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AbstractThe organisations representing retired people in France and the United States have different strategies for intervening in public policy debate, and this despite significant similarities in the two types of organisations. In the United States the emphasis is on professionalism, while in France the same kind of associations organise around their “amateur knowledge”, despite the rise of professional expertise within them. While the two cases display a reliance on professional expertise, there is also an “advocacy logic” present in the two cases. For the moment, the development of any social opposition to public policies is more developed in the USA than in France.
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AbstractThis paper is on the Quebec's Maritime Cluster Initiative. This initiative has its origin in a set of public policies launched in 1998, aimed at creating a dynamic cluster in the Quebec's coastal maritime industry. The objectives of this paper are twofold : first, we describe and analyze the public policies and programs behind the Quebec's Maritime Cluster Initiative ; secondly, we discuss the impact of these policies on the regional economy. Based on this case, we discuss mistakes to be avoided in designing cluster policies as well the relevance of a cluster strategy to foster and support the economy of peripheral regions.
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In this period of social change, public policies targeting youth in difficulty are the focus of numerous debates, whether involving policies for certain youths under State responsibility (particular social, legal, educational, correctional policies, etc.) or those addressing a wider population (policies on child welfare, social and cultural services, vocational training, social and professional integration, anti-drug strategies, health, housing renewal, etc.), with the second category clearly aimed at preventing the need to care for certain youths within the sphere of the first. By focussing its analysis on youth in difficulty and policies intended to limit the effects of a shrinking job market on young people, the article attempts to identify the conditions in which the policies were implemented and to gauge their impact on these vulnerable groups.
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A music scene can be defined as a cultural space delimited on a territory by a set of activities, places and institutions in relation to a common musical culture. Popular music is not only bounden to a space of social practices and representations, but also to political and economic spaces in which a multitude of public policies intervene. More broadly, a cultural scene reveals the diversity of regulations implemented that participate in its shaping – while the latter are not always defined as instruments of cultural governance. The cultural industries, which play a central role in local and translocal cultural dynamics are, however, largely absent from the various studies on cultural policies. Drawing on three field studies (in Paris, Sydney, Québec), we show that public interventions towards popular music are based solely on two registries of action – the social and economics – which ultimately questions the aims of cultural interventionism.
Keywords: musiques populaires, scène locale, scène culturelle, politiques publiques, réglementation, popular music, local scene, cultural scene, public policies, regulation, música popular, escena local, escena cultural, políticas públicas, regulación
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The federal government's municipal infrastructure programs are a good illustration of the evolution of multi-level governance in Canada, as they involve sharing responsibilities between the three levels of government: federal, provincial and municipal. In this study, I investigate the impact of these programs on the intergovernmental dynamics occurring between these three levels of government. My analysis is primarily a historical review of public policy instruments and institutional arrangements in municipal infrastructure spending. The first research question focuses on the resilience of multi-level governance: are these programs becoming permanent or can they easily be eliminated according to the political context? The second relates to the policy instruments: what are the institutional arrangements and the form of intergovernmental agreements in place that allow the federal government to intervene in the municipal infrastructure sector? To analyze the policy instruments, a typology based on three funding models is developed.
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Using the notions of policy framework, actor-mediator and resource, this text shows that the redefinition of municipal and territorial governance in Quebec during the period 2000-2016 stems from three main factors : the strengthening of policy framework for the restoration of public finances; efforts to bring the municipal sector into line with the socio-economic norms that characterize this policy framework; the impact of these changes in the structure of the sector and the positioning of social actors. If the study shows that policy framework analysis is relevant to understanding the transformation of public policy, it is also clear that changes in government, time, and actors strategies play a role.
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Keywords: politiques de la mémoire, entrepreneurs de mémoire, gouvernance, centralisme