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WHAT DOES QUEBEC WANT?

Understand Quebec's stance in international relations & explore the Gender Gap in Canadian politics. Analyze factors shaping views and the structural, socio-psychological, and feminist perspectives on political beliefs and policy preferences.

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WHAT DOES QUEBEC WANT?

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  1. WHAT DOES QUEBEC WANT? Conclusion November 20, 2001

  2. Quebec and the International Context • importance of international context in shaping views of ROC • globalization/Americanization make ROC more sensitive to the role of Quebec in asserting Canadian distinctiveness • globalization/continentalization and Quebec • Quebec’s support for free trade • lower reliance on the rest of Canada • not concerned about possibility of corrosive effects of trade on Canadian identity • not concerned about possibility of corrosive effects of trade on Quebec identity • language not better protected within the type of Canada envisioned by the ROC than outside it

  3. Gender Politics in Canada November 20, 2001

  4. The Gender Gap • What is it? • differences between men and women in their basic political beliefs and policy preferences • describing the gap • free enterprise • the welfare state • health care • moral traditionalism • crime and punishment

  5. Explaining the Gender Gap • structural explanations • focus on objective differences in circumstances of women and men in explaining different political orientations

  6. Explaining the Gender Gap • structural explanations • women and the welfare state • the feminization of poverty • employment in the welfare state • gendered patterns of employment • the “pink” ghetto • mobilizing effects of feminism • spillover from “women’s issues” to other issues • socialization to gender roles • females socialized to “maternal thinking”

  7. Explaining the Gender Gap • structural explanations • socio-psychological explanations • Gilligan • male-centred reasoning – ethic of justice • female-centred reasoning – ethic of care • religiosity • greater female religiosity – importance in explaining political preferences (O’Neill 2001) • e.g. abortion

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