DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

POL2100Y1Y – Government and Politics of Canada 2013-2014

Instructors:

Professor Rodney Haddow 3119 Sydney Smith Hall 416-978-8710 [email protected] Office hours: Tues 4-5:30; Thursday 2:15-3:15

Professor Graham White 3033 Sidney Smith Hall 416-978-6021 [email protected]

Course overview: This course is designed to give PhD students who have chosen Canadian politics as their major or minor field – or for those simply interested in Canadian politics – an opportunity to review and reflect on key issues and themes in the literature of Canadian Political Science. It is not designed as a survey course for those wishing to acquire a basic understanding of the field and indeed assumes that students already possess a good understanding of the literature and the practice of Canadian politics. Accordingly, some good and important literature on Canadian politics receives little or no attention in this course. Hence while it will be valuable for students preparing to write the Major Field Examination (MFE; aka ‘the comp’) in Canadian Politics, it will by no means cover all the literature on which the MFE will be based.

The course will seek to consider the literature of Canadian Politics from a variety of perspectives. It will ask about the formative intellectual influences on Canadian political science? It will consider the efficacy and the appropriateness of different methodological approaches to the study of Canadian politics. It will also consider Canadian politics a broad comparative context, asking for example whether the Canadian literature made good use of concepts, models, theories and methodologies from the comparative literature.

Organization:

Any attempt to slice up a complex discipline is bound to be arbitrary. We have divided the course broadly into the following parts:

! Situating the study of politics in Canada: Weeks 1-3 ! The social and economic bases of Canadian politics: Weeks 4-10 ! Bridging state and society: Weeks 11-13 ! The state and public policy: Weeks 14-21 ! Conclusion: Evaluating success and failure., planning the future: Weeks 22-4. 2

Format :

As this is a seminar course, students will be expected to participate extensively in the weekly meetings and to take the lead in the discussion. In the weeks when papers are due, the papers will form the basis of discussion. In other weeks, two or three students will act as discussion leaders, framing the assigned readings in short (10-12 minute) presentations and leading off the discussion. Presentations are not to be summaries of the readings, but should reflect on them and raise analytic questions for discussion and debate.

Course materials:

We recommend the following book for purchase:

Linda White, Richard Simeon, Robert C. Vipond and Jennifer Wallner, eds, The Comparative Turn in Canadian Politics (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2008).

Grading scheme:

Fourteen short papers on weekly readings (14 @ 5%) 70 % Participation 30 %

Short papers:

Papers should be 5-7 double-spaced typed pages and are due in class on the days indicated. Additional sources beyond those listed as readings may be incorporated into the papers, but are not at all necessary. Papers are in the nature of ‘think-pieces’ rather than research essays. Dates on which papers are due are indicated in the outline.

TOPICS AND READINGS

Note: a small number of required readings may be added as the course unfolds.

CJPS = Canadian Journal of Political Science UTP = University of Toronto Press OUP = Oxford University Press MQUP = McGill-Queens University Press 3

PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE

Week One – September 11: Introduction and Course Overview

Week Two – September 18: Reading the Classics

Read one of the following books and skim another and be prepared to discuss them, especially from the point of view of whether they remain relevant and valuable today.

James Mallory, Social Credit and the Federal Power (Toronto: UTP, 1954).

C. B Macpherson, Democracy in Alberta (Toronto: UTP, 1953).

John Porter, The Vertical Mosaic (Toronto: UTP, 1965).

S. M. Lipset, Agrarian Socialism Revised ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press 1971).

Pierre-Elliot Trudeau, Federalism and the French Canadians (Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1968).

The Rowell-Sirois Report: An Abridgement of Book 1 of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, edited and introduced by Donald V. Smiley (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963).

Norman Ward, The Canadian House of Commons: Representation (Toronto: UTP, 1950).

John Meisel, The Canadian General Election of 1957 (Toronto: UTP, 1963).

André Siegfied, The Race Question in Canada (Originally published 1907) Available electronically through the UofT Library System.

Members of the class are invited to suggest other titles for ‘classical’ status.

