Politics 355

Governing Instruments

(97 - 3 )

Class Time: Thursday 1:30-5:20 ( Room TBA)

Dr. Michael Howlett

AQ 6043 291-3082

e-mail: howlett@sfu.ca

OFFICE HOURS: TBA

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Presentation Topics

Topic #1: Choose a substantive policy instrument and examine an example of its use in Canada. How was the instrument defined? Why was it used?

Topic #2: Choose a procedural policy instrument and examine an example of its use in Canada. How was the instrument defined? Why was it used?

Paper Topics:

Choose a substantive policy instrument and a procedural one. Examine their use in a Canadian policy sector. What do these cases tell us about theories of policy instrument choice?

Supplementary Bibliography

WEEK III: SUBSTANTIVE POLICY INSTRUMENTS (I): ORGANIZATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings:

Tupper, A. and G.B. Doern. "Public Corporations and Public Policy in Canada." In Public Corporations and Public Policy in Canada, edited by A. Tupper and G. B. Doern. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1981

Trebilcock, M.J. and J.R.S. Prichard. "Crown Corporations: The Calculus of Instrument Choice." In Crown Corporations: The Calculus of Instrument Choice, edited by J. R. S. Prichard. Toronto: Butterworths, 1983.

Garant, Patrice. "Crown Corporations: Instruments of Economic Intervention - Legal Aspects." In Regulations, Crown Corporations, and Administrative Tribunals, edited by I. Bernier and A. Lajoie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. 1-80.

Economic Council of Canada. Minding the Public Business. Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services, 1986.

Vining, A.R. and R. Botterell. "An Overview of the Origins, Growth, Size, and Functions of Provincial Crown Corporations." In Crown Corporations: The Calculus of Instrument Choice, edited by J. R. S. Pritchard. Toronto: Butterworths, 1983. 303-368.

WEEK IV: SUBSTANTIVE POLICY INSTRUMENTS (II): AUTHORITATIVE INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings:

Trebilcock, M. J. et al. The Choice of Governing Instrument. Ottawa: Economic Council of Canada, 1982.

MacDonald, R.A. "Understanding Regulation by Regulations." In Regulations, Crown Corporations, and Administrative Tribunals, edited by I. Bernier and A. Lajoie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. 81-154.

Trebilcock, Michael J. "Regulating Service Quality in Professional Markets." In The Regulation of Quality, edited by D. N. Dewees. Toronto: Butterworths, 1983. 83-108.

Trebilcock, M.J., C.J. Tuohy, and A.D. Wolfson. Professional Regulation. Toronto: Ministry of the Attorney General, 1979.

Tuohy, C.J. and A.D. Wolfson. "Self-Regulation: Who Qualifies." In The Professions and Public Policy, edited by P. Slayton and M. J. Trebilcock. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. 111-124.

Priest, Margot and Aron Wohl. "The Growth of Federal and Provincial Regulation of Economic Activity 1867-1978." In Government Regulation: Scope, Growth, Process, edited by W. T. Stanbury. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1980. 69-150.

Economic Council of Canada. Responsible Regulation. Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services, 1979.

Baggaley, Carmen. The emergence of the regulatory state in Canada, 1867-1939. Ottawa: Economic Council of Canada, 1981.

Schultz, Richard and Alan Alexandroff. Economic Regulation and the Federal System. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

Trebilcock, M. J. et al. The Choice of Governing Instrument. Ottawa: Economic Council of Canada, 1982.

Richard Schultz, "Regulatory Agencies and the Dilemmas of Delegation" in O.P. Dwivedi ed., The Administrative State in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982)

WEEK V: SUBSTANTIVE POLICY INSTRUMENTS (III): FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings::

Woodside, K. "The Political Economy of Policy Instruments: Tax Expenditures and Subsidies." In The Politics of Canadian Public Policy, edited by M. Atkinson and M. Chandler. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. 173-197.

Canada. Account of the Cost of Selective Tax Measures. Ottawa: Department of Finance, 1985. 1-38

Smith, Roger. Tax Expenditures. Toronto: Canadian Tax Foundation, 1979.

Bruce, Neil, ed. Tax Expenditures and Government Policy. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, 1988.

Le Pan, Nick. "Tax Expenditure Analysis: Some Conceptual Problems." Canadian Taxation 1, no. 2 (1979): 2-22.

Allan M. Maslove, "The Other Side of Public Spending: Tax Expenditures in Canada" in G.B. Doern and A.M. Maslove, The Public Evaluation of Government Spending (Montreal Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1978) pp. 149-168

WEEK VI: SUBSTANTIVE POLICY INSTRUMENTS (IV): INFORMATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings:

Stanbury, W.T. and Jane Fulton. "Suasion as a Governing Instrument." In How Ottawa Spends 1984: The New Agenda, edited by A. Maslove. Toronto: Lorimer, 1984.

** OUTLINES DUE

WEEK VIII: PROCEDURAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS (I): ORGANIZATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings:

Sandra Burt, "Canadian Women's Groups in the 1980s: Organizational Development and Policy Influence" in Canadian Public Policy 16, 1990 pp. 17-28.

WEEK IX: PROCEDURAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS (II): AUTHORITATIVE INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings:

WEEK X: PROCEDURAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS (III): FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings:

Leslie A. Pal, Interests of State: The Politics of Language, Multiculturalism, and Feminism in Canada Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993

WEEK XI: THE POLICY CYCLE (V): PROCEDURAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS (IV): INFORMATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Canadian Readings:

Jane Jenson, "Commissioning Ideas: Representation and Royal Commissions" in Susan D. Phillips ed., How Ottawa Spends 1994-95: Making Change Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1994 pp. 39-69

Liora Salter, "The Two Contradiction in Public Inquiries" in A. Paul Pross, Innis Christie and John A. Yogis eds. Commissions of Inquiry Toronto: Carswell, 1990 pp. 175-195.

Bryan Schwartz, "Public Inquiries" in Canadian Public Administration 40 (1) 1997 pp. 72-85

WEEK XIII: CONCLUSION

** PAPERS DUE