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Canadian Public Administration-administration Publique Du Canada, Jun 1, 2010
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Policy Analysis in Canada
Political parties and their members are often viewed as having limited impact on government polic... more Political parties and their members are often viewed as having limited impact on government policy choices. However, prior research shows that both sets of actors devote considerably more time and resources to policy-related activities than this view would suggest. We examine the policy capacity of parties and their members to influence policy-making in Canada over the course of the last decade. We focus on the ability of party members to have their policy wishes included in election campaign manifestos and the extent to which the 2008 and 2011 federal Conservative governments were able to fulfill their campaign commitments in a highly challenging policy capacity environment. Consistent with prior studies on previous Conservative and Liberal governments, this examination demonstrates that while governments face a number of influences on their policy choices, the policy wishes of party members and the election campaign policy commitments of parties have a significant influence.
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Policy Work in Canada, 2017
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Globalization and Labour in China and India, 2010
The labour movement faces a number of profound challenges in the twenty-first century. Chief amon... more The labour movement faces a number of profound challenges in the twenty-first century. Chief among those difficulties is coping with the labour market consequences of the industrialization, modernization and globalization of the Chinese and Indian economies. The surge of a numerically large, relatively low paid and politically weak labour force into the global economy threatens to undermine existing economic protection and achievements by Western labour movements and has the potential to lead to destructive conflict between nations and states. The globalization of the US financial crisis in 2008–9 and the ensuing global recession provide further challenges because of reduced employment levels in most states. As a result, governments have been tempted to spark economic growth through measures that undermine or threaten the welfare of other countries, such as the ‘Buy America’ provisions in the US. The potential for the further use of the beggar-thy-neighbour policies of the 1930s could reappear and further exacerbate the economic crisis.
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Canadian Political Science Review, Aug 12, 2013
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Parliamentary Affairs, 2013
There is ongoing concern over the appropriateness of judicial supervison over legislative and exe... more There is ongoing concern over the appropriateness of judicial supervison over legislative and executive action in Westminster democracies. This article addresses these concerns through consideration of the judicialisation of the exercise of prerogative powers. It examines all of the judicial decisions reviewing the exercise of prerogative powers after 2001 and finds that Canadian courts have expanded their scope of review through both Charter of Rights and Freedoms and administrative law principles. Despite this fact, they remained relatively restrained, intervening where government activity has arbitrarily interfered with the rights, interests or legitimate expectations of individuals and thereby limiting judicial activism concerns.
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Canadian Public Policy, 2011
This article examines the use of litigation by political actors to contest unwanted environmental... more This article examines the use of litigation by political actors to contest unwanted environmental policy options on the basis of NIMBY claims. It analyzes the discursive frames employed by policy actors to explain how one community in Northern Ontario could reject a facility to receive Toronto's waste while another in Michigan could not. The article employs a case study approach to trace the process of judicial and tribunal decisions about these two potential landfill sites. The research found that the judicial policy frames can serve as a determinative of outcomes of siting decisions in subsequent institutional settings and that such precedents could be overcome only when opponents reframed the issues to align with the interests of all parties. The article concludes that the specific characteristics of each institutional setting in which policy disputes take place are an important factor to explaining policy change or stability.
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Global Labour Journal, 2009
Volume 1 Issue 1 Special Issue on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India, guest edited by... more Volume 1 Issue 1 Special Issue on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India, guest edited by Paul Bowles and John Harriss ... Greg Flynn McMaster University, flynngl@mcmaster.ca ... Robert O'Brien McMaster University, obrienr@mcmaster.ca ... This Article is brought to ...
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Canadian Public Administration, 2011
Abstract: There is an ongoing debate in western industrialized democracies about the genesis of g... more Abstract: There is an ongoing debate in western industrialized democracies about the genesis of government policy capacity. This article examines this under-explored issue by looking at the election campaign commitments made by political parties. The author reviews the ...
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Policy Analysis in Canada
Political parties and their members are often viewed as having limited impact on government polic... more Political parties and their members are often viewed as having limited impact on government policy choices. However, prior research shows that both sets of actors devote considerably more time and resources to policy-related activities than this view would suggest. We examine the policy capacity of parties and their members to influence policy-making in Canada over the course of the last decade. We focus on the ability of party members to have their policy wishes included in election campaign manifestos and the extent to which the 2008 and 2011 federal Conservative governments were able to fulfill their campaign commitments in a highly challenging policy capacity environment. Consistent with prior studies on previous Conservative and Liberal governments, this examination demonstrates that while governments face a number of influences on their policy choices, the policy wishes of party members and the election campaign policy commitments of parties have a significant influence.
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Policy Work in Canada, 2017
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Globalization and Labour in China and India, 2010
The labour movement faces a number of profound challenges in the twenty-first century. Chief amon... more The labour movement faces a number of profound challenges in the twenty-first century. Chief among those difficulties is coping with the labour market consequences of the industrialization, modernization and globalization of the Chinese and Indian economies. The surge of a numerically large, relatively low paid and politically weak labour force into the global economy threatens to undermine existing economic protection and achievements by Western labour movements and has the potential to lead to destructive conflict between nations and states. The globalization of the US financial crisis in 2008–9 and the ensuing global recession provide further challenges because of reduced employment levels in most states. As a result, governments have been tempted to spark economic growth through measures that undermine or threaten the welfare of other countries, such as the ‘Buy America’ provisions in the US. The potential for the further use of the beggar-thy-neighbour policies of the 1930s could reappear and further exacerbate the economic crisis.
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Parliamentary Affairs, 2013
There is ongoing concern over the appropriateness of judicial supervison over legislative and exe... more There is ongoing concern over the appropriateness of judicial supervison over legislative and executive action in Westminster democracies. This article addresses these concerns through consideration of the judicialisation of the exercise of prerogative powers. It examines all of the judicial decisions reviewing the exercise of prerogative powers after 2001 and finds that Canadian courts have expanded their scope of review through both Charter of Rights and Freedoms and administrative law principles. Despite this fact, they remained relatively restrained, intervening where government activity has arbitrarily interfered with the rights, interests or legitimate expectations of individuals and thereby limiting judicial activism concerns.
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Canadian Public Policy, 2011
This article examines the use of litigation by political actors to contest unwanted environmental... more This article examines the use of litigation by political actors to contest unwanted environmental policy options on the basis of NIMBY claims. It analyzes the discursive frames employed by policy actors to explain how one community in Northern Ontario could reject a facility to receive Toronto's waste while another in Michigan could not. The article employs a case study approach to trace the process of judicial and tribunal decisions about these two potential landfill sites. The research found that the judicial policy frames can serve as a determinative of outcomes of siting decisions in subsequent institutional settings and that such precedents could be overcome only when opponents reframed the issues to align with the interests of all parties. The article concludes that the specific characteristics of each institutional setting in which policy disputes take place are an important factor to explaining policy change or stability.
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Global Labour Journal, 2009
Volume 1 Issue 1 Special Issue on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India, guest edited by... more Volume 1 Issue 1 Special Issue on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India, guest edited by Paul Bowles and John Harriss ... Greg Flynn McMaster University, flynngl@mcmaster.ca ... Robert O'Brien McMaster University, obrienr@mcmaster.ca ... This Article is brought to ...
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Abstract: There is an ongoing debate in western industrialized democracies about the genesis of g... more Abstract: There is an ongoing debate in western industrialized democracies about the genesis of government policy capacity. This article examines this under-explored issue by looking at the election campaign commitments made by political parties. The author reviews the ...
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