Remembering Jean Laponce
On November 28, 2016, our friend and colleague, Professor Emeritus Jean Laponce, passed away.
Video: Johnston on the US electoral landscape
The battle for the Republican nomination defied prediction and challenged much of what we thought we knew about parties in the United States. Many believed that Donald Trump was a creature of the media, doomed to obscurity once they lost interest. Instead, he activated potential Republican constituencies that had long been dormant. Something of the same happened on the Democratic side with the race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Is 2016 an historical accident, leaving no permanent impact, or has the electoral landscape been fundamentally transformed? What impact will this have on Canada?
Barbara Arneil on the Public Sector’s Glass Ceiling
“There’s an old saying: the higher, the fewer, with respect to women,” said Barbara Arneil, head of the University of B.C.’s political science department. “We have what I think are structural, systemic reasons why women are not reaching the top of their profession, whether that is in the university, whether that’s in government, whether that’s in the private sector. And we’re wasting very good resources.”
Tiberghien on China / Chinese National TV on Tiberghien
With the 2016 G20 in China, Yves Tiberghien – our resident expert on China, was working behind the scenes during G20 preparations and was in the media both in China and in Canada.
Coulthard’s ‘Red Skin, White Masks’ Wins Top Political Theory Book Award
Glen Coulthard’s, Red Skin, White Masks (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) won the Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. Macpherson Award for Best Political Theory Book published in English or French in 2014 or 2015.