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Beyond Parochialism and Domestic Preoccupation: The Current State of Comparative Politics in Canada

Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Edmonton, June 14, 2012

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2013

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay*
Affiliation:
University of Victoria
*
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Vice President Academic and Provost and Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 2Y2; email: provost@uvic.ca

Abstract

Abstract. The response of the comparativists to Canadian scholars' call to build Canadian politics into our comparative framework has to be first, that we, the comparativists engage in a broader dialogue about our sub-discipline and move away from our self-imposed parochialism with respect to the scope and objectives of our research, our methods of theory generation and of empirical analysis. Our house is a divided, fragmented house. Having said this, we do have a fertile ground and share a common conducive infrastructure, methodological and thematic, across the two sub-disciplines to start our engagement with the Canadianists.

Résumé. Notre réponse, de nous qui faisons la politique comparée, à cet appel que nous lancent les canadianistes, soit d'incorporer dans notre grille comparative des elements de politique canadienne, doit se consister tout d'abord en ce que nous nous engagions dans un dialogue élargi portant sur notre sous-discipline et à renoncer à cet esprit de clocher en ce qui concerne les objectifs et l'étendu de nos recherches ainsi que les methodes que nous utilisons pour engendrer nos theories et poursuivre nos recherches empiriques. Notre maison est une maison divisée, fragmentée. Ceci dit, nous sommes, toutefois, dotés d'une terre fertile; et que nos deux sous-disciplines se partagent une infrastructure méthodologique et thématique favorise bien le début d'un engagement avec les canadianistes.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 2012

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