Michael D. Behiels Explained

Michael D. Behiels
Birth Name:Michael Derek Behiels
Nationality:Canadian
Thesis Title:Prelude to Quebec's "Quiet Revolution"[1] [2]
Thesis Year:1978
Doctoral Advisor:Ramsay Cook
Influences:Michael Kelway Oliver[3]
Discipline:History
Sub Discipline:Canadian political history

Michael Derek Behiels (born 1946) is a Canadian historian who served as a professor and University Research Chair in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, specializing in twentieth-century Canadian politics. A student of Ramsay Cook, he is a prominent defender of Pierre Trudeau's conception of federalism: no special status for Quebec and maintenance of linguistic minority rights. In 1985, while a faculty member at Acadia University, his published doctoral dissertation Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction. Thanks to this book's success, he is still considered to be a major authority on the thought of former Le Devoir editor André Laurendeau.

He frequently appears in the media to comment on current events, most notably on CPAC's weekly call-in show Goldhawk Live.

Behiels in 2010 has argued that Canada has recently undergone a political realignment, of the sort that occurs rarely and makes a long term shift in the political alignment of the parties. The patterns of the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections and the continuance of Harper's government, argues Behiels, has led many of Canada's political experts to the conclusion that a new political party paradigm has emerged. Behiels says they find its basis in a right-wing political party capable of reconfiguring the role of the state – federal and provincial – in twenty-first-century.[4]

In 2011, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[5]

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  1. Web site: Alumni . Graduate Program in History . Toronto . York University . 6 July 2020.
  2. Behiels . Michael D. . 1978 . Prelude to Quebec's "Quiet Revolution": The Re-emergence of Liberalism and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism, 1940–1960 . PhD . Toronto . York University . 81236533.
  3. Behiels . Michael D. . 1994 . Review of The Passionate Debate: The Social and Political Ideas of Quebec Nationalism 1920–45, by Michael Oliver . Labour / Le Travail . 33 . 311 . 10.2307/25143802 . 25143802 . 1911-4842.
  4. Michael D. Behiels, "Stephen Harper's Rise to Power: Will His 'New' Conservative Party Become Canada's 'Natural Governing Party' of the Twenty-First Century?," American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 40, No. 1, March 2010, 118–145
  5. Web site: Class of 2011: List of New Fellows . Royal Society of Canada . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120126011340/http://www.rsc.ca/documents/media/Class_of_2011_Citations_ENG.pdf . 2012-01-26 .