CURRICULUM VITAE GRAHAM WHITE
Professor Emeritus of Political Science University of Toronto Mississauga
Revised October 2015
Department of Political Science University of Toronto at Mississauga Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6 (905) 569-4377/ (416) 978-6021 FAX: (905-569-4965)/ (416) 978-5566 e-mail: [email protected]
Education B.A. Economics and Political Science, York University, 1970 M.A. Political Science, McMaster University, 1971 Ph.D. Political Science, McMaster University, 1979 Thesis: “Social Change and Political Stability in Ontario: Electoral Forces 1867-1977” (Supervisor: Prof. H.J. Jacek)
Work 1970-74 Teaching Assistant, McMaster University Experience 1974-76 Part-time sessional lecturer, York University 1976-77 Ontario Legislative Intern 1977-78 Visiting Assistant Professor, Glendon College 1978-84 Assistant Clerk, Legislative Assembly of Ontario 1984-92 Assistant Professor, Erindale College, University of Toronto 1992-95 Associate Professor, Erindale College, University of Toronto 1995-2015 Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga 2015 - Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto Mississauga
Appointed to graduate faculty 1985
Awarded tenure 1992
Languages: English: fluent French: limited Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 2
GRANTS
2015-20 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Tradition and Transition among the Labrador Inuit” (Co-investigator with Professor Christopher Alcantara, Western University), $120,000.
2008-12 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Capacity Building in Northern Aboriginal Governments”, $71,599.
2000-06 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Public Government and Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada’s North,” $63,000
2000-02 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Accommodating Aboriginal Interests in Multi-level Governance: Northern Co-management Boards,” $33,745
1999-00 University of Toronto, Vice-President’s Research Fund, “Public and Aboriginal Government in Northern Canada”, $3000
University of Toronto, General Research Grant, “Public and Aboriginal Government in Northern Canada”, $2750
1998-99 University of Toronto, Vice-President’s Research Fund, “State and Society in the Canadian North”, $3410
1997-98 University of Toronto, Vice-President's Research Fund, “Government Institutions in the Northwest Territories,” $3,000
1994-98 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Government Institutions in the Northwest Territories,” $36,000
1993-94 University of Toronto, Vice President's Research Fund, “Political Change in the Northwest Territories”, $3000
1992-93 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Political Institutions in the Northwest Territories,” $2550
1992 University of Toronto Department of Political Science Research Fund, “Political Institutions of the Northwest Territories,” $1000
1990-92 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Cabinet Government in Canada,” $47,475.
1989-90 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Political Institutions in the Northwest Territories,” $2,000
1988-89 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “The Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories,” $3,000 Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 3
1986-87 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - “The Ontario Legislature in Comparative Perspective” $500
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - Conference and book on “The Parliamentary Tradition in Canada” $5,750 (with Robert J. Jackson and Gary Levy)
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Conference and book on “The Parliamentary Tradition in Canada” $5,000 (with Robert J. Jackson and Gary Levy)
Canadian Study of Parliament Group - Conference and book on “The Parliamentary Tradition in Canada” $5,000 (with Robert J. Jackson and Gary Levy)
1985-86 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - “The Ontario Legislature in Comparative Perspective” $500
1982-83 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - “Social Change and Political Stability in Ontario” $2,764 (as a private scholar)
AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS
Listed in Canadian Who’s Who.
Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Pierre DeCelles Award for Excellence in Teaching Public Administration, 2013.
Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2012 -
President of the Canadian Political Science Association, 2010-11.
Cycling into Saigon shortlisted for 2000 Donner Foundation Award for the best book in Canadian Public Policy.
Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Hodgetts Award for the best English-language article in Canadian Public Administration, 1999.
University of Toronto Senior Alumni Teaching Award, 1992. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 4
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
“Governance in Nunavut: Capacity vs Culture?” Journal of Canadian Studies 43 (Spring 2009), 57-81.
“‘Not the Almighty’: Evaluating Aboriginal Influence in Northern Claims Boards,” Arctic 61 (Supp) 2008, 71-85.
“Cultures in Collision: Traditional Knowledge and EuroCanadian Governance Processes in Northern Land-Claim Boards,” Arctic 59 (December, 2006), 401-14.
reprinted in:
V. Madhuri, ed., Traditional Knowledge: Impediments to IPR Protection (Hyderbad, India: Icfai University Press, 2009), and in
Robert B. Anderson and Robert M. Bone, eds., Natural Resources and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada 2nd ed (Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2009).
“Traditional Aboriginal Values in a Westminster Parliament: the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut,” Journal of Legislative Studies 12 (March, 2006), 8 -31.