Week Three – September 25: The (Changing?) Nature of the Canadian Discipline/Imagining Canadian Political Development

Guest: Professor Rob Vipond

Robert Vipond, “Introduction: The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science,” in White, Simeon, Vipond and Wallner, eds., The Comparative Turn

Eric Monpetit, “A Quantitative Analysis of the Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science,” ibid.

Alan C. Cairns, “Are we on the Right Track?” ibid.

John Trent, “Factors Influencing the Development of Political Science in Canada: A case and a Model,” International Journal of Political Science 8:1 (January, 1987), 9-24. 4

Jack Lucas, “A Century of Political Science in Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies, forthcoming.

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, “Beyond Parochialism and Domestic Preoccupation: The Current State of Comparative Politics in Canada,” CJPS 45:4 (December, 2012), 741-56.

Miriam Smith, “Diversity and Canadian Political Development,” CJPS 42:4 (December, 2009), 831-54.

Desmond King and Robert C. Lieberman, “American Political Development as a Process of Democratization,” in King, ed., Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

PART TWO: THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BASES OF CANADIAN POLITICS

Week Four – October 2: Multicultural Canada

PAPER DUE “Multiculturalism impairs the management of other diversities.” Discuss.

Andrew M. Robinson, “Is Canadian Multiculturalism Parochial? Canadian Contributions to Theorizing Justice and Ethnocultural Diversity” in White, et al., The Comparative Turn

Keith Banting, “Canada as Counter-Narrative: Multiculturalism, Recognition and Redistribution,” ibid.

Yasmeen Abu-Laban, “Diversity in Canadian Politics,” in James Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon, eds., Canadian Politics 5th ed. (Toronto: UTP, 2009), 301-319.

André Lecours, “Theorizing Cultural Identities: Historical Institutionalism as a Challenge to the Institutionalists,” CJPS 33:3 (September, 2000), 499-522.

Wil Kimlycka, “Testing the Liberal Multiculturalist Hypothesis: Normative Theories and Social Science Evidence,” CJPS 43: 2 (June, 2010), 257-71.

Richard Johnston et al., “National Identity and Support for the Welfare State,” ibid., 349-77.

Nisha Nath, “Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science: Accounting for the Absence of Race,” CJPS 44:1 (March 2011), 161-94.

Debra Thompson, “Is race political?” CJPS 41:3 (September, 2008), 525-47.

Week Five – October 9: Gender and Canadian Politics

Sylvia Bashevkin, “Women, Power, Politics: Surveying the Canadian Landscape,” in Linda Trimble, Jane Arscott and Manon Tremblay, eds., Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2013), xii-xxiii. 5

Manon Tremblay, Jane Arscott and Linda Trimble, “Introduction: The Road to Gender Parity,” ibid., 1- 18.

Lesley Byrne, “Making a Difference When the Doors are Open: Women in the Ontario NDP Cabinet 1990-95,”in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed., Opening Doors Wider: Women’s Political Engagement in Canada (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2009), 93-107.

Mary-Jo Nadeau, “Rebuilding the House of Canadian Feminism: NAC and the Racial Politics of Participation,” ibid., 33-48.

Rianne Mahon and Cheryl Collier, “Navigating the Shoals of Canadian Federalism: Childcare Advocacy,” in Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawyer and Jill Vickers, eds, Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance (Surrey: Ashgate, 2010), 51-66.

Jill Vickers, “Feminisms and Nationalisms in English Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies 35:2 (Summer, 2000), 128-47.

Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Jane Jenson, “Shifting Representations of Citizenship: Canadian Politics of ‘Women’ and ‘Children’” Social Politics 11:2 (Summer, 2004), 154-80.

Joyce Green, “Canaries in the Mines of Citizenship: Indian Women in Canada,” CJPS 34:4 (December, 2001), 715-38.

Brenda O’Neill, Sugar and Spice? Political Culture and the Political Behaviour of Canadian Women,” in Joanna Everitt and Brenda O’Neill, eds., Citizen Politics: Research and Theory in Canadian Political Behaviour (Toronto: OUP, 2002).

Week Six – October 16: Aboriginal Politics

PAPER DUE: Does the study of Aboriginal politics in Canada require distinctive methodologies and epistemologies?

Taiaiake Alfred, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto Second edition (Toronto: Oxford, 2008), 1-63, 121-54.

