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Opinion Representation and Policy Feedback: Canada in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Soroka Stuart N. , Wlezien Christopher 
Published: April 2005

Abstract.Work exploring the relationship between public opinion and public policy over time has largely been restricted to the US. However, a wider application of this line of research can provide valuable insights into whether and how representation varies across political systems. This paper takes a step in this direction using a new body of data on public opinion and government spending in Canada. Analyses reveal that the Canadian public notices and responds (thermostatically) to changes in public spending in particular domains, and also that Canadian policymakers represent these public preferences in spending. The extent and nature of public responsiveness and policy representation varies across domains. Relationships are more pronounced in certain domains, and they are more ‘specific’ in some domains and more ‘global’ in others. The findings generally accord with the results of similar work in the US and the UK, although the details differ in important ways. Indeed, the differences are strongly suggestive about the structuring role of institutions.Résumé.Les travaux portant sur la relation entre l'opinion publique et les politiques publiques se sont longtemps limités surtout aux États-Unis. Cependant, l'élargissement de cette piste de recherche peut fournir de précieuses connaissances sur les variations de la représentation au sein des systèmes politiques. Cette étude s'oriente dans cette direction en utilisant un nouveau corpus de données sur l'opinion publique et les dépenses du gouvernement au Canada. Les analyses révèlent que, dans certains domaines, la population canadienne observe les changements liés aux dépenses publiques et y réagit (de façon thermostatique) et que les décisionnaires canadiens traduisent les préférences de la population dans les dépenses. La portée et la nature de la réceptivité de la population ainsi que la représentation des politiques varient d'un domaine à l'autre. Les connexions sont plus étroites dans certains domaines, plus “ spécifiques ” dans d'autres et enfin, plus “ globales ” dans d'autres encore. En général, les résultats sont en accord avec ceux des travaux similaires menés aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni, malgré des différences importantes sur certains points de détail. En fait, les différences sont très évocatrices du rôle structurant des institutions.
La Politique culturelle du Québec de 1992 et
l'Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) : Une étude de cas dans le domaine de la culture
Authors: Saint-Pierre Diane 
Published: April 2005

Résumé. Cet article porte sur la Politique
culturelle du Québec, adoptée en 1992. Outre le fait d'avoir défini une nouvelle mission pour le ministère
des Affaires culturelles et modifié ses responsabilités, cette politique constitue un changement majeur dans les orientations
gouvernementales, notamment par la création du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec et par la mise en place de nouveaux
partenariats avec des ministères et sociétés d'État ainsi qu'avec le monde municipal. Un des objectifs de cette étude est de démontrer l'originalité de
l'Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) pour l'analyse des politiques culturelles. Développé par Paul A. Sabatier et
Hank Jenkins-Smith, l'ACF se concentre particulièrement sur le processus résultant du changement dans les croyances et les actions
des acteurs impliqués.Abstract. This article
concerns the Politique culturelle du Québec which was
adopted in 1992. Besides having outlined a new mission for the Ministry of
Cultural Affairs of Quebec, this policy constitutes a major change in
governmental orientation, notably through the creation of the Conseil
des arts et des lettres du Québec (Provincial Arts Council)
and through the establishment of new partnerships with other ministries,
public corporations and municipal authorities. One of the objectives of
this study is to demonstrate the originality of the Advocacy Coalition
Framework (ACF) in the analysis of cultural policies. Developed by Paul A.
Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith, the ACF focuses primarily on the process
resulting from changes in the beliefs and actions of the actors
involved.
Western Visions, Western Futures: Perspectives on the West in
Canada, 2nd ed.
Authors: Smith David 
Published: April 2005

Western Visions, Western Futures: Perspectives on the West in Canada,
2nd ed., Roger Gibbins and Loleen Berdahl, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003, pp. viii, 226Which is real—the past, or interpretations of the past? When it
comes to discussing western Canada's place in the national scheme of things, history hangs heavy; which may be why even works of political
science intone Creighton and Careless, Lower and W.L. Morton. The authors
of the book under review, Roger Gibbins, CEO and president of the Canada
West Foundation and Loleen Berdahl, its Director of Research, cite at one
point Quebec's motto je me souviens, but their own study,
despite its title, looks back as much as it does ahead.
La voie canadienne : repenser le multiculturalisme
Authors: Gagnon Bernard 
Published: April 2005