“Treaty Federalism in Northern Canada: Aboriginal-Government Land Claims Boards,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 32 (Summer, 2002), 89 - 114.
“Adapting the Westminster Model: Provincial and Territorial Cabinets in Canada,” Public Management and Money, 21 (April-June 2001), 17-24.
“And Now for Something Completely Northern: Institutions of Governance in the Territorial North,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 35 (Winter 2000-01), 80-99.
“Shorter Measures: The Changing Ministerial Career in Canada,” Canadian Public Administration 41 (Fall, 1998), 369-94.
“Streams, Springs and Stones: Ontario Public Service Reform in the 1980s and 1990s,” Canadian Public Administration XXXVII (Summer, 1994), 267-301. (with Evert Lindquist)
“Northern Distinctiveness, Representation by Population and the Charter: The Politics of Redistribution in the Northwest Territories” Journal of Canadian Studies XVIII (Fall, 1993), 3-28.
“Structure and Culture in a Non-partisan Westminster Parliament: Canada's Northwest Territories,” The Australian Journal of Political Science XXVIII (July, 1993), 322-39.
“Westminster in the Arctic: The Adaptation of British Parliamentarism in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, XXIV (September, 1991), 499-523. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 5
“Big is Different from Little: On Taking Size Seriously in the Analysis of Canadian Governmental Institutions,” Canadian Public Administration XXXIII (Winter 1990), 526-50.
“'Christian Humility and Partisan Ingenuity': Oliver Mowat's Redistribution of 1874,” Ontario History LXIII (December, 1981), 219-38.
“The Life and Times of the Camp Commission,” Canadian Journal of Political Science XIII (June, 1980), 357-75.
“Teaching the Mongrel Dog New Tricks: Sources and Directions of Reform in the Ontario Legislature,” Journal Of Canadian Studies XIV (Summer, 1979), 117-32.
“One Party Dominance and Third Parties: The Pinard Theory Reconsidered,” Canadian Journal of Political Science VI (September, 1973), 399-421.
Refereed Books and Monographs
Made in Nunavut: An Experiment in Decentralized Government (Vancouver: UBCPress, forthcoming 2015), approximately 400 pages (with Jack Hicks).
Cabinets and First Ministers (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2005), 208 pages.
Cycling into Saigon: The Conservative Transition in Ontario (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2000). 205 pages. (with David R. Cameron)
Breaking the Trail to Northern Community Empowerment: The Community Transfer Initiative in Cape Dorset (Toronto: Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 1998), 77 pages.
Northern Governments in Transition: Political and Constitutional Development in Yukon, Nunavut and the Western Arctic (Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1995), 151 pages. (with Kirk W. Cameron)
The Ontario Legislature: A Political Analysis (University of Toronto Press, 1989), 305 pages.
Refereed Book Chapters
“Managing the Moraine: Political Economy and Political Culture Approaches to Assessing the Success of Nunavut,” in Bryan M. Evans and Charles W. Smith, eds., Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada’s Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015) (with Ailsa Henderson).
“Size Matters, But so Does Culture: The Legislative Assembly of Nunavut,” in Nicholas Baldwin, ed., Legislatures of Small States: A Comparative Study (London: Routledge, 2013).
“In the Presence of Northern Aboriginal Women? Women in Territorial Politics,” in Linda Trimble, Jane Arscott and Manon Tremblay, eds., Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2013), 233-52. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 6
“The ‘Centre’ of the Democratic Deficit: Power and Influence in Canadian Political Executives,” in Patti Tamara Lenard and Richard Simeon, eds., Imperfect Democracies: The Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2012), 226-247.
“Nunavut and the Northwest Territories: Challenges of Public Service on the Northern Frontier,” in Evert Lindquist, ed., Government Restructuring and Career Public Service in Canada (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2000), 112-47.
“Revolutionary Change in the Ontario Public Service” ibid, 310-45.
“Analysing Canadian Cabinets: Past, Present and Future,” in Mohamed Charih and Arthur Daniels, eds., New Public Management and Public Administration in Canada (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1997), 113-138. (with Evert Lindquist)
“Provinces and Territories: Characteristics, Roles and Responsibilities,” in Jacques Bourgault, Maurice Demers and Cynthia Williams, eds., Public Administration and Public Management Experiences in Canada (Quebec: Les Publications du Quebec, 1997), 167-76.
“Aboriginal Influences on Governmental Institutions in the Northwest Territories,” Research study prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples; published in "For Seven Generations", the Royal Commission's CD-ROM (Ottawa: Libraxus, 1997).
“The Interpersonal Dynamics of Decision Making in Canadian Provincial Cabinets,” in Michael Laver and Kenneth Shepsle, eds., Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 251-69.
