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Policy Analysis in Canada

Laurent Dobuzinskis and Michael Howlett

Abstract

Policy analysis in Canada offers original contributions by leading scholars of public policy analysis in Canada. It examines the policy analysis capacity of the Government of Canada, the provincial governments and cities, as well as of the contributions that various civil society actors (e.g., business associations, trade unions, think tanks and the media) make to policy debates. It also sheds light on the role that academics play in not only generating new ideas but also teaching policy analysis. In addition to serving as an important complement to the existing volumes in the International Li ... More

Keywords: Canada, analytical capacity, innovation, pedagogy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2018 Print ISBN-13: 9781447334910
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2019 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447334910.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Laurent Dobuzinskis, editor
Simon Fraser University

Michael Howlett, editor
Simon Fraser University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Editors’ introduction to the series

One Policy analysis in Canada: an introduction

Laurent Dobuzinskis and Michael Howlett

Part I The profession of policy analysis in Canada

Two The policy analysis profession in Canada

Stephen Brooks

Three The “lumpiness” thesis revisited: the venues of policy work and the distribution of analytical techniques in Canada

Michael Howlett, Seck Tan, Adam Wellstead, Andrea Migone, and Bryan Evans

Part II Policy analysis at different levels of Canadian governments

Four Policy analysis in the federal government: conditions and renewal initiatives in the Trudeau era

Robert P. Shepherd and Christopher Stoney1

Five Public policy in the provinces: more powering; less puzzling

Ken Rasmussen

Six Policy analysis in local government

Daniel Henstra

Part III Policy analysis in the executive and legislative branches of Canadian government

Seven Policy analysis and the central executive

Jonathan Craft and Paul Wilson

Eight Policy capacity and recruiting expertise in public services: acquiring talent in evolving governance environments

Evert A. Lindquist

Nine The diminished invisible private service: consultants and public policy in Canada

Kimberly Speers

Ten Canadian legislatures, public policy and policy analysis

Ted Glenn

Eleven Commissions of inquiry and policy analysis

Carolyn M. Johns and Gregory J. Inwood

Part IV Policy analysis outside government: parties, interest groups and the media

Twelve The policy capacity of political parties in Canada

Greg Flynn and Marguerite Marlin

Thirteen Any better ideas? Think tanks and policy analysis in Canada

Donald E. Abelson

Fourteen Policy analytical capacity and Canadian business associations

Andrew Stritch

Fifteen Transforming governance patterns: challenges and opportunities for voluntary sector policy capacity

Rachel Laforest

Sixteen Policy analysis and advocacy in the Canadian labour movement: when the force of argument is not enough

Bryan Evans and Stephanie Ross

Seventeen Media and public policy

Andrea Lawlor

Eighteen From policy analysis to policy analytics

Justin Longo and Kathleen McNutt

Part V Pedagogy and policy analysis in the Canadian university system

Nineteen Academics and public policy

Daniel Cohn

Twenty Public policy studies in North America and Europe1

Johanu Botha, Iris Geva-May, and Allan M. Maslove

Part VI Conclusion

Twenty-One Trends and directions in Canadian policy analysis and policy advice

Michael J. Prince

End Matter

Index