La voie canadienne : repenser le multiculturalisme, Will Kymlicka (traduit de l'anglais par Antoine Robitaille), Montréal,
Boréal, 2003.Une des qualités des travaux de Will Kymlicka c'est qu'ils conjuguent la réflexion philosophique avec les considérations empiriques dans l'analyse des enjeux politiques touchant de près la situation actuelle et le devenir des
démocraties libérales contemporaines. Dans la voie canadienne : repenser le multiculturalisme, le théoricien reprend l'essentiel de sa démarche mais adopte un style quelque peu différent. Plus près de l'essai politique
que de l'œuvre scientifique, W. Kymlicka signe un plaidoyer sans équivoque en faveur du modèle canadien de multiculturalisme et d'une conception asymétrique du fédéralisme. Désirant lutter contre le sentiment
d'impuissance vis-à-vis des politiques de la diversité culturelle – sentiment ambiant, selon lui, dans l'opinion publique canadienne – le philosophe libéral s'adresse directement aux “ Canadiens ” pour leur démontrer que
les politiques publiques canadiennes de la diversité culturelle sont légitimes et efficaces et, à ce titre, qu'elles devraient encore “ nous ” inspirer confiance.
Citizenship in Transformation in Canada
Authors: White Melanie 
Published: April 2005

Citizenship in Transformation in Canada, Yvonne Hébert, ed., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, pp. 289One of many surprises found in reading of Citizenship in
Transformation in Canada is that the title bears little relation to the substantive content of the book. Although preoccupied with citizenship in a broad sense, on closer inspection it is principally devoted to the exigencies of citizenship education in Canada. From the volume's title, I anticipated that this collection would address a broad range of conceptual and substantive themes in the emerging field of citizenship studies rather than focus almost exclusively on the specific problematic of civic education in Canada. In this vein, while many of the papers in the collection offer a reliable introduction to the changing nature of citizenship education, the editor's opening remarks are remarkably cautious in light of what the title suggests.
Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political
Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945–1997
Authors: Johnson Candace 
Published: April 2005

Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political
Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945–1997, Ann Porter, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 355It is amazing that Canadian society has been consistently bewildered as to the social, political and economic placement of women. In her new book, Ann Porter explains that the labour requirement that enabled women's participation in the workforce during the Second World War created a post-war environment that was inequitable, illogical, gendered,
and “regulating.” Thus, progressive measures were to produce regressive results, as they were taken for the sake of nationalism and not gender equality. Porter documents the change in Unemployment Insurance
(UI) policy from limited coverage for certain groups of male workers that could not engage in productive labour to “site of contestation over women's entitlement to state benefits” (66).
The Nation-State in Question
Authors: Keating Michael 
Published: April 2005

The Nation-State in Question, T.V. Paul, G. John Ilkenberry and John
A. Hall, eds., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, pp. x, 384The matter of globalization and state retreat has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. A phase of globalist europhoria or
alarm, depending on the writer's political tendency, was followed by a series of works debunking the idea as ‘globalony’ and assuring us that the nation-state was alive and well. This book belongs to
a third wave of writing that seriously tries to understand and measure the changes that states are experiencing, without committing itself in advance to sensationalist conclusions. The chapters come in four sections, on national identities, state security, state autonomy and state capacity.
They are generally empirically grounded, historically informed and balanced in their conclusions. Some are broad comparative reviews and others are case studies, but all of them deploy theoretical arguments capable of wider application and testing.
La citoyenneté politique des femmes
Authors: Maillé Chantal 
Published: April 2005