“Traffic Pile-ups at Queen's Park: Recent Ontario Transitions,” in Donald Savoie, ed., Taking Power: Managing Government Transitions (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1993), 115-43.
“Introduction: The Comparative Analysis of Canadian Provincial and Territorial Legislatures,” in Levy and White, eds., Provincial and Territorial Legislatures in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989), 1-12.
“Ontario: A Legislature in Adolescence,” ibid., 29-46.
“Governing from Queen's Park: The Ontario Premiership,” in David Taras and Leslie Pal, eds., Prime Ministers and Premiers: Political Leadership and Public Policy in Canada (Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1988), 158-77.
Refereed edited book
Provincial and Territorial Legislatures in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1989), 245 pages (Co- editor with Gary Levy). Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 7
Non-refereed edited books
Government and Politics of Ontario Fifth edition (University of Toronto Press, 1997). 458 pages
Politics: Canada Eighth edition (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995) 612 pages (Co-editor with Paul W. Fox).
Inside the Pink Palace: Ontario Legislature Internship Essays (Canadian Political Science Association, 1993), 309 pages.
Politics: Canada Seventh edition (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1991), 573 pages (Co-editor with Paul W. Fox).
The Government and Politics of Ontario Fourth edition (Nelson Canada, 1990), 382 pages.
Politics: Canada Sixth edition, (McGraw Hill-Ryerson, 1987), 670 pages (Co-editor with Paul W. Fox).
Non-refereed journal articles
“Go North, Young Scholar, Go North: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Waterloo, May 17, 2011” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44: 4 (December, 2011), 747-68.
“Strengthening Indigenous Peoples’ Influence: ‘Claims Boards’ in Northern Canada,” Indigenous Affairs (December, 2004), 26-30.
“Politics and Government in the Territorial North,” in The Canadian North: Embracing Change The CRIC Papers # 6 (June, 2002), 16 - 23.
“Nunavut: Challenges and Opportunities of Creating a New Government” Public Sector Management IX, no 3 (Spring, 1999), 4-9.
“The Tundra’s Always Greener: A Reply to Widdowson and Howard,” Policy Options, XX, no 4 (May, 1999), 59-63.
“Ontario Reforms Likely to Enhance Accountability,” Parliamentary Government, IX (Fall, 1989), 17-21.
“Note Taking in the Public Gallery,” Canadian Parliamentary Review VI (Winter, 1983), 23-24.
“Ontario's Select Committee on the Ombudsman,” The Table L (1982), 52-61.
“The Imprisonment of a Member for Refusing to Disclose Confidential Communications,” Canadian Parliamentary Review III (June, 1980), 4-8.
“Ontario: Scope and Implications of Parliamentary Privilege,” The Table XLVIII (1980), 124-8.
“Committees in the Ontario Legislature,” The Parliamentarian LXI (January, 1980), 7-22.
“Special Inquiry Committees: The Ontario Experience,” Parliamentary Government (January, 1980), 8- 10. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 8
“An Important Procedural Innovation in Ontario,” Canadian Parliamentary Review II (March, 1979), 17- 20.
“Workers and Tories: A Comment,” Urban History Review (June, 1978), 101-4.
“Political Integration In Quebec,” Canadian Ethnic Studies III (December, 1971), 55-84. (With Jack Millar and Wallace Gagne)
Non-refereed book chapters
“Cabinets and First Ministers,” in William Cross, ed., Auditing Canadian Democracy (Vancouver, UBCPress, 2010), 40-63.
“Aboriginal People and Environmental Regulation: The Role of Land Claims Co-management Boards in the Territorial North,” in Robert Boardman and Debora VanNijnatten, eds., Canadian Environmental Policy 3/e (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2009), 123-36.
“Nunavut and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Differing Models of Northern Governance,” in Frances Abele, Thomas J. Courchene, F. Leslie Seidle and France St-Hilaire, eds., Northern Exposure: People, Powers and Prospects in Canada’s North (Montreal: Institute for Research in Public Policy, 2009), 283- 315.
“The Coalition that Wasn’t: A Lost Reform Opportunity,” in Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin, eds., Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), 150-160.
“Local Government in the Canadian Territorial North: The Political Context,” in John F. Young, ed., Federalism, Power, and the North: Governmental Reforms in Russia and Canada (Toronto: Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2007), 7-20.
“Evaluating Provincial and Territorial Legislature,” in Christopher Dunn, ed., Provinces, second edition, (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006), 255-78.
“Government under the Northern Lights: Treaties, Land Claims and Self-Government in the Territorial North,” in Beverly Rasporich and David Taras, eds., A Passion for Identity fourth edition (Nelson Thomson Learning, 2001), 457-76.
