il est caractérisé depuis le début des années 1990 par la décentralisation. Selon la littérature sur la territorialisation de l'action …

Dans la dernière moitié du XXe siècle, la continuité des soins est devenue un concept guidant l’organisation des services dans le système sociosanitaire québécois. Ce concept guide notamment l’élaboration d’un ensemble de politiques sociosanitaires tout en laissant planer différentes ambiguïtés conceptuelles qui semblent avoir des conséquences sur la mise en place et l’efficacité de différents moyens d ’action. C ’est pourquoi on s’est interrogé sur l’état scientifique de la continuité des soins et sur ses situations problématiques qui ont émergé et se sont développées dans les politiques publiques en santé mentale au Québec entre 1962 et 2007. Dans les présents travaux, trois démarches méthodologiques ont été utilisées. Avec la littérature scientifique et professionnelle, la première démarche explore l’état scientifique de la continuité des soins au …

Since the Castonguay-Nepveu Commission, discourse on health system has undergone important changes. Since the end of the eighties, the idea that the private sector may be the ultimate solution to public sector problems has taken more place in the public debate. What was the role of major individual and collective actors ? Has the idea of an increased participation from the public sector been successfully established ? Using the cognitive approach, this paper tries to capture the evolution of the players' discourse on the Quebec health system.

Potterian bioethics plays a proactive role, when carried out in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams with a mandate to operationalize public policy, as highlighted in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics in 2022 where several articles on Van Rensselaer Potter's thinking appeared on the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the term bioethics in the North American literature. This global perspective, which is still insufficiently detailed, critically reflects on the place, the role and the imperative of bioethics as an adaptive management of the environment; and it aims to accompany empirical projects in the operation of their scientific, political and public visions, which are sometimes synergistic, and other times conflicting. In order to specify the operationalization of this global perspective of bioethics, it is pertinent to mobilize theoretical notions from sociology and philosophy of science, in particular the Latourian concept of Hybrid Forum and the Paradigm associated to Thomas Kuhn. To illustrate this, the argument presented here mobilizes the empirical case of a project to design a monitoring of antibiotic use in Quebec, Canada (2018-2022), and expands on the importance of being aware of context (technological, sociological and anthropological) in order to deepen and pose constructive criticism. This article presents an alternative perspective to the act of governing by proposing a proactive process of governance.

Keywords: bioéthique globale, Van Rensselaer Potter, aménagement adaptatif, vision stratégique, science technologie & société, éthique organisationnelle, politique publique, global bioethics, Van Rensselaer Potter, adaptive design, strategic vision, science, technology & society, organizational ethics, public policy

This paper presents a critical analysis of the institutionalization of participation in Montreal at different levels. I will use the examples of the Montreal Metropolitan Com-munity's public consultation and the Plateau Mont-Royal's interactive budget to illustrate the models of metropolitan governance and local management, and demonstrate that these two forms of participatory mechanisms face the problem of triviality. I maintain that a systematic application of a strong conception of citizen participation, based on the ideal of participatory democracy, can overcome the challenge of triviality and effect a real democratization of municipal institutions.

This article examines the challenges of horizon scanning (or strategic watch) in a context in which innovation constitutes a priority of government action. The current situation in Quebec's public administration is similar to that prevailing in most of the advanced economies – in particular, a lack of support structures and genuine linkage to government priorities. Notwithstanding a number of particularities, the author argues that the measures required to achieve satisfactory, innovation-focused horizon scanning cannot be dealt with separately from the challenges of strategic planning in the era of globalization.

This article focusses on the context in which the policies, practices and guiding principles for the assessment of student learning in Western Canada have evolved in terms of the transparency and responsibility characteristic of the New Public Management – NPM. The initiatives of large-scale assessment to allow the comparison of student results and the development of strategic plans to guide the main actors are just a few examples. The concept of evaluation is then qualified with specific focus on evaluation for learning, evaluation as learning and the evaluation of learning. The results provide a description of the main political and practical assessment principles in force in the West, including the assessment of schools – provincial evaluation, diagnostic evaluation and national and international evaluations. The guiding principles for four provinces converge on a variety of learning assessment practices. The impact of reforms at the international level is felt in each of the Western provinces, especially with regard to assessment tools and practices for reporting results, at a time when the leaders wish to demonstrate transparency and responsibility toward all citizens.