La citoyenneté politique des femmes, Bérengère
Marques-Pereira, Paris : Armand Colin, 2003, 215 pages.La littérature sur la citoyenneté politique des femmes s'enrichit d'une synthèse originale avec la publication
de cet ouvrage. S'inspirant du droit, de la philosophie et des sciences politiques, l'étude se veut également
comparative, et présente un regard croisé sur les parcours
vers la citoyenneté des femmes en France, en Belgique et en
Argentine. L'objectif que se donne l'auteure avec cet ouvrage
est d'offrir, autour de la problématique de la
citoyenneté, un outil de travail qui brosse un panorama sur
l'émergence et sur la situation présente de la
citoyenneté politique des femmes. (6) Mais c'est avant tout
à une réflexion théorique que nous convie
l'auteure, qui relate, dans la première partie du livre, les
fondements théoriques et les parcours historiques de la
citoyenneté politique des femmes. Un chapitre retrace les
principales étapes de l'exclusion politique des femmes, avec
certains événements charnières, comme la
révolution française, qui consacre l'exclusion
politique des femmes: la constitution de 1791 range les femmes dans la
catégorie des citoyens passifs, qui ne votent pas, mais qui ne sont
pas pour autant sans représentation dans la nation, puisque la
figure du pater familias les représente. (34)
L'auteure rappelle cependant les voix discordantes qui se sont
élevé: celles de Condorcet et d'Olympe de Gouges, qui
viennent baliser le terrain des luttes en faveur du suffrage des femmes
qui marqueront les deux siècles qui suivront. (41) Le chapitre qui
suit aborde les trajectoires dans les pays d'Europe occidentale et
des Amériques qui aboutissent à l'inclusion politique
des femmes. L'auteure s'attarde à montrer les
ressemblances et dissemblances de ces parcours, reprenant certaines
hypothèses quant aux liens entre culture, religion et
affranchissement politique des femmes. Ainsi, les trajectoires nordiques
et anglo-saxonnes se caractérisent par une citoyenneté
féminine précoce autour de la Première Guerre
mondiale ou dans l'entre-deux-guerres, tandis que les trajectoires
latines, sous l'influence du Code napoléon, mettent en
évidence une citoyenneté tardive autour de la Seconde Guerre
mondiale. La première partie de l'ouvrage se termine par un
retour sur les vieux clichés que la science politique a nourris
autour des comportements politiques des femmes et de leur
présumé conservatisme. Marques-Pereira oppose à cette
conception des études récentes qui confirment la tendance
d'un vote des femmes plus à gauche, venant démentir les
anciens schémas, et qui se confirme dans des pays tels la
Grande-Bretagne, l'Allemagne, les Pays-Bas ou la
Nouvelle-Zélande.
The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer
Authors: Leopold David 
Published: April 2005

The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer, Douglas Moggach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. x, 290Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) is neither a well-known nor an easily
accessible figure. Despite making a significant contribution both to the evolution of Hegelianism and to nineteenth-century German controversies about the historical Jesus, his work is now little read and only infrequently discussed. His name appears often enough, not least in
sketches of Karl Marx's intellectual evolution (on which Bauer had a disputed impact), but serious studies of his work are few and far between (in any language).
Métamorphoses de la culture libérale: Éthique,
médias, entreprise
Authors: Brin Colette 
Published: April 2005

Métamorphoses de la culture libérale: Éthique,
médias, entreprise, Gilles Lipovetsky, Montréal: Liber, 2002, 113 p.Cet ouvrage regroupe quatre conférences prononcées par l'auteur en sol canadien à l'automne 2001. Malgré les thématiques différentes qu'évoque le sous-titre, un regard à la fois critique et porteur d'espoir sur des aspects polémiques de la société
contemporaine sert de fil conducteur au livre. L'individualisme postmoderne, l'insécurité et l'identité consumériste occupent une place importante dans la réflexion.
La Politique du peuple. Racines, permanences et ambiguïtés du populisme
Authors: Breaugh Martin 
Published: April 2005

La Politique du peuple. Racines, permanences et ambiguïtés
du populisme, Roger Dupuy, Paris : Albin Michel, 2002, 251 p.Taxée d'“ infra-politique ” ou de “ populiste ”, l'idée d'une capacité politique des couches populaires ou plébéiennes se heurte, depuis toujours, à de fortes résistances au sein de la
communauté des chercheurs aussi bien en histoire qu'en science politique. Que ce soit dans les travaux d'un historien du XIXe
siècle tel A. Aulard ou d'un politologue du XXe siècle
tel P. Rosanvallon, le peuple demeure soit un simple figurant dans
l'Histoire (Aulard), soit “ introuvable ” puisque les
élites politiques sont incapables de le définir
(Rosanvallon). Contre ces deux visions étriquées du peuple
et de sa capacité politique, mais aussi contre la condescendance
qui sous-tend de tels jugements, l'historien français Roger
Dupuy tente de retracer les grandes lignes de ce qu'il appelle la
“ politique du peuple ”.
Interventions, 1961-2001. Science sociale & action politique
Authors: Laberge Yves 
Published: April 2005

