Stephen Randall (political scientist)
| Stephen Randall FRSC |
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| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Profession | Professor |
Stephen James Randall, FRSC is a history professor at the University of Calgary, director of the University of Calgary's Latin America Research Centre, author, academic, civil-right advocate, oil policy expert, and more recently a progressive political activist.
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Academic[edit]
Randall's scholarship has focused on oil policy, Canada-United States relations, and inter-American relations.
Personal[edit]
Randall was born in Toronto in 1944. He and his wife, Dr. M. Anne Katzenberg, live in Charleswood Heights in Calgary, Alberta.
Human Rights, Civil Liberties[edit]
He founded the Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties association as its first president. Working for the United Nations, the Carter Presidential Centre and the Organization of American States, Stephen ensures elections are run fairly, builds communities and helps people in developing countries find a way out of poverty. He has worked on elections in Cambodia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, El Salvador and Jamaica over the past twenty years.
Honours[edit]
Randall is a fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada.[1][2][3][4]
Political activism[edit]
On January 7, 2011, Randall was nominated as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate in Calgary Centre-North for the 41st Canadian federal election.[5]
Electoral record[edit]
| Canadian federal election, 2011 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Michelle Rempel | 28,443 | 56.53 | 0.00 | $82,363.77 | |||
| New Democratic | Paul Vargis | 8,048 | 15.99 | +0.67 | $15,914.50 | |||
| Liberal | Stephen Randall | 7,046 | 14.00 | +2.23 | $55,742.32 | |||
| Green | Heather MacIntosh | 6,578 | 13.07 | -2.22 | $42,457.33 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Peggy Askin | 203 | 0.40 | +0.02 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 50,318 | 100.00 | $ | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 200 | 0.40 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 50,518 | 60.55 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 83,431 | – | – | |||||
Selected publications[edit]
John Herd Thompson; Stephen J Randall (1994) Canada and the United States : ambivalent allies, Athens : University of Georgia Press[6][7][8][9][10][11]
References[edit]
- ^ http://larc.ucalgary.ca/stephen-j-randall University of Calgary: Stephen Randall (Accessed April 2011)
- ^ http://www.rsc.ca/submitsearch.php?sFirstName=Stephen&sLastName=Randall&sAcademy=&sAffiliation=&sElection=&btnSearch=Search Royal Society of Canada: Stephan Randall (Accessed April 2011)
- ^ http://www.onlinecic.org/calendar/haitithecontinuingchallengeofafailedstate Canadian International Council:Haiti: The Continuing Challenge of a Failed State (Accessed April 2011)
- ^ http://www.cdfai.org/editorialboard.htm Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute (Accessed April 2011)
- ^ "Liberals name candidate for Calgary Centre-North". CBC News. January 7, 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ Gordon T Stewart (1996) Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies by John Herd Thompson; Stephen J Randall; The American historical review. 101, no. 2,: 456
- ^ Scott W See (1995) Review of Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies by John Herd Thompson; Stephen J Randall, The Journal of American History, Dec., vol. 82, no. 3, p. 1278-1279
- ^ David C Hendrickson (1995) Review of Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies by ; John Herd Thompson; Stephen J Randall, Foreign Affairs, May - Jun., 1995, vol. 74, no. 3, p. 176-176
- ^ George Feaver (1995) Canada and the United States - Ambivalent allies by John Herd Thompson; Stephen J Randall, TLS, the Times literary supplement. no. 4814, : 25
- ^ Richard D Challener (1996) Review of Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies by John Herd Thompson; Stephen J Randall, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Mar., vol. 25, no. 2, p. 218-220
- ^ Jeffrey Ling (1996) Review of Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies by John Herd Thompson; Stephen J Randall, Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Sep., vol. 29, no. 3, p. 590-591
External links[edit]
- Stephen Randall Campaign Website
- Stephen Randall at Canadian International Council
- Stephen Randall at Government of Canada
- Stephen Randall at Latin American Research Centre
- Stephen Randall at School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
- Canadian political scientists
- Canadian historians
- Canadian male writers
- University of Calgary faculty
- Liberal Party of Canada candidates in the 2011 Canadian federal election
- Living people
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- University of Toronto alumni
- University of Toronto faculty
- McGill University faculty
