Portrait of Pierre Larouche

Pierre Larouche

Associate Academic Member
pierre.larouche@mila.quebec
Full professor, Université de Montréal, Law
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L’appréhension empirique du leadership normatif d’une organisation internationale : l’exemple de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé
Catherine Régis
Gaëlle Foucault
Pierre Larouche
Jean-Louis Denis
Miriam Cohen
En plein essor, la recherche empirique en droit participe à la création de nouvelles connaissances et ouvre aux juristes d’autres voies … (see more)pour étudier une question, un phénomène. Oser l’empirisme n’est pas chose aisée, mais les auteurs du présent article ont pris ce virage et proposent d’en exposer le récit. En construisant deux méthodes distinctes (pour deux projets), ils ont pu tester les possibilités qu’offre la recherche empirique pour appréhender l’enjeu du leadership normatif de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS). Destiné à aiguiller à partir d’une expérience celles et ceux qui voudraient s’aventurer dans l’empirisme, cet article met en lumière les défis rencontrés, mais surtout les atouts d’une telle recherche. La richesse des informations obtenues a en effet grandement bonifié la compréhension de la trajectoire des normes de l’OMS et de leurs impacts sur les États.
2025-01-06
Lex Electronica (published)
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The empirical apprehension of the normative leadership of an international organization: The example of the World Health Organization
Catherine Régis
Gaëlle Foucault
Pierre Larouche
Jean-Louis Denis
Miriam Cohen
2025-01-06
Lex Electronica (published)
doi.org
The Normative Leadership of the World Health Organization : a quantitative analysis 
Gaëlle Foucault
Catherine Régis
Jean-Louis Denis
Pierre Larouche
Miriam Cohen
2024-12-31
SSRN Electronic Journal (published)
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Challenges for impact evaluation of WHO’s normative output
Catherine Régis
Gaëlle Foucault
Jean-Louis Denis
Pierre Larouche
Miriam Cohen
2024-09-30
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (published)
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The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness
Jean-Louis Denis
Gaëlle Foucault
Pierre Larouche
Catherine Régis
Miriam Cohen
Marie-Andree Girard
The paper focuses on the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in promoting a healthy world population as a generative and robust idea… (see more) within health policy. The WHO’s health credo transcends national boundaries to promote health globally. It is embedded in norms, values, and standards promulgated by the organization and contributes in shaping the health responses of national governments. Ideational robustness refers to the ability of the WHO to adapt its health credo to changing contexts and circumstances, thus promoting the legitimacy of an international health order. Disturbances, including the Covid-19 pandemic, test the credo’s robustness, forcing the WHO to constantly work at reframing ideas to adapt to political forces and competing logics that structure the field of international health. Empirically, the paper is based on an historical analysis of the evolution of the health credo of the WHO since its inception. Qualitative content analysis of secondary sources, such as policy documents, explores how ideational work performed by WHO leaders impacts on the organization’s position and legitimacy. Ideational robustness appears to be largely influenced by leadership vision, preexisting organizational structure, and the political economy of international health. Ideational robustness appears as a powerful yet insufficient ingredient of policy success.
2024-03-04
Policy & Society (published)
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Understanding the normative leadership of the world health organization (who): a mixed-method approach
Catherine Régis
Miriam Cohen
Jean-Louis Denis
Pierre Larouche
Gaëlle Foucault
Marie-Andree Girard
2023-04-25
Population Medicine (published)
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