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Éric Montpetit

Éric Montpetit

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Political Science

D-Index
21
Citations
1409
World Ranking
1949
National Ranking
68

Overview

Éric Montpetit is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and specializes in the social sciences with a focus on strategy and management, sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, and public administration.

Their research spans several key topics including regulation and compliance studies, political influence and corporate strategies, policy transfer and learning, risk perception and management, climate change communication and perception, social and intergroup psychology, and corporate social responsibility reporting.

Montpetit's recent scholarly papers cover diverse themes related to policy, governance, and risk. Notable works include:

  • "Beyond Regions and Ideology: Using Cultural Theory to Explain Risk Perception in Canada" (2020), published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • "Does Business Influence Government Regulations? New Evidence from Canadian Impact Assessments" (2020), in Regulation & Governance
  • "Closer than They Look at First Glance: A Systematic Review and a Research Agenda Regarding Measurement Practices for Policy Learning" (2021), in International Review of Public Policy
  • "Exploring the Role of Uncertainty, Emotions, and Scientific Discourse During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2024), in Policy and Society
  • "Policy Change and Information Search: A Test of the Politics of Information Using Regulatory Data" (2023), in Policy Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Montpetit include:

  • Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay
  • Antoine Lemor
  • María Alejandra Costa
  • David Aubin
  • PerOla Öberg

Montpetit's research has been published in multiple venues, with the most frequent being Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Regulation & Governance, International Review of Public Policy, and Policy and Society.

Best Publications

  • Public Perceptions of Expert Credibility on Policy Issues: The Role of Expert Framing and Political Worldviews

    Erick Lachapelle;Éric Montpetit;Jean-Philippe Gauvin

  • Scientific Credibility, Disagreement, and Error Costs in 17 Biotechnology Policy Subsystems

    Éric Montpetit

  • Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada

    Eric Montpetit

  • POLICY DESIGN FOR LEGITIMACY: EXPERT KNOWLEDGE, CITIZENS, TIME AND INCLUSION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM’S BIOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR

    Éric Montpetit

  • Policy Networks, Federal Arrangements, and the Development of Environmental Regulations: A Comparison of the Canadian and American Agricultural Sectors

    Éric Montpetit

  • A Policy Network Explanation of Biotechnology Policy Differences between the United States and Canada

    Éric Montpetit

  • The Politics of Biotechnology in North America and Europe: Policy Networks, Institutions and Internationalization

    Eric Montpetit;Christine Rothmayr Allison;Frédéric Varone

  • Regulating biomedicine in Europe and North America: A qualitative comparative analysis

    Frédéric Varone;Christine Rothmayr;Eric Montpetit

  • Public Consultations in Policy Network Environments: The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy in Canada

    Eric Montpetit

  • Institutional Vulnerability to Social Constructions: Federalism, Target Populations, and Policy Designs for Assisted Reproductive Technology in Six Democracies

    Éric Montpetit;Christine Rothmayr;Frédéric Varone

  • Europeanization and domestic politics: Europe and the development of a French environmental policy for the agricultural sector

    éric Montpetit

  • What Does it Take for a Canadian Political Scientist to be Cited

    Eric Montpetit;André Blais;Martial Foucault

  • Governance and policy learning in the European Union: a comparison with North America

    Éric Montpetit

  • Public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing (Fracking) in Canada: Economic nationalism, issue familiarity, and cultural bias

    Erick Lachapelle;Simon Kiss;Éric Montpetit

  • The paradox of deliberative democracy: The National Action Committee on the Status of Women and Canada's policy on reproductive technology

    Éric Montpetit;Francesca Scala;Isabelle Fortier

  • Culture and the Democratization of Risk Management: The Widening Biotechnology Gap Between Canada and France

    Éric Montpetit;Christian Rouillard

  • Policy Communities and Policy Divergence in Canada: Agro-Environmental Policy Development in Quebec and Ontario

    Éric Montpetit;William D. Coleman

  • Against the Odds: Retrenchment in Agriculture in France and the United States

    William D. Coleman;Michael M. Atkinson;Éric Montpetit

  • Policy Styles and Degenerative Politics: Poverty Policy Designs in Newfoundland and Quebec

    Matthieu Mondou;Éric Montpetit

  • Pour en finir avec le lobbying : comment les institutions canadiennes influencent l’action des groupes d’intérêts

    Éric Montpetit

  • Can policy actors learn from academic scientists

    Éric Montpetit;Erick Lachapelle

  • The NAC's Organizational Practices and the Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada

    Francesca Scala;Éric Montpetit;Isabelle Fortier

  • Policy learning, motivated scepticism, and the politics of shale gas development in British Columbia and Quebec

    Éric Montpetit;Erick Lachapelle

  • New environmental technology uptake and bias toward the status quo: The case of phytoremediation

    Éric Montpetit;Erick Lachapelle

Frequent Co-Authors

Martial Foucault
Martial Foucault Sciences Po
Frédéric Varone
Frédéric Varone University of Geneva
André Blais
André Blais University of Montreal
William D. Coleman
William D. Coleman University of Waterloo

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