Nationalism in Quebec Politics since Laurier

The Evolving Parameters of Quebec Nationalism

This article focuses on how Canada’s French minority in Quebec developed a nationalist discourse and used its provincial state to strengthen its economic and political status within the federation. It presents the parameters that define contemporary Quebec nationalism and its evolution over the past four decades. The first part of the article deals with nationalism during the ‘Quiet Revolution’...

The visible politics of the privatization debate in Quebec.

This paper analyzes the debates surrounding the privatization of health services financing in Quebec. The objective is to clarify policy-making processes with regard to this important issue and, more generally, to provide a realistic understanding of health-related policy processes in Canada. The analysis is based on a large and continuous sample of mass media and National Assembly debates on t...

Laurier enterprise system upgrade

Dangerous sexualities. Medico-moral politics in England since 1830

There have been many calls of late for the study of medical politics; Evans has put precept into practice, going beyond analysis of abstract ideologies to plot the precise interplay of real power politics with medical crises. Not least, he has drawn explicit international comparisons. Hamburg turns out to have been more English than the English: by contrast to the ramshackle public health arran...

Revivalist Nationalism since World War II: From “Wake up, America!” to “Make America Great Again”

Between 1945 and 1980, evangelicals emerged as a key political constituency in American politics, helping to form the Religious Right and work for the election of Ronald Reagan and other conservative Republicans. This article argues that they embraced a distinctive type of revivalist nationalism, centered around the mass revival. Case studies of Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Jerry Falwell, and Ron...