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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Gender barriers and facilitators faced by women chefs in the gastronomy and the `Haute Cusine' fields

Haddaji, Majd 01 March 2018 (has links)
Tesis por compendio / La cocina es una tarea sujeta al género. En el ámbito doméstico es responsabilidad principal de la mujer y, profesionalmente, es predominantemente masculino. En esta tesis, se investigan las razones detrás de la segregación de género en el lugar de trabajo de la cocina y por qué hay pocas mujeres Chefs en la Alta Cocina. También, los factores de éxito para las mujeres Chefs actuales y cómo han sido capaces de superar estos obstáculos. Nuestro estudio combinó la investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa. Metodología. Tras una extensa revisión de la literatura académica, se realizó un estudio de casos de mujeres Chefs con tres y dos estrellas Michelin. También se organizaron entrevistas y grupos de enfoque con mujeres chefs en Valencia. Finalmente, se realizó una encuesta (202 participantes) dirigida a chefs y profesionales de la cocina de diferentes sexo, edad, países y puestos profesionales. Entre las principales barreras que enfrentan las mujeres son: la cultura masculina establecida, las condiciones del lugar de trabajo y la conciliación familiar. Las tareas domésticas están desigualmente distribuidas lo que presenta una desventaja para las mujeres, especialmente a las que trabajan en la cocina profesional. A las mujeres, como resultado, les resulta difícil permanecer y evolucionar profesionalmente en la cocina. Además, es más fácil para los hombres chefs adquirir reconocimiento público y lanzar su propio restaurante. Para llegar a Chef las mujeres deben ser resistentes y construir su éxito en el sector. Las mujeres con estrellas Michelin, por ejemplo, desarrollan sus habilidades técnicas para lograr excelencia gastronómica, han dedicado tiempo a construir su carrera, e incluso lanzar sus propios restaurantes. Al hacerlo, pudieron mejorar su evolución y adquirir más flexibilidad gestionando su vida familiar y persiguiendo su visión. El apoyo familiar y la mentoría fueron clave para muchos de ellas. Por último, la posición de chef implica también habilidades empresariales con el fin de lograr notoriedad, gestionar y ampliar el éxito del restaurante. Para muchos chefs y, especialmente para las mujeres, dirigir su propio restaurante implica más satisfacción profesional. / Cooking is a gendered task. In the domestic sphere, it is women's main responsibility and professionally it is predominately male. In this thesis, we searched the reasons behind gender segregation in the kitchen workplace and why there are few women chefs in 'Haute Cuisine'. We also looked for success factors for current women chefs and how they were able to assess these obstacles. Our study combined both quantitative and qualitative research methods. We started with an extensive literature review. Then we did a case study of women chefs with three and two Michelin stars. We also organized interviews and focus groups with women chefs in Valencia. Finally, we run a survey (202 participants) that targeted chefs and kitchen professionals from different gender, age, countries and professional positions. The established masculine culture, workplace conditions, and work-life balance are among the main barriers women face. Domestic tasks are unequally distributed in the household and it disadvantages women especially those who work in the professional kitchen. Women, as a result, find it hard to remain and evolve in the kitchen workplace. In addition, it is easier for men chefs to acquire public recognition and to launch their own restaurant (entrepreneurship). In order to succeed women should be resilient and build their success in the industry. Women with Michelin stars for example worked on their technical skills to achieve gastronomic excellence, dedicated their time to build their career, and even looked for having their own restaurants. By doing so, they were able to enhance their evolution and acquire more flexibility managing their life and pursuing their vision. Family support and/or mentoring were key for many of them. Finally, the position of chef implies also entrepreneurial skills in order to achieve notoriety, manage and expand the restaurant success. For many chefs and especially for women, running their own restaurant implied higher professional satisfaction. / La cuina és una tasca subjecta al gènere. A l'àmbit domèstic és responsabilitat principal de la dona i, professionalment, és predominantment masculina. En aquesta tesi, s'investiguen les raons darrere la segregació de gènere al lloc de treball a la cuina i per què hi ha poques dones Chefs a l'Alta Cuin. Ademés dels factors d'èxit per a les dones Chefs actuals i com han sigut capaços de superar aquests obstacles. El nostre estudi va a combinar la investigació quantitativa i la qualitativa. Metodologia. Després d'una extensa revisió de la lliteratura acadèmica, es va realitzar un estudi de diversos casos de dones Chefs amb dos i tres estreles Michelin. També es van organitzar entrevistes i grups enfocats a les dones Chefs en València. Finalment, es va realitzar una enquesta (202 participants) dirigida a Chefs i professionals de la cuina de diferent sexe, edat, país i lloc professional. Les principals barreres que enfronten les dones són: la cultura masculina establida, les condicions al lloc de treball i la conciliació familiar. Les tasques domèstiques estan disparment distribuïdes, la qual cosa presenta una desavantatge per a les dones, especialment per a les que treballen en la cuina professional. Com a resultat, els resulta difícil romandre i evolucionar professionalment en la cuina. Ademés, és més fàcil per als hòmens Chefs adquirir reconeiximent píblic i llançar el seu propi restaurant. Per a arribar a Chef les dones deuen ser resistents i construir el seu èxit en el sector. Les dones amb estreles Michelin, per eixemple, desenrotllen les seues habilitats tècniques per a aconseguir excelència gastronòmica, han dedicat temps a construir la seua carrera, i fins i tot llançar els seus propis restaurants. Al fer-ho, van poder millorar la seua evolució i adquirir més flexibilitat gestionant la seua vida familiar i perseguint la seua visió. El suport familiar i la mentoría van ser clau per a moltes d'elles. Per últim, la posició del chef implica també habilitats empresarials amb la finalitat d'aconseguir notorietat, gestionar i ampliar l'èxit del restaurant. Per a molts Chefs i, especialment, per a les dones, dirigir el seu propi restaurant implica més satisfacció professional. / Haddaji, M. (2018). Gender barriers and facilitators faced by women chefs in the gastronomy and the `Haute Cusine' fields [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/98663 / Compendio
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Stories of masculinity, gender equality, and culinary progress : On foodwork, cooking, and men in Sweden