John Borrows, “Seven Generations, Seven Teachings: Ending the Indian Act,” Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance, May 2008.

-----, Drawing Out Law: A Spirit’s Guide (Toronto: UTP, 2010), preface, scroll one and scroll two.

Alan Cairns, Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001), chapters 4, 5.

Deborah McGregor, “Coming Full Circle: Indigenous Knowledge, Environment, and Our Future,” American Indian Quarterly 28: 3/4 (Summer, 2004), 385-410. 6

Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (Toronto: UTP, 2001), chapters 2 and 9.

Week Seven – October 23: Quebec Politics and Society

PAPER DUE To what extent has the debate about the national question in Quebec been affected by an increasingly complex ethnic and cultural landscape there? What are the implications for its relations with the rest of Canada?

Kenneth McRoberts, Misconceiving Canada: The Struggle for National Unity (Toronto: OUP, 1997), Introduction and Chapters 1-2, 7.

Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino, Federalism, Citizenship and Quebec: Debating Multiculturalism (Toronto: UTP, 2007), Chapters 1, 4, 5.

Martin Papillon, “Aboriginal Peoples in Quebec”, in S. Gervais, et al., Quebec Questions (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2011), 109-122

Micheline Milot, “That Priest-Ridden Province? Politics and Religion in Quebec”, ibid., 123-136.

Jocelyn Maclure, “Quebec’s Culture War: Two Conceptions of Quebec Identify”, ibid., 137-152.

Luc Turgeon, Interpreting Quebec’s Historical Trajectories: between la société globale and the regional space,” in Alain-G. Gagnon, Quebec: State and Society, 3rd ed. (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004), 51-68.

Richard Simeon, “Debating Secession Peacefully and Democratically: The Case of Canada.” In Alfred Stepan, ed. Democracies in Danger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor, Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation (Final Report of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission), pp. 113-30, 201-218.

Week Eight – October 30: Political Cultures: Duelling Methodologies

Nelson Wiseman, In Search of Canadian Political Culture (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2007), Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 5 and 8.

Ian Stewart, “Vanishing Points: Three Paradoxes of Political Culture Research,” in Joanna Everitt and Brenda O’Neill, eds., Citizen Politics: Research and Theory in Canadian Political Behaviour (Toronto: OUP, 2002), 21-39.

Neil Nevitte The Decline of Deference: Canadian Value Change in Cross-national Perspective (Peterborough: Broadview, 1996), chapters 1-4, 9. 7

Ailsa Henderson, “Regional Political Cultures in Canada, ”CJPS 37:3 (September 2004), 595-615.

Gad Horowitz, “Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 32:2 (May, 1966), 143-71.

Gad Horowitz, “Notes on ‘Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada,’” CJPS 11:2 (June,1978), 383-99.

James Johnson, “Conceptual Problems as Obstacles to Progress in Political Science: Four Decades in Political Culture Research,” Journal of Theoretical Politics. 15:1:87-115.

Week Nine – November 6: Regions, Provinces and Regionalism

PAPER DUE: “We are better off studying provinces than regions.” Discuss.

James Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon, “Regions and Regionalism,” in Bickerton and Gagnon, Canadian Politics, 5th ed., 71-93.

Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett, eds., The Provincial State in Canada: Politics in the Provinces and Territories (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2001). Chapters 1 and 15.

Robert Young, Phillippe Faucher and André Blais, “The Concept of Province Building: A Critique,” CJPS 17:4 (December, 1984), 783-818.

Kathryn Harrison, “Provincial Interdependence: Concept and Theories,” in Harrison, ed., Racing to the Bottom? Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), Chapter 1.

Louis Imbeau, et al., “Comparative Provincial Policy Analysis: A Research Agenda,” CJPS 33:4 (December, 2000), 505-29.

Ailsa Henderson, “Why Regions Matter: Sub-state Politics in Comparative Perspective,” Regional and Federal Studies 20: 4-5 (October-December, 2010), 439-45.

-----, “‘Small Worlds’ as Predictors of General Political Attitudes,” Regional and Federal Studies 20: 4-5 (October-December, 2010), 469-85.

Richard Simeon, “Many Small Worlds,” Regional and Federal Studies 20: 4-5 (October-December, 2010), 545-8.

