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This book explores the independence of official statistics and describes the various legal and professional norms, institutional arrangements, instruments and practices that statisticians have developed over recent decades to protect their work from political interference. It argues that this ‘drive for independence’, which saw the replication of these norms, arrangements, and instruments across countries, was largely led by the international epistemic community of statisticians, and it identifies some of the paths and processes that enabled this drive.

The study conducts an overall, multi-dimensional, and detailed comparative examination of the thirty-eight OECD countries’ norms, arrangements, and practices regarding the institutional and professional independence of official statistics. For that purpose, several dimensions have been surveyed and an index has been built that allows patterns and clusters to be uncovered among the OECD countries, shedding light on the variations that can be observed from one subgroup of countries to another.

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Ce numéro thématique refait la cartographie des foyers idéologiques au Québec depuis le XXIe siècle. On y trouve des contributions de Frédérick Nadeau sur l’extrême droite, de Thomas Laberge (M.A., science politique, UQAM) sur les libertariens, de Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert sur l’émergence du véganisme, de Geneviève Pagé et Priscyll Anctil Avoine (Ph.D., science politique, UQAM) sur le renouvellement du féminisme par les idées queers et l’intersectionnalité, de Danic Parenteau sur les idées républicaines depuis la commission Bouchard-Taylor, de Frédéric Boily et André Lecours sur le nationalisme de la CAQ, d’Andrea Levy sur les nouvelles tonalités fortes de la gauche, de Nicolas Renaud et Daniel Salée sur la pensée autochtone contemporaine et de Guillaume Lamy (doctorant, science politique, UQAM) sur le renversement d’allégeances politiques lors du débat sur la laïcité.

Le numéro est disponible en format imprimé.
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Auteur : Alain-G. Gagnon

Publication : Presses de l'Université de Mostar

Ce livre constitue le troisième volet d’un projet de rédaction amorcé avec la publication, en 2007, de La raison du plus fort : plaidoyer pour le fédéralisme multinational (Prix Josep Maria Vilaseca i Marcet) et approfondi avec la parution, en 2011, de L’âge des incertitudes : essais sur le fédéralisme et la diversité nationale (finaliste au Prix Donald-Smiley), traduits respectivement en 9 et 20 langues. Inspiré par les travaux traitant des Premiers Peuples et des nations minoritaires en contexte démocratique, Le choc des légitimités jette un regard nouveau sur les rapports entre majorités et minorités, tout en explorant les avancées théoriques sur le fédéralisme multinational et sur le nationalisme libéral.

*Des traductions en langues catalane et italienne sont attendues pour la rentrée universitaire.

Description de l'ouvrage
Local government has rapidly become both more important and more complex and the quality of municipal management is becoming more significant every day as local governments deal with a vast array of organizational and community challenges.

« The Role of Canadian City Managers » brings together experienced city managers and municipal chief administrative officers (CAOs) across Canada to analyse the daily issues that they face. Each chapter deals with a particular issue or challenge, such as council/staff relations, collaborative initiatives, and crisis readiness. The book contributes to the literature on local government and public administration by providing insights from the "real time" lived experiences of city managers, spoken in their own words. The book also speculates about the contemporary leadership role of the city manager and the future of the city management profession.

Parution : University of Toronto Press

Résumé
This analysis seeks to understand the appropriation or rejection of radicalism by two groups in a poor and immigrant neighbourhood of Montreal. Yet although both defend the same causes and share the same progressive dimension, one presents itself as a group of non-radical citizens while the other presents itself as a group of radical activists. So for each group, what do these different definitions of identity enfold: citizens versus militants, non-radicals versus radicals? More than the acceptance and the use of violence, the investigation’s results reveal that the divergences observed illustrate a different construction of the intersection between social class, cultural or ethnic identity, and global and local boundaries. These different ways of conceiving the intersection shape specific democratic practices and relations to politics. This analysis outlines the relevance of not restricting the reflection on radicalism to a focus on the repertoire of collective action but rather exploring its meanings for citizens in their daily lives and its implications for their relations to politics. Finally, it also offers a concrete picture of left-wing ideological tensions and debates and how some grass roots organizations try (or do not try) to resolve them.