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B.A. (Hons.) (University of Alberta)
M.A., Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Office: AQ-6035A
Telephone: 778.782.3089
E-mail: laycock@sfu.ca
David Laycock has been a member of SFU’s Department of Political Science since 1989. He did his graduate work at the University of Toronto, spent eight years at the University of Saskatchewan, and came to Simon Fraser University as a Canada Research Fellow in 1989. He is currently the department’s graduate chair.
Dr. Laycock focuses his research on political ideologies, democratic theory, Canadian party politics, and public policy. His published work includes Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies (1990), The New Right and Democracy in Canada: Understanding Reform and the Canadian Alliance (2001); Representation and Democratic Theory (2004) and articles or chapters on populism, direct democracy, the Reform and Alliance Parties, the federal NDP, and the politics of biotechnology. With Dr. Michael Howlett, he edited The Puzzles of Power: Introductory Readings in Political Science (1994 and 1998), and Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Bio-Technologies: Lessons from European, North American and Asian Experiences (forthcoming 2012). With Dr. Howlett and Dr. Laurent Dobuzinskis, he edited Policy Studies in Canada: The State of the Art (1996) and Policy Analysis in Canada (2007).
Dr. Laycock has supervised graduate theses and project papers over a broad range of topics in applied normative theory, including (most recently) democratic accountability in provincial legislatures, the relevance of theories of multiculturalism to Canadian public policy, assessment of contemporary innovations in democratic theory, and democratic thought within the anti-globalization movement.
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