The Canadian Politics Section Business Meeting will be held Thursday September 5th at 6:30 at the Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, 403.
Following the meeting, there will be a reception for the section and a book launch for:
Foundations of Canadian Political Behaviour: Stability and Change in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Amanda Bittner, J. Scott Matthews, and Stuart Soroka.
Thu, September 5, 7:30 to 9:00pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Room Franklin 9
The reception is sponsored by U of Toronto Press.
The event will include snacks, a cash bar, and will honour Dick Johnston, whose career of excellence inspired the book project.
Also, there are two Canadian Politics section awards.
The 2024 Seymour Martin Lipset Book Award Committee:
James Endersby, Missouri
Jean-François Daoust, Sherbrooke
Alison Smith, Toronto
The winner of the award is Jack Lucas for his book Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics (UofT Press).
Honorable mention to Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan, and Christina Gabriel for Containing Diversity (UofT Press).
The 2024 Mildred Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Committee:
Jack Lucas, Calgary
Renan Levine, UTSC
Laura Stephenson, Western
The winner of the award is William Cross of Carleton University.
Full citations for the awards can be found here: https://connect.apsanet.org/s40/