André Lecours (Canada)

André Lecours is a Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Forum of Federations and University of Ottawa Research Chair on Comparative Federalism. He is also a former President of the Canadian Political Science Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. A specialist in comparative politics, his research focuses on nationalism and on federalism. He has worked on and published on many different case studies, including Canada, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France, the United States, Australia, and Nepal. He is deeply engaged in global political science from both a substantive and a collaborative point of view. He is the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis (University of Toronto Press, 2005); the author of Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State (University of Nevada Press, 2007); and the co-author of Nationalism and Social Policy: The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2008), as well as Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada: Political and Economic Dimensions (University of Toronto Press, 2017). His most recent authored book is Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy (Oxford University Press, 2021).