“Nunavut: Inuit Self-determination Through a Land Claim and Public Government?” in Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett, eds., The Provincial State in Canada: Politics in the Provinces and Territories (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2001), 389-439. (with Jack Hicks)
“Nunavut: Inuit Self-determination Through a Land Claim and Public Government?” in Jens Dahl, Jack Hicks and Peter Jull, eds., Nunavut: Inuit Regain Control of their Lands and Their Lives (Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2000), 30-115. (With Jack Hicks) [expanded version of chapter in The Provincial State]
“The Legislature: Central Symbol of Ontario Democracy,” in Graham White, ed., The Government and Politics of Ontario fifth edition (University of Toronto Press, 1997), 71-92. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 9
“Transition: The Tories Take Power,” in Sid Noel, ed., Revolution at Queen's Park: Essays on Governing Ontario (Halifax: Lorimer, 1997), 139-150.
“Aboriginal Participation in Canadian Legislatures,” in Robert J. Fleming and J.E. Glenn, eds., Fleming's Canadian Legislatures 1997 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 60-72. (with Jonathan Malloy)
“Comparing Provincial Legislatures,” in Christopher Dunn, ed., Provinces (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1996), 205-28.
“Canada's Most Distinctive Region: The Northwest Territories,” in Paul W. Fox and Graham White, eds., Politics: Canada eighth edition (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995), 178-89.
“The House of Commons in the 1990s,” ibid, 456-64.
“Ontario,” in R.B. Byers, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs for 1987 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991), 237-79.
“The Political Future of the Northwest Territories: A Test For Canadian Federalism,” in Paul W. Fox and Graham White, eds., Politics: Canada, seventh ed. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1991), 136-44.
“Functions of the House of Commons,” ibid., 407-17.
“The Legislature: Influence Not Power,” in Graham White, ed., The Government and Politics of Ontario, fourth ed. (Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1990), 63-78.
“The Premier and the Cabinet,” ibid., 79-102 (with Richard Loreto).
“Ontario,” in R.B. Byers, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs for 1986, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990), 227-261.
“Ontario.” in R.B. Byers, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs for 1985 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988), 258-304.
“Assumptions, Inferences and Techniques in the Study of Past Ontario Voting Behaviour,” in David and Rosemary Gagan, ed., New Directions for the Study of Ontario's Past (Hamilton: McMaster University, 1988), 13-30.
“Lawyers in Government: A Preliminary Study,” in R. Matas and D. McCawley eds., Legal Education in Canada (Montreal: Federation of Law Societies of Canada, 1987), 764-790.
“Recent Reforms of the House of Commons,” in Paul W. Fox and Graham White, eds., Politics: Canada, sixth edition (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1987), 513-18.
“Ontario,” in R.B. Byers, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs for 1984 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987), 207-228.
“Undoubtedly Our Legislatures are Succeeding,” in Robert J. Fleming and Patrick Fafard, eds., Canadian Legislatures: The 1986 Comparative Study (Toronto: Office of the Assembly, 1986), 33-37. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 10
“Ontario,” in R.B. Byers, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs for 1983 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985), 206-236. (With Frederick Fletcher)
“Government by Other Means: Agencies, Boards and Commissions,” in Donald C. MacDonald, ed., Government and Politics of Ontario (Toronto: Nelson, 1985), 82-99. (With John Eichmanis)
“Ontario,” in R.B. Byers, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs for 1982 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), 199-229. (With Frederick Fletcher)
“The Powers of Public Accounts Committees,” in Canadian Council of Public Accounts Committees, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting (Toronto, 1983), 157-91.
“To Everything There is an Agency: Agencies, Boards and Commissions in the Government of Ontario,” in Donald C. MacDonald, ed., Government and Politics of Ontario, revised edition, (Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980), 123-44. (With Peter Johnson)
“The Development of Provincial Legislatures,” in Harold D. Clarke, et al., eds., Parliament, Policy and Representation (Toronto: Methuen, 1980), 255-75. (With Michael M. Atkinson)
“Committees, Petitions and the Redress of Grievances,” in Background Papers for the Fifth Canadian Regional Seminar (Toronto: Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, 1979).
Conference Papers
“A Decentralized Government of Nunavut or ‘A Centralized GN with Jobs all over the Place’?” Paper presented to the International Arctic Social Science Conference, Akureyri, Iceland, July, 2011 (with Jack Hicks).
“In the Presence of Northern Aboriginal Women” Women in Territorial Politics,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 16-18, 2011.