Interventions, 1961-2001. Science sociale & action politique,
Pierre Bourdieu. Textes choisis par Franck Poupeau et Thierry Discepolo, Collection “ Contre-feux ”, Marseille et Montréal : Lux Éditions, Agone, Comeau et Nadeau, 2002, 487 p.“ J'ai toujours pour principe de dire ce qu'il y a de
plus difficile à avaler pour le public auquel je parle - ce qui est le contraire de la démagogie. ” (Bourdieu, 2002 [1989] : 74). Cette devise véhémente résume éloquemment l'esprit de cet ouvrage colossal de plus de 80 entretiens, conférences et articles, rapports et documents d'archives, tous écrits (ou quelquefois co-rédigés) par le sociologue Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002).
La plupart de ces textes étaient initialement parus dans diverses revues, françaises ou étrangères (et même au Japon), et à l'occasion dans Les Actes de la recherche en
sciences sociales, revue dont Bourdieu a été le fondateur en 1975. Or, presque aucun de ces textes choisis n'était jusqu'ici disponible sous forme de livre, ce qui
rendra son contenu pratiquement inédit.
No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict
Authors: Narozhna Tanya 
Published: April 2005

No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict, David A. Hamburg,
Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004, pp. v, 365David Hamburg, a physician, scholar, and policymaker, came to think preventively in the 1950s, when he saw the impact of the first polio vaccine. He built on this experience later when, as president of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York (1982-1997), he became interested in
preventing mass violence—“the prime problem of the
twenty-first century” (vii). One of the most important questions he
poses in this work is whether it is “beyond human capacity to create
secure and decent living standards for people everywhere and to foster
just interactions among diverse peoples” (1). Hamburg believes that
an evolving worldwide awareness of unprecedented dangers and of equally
unprecedented advances in science and technology can help humanity
transcend “the ancient habits of blaming, dehumanizing, repressing,
and attacking …” (5).
OPTIMAL ROUTING IN OUTPUT-QUEUED FLEXIBLE SERVER SYSTEMS
Authors: Stolyar Alexander L. 
Published: April 2005

We consider a queuing system with multitype customers and
nonhomogeneous flexible servers, in the heavy traffic asymptotic regime
and under a complete resource pooling (CRP) condition. For the
input-queued (IQ) version of such a system (with customers being
queued at the system “entrance,” one queue per each type), it
was shown in the work of Mandelbaum and Stolyar that a simple parsimonious
Gcμ scheduling rule is optimal in that it asymptotically
minimizes the system customer workload and some strictly convex
queuing costs. In this article, we consider a
different—output-queued (OQ)—version of the model,
where each arriving customer must be assigned to one of the servers
immediately upon arrival. (This constraint can be interpreted as immediate
routing of each customer to one of the “output
queues,” one queue per each server.) Consequently, the space of
controls allowed for an OQ system is a subset of that for the
corresponding IQ system.We introduce the MinDrift routing rule for OQ systems (which
is as simple and parsimonious as Gcμ) and show that this
rule, in conjunction with arbitrary work-conserving disciplines at the
servers, has asymptotic optimality properties analogous to those
Gcμ rule has for IQ systems. A key element of the analysis is
the notion of system server workload, which, in particular,
majorizes customer workload. We show that (1) the MinDrift rule
asymptotically minimizes server workload process among all OQ-system
disciplines and (2) this minimal process matches the minimal possible
customer workload process in the corresponding IQ system. As a corollary,
MinDrift asymptotically minimizes customer workload among all disciplines
in either the OQ or IQ system.
Psychometric properties of the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire
in inpatient cancer rehabilitation in Germany
Authors: DIRMAIER JÖRG , ZAUN SILKE , KOCH UWE , HARFST TIMO , SCHULZ HOLGER 
Published: April 2005