Christopher Cochrane and Andrea Perrella, “Regions, Regionalism and Regional Differences in Canada: Mapping Economic Opinions,” CJPS 45:4 (December 2012), 829-854. 8

Week 10 – November 13: Urban Politics

PAPER DUE: Given the overall lack of attention to urban politics in Canadian political science, what should be the priority areas for research?

Neil Bradford, “Why Cities Matter: Policy Research Perspectives for Canada,” CPRN Discussion Paper, June 2002, 1-48.

Zack Taylor and Gabriel Eidelman, “Canadian Urban Politics: Another ‘Black Hole’?” Journal of Urban Affairs 32:3 (June, 2010), 305-20.

-----, “Canadian Political Science and the City: A Limited Engagement,” CJPS 43:4 (December, 2010), 961-81.

Robert Young, “Conclusion,” in Andrew Sancton and Robert Young, eds., Foundations of Governance: Municipal Government in Canada’s Provinces (Toronto: UTP and IPAC, 2009), 487-99.

Kristin Good, Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver (Toronto: UTP, 2009), chapters 1,2 and 8.

Alan Walks, “The City-Suburban Cleavage in Canadian Federal Politics,” CJPS 38:2 (June, 2005), 383- 413.

Christopher Leo, “Deep Federalism: Respecting Community Difference in National Policy,” CJPS 39:3 (September, 2006), 481-506.

PART THREE: BRIDGING STATE AND SOCIETY

Week Eleven – November 20: Canadian Political Economy

Harold Innis, “The Importance of Staple Products” [1930] and “The Fur Trade” [1930], in W.T. Easterbrook and M.H. Watkins, eds., Approaches to Canadian Economic History (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969), 16-28.

Hugh Aitken, “Defensive Expansionism: the State and Economic Growth in Canada” [1959], ibid., 183- 221.

Daniel Drache, “Rediscovering Canadian Political Economy”, in W. Clement and D. Drache, eds., A Practical Guide to Canadian Political Economy (Toronto: James Lorimer, 1978), 1-53.

Gregory Albo and Jane Jenson, “A Contested Concept: The Relative Autonomy of the State” in W. Clement and G. Williams, eds., The New Canadian Political Economy (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989), 180-211. 9

Neil Bradford, “The Policy Influence of Economic Ideas: Interests, Institutions and Innovation in Canada”, in M. Burke et al., eds., Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Globalization (Halifax: Fernwood, 2000), 50-79.

Stephen McBride, “Quiet Constitutionalism in Canada: The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change CJPS 36:2 (June, 2003), 251-275.

Rodney Haddow, “How Can Comparative Political Economy Explain Variable Change? Lessons for, and from, Canada”, in The Comparative Turn.

Week Twelve – November 27: Elections and Political Behaviour Guest: Professor Peter Loewen

PAPER DUE: “Partisan identifications play a crucial role in understanding Canadian elections” Discuss.

Richard Johnston, André Blais, Henry Brady, and Jean Crête. 1992. Letting the People Decide. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Chapters 6, and 8.

Clarke, Harold, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc and Jon H. Pammett. 1996. Absent Mandate: Canadian Electoral Politics in an Era of Restructuring. Toronto: Gage. Chapters 2,3 and 6.

Marianne C. Stewart and Harold D. Clarke, “The Dynamics of Party Identification in Federal Systems: The Canadian Case.” American Journal of Political Science 42 (January, 1998), 97-116.

Richard Johnston, “Party Identification: Unmoved Mover or Sum of Preferences?” Annual Review of Political Science 9 (2006), 329-51.

Peter Loewen, "Affinity, Antipathy, and Political Participation: How Our Concern for Others Makes Us Vote,”." CJPS 43:3 (September, 2010), 661-87.

Week 13 – January 8: Political Parties and Party Systems

PAPER DUE: “Canadian political parties are marked by the absence of two key characteristics that might be expected of parties: internal democracy and ideological distinctiveness”. Discuss.

A. Brian Tanguay, “What’s So Bad about Cultivating Our Own Theoretical Gardens? The Study of Political Parties in Canada,” in White et al., The Comparative Turn.

