Denise Helly est professeure titulaire à l’Institut national de recherche scientifique à Montréal et spécialisée dans les champs d’étude de l’ethnicité, de la citoyenneté, du nationalisme et des politiques d’immigration et de pluralisme culturel, comme l’illustrent ces publications :

(2001). avec N. van Schendel: Appartenir au Québec. Nation, État et société civile. une enquête à Montréal, 1995. Québec et Paris, Presses de l’Université Laval et L’Harmattan, 242 pages.
(2002)."Cultural Pluralism: An Overview of the debate since the 60’’s", The Global Review of Ethnopolitics (London) II (1) september: 74-95.
(2002). “Occidentalisme et islam : les leçons des guerres culturelles”, in Jean Renaud, Linda Pietrantonio et Guy Bourgeault (dir.). Les Relations ethniques en question. Ce qui achangéé depuis le 11 septembre 2001, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, p. 229-252.

denise.helly@inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca

Jane Jenson holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance in the Département de science politique, Université de Montréal. She is also the Director of the Family Network, Canadian Policy Research Networks. Her most recent book is Who Cares? Women’s Work, Childcare, and Welfare State Redesign, with Mariette Sineau (University of Toronto Press, 2001). She is the principal investigator on the SSHRC-funded Strategic Research Grant, Fostering Social Cohesion: A Comparison of New Policy Strategies: www.fas.umontreal.ca/POL/cohesionsociale.
jjenson@attglobal.net

Susan A. McDaniel is Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, immediate Past-President of CSAA, and Vice President (Publications) of the International Sociological Association (2002-06). Recent publications: “‘Born at the Right Time?’ Gendered Generations and Webs of Entitlement and Responsibility,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (2001), “Women’s Changing Relations to the State and Citizenship: Caring and Intergenerational Relations in Globalizing Western Democracies,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (2002), “Bugs in the Intergenerational Ointment,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (2002).
smcdaniel@ualberta.ca

Denis Saint-Martin is associate professor in the Département de science politique, Université de Montréal. He is also a member of the Centre sur la politique et le développement social (CPDS) and a research associate at the Canadian Policy Research Networks. His most recent book is Building the New Managerialist State (Oxford University Press, 2001), winner of the Best Book Award from the American Academy of Management.
denis.saint-martin@umontreal.ca

Dick Stanley is Director of Strategic Research for the Department of Canadian Heritage. He has written on such diverse topics as economic development, management information systems, outdoor recreation demand, and measuring intangible benefits. His current interests include the role of social cohesion in producing social well-being, and the effects of cultural diversity on social and community sustainability. He is a graduate of Carleton University and The New School for Social Research in Sociology.
dick_stanley@pch.gc.ca

Deena White, Ph.D., is full professor of sociology at the Université de Montréal, and researcher at the Groupe de recherche sur les aspects sociaux de la santé et de la prévention (GRASP) as well as the Centre de recherche sur les politiques et le développement social (CPDS). She is also director of RESSAUR, a research team on social innovation in the field of health and welfare, in partnership with various regional health boards and the Québec Council for Health and Welfare. Her recent research interests are in the changing welfare state, partnerships and intersectoral or horizontal policies and policy development, and the changing role and place of the third sector. She has also published widely on policies and programs for the social regulation of marginal groups such as the mentally ill and welfare recipients. Her most recent book Pour sortir des sentiers battus. L'action intersectorielle en santé mentale (2001) tackled the concept of intersectoral action and looked at horizontal strategies at the local, regional and central levels in Quebec. She presently holds an SSHRC grant to comparatively study welfare state changes being brought about through renewed government-third sector relations.
Deena.White@Montreal.ca