“Managing the Moraine: Political Economy and Political Culture Approaches to Assessing the Success of Nunavut,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June, 2010. (With Ailsa Henderson)
“After the Claims Are Settled: Capacity Building in Canada’s Northern Aboriginal Governments Cultural Match in Nunavut,” paper presented at ICASS VI – The International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, Nuuk, Greenland, August 2008.
“Aboriginal People and Environmental Regulation: The Role of Land Claims Co-management Boards in the Territorial North,” paper presented at the Workshop on Canadian Environmental Policy, Simon Fraser University, June 2008. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 11
“‘The Centre’ of the Democratic Deficit: Power and Influence in Canadian Political Executives,” paper presented at the Conference on Comparing the Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States: Defining, Measuring and Fixing, Harvard University, May, 2008.
“Nunavut and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Differing Models of Northern Governance,” paper presented at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, ‘Art of the State IV: Northern Exposure,’ conference, Montebello, Quebec, October 2007.
“Involving Canada’s Indigenous Peoples in Environmental Impact Assessment: The Mackenzie Valley Environmental Review Board,” paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Seoul, South Korea, June, 2007. (With Vern Christensen and Alan Erlich)
“A Powerful Canadian Senate: Implications for Parliamentary Government,” Paper presented at the “Transforming Canadian Governance Through Senate Reform” conference, University of British Columbia, April, 2007.
“Local Government in the Canadian North,” paper presented to the conference on “Federalism, Power and the North: Governance Reforms in Russia and Canada”, University of Toronto, December, 2006.
“‘Not the Almighty’: Evaluating Northern Claims Boards,” paper presented to the Sixth Coastal Zone Canada Conference, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, August 2006.
“Building Nunavut Through Decentralization or Carpet-bombing it into Near-total Dysfunction? A Study in Organizational Engineering,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, London, Ontario, June 2005. (With Jack Hicks)
“Culture Clash: Traditional Knowledge and Euro-Canadian Governance Processes in Northern Claims Boards,” paper presented to the “First Nations, First Thoughts” Conference, University of Edinburgh, May 2005.
“Traditional Aboriginal Values in a Third Millennium Legislature: The Legislative Assembly of Nunavut,” paper presented at International Political Science Association Research Committee of Legislative Specialists Conference on Sub-national Legislatures, Quebec City, October, 2004.
“Mother Teresa’s Biker Gang, or, Cabinet Democracy in Canada,” paper presented at the “Canada Today: A Democratic Audit” conference, co-sponsored by the Canadian Study of Parliament Group and the Canadian Studies Programme, Mount Allison University, Ottawa, November, 2001.
“A Fourth Order of Government? Treaty Federalism Through Claims-Mandated Co-Management and Regulatory Boards,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Québec, June, 2001.
“The Canadian Model of Cabinet: Lessons from Canada’s Provinces and Territories,” paper presented at “After Westminster: Comparative Lessons from Sub-National Governments in Australia, Canada and the UK,” Seminar at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, September, 2000.
“Ministerial Musical Chairs: Patterns of Provincial Cabinet Shuffles”, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Québec, July 2000. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 12
“Throwing the Rascals Out: Electoral Accountability of Ministers and Backbenchers in Westminster Systems,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1999 (with David C. Docherty)
“Changes to Provincial Ministerial Careers: The 1940s to the 1990s,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's Newfoundland, June 1997.
“Cycling into Saigon: The 1995 Ontario Transition,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, June 1996 (with David Cameron).
“Comparing Provincial Legislatures,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June 1995.
“Consequences of Electing the Government Leader of the Northwest Territories,” paper prepared for the Strategic Planning Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Cambridge Bay, NWT, October, 1993.
“Springs, Streams and Stones: Ontario Public Service Reform in the 1980s and 1990s,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, June 1993 (with Evert Lindquist)
“The Interpersonal Dynamics of Decision-Making Processes in Canadian Provincial Cabinets,” paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Workshop on the Political Role of Cabinet Ministers in the Process of Parliamentary Government, University of Limerick, Ireland, March, 1992
“Northern Adaptations of Southern Political Institutions: The Case of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories,” paper presented to the Conference on Circumpolar Universities, Lakehead University, November, 1989.
“Big is Different From Little: On Taking Size Seriously in Canadian Political Analysis,” paper presented to the sixtieth annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Windsor, June, 1988
“The Ontario Legislature in the 1980's,” paper presented to the Conference on the Canadian Parliamentary Tradition, Quebec, March, 1987
“Lawyers in Government: A Preliminary Study,” paper prepared for the Conference on Legal Education in Canada, Winnipeg, October, 1985.