Frank H. Underhill, “The Development of Canadian Political Parties” in Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism (Toronto: U of T Press, 1961 [1935]). 10

William P. Cross and André Blais, Politics at the Centre: The Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo-American Parliamentary Democracies (Toronto: OUP, 2012), chapters 1 and 5. (Available as an e-book)

David Coletto, Harold J. Jansen and Lisa Young, “Stratarchical Party Organization and Party Finance in Canada,” CJPS 44:1 (March, 2011), 111-36.

Royce Koop and Amanda Bittner, “Parachuted into Parliament: Candidate Nomination, Appointed Candidates and Legislative Roles in Canada,” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 21: 4 (November 2011), 431-52.

Amanda Bittner and Royce Koop, eds., Parties, Elections and the Future of Canadian Politics (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013):

• Ch 1 Kenneth Carty, “Has Brokerage Politics Ended? Canadian Parties in the New Century”;

• Ch 13 Richard Johnston, “Situating the Canadian Case”;

• Ch 14 Royce Koop and Amanda Bittner, “Parties and Elections after 2011: The Fifth Canadian Party System?”

Week 14 – January 15: The Architecture of the Canadian State

Alan Cairns, “The Embedded State: State-Society Relations in Canada,” in Keith Banting, ed., State and Society: Canada in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: UTP/Royal Commission on the Economic Union and development Prospects for Canada, 1986). [Reprinted in Douglas Williams, ed., Reconfigurations: Canadian Citizenship and Constitutional Change; Selected Essays by Alan C. Cairns (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1995), 31-61.]

Gordon T. Stewart, The Origins of Canadian Politics: A Comparative Approach (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986), chapters 1 and 4.

Reg Whitaker, “Images of the State in Canada,” in Leo Panitch., ed. The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), 28-68.

Greg Albo and Jane Jenson, “Remapping Canada: The State in the Era of Globalization,” in Clement, ed., Understanding Canada: Building on the New Canadian Political Economy (Montreal and Kingston: MQUP, 1997), 215-39.

Carolyn Tuohy, Policy and Politics in Canada: Institutional Ambivalence. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), chapter 1.

Peter Aucoin, “Political Science and Democratic Governance,” CJPS 29 (December, 1996), 643-60.

Grace Skogstad, “Who Governs? Who Should Govern? Political Authority and Legitimacy in Canada in the Twenty-first Century,” CJPS 36 (December, 2003), 955-73. 11

Week Fifteen – February 2: Legislatures

PAPER DUE: Have Canadian political scientists devoted too much attention to issues of responsible government to the detriment of analysis of other important questions about Parliament?

Jennifer Smith, “Democracy and the Canadian House of Commons at the millennium,” Canadian Public Administration 42:4 (Winter, 1999), 398-21.

David E. Smith, The People’s House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention (Toronto: UTP, 2007), Chs 1, 7.

Jonathan Malloy, “The ‘Responsible Government Approach’ and its Effect on Canadian Legislative Studies,” Parliamentary Perspectives, No 5, November 2002. Available on-line at http://studyparliament.ca/English/publication_en.htm

Peter Russell and Lorne Sossin, eds., Parliamentary Government in Crisis, (Toronto: UTP, 2009):

• Chapter 10, Peter Russell, “Learning to Live with Minority Parliaments”;

• Chapter 11, Graham White, “The Coalition that Wasn’t”.

Stuart Soroka, Erin Penner and Kelly Blidook, “Constituency Influence in Parliament”, CJPS 42:3 (September, 2009), 563-91.

Christopher Kam, Party Discipline and Parliamentary Politics (Cambridge: CUP, 2009), chapters 1 and 3. Available as an e-book.

Jean-Francois Godbout and Bjorn Hoyland, “Legislative Voting in the Canadian Parliament,” CJPS 44:2 (June, 2011), 367-88.

Week Sixteen – January 29: Executives – First Minister Government?

PAPER DUE: Is the extent of prime ministerial power a threat to Canadian democracy?

Donald Savoie, Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics (Toronto: UTP, 1999), chapter 4. Available as an e-book.

Donald Savoie, Power: Where Is It? (Montreal and Kingston: MQUP, 2010), Chapter 6.

