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POLITICS 359 - DEMOCRACY AND THE PUBLIC POLICY PROCESS

TUTORIAL READING LIST

(97 - 3 )
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

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.

WEEK IV: POLICY THEORY II - INDUCTIVE APPROACHES

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.

WEEK V: POLICY ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS

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.

WEEK VI: POLICY INSTRUMENTS

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.

WEEK VII: THE POLICY CYCLE (I) - AGENDA SETTING

Required Reading:

Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter IV - Human Rights

** OUTLINES DUE

WEEK VIII: THE POLICY CYCLE (II): POLICY FORMULATION

Required Reading:

Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter III - Constitution

WEEK IX: THE POLICY CYCLE (III): DECISION-MAKING

Required Reading:

Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter I - Patents

WEEK X: THE POLICY CYCLE (IV): POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

Required Reading:

Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter II - Airlines

WEEK XI: THE POLICY CYCLE (V): POLICY EVALUATION AND POLICY LEARNING

Required Reading:

Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter V - Federal Election

WEEK XII: POLICY PARADIGMS AND POLICY CHANGE

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.

WEEK XIII: CONCLUSION

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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