“Assumptions, Inferences and Techniques in the Study of Past Ontario Voting Behaviour,” paper presented to the Conference on New Directions for the Study of Ontario's Past, Hamilton, September, 1984.
“Differential Loyalties: Split Identification and Voting at the Federal and Provincial Levels,” paper presented to the forty-forth annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June, 1972 (With Janet Rubas and R.B. Cunningham) Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 13
Scholarly Addresses
“Decentralization in Nunavut,” presentation to the “Nunavut at 15” Conference, Ottawa, February 5, 2015.
“Scholarly Publishing: A Journal Editor’s Perspective”, talk given to the Department of Political Science, Royal Military College, Kingston Ontario, November 29, 2013.
“The Rewards and Challenges of Research on Modern Treaties,” presentation to the Land Claims Agreement Coalition “Keeping the Promise” conference, Gatineau, Quebec, February 27, 2013.
“Go North, Young Scholar, Go North”, Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Waterloo, May 17, 2011.
“Northern Research: The Role of Universities,” presentation to the Northern Governance Policy Research Conference, Yellowknife, November 3-5, 2009.
“Northern Land Claim Boards: An Overview”, presentation to the Northern Governance Policy Research Conference, Yellowknife, November 3-5, 2009.
“The Genius of Responsible Government,” talk given to Professional Development Seminar for Legislative Counsel, Government of Ontario, January 29, 2009.
“Wither Canadian Parliamentary Studies,” talk at Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, November 19, 2008.
“Reform of Ontario’s Electoral System: Saviour or Threat?” talk given to the Ontario Council of the Canadian Federation of University Women, Toronto, March 2007.
“New Institutions of Governance: Land Claims Boards in the Canadian North,” talk given to the Dalhousie University Department of Political Science Speakers Series, Halifax, November 2006.
“The Price of Democracy is Eternal Engagement,” talk given at the “Art and Science of Public Affairs Conference,” Toronto, October, 2006.
“Myths and Realities of Responsible Government,” talk given to the Ontario Liberal Caucus Staff, Toronto, July 2006.
“The Powers of Canadian First Ministers,” talk given to the Yukon Branch of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, June 2006.
“The Prime Minister as Elected Dictator?” talk given at the Public Affairs Association of Canada, Toronto, September 2005.
“Cabinets and First Ministers” talk given at the Canadian Study of Parliament Group Conference on “Canada: A Democratic Audit”, Ottawa February 2005. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 14
“The Westminster System: Fossilized Foe of Democracy or Flexible Friend of Democracy?” Talk given at the Canadian Executive Council Officers Forum, Toronto, November, 2004.
“Ontario: Society, Government, Politics,” to delegates from the Public Administration College of Liaoning Province and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the People’s Government of Liaoning Province, Toronto, December 11, 2002.
“Cabinet Democracy in Canada?” to Canadian Studies Programme, Mount Allison University, October 2002.
“Sandbagging the Permanent Voters List,” to Institute for Research on Public Policy Conference on Electoral Reform, Ottawa, February 2002.
“Cycling into Saigon: The Tory Transition” to the Public Affairs Association of Canada, Toronto, January 2001.
“Nunavut: Creating a New Government North of the Treeline,” to the Toronto Regional Group of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, February 1999.
“Nunavut: Inuit Self-determination Through a Land Claim and Self Government?” University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, January 1999.
“From Pipelines to Kimberlite Pipes: The Politics of Northern Resource Exploitation," at “Speaking Out: A Conference in Honour of Mel Watkins,” University College, University of Toronto, April, 1998.
“Preparing the Way for the Common Sense Revolutionaries: The 1995 Ontario Transition,” to the Governing Ontario: Problems and Prospects Conference, University of Western Ontario, November, 1995.
“Ethical and Practical Dilemmas for Legislative Drafters,” to the International Legislative Drafting Institute, New Orleans, June 1995.
“Comparing Emergent Governments in Canada's North,” to University of Saskatchewan Department of Political Studies Seminar Series, Saskatoon, March 1995.
