Henry Milner
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Henry Milner has published eight books, the most recent of which is The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts (University Press of New England, 2010), and edited four others. He has also written numerous articles, both scholarly and journalistic, specializing in political participation and electoral reform. With his wife, Frances Boylston, he recently established a nonprofit cultural center in the Dominican Republic (www.meetingplacepuertoplata.com).
He obtained his BA from McGill University in Montreal and completed his MA and PhD at Carleton, also spending a year at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. After returning to Montreal, he joined the faculty of Vanier College and became active in Quebec politics, first at the municipal level and then on the national executive of the Parti Québécois under René Lévesque. His research and writing focused on Quebec politics and education. Later in the 1980s his interests took him to the Nordic countries and led to books focusing on social democracy in Scandinavia. Starting in 1999 he spent each fall term as a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Umea University in Sweden, and is currently at l’Université de Montréal as a Research Fellow at the Chair in Electoral Studies in the Department of Political Science.
In 2004–05 Henry held the Chair in Canadian Studies at the Sorbonne, and in 2005–06 the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Chair at the State University of New York campus at Plattsburgh. He was also a fellow at the Institute for Research in Public Policy from 2001 to 2009, and over the years has been a visiting professor or researcher at Queen’s, Carleton, Victoria and Western, as well as at universities in Finland, France, Australia and New Zealand.
An introduction to Issue 40's Immigration section by Henry Milner
An introduction by Henry Milner on Issue 40’s Political Alignments section
Henry Milner is amused but unconvinced by Michael Booth’s account of the “almost nearly perfect” Scandinavians
Electoral reform and the power of the PMO
Despite the international outcry, racism and xenophobia are not the driving forces
Henry Milner and Dominic Cardy: Europe and the democratic recession
Henry Milner on Hollywood’s political impact, left and right
I was in Glasgow in early September for a conference and was able to stay in Europe to observe two campaigns: the first leading up to the election in Sweden on September 14, and the second to the Scottish referendum on independence four days later. I brought along my camera, and in this section I present my impressions in words and pictures. In the case of Scotland, it will be mainly pictures since Canadians were kept relatively well informed about the campaign and its result. Ideally, it would have been the other way round, since the Swedish campaign was perfect for picture taking, highly public and visible, which was not at all the case in Scotland.
Henry Milner tells a tale of two votes, in Sweden and Scotland
