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M. Howlett
TUTORIAL OUTLINE:
Tutorials are intended to complement course lectures and readings. IT IS
ESSENTIAL THAT THE REQUIRED READINGS LISTED BELOW BE COMPLETED IN TIME FOR
TUTORIALS.
Each tutorial will address the same topic as the week's lectures. Each student
will prepare a list of four questions relevant to the week's readings for each
tutorial and post these to the class newsgroup (Policy Sciences 5(1974): 329-244.
WEEK III: POLICY THEORY I - DEDUCTIVE APPROACHES
WEEK IV: POLICY THEORY II - INDUCTIVE APPROACHES
WEEK V: POLICY ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS
WEEK VI: POLICY INSTRUMENTS
WEEK VII: THE POLICY CYCLE (I) - AGENDA SETTING
WEEK VIII: THE POLICY CYCLE (II): POLICY FORMULATION
WEEK IX: THE POLICY CYCLE (III): DECISION-MAKING
WEEK X: THE POLICY CYCLE (IV): POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
WEEK XI: THE POLICY CYCLE (V): POLICY EVALUATION AND POLICY LEARNING
WEEK XII: POLICY PARADIGMS AND POLICY CHANGE
WEEK XIII: CONCLUSION
Required Reading:
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1971 Chapter 1
Boris Frankel, "On the State of the State: Marxist Theories of the State After
Leninism" in A. Giddens and D. Held, eds., Classes, Power and Conflict
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982 pp. 257-273
March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen. "The New Institutionalism: Organizational
Factors in Political Life." American Political Science Review. 78, no. 3
(1984): 734-749.
Required Reading:
Stokey, Edith and Richard Zeckhauser. A Primer for Policy Analysis. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1978, Chapters 14 and 15
Phillipe Schmitter, "Modes of Interest Intermediation and Models of Societal
Change in Western Europe" in Comparative Political Studies, 10 (1) 1977
pp. 501-536
Skocpol, Theda. "Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current
Research." In Bringing the State Back In, edited by P. B. Evans, D.
Rueschemeyer and T. Skocpol. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 3-43.
Required Reading:
Atkinson, M. and W. Coleman. "Strong States and Weak States: Sectoral Policy
Networks in Advanced Capitalist Economies." British Journal of Political
Science. 19, no. 1 (1989): 47-67.
Haas, Peter M. "Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy
Coordination." International Organization. 46, no. 1 (1992): 1-36.
Required Reading:
Salamon, Lester M. and Michael S. Lund. ³The Tools Approach: Basic Analytics.² In Beyond Privatization: The Tools of Government Action, edited by L. S. Salamon. Washington D.C: Urban Institute, 1989.
Woodside, K. "Policy Instruments and the Study of Public Policy." Canadian
Journal of Political Science. 19, no. 4 (1986): 775-793.
Hood, Christopher. "Using Bureaucracy Sparingly." Public Administration.
61, no. 2 (1983): 197-208.
Required Reading:
Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics
(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter IV - Human Rights
** OUTLINES DUE
Required Reading:
Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics
(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter III - Constitution
Required Reading:
Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics
(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter I - Patents
Required Reading:
Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics
(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter II - Airlines
Required Reading:
Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics
(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter V - Federal Election
Required Reading:
Howlett, Michael. "Policy Paradigms and Policy Change: Lessons from the Old and
New Canadian Policies Towards Aboriginal Peoples." Policy Studies
Journal. 22, no. 4 (1994)
Jenson, Jane. "Paradigms and Political Discourse: Protective Legislation in
France and the United States Before 1914." Canadian Journal of Political
Science. 22, no. 2 (1989): 235-258.
Hall, Peter A. "Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State: The Case of
Economic Policy-Making in Britain." Comparative Politics 25:3(1993):
275-96.
Required Reading:
Jennings, Bruce. ³Interpretation and the Practice of Policy Analysis.² In Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria, edited by F. Fischer and J. Forester. Newbury Park: Sage, 1987. 128-152.
Dunn, William N. ³Methods of the Second Type: Coping with the Wilderness of Conventional Policy Analysis.² Policy Studies Review. 7, no. 4 (1988): 720-737.
Cook, Thomas D. ³Postpositivist Critical Multiplism.² In Social Science and Social Policy, edited by R. L. Shotland and M. M. Mark. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1985. 21-62.
** PAPERS DUE
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