Neuman, Nicklas January 2016 (has links)
The general aim of this thesis is to use foodwork and cooking in Sweden as a way to better understand theoretical questions about men and masculinities. Paper I discusses how an increased public interest in elaborate cooking and gastronomy in Sweden, a country with a cultural idealization of gender equality, could explain why men in Sweden assume responsibilities for domestic cooking without feeling emasculated. Papers II, III and IV draw on interviews with 31 men from 22 to 88 years of age and with different levels of interest in food. Paper II shows how domestic foodwork and cooking are associated with ideas of Swedish progress in terms of gender equality and culinary skills. Paper III demonstrates further that domestic cooking is not only a responsibility which men assume, but also a way of being sociable with friends, partners and children. Thus, both papers II and III challenge the idea that men only cook at home if they enjoy it. The data rather indicate that domestic foodwork responsibilities are a cultural expectation of men in Sweden, ingrained in desirable masculine practices. Paper IV explores men’s responses to media representations of food. The interviewed men responded to these representations with indifference, pragmatism, irony, and at times even hostility. In general, the responses are based on gender and age-differentiated taste distinctions and notions of masculine and culinary excess. Paper V uses a mix of texts (81 online texts and two magazines) and observations from the food fairs GastroNord (2014 and 2016), Mitt kök-mässan (2014) and the chef competition Bocuse d’Or Europe (2014) complemented with pictures and videos. I argue that a Swedish culinary community that promotes Swedish culinary excellence is constructed by drawing on preestablished national (self-)images. This culinary community is constructed as open and tolerant, with ethical concerns for the environment and for nonhuman animals. Its culinary icons are represented by chefs in whites and the leading restaurants. In sum, this dissertation provides empirical and theoretical contributions to both food studies and gender studies that critically scrutinize men and masculinities. Food-issues are permeated by gender, both in people’s everyday life and in the gastronomic elite.
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Värdskap i öppna kök : En studie utifrån kockar, restaurangchefer och restaurangägares perspektiv / Hospitality within the open kitchen