J.P. Lewis, “Elite Attitudes on the Centralization of Power in Canadian Political Executives: A Survey of Former Canadian Provincial and Federal Cabinet Ministers, 2000-2010,” CJPS in press.

H.D. Munroe, “Style within the centre: Pierre Trudeau, the War Measures Act, and the nature of prime ministerial power,” Canadian Public Administration 54: 4 (December, 2011), 531-49. 12

Jonathan Craft, “Appointed political staffs and the diversification of advisory sources: Theory and evidence from Canada,” Policy and Society 32:3 (2013), 211-23.

Graham White, Cabinets and First Ministers, (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2005), chapter 3.

Graham White, “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.

Week Seventeen – February 5: Bureaucracy and Public Administration

PAPER DUE: Is the field of public administration ‘too academic’ – that is, remote from the interests of practitioners – or is it ‘not academic enough’ – that is devoid of conceptual sophistication and theoretical rigour?

Allan Tupper, “The Contested Terrain of Canadian Public Administration in Canada’s Third Century,” Journal of Canadian Studies 35:4 (Winter, 2000-1), 142-60.

Peter Aucoin, “New Public Management and New Public Governance: Finding the Balance,” in David Siegel and Ken Rasmussen, eds. Professionalism and Public Service: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 16-33.

Barbara Wake Carroll, “Is There a Gulf between Theory and practice in Public Administration Journals? Can it be Overcome?” ibid., 288-303.

K. Kernaghan, “Speaking truth to academics: The wisdom of the practitioners,” Canadian Public Administration 52 (December, 2009), 503-24.

Donald J. Savoie, Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers and Parliament (Toronto: UTP, 2003), Chapters 1, 6, 7.

David C.G. Brown, “Accountability in a collectivized environment: From Glassco to digital public administration,” Canadian Public Administration 56:1 (March, 2013), 47-69.

Week Eighteen – February 12: Courts/Judicial Politics

Ian Greene, The Courts (Vancouver: UBC Press , 2006) chapters 1 and 4.

Vuk Radmilovic, “Governmental Interventions and Judicial Decision Making: The Supreme Court of Canada in the Age of the Charter,’ CJPS 46:2 (June, 2013), 323-44.

Lori Hausegger et al, “Does Patronage Matter? Connecting Influences on Judicial Appointments with Judicial Decision Making,” CJPS 46:3 (September 2013), 665-90. 13

Donald R. Songer, et al., Law Ideology and Collegiality: Judicial Behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada (Montreal and Kingston: MQUP, 2012), chapters 3 and 4.

Miriam Smith, “Ghosts of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Group Politics and Charter Litigation in Canadian Political Science,” CJPS 35:1 (March, 2002), 3-29.

Rainer Knopff and F.L. Morton, “Ghosts and Straw Men: A Comment on Miriam Smith’s ‘Ghosts of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’” ibid., 31-42.

Miriam Smith, “Partisanship as Political Science: A Reply to Rainer Knopf and F.L. Morton,” ibid., 43-8.

February 19 – Reading Week – No Class

Week Nineteen – February 26:Constitutional Politics

PAPER DUE: Are constitutional politics in Canada dead? If so, why?

Peter Russell, Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign people? 3rd ed. (Toronto: UTP, 2004), chapters 1, 11, 12.

Supreme Court of Canada, Reference re the Secession of Quebec. [1998] 2 S.C. R. 217

Kenneth McRoberts, “Disagreeing on Fundamentals: English Canada and Quebec,” in McRoberts and Patrick Monahan, eds, The Charlottetown Accord, The Referendum and the Future of Canada (Toronto: UTP, 1993), 249-63.

David R. Cameron and Jacqueline D. Krikorian, “Recognizing Québéc in the Constitution of Canada: Using the Bilateral Constitutional Amendment Process,” The University of Toronto Law Journal, 58: 4, (Fall, 2008), 389-420.

Michael Lusztig, “Constitutional Paralysis: Why Canadian Constitutional Initiatives Are Doomed to Fail,” CJPS 27: 4 (December, 1994), 747-71.

Week Twenty – March 5: Federalism and Multilevel Government

PAPER DUE: Are the institutions and processes of Canadian federalism suited to meet the challenges they face?

