2007 John McMenemy Prize

Winner: Pascale Dufour

Projet national et espace de protestation mondiale: des articulations distinctes au Québec et au Canada, Canadian Journal of Political Science 39:2

Excerpt from jury report: Dufour’s article offers significant a contribution not only to the study of political differences between Quebec and Canada but also to the broader concern with the ways in which sociopolitical actors pursue national projects in the context of globalization. Dufour both challenges and complements previous research on the effects of globalization on Québec politics by arguing that the institutionalized collaboration between a majority of social actors and the Parti québécois until the early 2000s was a key explanatory factor to account for the Canada-Québec differences during this period. The article is a tour de force of methodological pluralism: it relies on textual analysis of primary sources and newspapers as well semi-structured interviews with political and social actors.