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	TOWARD A NEW DEFINITION OF ANIMAL HEALTH: LESSONS FROM THE COHEN COMMISSION AND THE SPS AGREEMENT
	Craig Stephen The current and inadequate definition of animal health as absence of specific -infectious-disease-causing agents obstructs harm reduction to fish and wildlife. The Cohen Commission and the SPS Agreement provide useful insights for the formulation of a new definition.

	REVERSE INNOVATION IN POLICY MAKING: A NEW FRONTIER?
	Viva Dadwal and Shamsuzzoha B. Syed Innovation in policy making may flow from developing to developed countries and not just the other way around. Such transfer succeeds only when some conditions are met. Some examples of promising transfers, critical factors and shortcuts are mentioned.

	DOES PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE WORK?
	Alexandra Giraud-Roufast The paper compares the experience of France and Canada – two countries with very different political systems – in the governance of public health. It shows that collaborative governance is still missing in both cases.

	LETTER FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF
	Gilles Paquet

	GOVERNANCE AS A MYTHBUSTER
	Gilles Paquet This paper shows how the governance approach transforms key concepts in use and generates persiflage by groups whose frame of reference is threatened by this approach. It also puts forward conjectures about the future of governance studies.

	ELECTRICITY IN QUEBEC BEFORE 1940: WERE THEY RIGHT TO NATIONALIZE?
	Vincent Geloso Conventional wisdom has argued that the process of nationalization of electricity in Quebec has been triggered because of the fact that the private sector was inefficient, and that this nationalization has contributed to the economic catching-up of Quebec. The author questions the foundations of this argumentation.

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