Political economy of austerity

Publications

Jacques, Olivier and Éric Bélanger. 2022. "Deficit or Austerity Bias? The Changing Nature of Canadians' Opinion of Fiscal Policies." Canadian journal of Political Science.

Jacques, Olivier and Lukas Haffert. 2021. “Paying the Price of Austerity? Fiscal Consolidations Reduce Government Approval.” European Political Science Review. 13(2): 189-207.

Jacques, Olivier. 2021. “Austerity and the path of least resistance : how fiscal consolidations crowd out long term investments.” Journal of European Public Policy. 28(4): 551-570.

Jacques, Olivier. 2020."Partisan priorities under fiscal constraints in Canadian provinces." Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques

Working paper

Jacques, Olivier. “Welfare state regimes and social policy resilience to austerity.”

Governing for the long-term

Publications

Jacques, Olivier, Emmanuelle Arpin, Mehdi Ammi et Alain Noël. 2023. “The Political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures : Evidence from the Canadian Provinces, 1980-2018.” Canadian Journal of Public Health

Jacques, Olivier and Alain Noël. 2022. "The politics of public health investments." Social Science & Medicine.

Jacques, Olivier. 2021. “The Electoral Politics of Long-term Investments.”, Party Politics

Working paper

Cronert, Axel, Benjamin Ferland and Olivier Jacques. "Who cares for the future? Politicians perception of long-term policy-making"

Welfare states, inequality and population health

Publications

Jacques, Olivier and Alain Noël. 2022. “Welfare State Decommodification and Population Health.” Plos One.

Jacques, Olivier and Alain Noël. 2021 . "Targeting Within Universalism." Journal of European Social Policy. 31(1): 15-29.

Jacques, Olivier and Alain Noël. 2018. "The case for welfare state universalism, or the lasting relevance of the paradox of redistribution" Journal of European Social Policy. 28(1): 70-85

Political economy of Taxation

Publications

Jacques, Olivier. 2023. "Explaining willingness to pay: the role of income, education and ideology." Journal of European Social Policy.

Jacques, Olivier. 2020. “Funding the state: taxation in Canada from a comparative politics perspective.” In E. Heaman et D. Tough (eds.) Who Pays for Canada, Taxation and Fairness. McGill Queen’s University Press. 58-89

Working papers

Jacques, Olivier and David Weisstanner. "Economic Decline and Tax Policy Preferences". Working paper available here.

Goubin, Silke, Olivier Jacques, Staffan Kumlin and David Weisstanner. "Something for Nothing in Scandinavia?"

Fiscal federalism

Publications

Borwein, Sophie, Olivier Jacques, Daniel Béland and André Lecours. 2023. “National standards or subnational autonomy : the politics of fiscal federalism in Canada.” Territory, Politics and Governance.

Jacques, Olivier, Daniel Béland and André Lecours. 2022. "Fiscal Federalism, Social Identity and Place-Based Resentment." Regional Studies.

Jacques, Olivier. Forthcoming. “An imlabanced federation: the unequal distribution of costs pressures, retrenchment capacities and revenue constraints in Canada.” IRPP, Centre d’excellence sur la fédération canadienne.

Working papers

Jacques, Olivier. “Régler le déséquilibre fiscal? Les contraintes politiques et institutionnelles à deux solutions idéales." R&R at Politique et Sociétés

Chassé, Philippe, Olivier Jacques and Colin Scott. "Between decentralization and asymmetry: explaining preferences about the division of power in Canada."

Jacques, Olivier et Peter Graefe. “The Partisan Politics of Fsical Federalism in Canada”

Canadian politics

Publications

Béland, Daniel, Dinan, Shannon, Jacques, Olivier et Patrick Marier. Forthcoming. “The « Right » and the Welfare State: The Case of the Coalition Avenir Québec Government.” Canadian Journal of Political Science

ric Bélanger et Olivier Jacques. Forthcoming. “Federal Government Approval in Canada: Economics, Politics, and Fiscal Policy in Changing Times.” In Tim Hellwig et Matt Singer Economics and Politics Revisited: Executive Approval and the New Calculus of Support. Oxford University Press

Bertrand, Yan, Jacques, Olivier et Antonia Maioni. 2022. “Bilan des promesses du gouvernement Legault en santé : de réformes à blocages.” Dans Lisa Maureen Birch, Yanick Dufresne et Dominic Duval (dir.) Bilan du gouvernement de la CAQ : entre nationalisme et pandémie. Presses de l’Université Laval. À paraitre.

Béland, Daniel, Dinan, Shannon, Jacques, Olivier et Patrick Marier. 2022. “La protection sociale à travers le parcours de vie.” Dans L.M. Birch, Y. Dufresne et D. Duval (dir.) Bilan du gouvernement de la CAQ : entre nationalisme et pandémie. Presses de l’Université Laval. À paraitre.

Jacques, Olivier and Benjamin Ferland. 2021. “Political discretion in infrastructure spending in Canada”. Canadian Journal of Political science. 54(1): 96-117.

Arsenault, Gabriel, Olivier Jacques and Antonia Maioni. 2018. “Services de garde subventionnés: pourquoi le Québec continue-t-il de faire cavalier seul.” Institute for Research in Public Policy study. Study no 67.

Zorn, Nicolas, and Olivier Jacques. 2017. “Under the Rising Wave. How Disaggregated Revenue Sources Can Tell Another Story for Québec’s Top Income Share.” Journal of Income Distribution. 25 (1). 1-25

Working papers

Déry, Axel, Olivier Jacques et Shanon Dinan. “Les préférences des Québécois sur l’intervention de l’État: une exception au Canada?”

Jacques, Olivier et Marion Perrot. “Who’s to blame for the crisis of the health are system?”