Nerell, Mikaela January 2019 (has links)
De senaste trettio åren har forskningen angående måltidsupplevelser ökat och delar som mötet, service, trender och värdskap har stått i fokus. Måltidsupplevelsen har beskrivits utifrån både gästens och producenten perspektiv på måltiden, men inte utifrån kocken.  I denna uppsatsen så studerades kockar, restaurangägares och restaurangchefers perspektiv kring kockens beteende i det öppna köket. Studien belyser begreppet värdskap och hur det förhåller sig till Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv, Five Aspects Meal Model, samt teorier om mänskligt beteende och social struktur inom restaurangbranschen. Studien har tagit avstamp i kvalitativ metod där fyra djupgående intervjuer genomförts utifrån respondentens perspektiv. Tematisk analys användes för att analysera materialet som resulterade i två teman: medvetenhet och interaktion. Det resultatet av denna studien visar är att kockar i ett öppet kök utför ett värdskap. Kockarna utför detta värdskap både i mötet med varandra och i mötet med gästen. / For the past 30 years, research on meal experiences has increased and parts of the meeting, service, trends and hosting have been the focus. The meal experience has been described from both the guest's and the producer perspective of the meal, but not from the chefs perspective. This thesis studies chefs, restaurateurs and restaurant managers perspective on behavior in the open kitchen. The study highlights the concept of hospitality and hospitableness, and how it relates to Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective in context of the meal, Five Aspects Meal Model and Whyte’s theories of human behavior and social structure in the restaurant industry. The study is based on a qualitative interview method for in-depth conversations from the respondent's perspective. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the content of the material and resulted in two themes ; awareness and interaction. The study shows that there is hospitality in the open kitchen and that the chefs perform this hospitality both in the meeting with each other and in the meeting with the guest.
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Chefs de guerre dans le Maine et ses abords durant la guerre de Cent Ans / Warchiefs in Maine and its surroundings during Hundred Years War

Raquidel, Charlotte 28 September 2015 (has links)
L'Etude porte sur un groupe social, celui des chefs de guerre, ses contours et ses actions dans le Maine et ses abords durant la guerre de Cent Ans. Elle conduit à s'interroger sur less relations qui lient ces personnages aux rois et aux princes alors qu'ils accomplissent des actes militaires, judiciaires et politiques dans un cadre licite mais aussi à l'occasion illicite (criminalité). Elle amène à se poser la question de la pertinence du choix opéré au niveau de la base géographique retenue ; placés au coeur des tensions qui frappent l'ouest du royaume le Maine et ses abords subissent le passage des compagnies étrangères et finissent par être en grande part occupés par les Anglais. Le groupe intègre essentiellement des "Anglais" (Ecossais, Gallois...), des "Navarrais" et des Français tiraillés, à une époque donnée, entre Armagnacs et Bourguignons et issus en partie des milieux locaux. Le panel des rangs, des statuts et des tires de chefs de guerre est très divers. On discerne deux strates majeures. La base du recrutement est de celle de la petite noblesse rurale, voire de la bourgeoisie, tandis que les plus hauts titres sont réservés à ceux des hautes sphères nobiliaires que sont les princes de sang. Ces chefs de guerre ont une grande importance locale et régionale mais ils jouent aussi, d'une manière plus générale, un rôle majeur dans la structuration de la société nobiliaire Créant des us et coutumes, une idéologie et des habitus, s'intégrant dans les normes liées à leur groupe avec une vie sociale spécifique, notamment lors des joutes, avec la réalisation de gisants, d'épitaphes et d'autres formes de traces eschatologiques. Ces chefs de guerre créent une dynamique militaire et des stratégies d'ascension sociale à la fois au coeur de la sphère militaire mais aussi politique, et ce dans le cadre des cours princières et/ou royales. Ils ont une place de premier plan dans la genèse et l'essor de l'Etat monarchique et la construction de l'armée royale et princière. / The study focuses on a social group, the warlords, its borders and its actions in the Maine and its surroundings during the Hundred Years War.It raises questions about the relationships between these characters to kings and princes when they perform acts of military, judicial and policies in a legal framework but also the illegal acts. It raises the question of the relevance of the choice made concerning its geographical basis that placed in the heart tensions that hit western Maine county and its surroundings that suffered from the passage of Foreign companies and end up being largely occupied by the EngIish. The group mainly includes English (Scottish, Welsh...), the "Navarra" and French pulled at a given time between Armagnacs and Burgundians. The panel ranks, statutes and warlords titles are very different. One discerns two major stratas. The basis of recruitment is that of the small rural nobility or the bourgeoisie, while the highest shares are reserved for those high noble spheres which are the blood princes. These warlords have great local and regional importance but they also play in a more general way, a major role in the company's structure creating noble customs, ideology and habits integrating into related standards their group with a specific social, especially during tournaments with achieving recumbent, epitaphs and other forms of eschatological trace. These warlords are creating dynamic military and up ward social mobility stategies both at the heart of the military sphere but also policy, and as part of prince and / or royal courts. They have a prominent place in the genesis and development of the monarchical state and the construction of the royal and prince army.
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Food design como cultuta.como criatividade.como prazer

