Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay PhD, MSc, BA

Dr. Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay is an Assistant Professor in Canadian governance at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan campus.

Throughout his career, Dr. Beaulieu-Guay has held various roles, including postdoctoral fellow at the Réseau francophone international en conseil scientifique at Université Laval, researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal at McGill University, Analyst at the Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal, and consultant for the Canada School of Public Service. His specialization in public administration and public policy have equipped him with an expertise in Canadian regulations, text mining tools, and advanced quantitative analysis.

Dr. Beaulieu-Guay's research focuses on the impact of information and stakeholder interests on the work of public administrators and policy formulation. Specifically, he examines how government stakeholders influence decision-making and how administrators collect, process, and integrate different types of information. His research challenges the commonly held belief that public consultations are, at best, useless or, at worst, another venue for corporate lobbying.

Dr. Beaulieu-Guay holds a PhD in Political Science from the Univesity of Montreal and an MSc in Economics from McGill University. 

Designations

• PhD in Political Science, Université de Montréal
• MSc, Economics, Agricultural Economics, McGill University
• BA, Political Science and Economics, Université de Montréal

Dr. Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay is currently accepting applications from new PhD and MPP students for September 2024 in the following research areas: Canadian public administration, stakeholder consultations, impact assessment, and environmental policy.

Recent Awards and Honors

• Salary supplements for postdoctoral fellow, Université du Québec 2023-2024
• Mention of Excellence - doctoral dissertation, Université de Montréal, 2023
• Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC-CRSH Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2020-2022
• Doctoral Fellowship, FRQSC [partially declined] Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture
  2020-2022
• Édouard-Montpetit scholarship, Université de Montréal,2019
• Rosdev Excellence Scholarship, Université de Montréal Études supérieures et postdoctorales 2018
• Graduate Studies Scholarship, Université du Québec à Montréal Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie 2017
• Alma Mater Scholarship, Université de Montréal Faculté des Arts et Sciences 2017
• Grad Excellence Award, McGill University 2016
• Vincent Meredith Fellowship, McGill University, Agricultural Economics, 2016
• Grad Excellence Award, McGill University 2015

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Lemor, Antoine, Maria Alejandra Costa, Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay and Éric Montpetit.
  “Science, Worst-Case Scenarios and Time: Erosion of Epidemiological Projections’ Influence During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Under review at Journal of Public Policy.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert, Maria Alejandra Costa and Éric Montpetit. 2023. “Policy
  Change and Information Search: A Test of the Politics of Information Using Regulatory Data”.
  Policy Sciences 56: 377-418.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert. 2022. “The Many Faces of Knowledge: Do Science and
  Traditional Ecological Knowledge Coexist in Federal Impact Assessments?”. Canadian Public
  Administration 63 (3) : 403-420.
• Lemor, Antoine, Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay, PerÖla Öberg and Éric Montpetit. 2022.
  “Listening to Science to Develop Policies: The Contrasting Cases of Quebec and Sweden
  During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. In Peters, B. Guy et Guillaume Fontaine (ed). Research
  Handbook of Policy Design. Edward Elgar. 176-193.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert, Marc Tremblay‐Faulkner and Éric Montpetit. 2021. “Does
  business influence government regulations? New evidence from Canadian impact
  assessments”. Regulation & Governance 15 (4): 1419-1435.

Conference papers

• Antoine Lemor, Maria Alejandra Costa, Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay and Éric Montpetit.
  “Science versus time: erosion of expert influence during the COVID-19 pandemic.” June
  2022. International Public Policy Association Workshop on Public Policy.
• Johannes Müller Gómez, Alexander Hoppe and Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay. “The
  comparative turn in European Union studies. Theorizing European Integration.” May 2022.
  European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert. “Will they Notice my Comments? An Assessment of the
  Impact of Public Consultation on Regulation.” July 2021. International Public Policy
  Association Conference on Public Policy.
• Frehen, Lise and Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay. “Beyond agenda-setting: a topic modeling
  analysis of European policy preparation.” June 2021. European Consortium on Political
  Research Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert. “The Many Faces of Knowledge: Do Science and Traditional
  Ecological Knowledge Coexist in Federal Impact Assessments?” June 2021. Canadian
  Political Science Association Annual Conference.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert, Marc Tremblay Faulkner and Éric Montpetit. “The Mood of
  Business Toward Government Regulations: Insights from Canadian Regulation Impact
  Assessment.” June 2019. International Public Policy Association Conference on Public Policy.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert, Marc Tremblay Faulkner and Éric Montpetit. “Chiffrer et
  définir la contrainte règlementaire canadienne à l’aide des Résumés d’Études d’Impact de la
  Règlementation.” May 2019. Colloque étudiant du Centre d’Analyse des Politiques Publiques
  de l’Université Laval.
• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert, Paul J. Thomassin and Kakali Mukhopadhay. “The Cost of
  Compliance to the Paris Agreement and its Distribution.” June 2017. International Input-
  Output Association Conference.
• Mukhopadhay, Kakali, Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay and Paul J. Thomassin. “Supply Chain
  Analysis of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Sectors.” June 2017. Canadian Agricultural
  Economics Society Annual Meeting.

Reports

• Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert, Marc Tremblay Faulkner, Louis Renaud-Desjardins and
  Philippe Nazair. “Machine Readable Regulatory Impact Analysis Statements.” March 2021.
  Canada School of Public Service.
• Tremblay-Faulkner, Marc, Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay, Éric Montpetit, Maxime Sainte-
  Marie, Jean-François Chartier and Vincent Larrivière. “RegCan: Analyzing Regulatory
  Constraint in Canadian Regulation.” October 2018. Treasury Board of Canada and the
  Canada School of Public Service.