The Canadian Political Science Association (french: Association canadienne de science politique) is an organization of
political scientists
This is a list of notable political scientists. See the list of political theorists for those who study political theory. See also political science.
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* Robert Abelson - Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special int ...
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Canada
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. It is a
bilingual
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organization and publishes the bilingual journal ''
Canadian Journal of Political Science
The ''Canadian Journal of Political Science'' (french: Revue canadienne de science politique) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Canadian Political Science Association. In 1968, it was spl ...
''. The organization is headquartered in
Ottawa
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,
Ontario
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, and has an annual convention in conjunction with the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (french: Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines), also known as the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, is a member-based organization and the national voice for r ...
.
Presidents
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Adam Shortt (Civil Service Commission), 1913–1914
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Oscar D. Skelton (Queen's), 1929–1930
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Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known ...
(McGill), 1934–1935
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R. H. Coats (Toronto), 1935–1936
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W. A. Mackintosh
William Archibald Mackintosh, (May 21, 1895 – December 29, 1970) was a Canadian economist and political scientist, and was the twelfth principal of Queen's University from 1951 until 1961. He is best known for developing the staple thesis th ...
(Queen's), 1936–1937
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H. A. Innis (Toronto), 1937–1938
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J. W. Dafoe (Winnipeg Free Press), 1938–1939
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J. C. Hemmeon, 1939–1940
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W. C. Clark (Deputy Minister of Finance), 1940–1941
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H. Mitchell, 1941–1942
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C. A. Dawson, 1942–1943
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R. A. MacKay (Dalhousie), 1943–1944
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K. W. Taylor, 1944–1945
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R. MacGregor Dawson (Toronto), 1945–1946
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F. A. Knox, 1946–1947
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V.W. Bladen (Toronto), 1947–1948
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H. F. Angus (British Columbia), 1948–1949
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W. B. Hurd (McMaster), 1949–1950
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C. A. Curtis (Curtis), 1950–1951
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G.-H. Levesque (Laval), 1951–1952
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Herbert Marshall
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the Uni ...
, 1952–1953
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Alexander Brady
Alexander Brady (9 February 1870 – 19 October 1913) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside forward. Upon his death, the Sheffield Evening Telegraph described him as being "in his day one of the best forwards in the coun ...
(Toronto), 1953–1954
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J. A. Corry (Queen's), 1954–1955
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J. D. Gibson, 1955–1956
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G. E. Britnell (Saskatchewan), 1956–1957
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G. A. Elliott (Alberta), 1957–1958
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S. D. Clark (Toronto), 1958–1959
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Mabel F. Timlin (Saskatchewan), 1959–1960
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C. A. Ashley, 1960–1961
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Eugene Forsey
Eugene Alfred Forsey (May 29, 1904 – February 20, 1991) served in the Senate of Canada from 1970 to 1979. He was considered to be one of Canada's foremost constitutional experts.
Biography
Forsey was born on May 29, 1904, in Grand Bank in ...
(Canadian Labour Congress), 1961–1962
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W.J. Waines, 1962–1963
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C. B. Macpherson (Toronto), 1963–1964
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Jean-Charles Falardeau (Laval), 1964–1965
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Harry G. Johnson (London School of Economics/Chicago), 1965–1966
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Anthony D. Scott
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(British Columbia), 1966–1967
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H. B. Mayo (Carleton), 1967–1968
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Donald V. Smiley (British Columbia), 1968–1969
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Douglas V. Verney (York), 1969–1970
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Gilles Lalande (Montréal), 1970–1971
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J. E. Hodgetts (Toronto), 1971–1972
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Jean Laponce (British Columbia), 1972–1973
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John Meisel
John Meisel (born October 23, 1923) is a Canadian political scientist, professor, and scholar, and former chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
He has written extensively on various aspects of politics, nota ...
(Queen's), 1973–1974
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Léon Dion (Laval), 1974–1975
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Donald C. Rowat (Carleton), 1975–1976
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Alan Cairns
Hugh Alan Craig Cairns, (2 March 1930 – 27 August 2018) was a Canadian political scientist and professor. His scholarship focused on diverse topics within Canadian politics, including federalism, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, electoral ...
(British Columbia), 1976–1977
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Hugh Thorburn (Queen's), 1977–1978
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Kenneth D. McRae (Carleton), 1978–1979
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Paul W. Fox
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People
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(Toronto), 1979–1980
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Walter D. Young (Victoria), 1980–1981
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Denis W. Stairs (Dalhousie), 1981–1982
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Edwin R. Black (Queen's), 1982–1983
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Caroline Andrew (Ottawa), 1983–1984
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Kalevi J. Holsti (British Columbia), 1984–1985
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Frederick C. Engelmann, (Alberta), 1985–1986
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O.P. Dwivedi (Guelph), 1986–1987
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John C. Courtney (Saskatchewan), 1987–1988
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David J. Elkins (British Columbia), 1988–1989
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André-J. Bélanger (Montréal), 1989–1990
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Peter H. Russell (Toronto), 1990–1991
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Vincent Lemieux (Laval), 1991–1992
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V. Seymour Wilson (Carleton), 1992–1993
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Sylvia Bashevkin (Toronto), 1993–1994
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David Smith (Saskatchewan), 1994–1995
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Peter Aucoin (Dalhousie), 1995–1996
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Jane Jenson (Montréal), 1996–1997
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Tom Pocklington (Alberta), 1997–1998
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Donald J. Savoie (Moncton), 1998–1999
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Roger Gibbins (Calgary), 1999–2000
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Kenneth McRoberts (York), 2000–2001
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R. Kenneth Carty (British Columbia), 2001–2002
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Grace Skogstad (Toronto), 2002–2003
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Robert Young Robert, Rob, Robbie, Bob, or Bobby Young may refer to:
Academics
* R. A. Young (Robert Arthur Young, 1871–1959), British physician
* Robert J. C. Young (born 1950), British cultural critic and historian
* Robert J. Young (born 1942), Canadian h ...
(Western Ontario), 2003–2004
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André Blais (Montréal), 2004–2005
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Kim Richard Nossal
Kim Richard Nossal, PhD, FRSC, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Education and career
Born in London, England, No ...
(Queen's), 2005–2006
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Elisabeth Gidengil (McGill), 2006–2007
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Richard Johnston (Pennsylvania), 2007–2008
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Miriam Smith (York), 2008–2009
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Keith Banting (Queen's), 2009–2010
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Graham White (University of Toronto), 2010–2011
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Reeta Tremblay (Victoria), 2011–2012
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Michael Atkinson (Saskatchewan), 2012–2013
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Alain Noël (Montréal), 2013–2014
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Jill Vickers (Carleton), 2014–2015
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William Cross (Carleton), 2015–2016
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Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Alberta), 2016–2017
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Janet Hiebert (Queen's), 2017–2018
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François Rocher (Ottawa), 2018–2019
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Barbara Arneil (British Columbia), 2019–2020
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Joanna Everitt (University of New Brunswick – Saint John), 2020–2021
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Cheryl Collier (University of Windsor), 2021–2022
Further reading
*W.J.A. Donald, "The Canadian Political Science Association," ''Journal of Political Economy,'' vol. 21, no. 8 (Oct. 1913), pp. 762–764. .
*Janice Newton, "The Formative Decades of the CPSA," ''Canadian Journal of Political Science,'' vol. 50, no. 1 (March 2017), pp. 37–55.
External links
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Learned societies of Canada
Political science organizations
Political science in Canada
Organizations based in Ottawa
Organizations with year of establishment missing
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