Martins, Catarina Susana Carreira January 2010 (has links)
Documento Confidencial. Não pode ser disponibilizado para consulta. / Tese de mestrado. Design Industrial. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2010
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O direito adentra a cozinha: estudo sobre a proteção autoral de criações culinárias

Medrado, André Rivail 05 September 2016 (has links)
Submitted by André Rivail Medrado (professor@medrado.adv.br) on 2016-10-11T13:48:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 André Rivail Medrado - MESTRADO .pdf: 3653775 bytes, checksum: 74810d3b92ba57d813ae26148e572924 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Renata de Souza Nascimento (renata.souza@fgv.br) on 2016-10-11T17:27:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 André Rivail Medrado - MESTRADO .pdf: 3653775 bytes, checksum: 74810d3b92ba57d813ae26148e572924 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Renata de Souza Nascimento (renata.souza@fgv.br) on 2016-10-11T17:28:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 André Rivail Medrado - MESTRADO .pdf: 3653775 bytes, checksum: 74810d3b92ba57d813ae26148e572924 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-11T17:34:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 André Rivail Medrado - MESTRADO .pdf: 3653775 bytes, checksum: 74810d3b92ba57d813ae26148e572924 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-05 / In this study, starting from the question about the possibility to qualify cooking as art, we analyze to what extent the Copyright Law would apply to the protection of culinary creations. The chefs are often referred to as artists, but little attention has been given to the aesthetic-philosophical foundation of this assignment, i.e., if effectively makes sense to qualify a culinary creation as art. The initial hypothesis of this paper is that, justified the art nickname to culinary activity, its product should therefore deserve the same protection as to the intangible property subjected to Copyright. However, in order to grant a more complete treatment of the topic discussed, we extended the initial scope, so as to evaluate also other institutes of intellectual property – namely, the trademarks, the trade dress, the industrial design, the patent and the trade secret – as potentially useful legal tools to protect different aspects or elements of the culinary creations. The study included two field research tools: one qualitative, which consisted of twenty interviews with qualified and renowned chefs in the gastronomic segment, based on a eleven semi-structured questions; and other quantitative, which consisted in the application of questionnaires to 86 chefs. / Neste trabalho, partindo da indagação sobre a possibilidade de se qualificar a culinária como arte, buscamos analisar em que medida o Direito Autoral seria aplicável à proteção de criações culinárias. Os chefs são frequentemente referidos como artistas, mas pouca atenção vem sendo dada ao fundamento estético-filosófico desta atribuição, ou seja, se efetivamente faz sentido qualificarmos uma criação culinária como arte. A hipótese inicial deste trabalho é que, justificada a alcunha de arte ao fazer culinário, seu produto deveria, por conseguinte, merecer abrigo dentre os bens imateriais passíveis de proteção autoral. Contudo, de modo a conferirmos um tratamento mais completo ao tema abordado, ampliamos o escopo inicial, de modo a avaliarmos, também, outros institutos da propriedade intelectual – nomeadamente, a marca, o conjunto imagem, o desenho industrial, a patente e o segredo empresarial – como ferramentas legais potencialmente úteis para a proteção de diferentes aspectos ou elementos das criações culinárias. O trabalho contou com duas ferramentas de pesquisa de campo: uma qualitativa, e que consistiu na realização de vinte entrevistas com chefs qualificados e renomados no segmento gastronômico, baseadas em um roteiro semiestruturado, composto por onze perguntas; e outra quantitativa, consistente na aplicação de questionários a 86 chefs de cozinha.
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LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION WITHIN CONTEMPORARY COOKING : A Comparative Study of the Language Use of Two British Chefs

Ekberg, Lena January 2014 (has links)
This is a limited linguistic study that focuses on contemporary language use of two British nationals who are well-known professionals within cooking, and who perform linguistically in the writing of cookery books and in television shows. There are two linguistic foci for the study: a gender perspective and a social class perspective. The aim is to evaluate the linguistic features that are characteristic of the two subjects in relation to the research approaches and in relation to previous research from these perspectives, and to compare their respective language use from the selected material. The study also aims to explore how the language use and linguistic style of each subject may contribute to his or her identity and to the professional image marketing processes the employ. A quantitative method is used for the study of specific linguistic features and to detect the presence or absence of these features. A qualitative approach is used when discussing and commenting on how the qualitative result may have impact on, or may contribute to, individual style, identity and professional branding. The texts for the study is randomly chosen and comprises written texts in two cookery books of each individual and spoken language in one television episode, of each person, from broadcasted cookery shows. Due to the randomly selected and limited data, the study does not claim to be statistically relevant. Rather, it presents possible tendencies. The results of the study show that the subjects act linguistically in accordance with traditional findings and previous research from the perspective of social class, but opposite to traditional findings regarding gender. This result raises the question as to whether or not class may have priority over gender as a linguistic feature, with higher relevance as a social variable, and further research is suggested within this area.
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L'offense aux souverains et chefs de gouvernement étrangers par la voie de presse

