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This article aims to provide a summary of the writings on the topic of comparative analysis of Canadian provinces in the area of public policy. Our intention is to highlight the main characteristics of the research conducted on this subject thus far, paying close attention to how Canadian provinces have been used by the authors : why do they study Canadian provinces ? We will also try to identify the benefits offered by the use of Canadian provinces : what lessons have we learned through comparative provincial analysis and what are the promising future research avenues ?
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Globalization, through the circulation of ideas and increased meeting spaces between individuals, prompts a homogenization of formulas for public action, despite the great diversity of institutional systems. According to numerous accounts, public policies introduced in Montréal in 1999 that were aimed at fighting socio-spatial segregation borrowed largely from the policy of the French city. This article aims to analyze the process that guided this transfer and the convergence of these public policies with the French model of city policy. Far from subscribing to the uniformization of public action, the goal is to grasp the articulation between Montréal's political and institutional context and the exogenous element in the making of these public policies. Drawing attention to the implementation of these policies in Parc-Extension will help us understand the potential role of local actors in the transfer of foreign public policy models.
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Confronted with its aging population and its deeply rooted rural characteristic, l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick has become a host society for francophone immigrants though laws provisions, militancy of the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadiennes (FCFA) and positives measures designed to ensure its linguistic and community vitality.In this specific context, francophone immigration is perceived as a distributive linguistic social policy and a panacea that can solve the equation of an aging population, low birth rate, risks of linguistic assimilation and demographic disequilibrium in favour of the English-speaking majority.More than ten years after the implementation of francophone immigration public policies, l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick is not emerging as a viable host society. Rather, it is characterized by a multidimensional institutional incompleteness when it comes to the issues of immigration. Therefore, it hardly benefits from the democratization of the migration resource. Because of its societal characteristics, integration and retention of critical mass of francophone immigrants amount to a challenge to the laws of migration flows.Despite their failure, francophone immigration public policies have not been challenged. They enjoy a unique success. Firstly, they contribute to the easing of linguistic tensions and secondly they succeeded in making l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick a host society like the Anglophone dominant society.
Keywords: Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick, immigration francophone, politiques publiques, incomplétude institutionnelle, succès symbolique, Acadia of New Brunswick, Francophone immigration, public policies, institutional incompleteness, symbolic success
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AbstractThe centre of attention of this article is the emergence of cultural and political mediation as part of municipal cultural policies. The focus is on actors involved in the processes of agenda-setting, development, implementation, and evaluation of Quebec municipalities' cultural policies, all from different perspectives, theoretical approaches and practices. Several concrete examples of cultural mediation were observed, and these provided the starting point for this analysis of different uses and applications of cultural mediation, despite all being grouped together under the same label of cultural mediation.
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The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of social institutions when providing information to the state for crisis resolution. How is the public policy information system organized in the countries of the Americas and what role do universities play? This theoretical paper seeks to answer this question and explore the possibility of a paradigm shift for the university's role at the continental level. The methodology we have adopted is exploratory: we will compare cases published in digital media in both regions where universities were involved in studying phenomena triggered by the Covid-19 crisis. We will analyze these experiences in the light of two systems: the information creation system for public policy and the historical-cultural paradigm of human development. The results of our analysis show that the contemporary university can benefit from a broadening of its institutional role. This broadening would allow universities to undertake two strategic actions in the face of the key obstacles we have identified: (1) strengthen their academic offerings in the face of factors that go against the grain of higher education and (2) create greater compatibility between the knowledge generated within universities and the use that can be made of it by decision-makers.
Keywords: évidence, rôle de l'université, politique publique, enseignement supérieur, universités, evidence, public policy, role of the university, higher education, universities
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This article examines the influence ideologies, such as nationalism and neoliberalism, have on the development of public libraries in Québec. The history of these libraries reveals that the social tension created by the ideologies gave rise to several ambiguities concerning libraries, their mission, accountability, and financial resource. The cultural policies of the provincial government maintained these ambiguities and libraries now face a legal void and financial uncertainty.
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The author begins by giving us a detailed picture of the present situation of public libraries. With the help of the appropriate statistical data, he demonstrates the wide margin which exists between the libraries as they are and the standards established by the «Service des bibliothèques publiques» of the «ministère des Affaires culturelles ». He then demonstrates the need to change the status of the library within the municipal framework in order to make it autonomous, a change which can only be accomplished by lobbying. He concludes by recommending certain concrete measures which should result in a better knowledge of public libraries by the public.