Revised Draft Constitution for the Canadian Political Science Association / Association Canadienne de Science Politique

Due to its status as a relatively weak third party in the House of Commons, there was very little research done on the federal NDP during the 2000s. However, as academic attention was focused elsewhere, the federal NDP quietly modernized its organization and moderated its ideology under the leadership of Jack Layton. With the party's historic breakthrough in the 2011 federal election and its newfound status as official opposition, Canadian political scientists must now re-evaluate the state of our knowledge on the federal NDP. As part of the SSHRC-funded Canadian Social Democracy Study, this roundtable will explore the question: “What are the strengths and weaknesses of academic research on Canadian social democracy and, in particular, the federal NDP?” We will follow a ‘speed dating' type of format where a group of three on the roundtable would be given a five minutes each to address the question and then the chair would take questions from the audience for fifteen minutes and then process would repeat itself with next two groups of roundtable participants. It is hoped that the roundtable will be able to identify a number of strengths and weaknesses within our knowledge of the federal NDP thereby encouraging future research on the topic. Session: B2 Multiculturalism Location: Mackenzie Chown C Block 303 | Date: May 27, 2014 | Time: 10:30am to 12:00pm Participants & Authors/Auteurs: Shelly Ghai (University of Toronto) : Framing the Contest: the Bharatiya Janata Party Versus the Indian National Congress Anastasiya Salnykova (University of British Columbia) : International National Minority Regime and its Impact on the Deliberative Capacity in Transitional Ukraine Joanie Thibault-Couture (Université de Montréal) : La « destinée manifeste » sud-africaine : la politique étrangère comme vecteur de la construction de l’identité nationale en Afrique du Sud Arjun Tremblay (Concordia University) : Explaining The Persistence of Multiculturalism