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Bilan des réformes électorales au Canada : Quelle place pour les femmes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2010

Manon Tremblay
Manon Tremblay*
Affiliation:
École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa, mtrembla@uottawa.ca
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Manon Tremblay, École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa, 55, rue Laurier, Pavillon Desmarais, pièce 9111 Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5mtrembla@uottawa.ca
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Abstract

Résumé. Ce texte examine les différents projets de réforme électorale proposés depuis le tournant du millénaire dans les provinces canadiennes et au Nunavut, et ce, avec le souci de mettre au jour la place qu'ils aménagèrent à l'objectif d'accentuer la féminisation des assemblées législatives. L'idée maîtresse qui l'inspire veut que les propositions réformatrices aient réservé une importance le plus souvent nulle, bien que parfois accessoire, mais jamais centrale, à cette question. Pourtant, le Québec, et surtout le territoire du Nunavut, se démarquent par l'attention qu'ils portèrent au problème de l'effacement des femmes de la scène politique et leurs propositions de réforme ont offert des réponses plus à même de le solutionner.

Abstract. This essay examines the different electoral reform projects proposed since the turn of the millennium in Canadian provinces and the territory of Nunavut, in order to reveal what accommodation they have made to the objective of increasing the feminization of legislative assemblies. My guiding idea is that most reform proposals have given no, or sometimes peripheral, emphasis to this question but have never made it a central issue. However, Quebec and, even more, Nunavut stand out for the attention that they have paid to the absence of women from the political scene, and their reform proposals have included responses that might offer a solution.

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 25 - 47
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 2010

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