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Michael Howlett
B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.) (University of Ottawa)
M.A. (University of British Columbia)
Ph.D. (Queen's University)
Office: AQ-6049
Telephone: 778.782.3082
E-mail: howlett@sfu.ca
Website: www.sfu.ca/~howlett
Michael Howlett (Professor) BSocSci.(Hon)(Ott), MA(Br Col), PhD (Queen's) is Burnaby Mountain
Chair in the Department and spealizes in public policy analysis, political economy, and resource and environmental policy. Professor Howlett taught at Queen’s University (1986-1988) and the University of Victoria (1988-1989) before coming to SFU and was Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (2009-2010).
He is the author of Canadian Public Policy (2012) and Designing Public Policy (2011), and co-author of The Public Policy Primer (2010), Integrated Policymaking for Sustainable Development (2009), Studying Public Policy (2009, 2003 & 1995), In Search of Sustainability (2001), The Political Economy of Canada (1999 & 1992) and Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy (1997 & 2005). He has edited Canadian Forest Policy (2001), and coedited The Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (2012), British Columbia Politics and Government (2009), European and North American Policy Change (2009); Canada’s Resource Economy in Transition (2008); Policy Analysis in Canada (2007); Deregulation and Its Discontents (2006); Executive Styles in Canada (2005); Designing Government (2005); The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (2004); The Provincial State in Canada (1992 & 2000); Innovation Systems in a Global Context (1998); Policy Studies in Canada (1996); and The Puzzles of Power (1994 & 1998). His articles have been published in numerous professional journals in Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Howlett was founding member and Secretary-Treasurer (1995-2006) of the British Columbia Political Studies Association, and co-editor of its Proceedings. He was editor of the POLCAN listserver (1995-1997) and currently edits the CAN-POL Maillist (2008 – present). He was also English language co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002-2006) and administrative editor of the Canadian Political Science Review (2007-2010), and is currently co-editor of the World Political Science Review, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (Book Review Editor 2001-2006), Policy & Society. The University of Toronto Press Series in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy and the Policy Press International Library of Policy Analysis. He served on the Editorial Boards of Canadian Public Administration (1996-2003); Policy Studies Journal (1992-2003) and the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2006-2010), and currently sits on the Editorial Boards of State and Local Government Review and the Journal of Public Policy.
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