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Welcome to the School of Political Studies!
Created by the University of Ottawa in December 2003, the School is a mecca for the study of politics. Through both disciplinary and interdisciplinacy approaches, the School of Political Studies fosters an in-depth knowledge of the phenomena of power and authority, opposition and resistance, in their various forms, at the local, national and international level.

News
The Public Administration Graduate Student Conference "Painting the Future of Public Administration"
will be held on April 13th, 2012 and is an opportunity for full- and part-time graduate students in Public Administration to present, in either official language, their course work, major research paper, or thesis research. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, don't hesitate to e-mail the Steering Committee at: uottawa.papconference@gmail.com or visit the website http://PublicAdminConference.ca- La surconsommation plus terrifiante que la population by Frédéric Julien, PhD Student in Political Science (en français seulement)
- The Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) will hold its Annual Congress at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from June 13 to 15, 2012 /
Conference, Art of Peace in a Time of War Montebello, Québec (21-23 June 2011), artofpeaceconference.org, Nisha Shaw
Upcoming events
- Feb. 23: 2002-2012: the Bolivarian Revolutionary Process Ten Years After the Coup, Ana Carolina Rodriguez, Chargée d'Affaires in Ottawa, Francia Malvar, Merly Vanegas and Martha Pardo, Consuls generals in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver
Recent Publication
- H.Pellerin "De la migration à la mobilité: Changement de paradigme dans la gestion migratoire. Le cas du Canada", Revue européenne des Migrations internationales, vol. 27, no.2, 2011, pp.57-76.
- Peter Newell - Matthew Pateson - Traduction et adaptation de Laurent Baechler - disponible : Climat et capitalisme / Réchauffement climatique et transformation de l'économie mondiale
- Behiels, M. and F. Rocher (eds.), The State in Transition. Challenges for Canadian Federalism, Ottawa, Invenire Books, 2011, 347 p.
- Rocher, F., «Citoyenneté, gouvernance et minorités ethnoculturelles et religieuses : Un modèle d’intégration sous pression», Revue gouvernance , 8(1), Automne 2011, 26 p.
- Rocher, F. et P. Cousineau-Morin, «Fédéralisme asymétrique et reconnaissance des nations internes au Canada. Évolution récente dans l’espace québécois ou comment abdiquer l’asymétrie sur l’autel du principe de l'égalité des provinces», Le fédéralisme multinational. Un modèle viable? , M. Seymour et G. Laforest (sous la direction de), Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2011, 269-294.
- Fafard, P. and F. Rocher, “Clients, Citizens and Federalism: The Views of Governments”, The State in Transition: Challenges for Canadian Federalism, M. Behiels and F. Rocher (eds.), Ottawa, Invenire Books, 2011, 169-196.
- Rocher, F. et M.-C. Gilbert, «Fédéralisme et relations intergouvernementales en perspective comparée: Allemagne, Australie, Belgique, États-Unis et Canada», Les relations Québec-Ontario. Un destin partagé? , dans J. F. Savard, A. Brassard et L. Côté (sous la direction de), Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2011, 11-45.
- Laliberté, A., “Contemporary Issues in State-Religion Relations”, Chinese Religious Life, edited by David Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri, Oxford University Press, 2011, 191-208
- Laliberté, A., with Wu Keping and David Palmer, “Social Services, Philanthropy and Religion in Chinese Society”, Religion and Public Life in the Chinese World, edited by David Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri, Oxford University Press, 2011, 139-154
- Laliberté, A., “‘Beliefs’ and ‘religion’: categorizing cultural distinctions among East Asians.”, How Public Institutions Assess Identity, edited by Avigail Eisenberg and Will Kymlicka, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2011, 215-237