Martin Papillon, “Is the Secret to Have a Good Dentist? Canadian Contributions to the Comparative Study of Federalism in Divided Societies,” in White, et al., The Comparative Turn

Jennifer Wallner, “Empirical Evidence and Pragmatic Explanations: Canada’s Contributions to Comparative Federalism,” ibid. 14

Samuel V. LaSelva, The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism (Montreal and Kingston: MQUP, 1996), chapters 1 and 10.

Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, “Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy,” in Bakvis and Skogstad, eds., Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy 3rd ed. (Toronto: OUP, 2012), chapters 1 and 18.

Richard Simeon, “Plus Ça Change ... Intergovernmental Relations Then and Now,” Policy Options March-April 2005, 84-7.

Richard Simeon, Political Science and Federalism: Seven Decades of Scholarly Engagement (Kingston: Queen’s University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 2002).

Week Twenty-one – March 12: The Public Policy Process

PAPER DUE: Are interests, institutions and ideas of equal importance as determinants of Canadian public policy?

Grace Skogstad, “Policy Networks and Policy Communities: Conceptualizing State-Societal Relationships in the Policy Process,” in White et al., The Comparative Turn.

Peter Graefe, “Political Economy and Canadian Public Policy,” in Michael Orsini, ed.,Critical Policy Studies (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2007), 19-40.

Michael Howlett, “Policy analytical capacity and evidence-based policy-making: Lessons from Canada,” Canadian Public Administration 52:2 (June, 2009), 153-76.

Richard Simeon, “Afterword: ‘New’ Directions in Canadian Policy Studies,” inLaurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett and David Laycock, eds., Policy Studies in Canada: The State of the Art (Toronto: UTP, 1996), 375-81.

Miriam Smith, “Interest Groups and Social Movements”, in M. Whittington and G. Williams, eds., Canadian Politics in the 21st Century, 7th ed. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2008), 168-185.

A. Paul Pross, Group Politics and Public Policy (Toronto: OUP, 1986), chapters 5 and 6,

George Hoberg and Jeffrey Phillips, “Playing Defence: Early Responses to Conflict Expansion in the Oil Sands Subsystem”, CJPS, vol. 44, no. 3 (2011), 507-527.

Katherine Boothe, “Ideas and the Limits of Program Expansion: The Failure of Nationwide Pharmacare in Canada since 1944”, CJPS vol. 46, no 2 (2013), 419-453. 15

Week Twenty-two – March 19: Globalization and the Canadian State

PAPER DUE: How significant has globalization been for Canadian politics?

Grace Skogstad “Globalization and Public Policy: Situating Canadian Analyses,” CJPS vol. 33, no. 4 (December, 2000), 805-28.

Rodney Haddow, “Globalization and Canadian Public Policy: Problems of Method and the Search for Explanatory Nuance,” in Bickerton and Gagnon, eds., Canadian Politics 4th ed., (Peterborough: Broadview, 2004), 403-23.

Mark Brawley, “Globalization and Canada”, in James Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon, eds., Canadian Politics, 5th ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 323-338.

David Cameron and Janice Gross Stein, “Globalization, Culture and Society: The State as Place amidst Shifting Spaces,” Canadian Public Policy 26: Supplement (August, 2000) S15 - S34.

Jonas Pontusson and Damien Raess, “How (and Why) is this Time Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States,” Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 15 (2012), 13- 33.

Stephen Clarkson, “The Multi-Level State: Canada in the Semi-Periphery of Both Continentalization and Globalization”, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 8, no. 3 (2001), 501-527.

Keith Banting and John Myles, “Introduction”, in Banting and Myles, eds., Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013), 1-39.

Weeks Twenty-three and Twenty-four – March 26/April 2: Student-selected Topics

For the final two weeks of the course, each student will select a topic related to the study of Canadian politics for discussion and will selected and assign readings related to it (roughly three or four articles/chapters each). Two topics will be discussed each week. All students will do the readings and participate in a discussion led by the assigning student. The presentations can be related to topics examined earlier in the course, but need not be. Likewise, they need not be drawn from Canadian politics exclusively. They need only inform some outstanding question in Canadian politics on which young scholars can be expected to contribute in the coming years.