“Is the Tomorrow Project Yesterday's News? Ontario Public Service Reform,” to the University of Toronto Centre for Public Management Seminar on the Theory and Practice of Management in Government, April, 1993 (with Evert Lindquist)
“Conflict of Interest and Ministerial Responsibility,” to the Hamilton Area Group, Institute of Public Administration of Canada, November, 1986
“The Confidence Convention in Ontario,” to the Canadian Study of Parliament Group, Ottawa, March, 1986
“Reforming Legislative Committees,” to the annual meeting of the Canadian Region, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Quebec City, July, 1985
“Proposals for Parliamentary Reform,” to the Canadian Study of Parliament Group, Ottawa, March 1985 Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 15
TEACHING
Courses Taught (University of Toronto)
Undergraduate Democracy in Theory and Practice: Canada: An Actual Democracy? Canada in Comparative Perspective Introduction to Canadian Government and Politics Canadian Public Policy and Public Administration Political Participation Public Opinion and Voting Comparative Provincial Politics Comparative Legislatures Ontario Politics Politics and Society in the Northwest Territories The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Aboriginal Politics in Canada The Craft of Political Research
Graduate: Core Course in Canadian Politics Comparative Legislatures Politics and Society in the Northwest Territories The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Doctoral Thesis supervision:
Primary Supervisor:
Jonathan Malloy, “Colliding Worlds: New Social Movements and Special Policy Agencies” completed 2000.
Chris Alcantara “Deal or No Deal? Explaining Comprehensive Land Claims Negotiations Outcomes in Canada,” Completed 2008.
Pauline Beange “Canadian Campaign Finance in Comparative Perspective 2000-2011: An Exhausted Paradigm or Just a Cautionary Tale?” Completed 2012.
Janique Dubois “What About Modern Minorities? Self-Government for Territorially Dispersed and Culturally Intermixed Groups.” Completed 2013.
Jack Lucas “Explaining Institutional Change: Local Special Purpose Bodies in Ontario, 1810- 2010,” completed 2014.
Mike Morden “Indigenous Protest Politics Through an Ethnic Conflict Lens,” completed 2015.
Jerald Sabin “Unsettled History: Ideas, Institutions and Settler Society in Northern Canada” in progress. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 16
Paul Thomas “Across Enemy Lines: A Study of All-party Groups in Four Westminster Legislatures” in progress.
Gina Cosentino “Indigenous Women and Constitutional Change in Canada and New Zealand”; lapsed.
David Whorley “New Public Management in Canada”; lapsed.
Christine Charlton “The Politics of Parliamentary Obstruction in Canada” lapsed.
Secondary Supervisor:
Mark Winfield, "The Ultimate Horizontal Issue: Environmental Politics and Policy in Ontario and Alberta," 1992.
Neil Freeman, "Autonomy and Accountability of Crown Corporations: A Case Study of Ontario Hydro", 1993.
Judith Oakes, "The Honourable Members: The Careers of Canadian MPs," 1994.
David Docherty, "Political Careers in the Canadian House of Commons," 1994.
Cheryl Collier “The Women’s Movement and Public Policy in Canada,” 2006.
Celine Mulhern “Globalization, Partisan Agency and the Welfare State: Understanding the Paradigm Shift in Public Education in Ontario Since 1987,” 2007.
Martin Papillon “Federalism from Below? Aboriginal Self-government and the Challenge of Postcolonial Governance: Three Cases from Quebec,” 2008.
Andrei Petrov “The Russian and Canadian Norths: A Comparison,” (Department of Geography), 2008.
Allison Bramwell “Networks are Not Enough: Urban Governance and Workforce Development in Three Ontario Cities,” 2010.
Nicola Hepburn “Minding the Gap between Promise and Performance: The Ontario Liberal Government Research and Innovation Policy, 2003-2011” 2014.
Andrew McDougall “Canadian Federalism, Abeyances and Quebec Sovereignty” in progress
Adrienne Davidson “Regional Governments in the Arctic” in progress. Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 17
Postdoctoral Fellow Supervision
Gabrielle Slowey “Treaty Federalism, Globalization and Aboriginal Self-Determination,” 2004-5.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Departmental (UTM)
Acting Discipline Representative, Department of Political Science, Erindale College, 1986-87
Assistant Chair, Department of Political Science, Erindale College, 1995-9
Chair, Department of Political Science, 2003-6
Interim Chair, Department of Political Science, 2011-12
Member, numerous search committees.
Mentor, several junior faculty members.
Departmental (Graduate/St George)
Member, Departmental Chair Search Committee, 1991
Editor, Discourse, Department of Political Science newsletter, 1992-95
Member, Curriculum Review Committee, 1995-6
Member, Departmental Chair Search Committee, 1996
Member, Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, 1997-98
Member, Planning and Priorities Committee, 1997-99, 2000-6, 2007-
Convenor, Canadian Area Group, 2000-02, 2007-12
Member, Graduate Advisory Committee, 2000-3
Member, Departmental Chair Search Committee, 2002
TA Coordinator, 2002-3
Member, Strategic Planning Committee, 2002-6
Chair, TA Committee, 2002-3
Acting TA Coordinator, 2005-6 Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 18
Member, Budget Committee, 2008-9
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2008
Member, Departmental Chair Search Committee, 2009
Member, numerous search and tenure committees.