Marinus, Jean-François J. 01 January 1999 (has links)
Pas de résumé / Doctorat en sciences politiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Vers une meilleure gestion des défis interculturels dans les implantations chinoises à l'étranger

Vanelslande, Eve 13 April 2018 (has links)
Suite à l'émergence fulgurante de la Chine depuis 1978, le pays suscite l'intérêt des pays du monde entier. Après avoir accueilli de nombreux investissements étrangers, la plupart provenant des pays occidentaux, c'est au tour de la Chine de déployer ses ailes à l'étranger et d'investir outre-mer. Voulant bénéficier de ce nouveau tournant, le Québec souhaite jouir de ces investissements au sein de son économie. Cependant, les processus d'affaires peuvent s'avérer être complexes et difficiles tant la culture de chacune des parties prenantes diffère. Les résultats principaux révélés suite à l'enquête mettent en lumière les cibles d'amélioration, lesquelles sont regroupées sous le modèle des « 6C » : le Comportement, la Communication, la Coopération, la Connaissance de l'étranger, la Confiance et le Contrôle. Afin de relever le défi de la gestion interculturelle des implantations chinoises à l'étranger, les entreprises doivent accorder une importance toute particulière à ces six points dans le cadre du modèle de gestion de l'entreprise, c'est-à-dire aux niveaux de la planification, de l'organisation, de la direction et du contrôle.
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Politique et préjugés : l'influence des stéréotypes liés à l'ethnicité, au genre et à l'âge sur le comportement politique = Politics and Prejudice : the influence of ethnicity-based, gender-based, and age-based stereotypes on political behaviour / Politics and Prejudice

