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- Title
L'instrumentalisation des principes de « démocratie de participation » chez les élus québécois du début de la Révolution tranquille.
- Authors
Savard, Stéphane
- Abstract
The 1960s are known as a period of political, social and cultural protest. Thinkers and social movements associated with the New Left put forward many ideas, including decolonization, and demanded new rights. Many came to conceive of a new form of democracy, "participatory democracy," whose principles and values played an important role in the discourse and activist strategies of social movements. This article is not concerned with the discourses of the latter; rather, it seeks to determine how the notion of participatory democracy, which circulates in the public arena, is recuperated by the political leaders of a society, in this case the elected representatives of the Quebec Legislative Assembly. By analyzing the speeches of Quebec elected officials between 1960 and 1968 (Lesage and Johnson governments), it studies the first direct or indirect allusions to the question of "participatory democracy" and seeks to understand the reasons behind the use of these terms or the claims of its principles. The article shows that Quebec elected officials use the principles behind "participatory democracy" to justify their views and orientations in education and economic and regional planning. They do the same to put forward--rhetorically or concretely--a reform of government.
- Subjects
PARTICIPATORY democracy; QUIET Revolution, Quebec (Province), 1960-1980; SOCIAL movements
- Publication
Mens: Revue d'Histoire Intellectuelle et Culturelle, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
1492-8647
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1109494ar