Mentor, several junior faculty members.
College/Faculty
Member, Erindale College Canadian Studies Programme Supervisory Committee, 1992-93
Member, Erindale College, Committee to Respond to the Report on Tri-Campus Planning, 1993
Member, Erindale College Teaching Awards Committee, 1995
Participant, Erindale College New Faculty Mentorship Programme, 1994-95
Chair, Kaneff Centre Space Advisory Committee, 1996
Member, Principal’s Task Force on First Year, 1996
Chair, Principal’s Task Force on First Year, 1997-98
Chair, First Year Instructors’ Council, 1999-2002
Member, General Research Grants Awards Committee, 2001-02
Member, Hatch Professorship Search Committee, 2002-03
Chair, Library Advisory Committee, 2003-06
Chair, Social Science Curriculum Committee 2003-06
Member, Distinguished Professor Award Committee, 2011
Member, UTM Governance Review Committee, 2012
Member, UTM Research Council, 2013-15
Member, UTM Honourary Degree Advisory Committee, 2014-15 Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 19
University
Member, University of Toronto Library Advisory Committee, 2001-02
Member, Decanal Promotions Committee, 2002-3
Chair, Hart House Finance Committee, 2010 -
Member, Undergraduate Student Societies Summit 2013-4
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Canadian Political Science Association
Director Ontario Legislature Internship Programme 1988-94 (Deputy Director 1984-88; Acting Director 1986-87)
Section Head (Provincial Politics), programme committee for 1991 CPSA meeting.
Section Head (Provincial and Territorial Politics), programme committee for 2001 CPSA meeting
Member Board of Directors, 2007-2012.
President 2010-11.
Co-editor Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2012 -
Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Member Executive of Toronto Regional Group, IPAC, 1988-92
Chair Executive, Toronto Regional Group, IPAC, 1990-91
Member National Executive, IPAC, 1991-2, 2007-9
Member Research and Professional Practices Committee, IPAC 2003 -
Chair Research and Professional Practices Committee, IPAC, 2007-9
Member Programme Committee, Annual IPAC meeting, 2003
Member IPAC “Innovation Awards” Jury, 2006 Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 20
Other
Member Board of Directors, the Public Affairs Association of Canada, 1992-5
Member Advisory Circle, Northern Programme of the Walter and Gordon Duncan Foundation 2004-2012
Member Publications Committee, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program [formerly Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program] 2005-2010
Member Member, Academic Council [formerly Management Board], Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program [formerly Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program] 2011-2014
Member Board of Directors, Canadian Study of Parliament Group, 2006 - 2014
Chair Research and Publications Committee, Canadian Study of Parliament Group, 2006 - 2014
Panel Ontario Graduate Scholarship Competition Evaluation, 2008, 2009 Member
Assessor/ Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Referee Research Council of Canada, Canadian Public Administration, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Canadian Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Canadian Public Policy, University of British Columbia Law Review, Arctic, Journal of Legislative Studies, Governance, International Journal of Environmental Issues, Canadian Political Science Review, Australian Journal of Political Science, Regional and Federal Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, The Northern Review, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Polar Geography, Polar Record, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Sustainability Science, The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, University of Toronto Press, UBCPress, McGill-Queens University Press, Macmillan of Canada, Prentice-Hall of Canada, Nelson Canada, Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Election Finance, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Queen's University Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, University of Calgary Press, Council for Earth and Life Sciences (Netherlands)
Assessor Department of Political Science, Huron College, 1996
Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, 2001
Member Academic Advisory Group, Ontario Democratic Renewal Secretariat, 2004-7
Member Academic Advisory Committee, Ontario Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform, 2007-8 Curriculum Vitae - Graham White – October 2015 21
Consultant Government of Ontario (Cabinet Office; Ministry of Treasury and Economics; Ministry of Education; Human Resources Secretariat; Management Board Secretariat; Ministry of Agriculture and Food; Office of the Provincial Auditor); Government of the Northwest Territories; Constitutional Development Steering Committee of the Western Northwest Territories; Constitutional Working Group of the Western NWT; Aboriginal Summit of the Western NWT; Office of the Interim Commissioner of Nunavut; Inuit Circumpolar Conference; Government of Nunavut: Legislative Assembly of Nunavut; Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Office of the Auditor General of Canada: Ontario Panel on the Role of Government; The Asia Foundation (San Francisco); The Conference Board of Canada.
Consultant The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Canadian Children's Encyclopedia
Media Numerous appearances on radio and television commenting on Ontario and Commentator Northern politics, including regular ‘column’ on CBC “Morningside” 1985-87 and frequent appearances as panellist on Global Television's “Focus Ontario”.