Objective: Recent years have shown an increase in the use of
questionnaires measuring health-related quality of life to verify the
quality of treatment in the field of oncology. An often used
cancer-specific questionnaire is the “Quality of Life Core
Questionnaire of the European Organization for the Research and Treatment
of Cancer” (EORTC QLQ-C30). The purpose of this study is to analyze
the psychometric properties of the EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 1) in order to
determine the feasibility and appropriateness for its use in inpatient
cancer rehabilitation in Germany with heterogeneous diagnoses.Methods: The questionnaire was administrated to a sample of
972 cancer patients at the beginning of treatment and to 892 patients
after treatment. Besides descriptive analysis, the statistical analyses
include confirmatory analysis and the multitrait/multimethod approach
to test the questionnaire's postulated scale structure (factorial
validity) and its reliability (internal consistencies). The analysis also
includes a comparison of responsiveness indices (effect size, reliable
change index) to test the sensitivity of the instrument.Results: The EORTC QLQ-C30 showed satisfactory levels of
reliability and sensitivity, but the postulated scale structure could not
be confirmed. The results illustrate that the varimax-rotated solution of
a principal component analysis does not confirm the scale structure
postulated by the authors. Correspondingly, the selected fit indices
within the scope of the confirmatory factor analysis do not show
satisfactory results either.Significance of results: We therefore consider version 1 of
the EORTC QLQ-C30 to be only limitedly useful for the routine assessment
of changes in the quality of life of cancer patients in inpatient
rehabilitation in Germany, especially because of the instrument's
length and possible redundancies. For this reason, a scoring procedure
limited to a subset of items is suggested, revealing satisfactory to good
psychometric indices. However, further psychometric tests are necessary,
especially with regard to validity and sensitivity.
A feasibility study of Dignity Psychotherapy delivered via
telemedicine
Authors: PASSIK STEVEN D. , KIRSH KENNETH L. , LEIBEE SUZANNE , KAPLAN LISA S. , LOVE CELIA , NAPIER ELLEN , BURTON DEBORAH , SPRANG ROBERT 
Published: April 2005

Objective: Dignity Psychotherapy has shown great promise as a
value-affirming intervention for patients with advanced disease. We
delivered the Dignity Psychotherapy intervention in a feasibility study of
a series of eight cancer patients via videophone technology to deliver the
therapy into their homes.Methods: Once eligible patients were consented on this
IRB-approved study, they completed baseline assessments and were scheduled
to have the videophone placed in their homes. The Dignity Therapy sessions
then encompassed a first session, which was transcribed and edited,
followed by a second session to go over the edited transcript and allow
the patient to make changes. Patients then filled out follow-up
questionnaires and had the telemedicine equipment removed from their
homes, and their legacy document delivered.Results: Participants had a mean age of 56.32 years (range =
41–66, SD = 7.65) and were diagnosed with lung (n
= 5, 62.5%), breast (n = 2, 25%), or colon cancer (n =
1, 12.5%). They reported overall benefit from the intervention along with
a high level of satisfaction. We were able to deliver the intervention in
a timely fashion, with minimal length between sessions and transcript
delivery and few technical difficulties.Significance of results: Telemedicine can greatly extend the
benefits of Dignity Psychotherapy by bringing it to patients who are dying
at home. Our very preliminary work suggests that delivering the
intervention to patients who are too ill to leave their homes or who are
in rural locations may be a feasible way to help them.
Competence development in palliative care in Norway: A description and evaluation of a postgraduate education program in palliative care in Drammen, Norway
Authors: LANDMARK BJØRG TH. , WAHL ASTRID K. , BØHLER ANN 
Published: April 2005

Objective:The aim of the present study was to evaluate competence development in palliative treatment, nursing and care in students (n= 25) undergoing a two-year postgraduate education program in palliation at a university college in Norway.Methods:A questionnaire was handed out on five occasions during the education period.Results:Results showed that the students rated their competence level as between some competence and good competence before entering the course. However, the competence level rose throughout the course period, and at the end of their education most of the students perceived themselves at a very good or extremely good competence level.Significance of results:Statistically significant differences in all questions measuring competence in palliation were found on all occasions. Further studies are needed to confirm the effect of education on students' perceived competence development and whether it has a positive impact on clinical practice.