Bouchard, Joanie 21 March 2024 (has links)
RésuméCette thèse s’intéresse à l’impact du genre, de l’âge et de l’ethnicité des chef·fes de partis au Canada sur la réception de leur candidature par les électeur·rices. La perception sociale est intrinsèquement relationnelle et met autant en scène l’identité du/de la candidat·e que de l’électeur·rice. Par conséquent, cette thèse s’attarde à la fois au profil sociodémographique des chef·fes de partis et des électeur·ices qui sont appelé·es à les évaluer. Ce faisant, elle contribue aux champs des études électorales et de la psychologie politique.Trois méthodes complémentaires sont employées. La première partie de la thèse s’appuie sur une analyse quantitative de données électorales fédérales (1988-2015) ainsi que dans trois provinces canadiennes (Québec (2012-2014), Alberta (2012) et Colombie Britannique (2013)). Elle s’intéresse à l’évaluation des chef·fes de partis ainsi qu’aux intentions de vote en fonction du profil sociodémographique des leaders politiques et des électeur·rices en ancrant fermement l’analyse dans le contexte social et politique canadien. Pour finir, un dernier chapitre présentant une analyse quantitative de démocraties occidentales (l’Allemagne (2017), la Nouvelle-Zélande (2017), la France (2017) et les États-Unis (2016)) permet de mettre les conclusionstirées au sujet du Canada en perspective. La seconde partie de cette thèse présente deux expériences, l’une réalisée en laboratoire à l’Université Laval et l’autre en ligne. Basées surdes élections fictives mettant en scène des candidat·es varié·es en termes de genre, d’âge etd’ethnicité, ces expériences s’attardent à la teneur de la relation causale entre l’apparencede candidats et le comportement politique des électeur·rices. La dernière partie de la thèse consiste, quant à elle, en l’analyse de données qualitatives recueillies lors de six groupes de discussion ayant eu lieu entre 2018 et 2019 à l’Université Laval. Trois d’entre eux ont été réalisés avec des personnes ayant participé à l’expérience en laboratoire, et trois autres suites à un appel de volontaires. L’étude de ces discussions met en lumière le mécanisme causal à l’étude en identifiant la teneur des stéréotypes politiques basés sur le genre, l’âge et l’ethnicité au Québec ainsi que la façon dont des stéréotypes sont employés, réprimés, pensés et remis en question par l’électorat. En particulier, cette section de la thèse s’attarde à la possibilité d’inférence de valeurs et d’idées politiques en fonction du profil et de l’apparence d’un·e candidat·e. La principale conclusion de cet ouvrage est le caractère conditionnel, mais bien réel, des comportements politiques pouvant être qualifiés d’affinitaires (liés a l’appui politique de candidat·es partageant des caractéristiques sociodémographiques avec des électeur·ices) au Canada et basés sur l’apparence des candidat·es politique. En d’autres mots, les électeurs sont bel et bien au courant des narratifs sociaux entourant la présence de personnes issues de groupes historiquement marginalisés dans l’arène politique, et ils emploient et questionnent les notions préconçues liées à certains groupes sociaux à différents degrés. Bien que les stéréotypes associés à l’"outsider" politique s’avère parfois nettement divergents du profil du politicien dittypique, cette déviation face à la norme politique n’est pas systématiquement sanctionnée.Dépendant du profil de l’électeur, des idéologies qu’il porte et de l’offre politique en place àun moment donné, cette marginalité peut être activement recherchée, car associée à la per-formance de "la politique autrement" ou encore à une meilleure représentation politique d’ungroupe social auquel l’électeur peut s’identifier. Un survol de l’état de la question dans d’autresdémocraties occidentales soulève cependant la question des règles du jeu politique. Il révèleque ces comportements politiques au Canada en contexte électoral ressemblent davantage auxphénomènes observés lors d’élections présidentielles que lorsqu’il est question d’autres régimesparlementaires s’appuyant quant à eu sur un mode de scrutin proportionnel mixte. / This thesis examines the impact of the gender, age, and ethnicity of party leaders in Canada on the way these candidates are received by electors. Social perception is intrinsically relational and puts as much emphasis on the identity of the candidate as the voter. Consequently, this thesis focuses on both the socio-demographic profile of party leaders and the electors who are called upon to evaluate them. In doing so, she contributes to the fields of electoral studies and political psychology. To do this, three complementary research methods are employed. The first part of the thesis is based on a quantitative analysis of federal electoral data (1988-2015) as well as three Canadian provinces (Quebec (2012-2014), Alberta (2012) and British Columbia (2013)). It looks at the evaluation of party leaders and votes intentions according to the socio-demographic profile of political leaders and voters. The analysis is firmly anchored in the Canadian social and political context. However, a last chapter presenting a quantitative analysis of Western democracies (Germany (2017), New Zealand (2017), France (2017) and the United States (2016)) provides a different perspective on the conclusions drawn in about Canada. The second part of thist hesis presents two experiments, one done in a laboratory at Université Laval and the other online. Based on fictitious elections featuring diverse candidates in terms of gender, age and ethnicity, these experiments focus on the content of the causal relationship between the appearance of candidates and voters’ political behaviour. The last part of the thesis consists in the analysis of qualitative data collected during six discussion groups held between 2018 and 2019 at Université Laval. Three of them were done with people who had participated in the lab experiment, and three others after a call for volunteers. The analysis of these discussions highlights the causal mechanism under study by identifying the content of political stereotypes based on gender, age, and ethnicity in Quebec as well as the way stereotypes are used, repressed, thought out, and questioned by the electorate. In particular, this section of the thesis focuses on the possibility of inferring values and political ideas based on the appearance of a candidate. The main conclusion of this work is the conditional, but very real, occurrence of political be-haviours that can be described as affinity-based (linked to the political support of candidates sharing socio-demographic characteristics with electors) in Canada. In other words, voters are well aware of the social narratives surrounding the presence of people from historically marginalized groups in the political arena, and they use and question preconceived notions related to these groups to different degrees. Although a particular set of characteristics maybe associated with the political "outsider", this deviation from the political norm is not systematically sanctioned. Depending on the profile of voters, the ideologies they carry and the political offer in place at a given moment, this marginality can be actively sought, because associated with the performance of "politics differently" or the better political representation of a social group to which the elector can identify. An overview of the state of affairs in other Western democracies, however, raises the question of the rules of the political game. It reveals that these political behaviours in Canada are more similar to the phenomena observed in pres-idential elections than when we look at other parliamentary systems using mixed proportional voting.

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