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Policy analysis in Canada : the state of the art / edited by Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, David Laycock.

Title
Policy analysis in Canada : the state of the art / edited by Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, David Laycock.
Publication
Toronto ; Buffalo (N.Y.) : University of Toronto Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Dobuzinskis, Laurent
  • Laycock, David H., 1954-
  • Howlett, Michael, 1955-
Description
x, 603 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Offers a comprehensive overview of the many ways in which the policy analysis movement has been conducted, and to what effect, in Canadian governments and, for the first time, in business associations, labour unions, universities, and other non-governmental organizations."--Publisher.
Series Statement
Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance
Uniform Title
Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance
Subject
  • Political planning > Canada
  • Policy sciences
  • Politique publique > Canada > Manuels d'enseignement supérieur
  • Sciences de la politique > Manuels d'enseignement supérieur
  • Politique publique > Canada
  • Sciences de la politique
Genre/Form
  • Textbooks
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine derived contents note: 1 Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art 3 -- LAURENT DOBUZINKIS, MICHAEL HOWLETT, -- AND DAVID LAYCOCK -- PART I: THE STYLES AND METHODS OF -- PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS IN CANADA 19 -- 2 The Policy Analysis Profession in Canada 21 -- STEPHEN BROOKS -- 3 The Choice of Formal Policy Analysis Methods -- in Canada 48 -- AIDAN R. VINING AND ANTHONY E. BOARDMAN -- 4 Beyond Formal Policy Analysis: Governance Context, Analytical -- Styles, and the Policy Analysis Movement in Canada 86 -- MICHAEL HOWLETT AND EVERT LINDQUIST -- 5 Policy Analysis and Bureaucratic Capacity: Context, -- Competences, and Strategies 116 -- EVERT LINDQUIST AND JAMES DESVEAUX -- PART II: PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS IN CANADA: -- HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXT 143 -- 6 The Policy Analysis Movement 145 -- MICHAEL MINTROM -- 7 Soft Craft, Hard Choices, Altered Context: Reflections on Twenty- -- Five Years of Policy Advice in Canada 163 -- MICHAEL J. PRINCE -- 8 in Between Trends: Developments of Public Policy Analysis and -- Policy Analysis Instruction in Canada, the United States, and the -- European Union 186 -- IRIS GEVA-MAY AND ALLAN M. MASLOVE -- PART III: POLICY ANALYSIS BY GOVERNMENTS 217 -- 9 Policy Analysis in the Federal Government: Building the Forward- -- Looking Policy Research Capacity 219 -- JEAN-PIERRE VOYER -- 10 Policy Analysis in Provincial Governments in Canada: From PPBS -- to Network Management 238 -- DOUG MCARTHUR -- 11 Immature Policy Analysis: Building Capacity in Eight Major -- Canadian Cities 265 -- KENNEDY STEWART AND PATRICK J. SMITH -- PART IV: COMMITTEES, PUBLIC INQUIRIES, RESEARCH -- INSTITUTES, CONSULTANTS, AND PUBLIC OPINION 289 -- 12 The Public of Public Inquiries 291 -- LIORA SALTER -- 13 Back to the Future? Is There a Case for Re-establishing the -- Economic Council and/or the Science Council? 315 -- LAURENT DOBUZINSKIS -- 14 Committees inside Canadian Legislatures 351 -- JOSIE SCHOFIELD AND JONATHAN FERSHAU -- 15 How Policy Makers View Public Opinion 375 -- FRANgOIS PETRY -- 16 The Invisible Private Service: Consultants and Public Policy in -- Canada 399 -- KIMBERLY SPEERS -- PART V: PARTIES AND INTEREST GROUP-BASED -- POLICY ANALYSIS 423 -- 17 Policy Study and Development in Canada's Political Parties 425 -- WILLIAM CROSS -- 18 Business Associations and Policy Analysis in Canada 443 -- ANDREW STRITCH -- 19 Policy Analysis by the Labour Movement in a Hostile -- Environment 473 -- ANDREW JACKSON AND BOB BALDWIN -- 20 Policy Analysis and the Voluntary Sector: Evolving Policy -- Styles 497 -- SUSAN D. PHILLIPS -- PART VI: ACADEMIC AND ADVOCACY-BASED -- POLICY ANALYSIS 523 -- 21 The Media 525 -- CATHERINE MURRAY -- 22 Any Ideas? Think Tanks and Policy Analysis in Canada 551 -- DONALD E. ABELSON -- 23 Academics and Public Policy: Informing Policy Analysis and Policy -- Making 574 -- DANIEL COHN -- Contributors 599.
ISBN
  • 9780802080042 (bound)
  • 0802080049 (bound)
  • 9780802037879 (pbk.)
  • 0802037879 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007279892
OCLC
  • 79256036
  • SCSB-12625882
Owning Institutions
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