About

I am a professor and the chair of the political science department at the Université de Montréal . In 2008, I was a guest professor at the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve.

I completed a Ph.D. in comparative and Canadian public policy at McMaster University in 1999. My current research centres on policy in Europe and North America within domains requiring scientific knowledge (notably biotechnology) ; on the role of experts in these domains; on policy learning and, more generally, on disagreements generated by the making of policy choices. My past research includes environmental policy comparisons. I have received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC).

In 2006, my book, Misplaced Distrust, won the American Political Science Association’s Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize for the best book on environmental politics and policy.

CV (pdf)

News


Publications
  1. Does Holding Beliefs with Conviction Prevent Policy Actors from Adopting a Compromising Attitude?, (January 2012), by Éric Montpetit in Political Studies.
  2. Between Detachment and Responsiveness: Civil Servants in Europe and North America, (November 2011), by Éric Montpetit in West European Politics.
  3. Scientific Credibility, Disagreement, and Error Costs in 17 Biotechnology Policy Subsystems, (August 2011), by Éric Montpetit in Policy Studies Journal.
Media/Média
  1. Article on mayor Ferrandez La Presse (March 20, 2012). Click to read.
  2. Interview given to Planète terre (November 4, 2011). The interview was on scientific disagreements. Click to view.
  3. Interview given to the newspaper le Devoir (November 5, 2011) “Au temps du cynisme: La société québécoise et occidentale vit une phase creuse“.
  4. Aricle published in La Presse (August 10, 2011) and in Le Soleil (August 11, 2011) “Cynisme inquiétant” by Éric Montpetit.
  5. Participation in the “Labofever” from TV5’s program Club Social: political predispositions and experts’ credibility (March 2011). Click to see the excerpt.