POLITICS 856 - ISSUES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY
POLITICS 856 - ISSUES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY
(96-1)
Dr. Michael Howlett
AQ 6043 Phone: 291-3082
Office Hrs: Thurs. 1:30-2:30
Class Time: Tuesday 2:30-5:30
Class Location: TBA
WEEKLY READING LIST
WEEK I: THE POLICY SCIENCES (I): INTRODUCTION
Required Reading:
Lasswell, Harold D. "The Policy Orientation." In The Policy Sciences, edited by D. Lerner and H. D. Lasswell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1951.
Sabatier, Paul A. "Toward Better Theories of the Policy Process." PS: Political Science and Politics, June (1991): 144-156.
Recommended Reading:
Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh, Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995) Chapters 1-5
WEEK II: THE POLICY SCIENCES (II): AGENDA SETTING
Required Reading:
Kingdon, John W. Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. 173-204
Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) Chapters 4-5
Recommended Reading:
Cobb, R., J.K. Ross, and M.H. Ross. "Agenda-Building as a Comparative Political Process." American Political Science Review 70, no. 1 (1976): 126-138.
Frank R. Baumgartner, and Bryan D. Jones. "Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems." Journal of Politics. 53, no. 4 (1991): 1044-1074.
Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh, Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995) Chapter 6
WEEK III: THE POLICY SCIENCES (III): POLICY FORMULATION
Required Reading:
Van Waarden, Franz. "Dimensions and Types of Policy Networks." European Journal of Political Research 21(1992): 29-52.
Atkinson, Michael M. and William D. Coleman. "Policy Networks, Policy Communities and the Problems of Governance." Governance 5, no. 2 (1992): 154-180.
Recommended Reading:
Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh, Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995) Chapter 7
Patrick Kenis and Volker Schneider, "Policy Networks and Policy Analysis: Scrutinizing a New Analytical Toolbox" in Bernd Marin and Renate Mayntz, ed. Policy Networks: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991). pp. 25-62
John P. Heinz, . et al. "Inner Circles or Hollow Cores." Journal of Politics. 52, no. 2 (1990): 356-390.
WEEK IV: THE POLICY SCIENCES (IV): DECISION-MAKING
Required Reading:
Forrester, John. "Bounded Rationality and the Politics of Muddling Through." Public Administration Review44, no. 1 (1984): 23-30.
Lindblom, Charles. "The Science of Muddling Through." Public Administration Review 19, no. 2 (1959): 79-88. and Lindblom, Charles. "Still Muddling, Not Yet Through." Public Administration Review 39(1979): 517-529.
Recommended Reading:
Smith, Gilbert and David May. "The Artificial Debate Between Rationalist and Incrementalist Models of Decision-Making." Policy and Politics 8(1980): 147-161.
Bryan D. Jones, Reconceiving Democratic Decision-Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) Chapters 1-3
Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh, Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995) Chapter 8
WEEK V: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Required Reading:
Howlett, Michael. "Policy Instruments, Policy Styles, and Policy Implementation: National Approaches to Theories of Instrument Choice." Policy Studies Journal 19, no. 2 (1991): 1-21.
Linder, S.H. and B.G. Peters. "Instruments of Government: Perception and Contexts"." Journal of Public Policy 9, no. 1 (1989): 35-58.
Salamon, Lester M. and Michael S. Lund. "The Tools Approach: Basic Analytics." In Beyond Privatization: The Tools of Government Action, edited by L. S. Salamon. Washington D.C: Urban Institute, 1989.
Recommended Reading:
Salaman, Lester. "Rethinking Public Management: Third Party Goverment and the Changing Forms of Government Action." Public Policy 29, no. 3 (1981): 255-275.
Hood, Christopher. "Using Bureaucracy Sparingly." Public Administration 61(1983): 197-208.
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.
WEEK VI: CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (I) : AGENDA-SETTING
Required Reading:
Herman Bakvis and Neil Nevitte, "The Greening of the Canadian Electorate: Environmentalism, Ideology and Partisanship" in Canadian Environmental Policy, edited by R. Boardman. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. 144-163
Wilson, Jeremy. "Green Lobbies: Pressure Groups and Environmental Policy." In Canadian Environmental Policy, edited by R. Boardman. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. 109-125
Harrison, Kathryn and George Hoberg. "Setting the Environmental Agenda in Canada and the United States: The Cases of Dioxin and Radon." Canadian Journal of Political Science 24, no. 1 (1991): 3-28.
Recommended Reading:
Downs, Anthony. "Up and Down with Ecology - the 'Issue-Attention Cycle'." The Public Interest 28(1972): 38-50.
Grima, A.P. "Participatory Rites: Integrating Public Involvment in Environmental Impact Assessment." In Environmental Impact Assessment: The Canadian Experience, edited by J. B. R. Whitney and V. W. Maclaren. Toronto: University of Toronto Institute for Environmental Studies, 1985. 33-52
Milbrath, Lester W. "Environmental Beliefs and Values." In Political Psychology, edited by M. G. Hermann. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1986. 97-138
Roman, Andrew J. and Mart Pikkov. "Public Interest Litigation in Canada." In Into the Future: Environmental Law and Policy for the 1990's, edited by D. Tingley. Edmonton: Environmental Law Centre, 1990. 165-186
WEEK VII: CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (II) : POLICY FORMULATION
Required Reading:
Bruton, Jim and Michael Howlett. "A Difference of Opinion: Round Tables, Policy Networks and the Failure of Canadian Environmental Strategy." Alternatives (1992)
Filyk, Gregor and Ray Cote. "Pressures From Inside: Advisory Groups and the Environmental Policy Community." In Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics and Process, edited by R. Boardman. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. 60-82
Paehlke, Robert. "Democracy and Environmentalism: Opening a Door to the Administrative State." In Managing Leviathon: Environmental Politics and The Administrative State, edited by R. Paehlke and D. Torgerson. London: Belhaven Press, 1990.
Recommended Reading:
George Hoberg, "Environmental Policy: Alternative Styles" in M.M. Atkinson ed., Governing Canada: Institutions and Public Policy, Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993 pp. 307-342
Howlett, Michael. "The Round Table Experience: Representation and Legitimacy in Canadian Environmental Policy-Making." Queen's Quarterly 97, no. 4 (1990): 580-601.
Schrecker, Ted. "The Mobilization of Bias in Closed Systems: Environmental Regulation in Canada." Journal of Business Administration 15(1984-85): 43-62.
Canadian Council of Resource and Environment Ministers. Report of the National Task Force on Environment and the Economy. Toronto: Canadian Council of Resource and Environment Ministers, 1987.
WEEK VIII: CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (III) : DECISION-MAKING
Required Reading:
Government of Canada. Canada's Green Plan: Canada's Green Plan for a Healthy Environment. Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services, 1990.
G. Bruce Doern, "Regulations and Incentives: The NOx-VOCs Case" in Getting it Green: Case Studies in Canadian Environmental Regulation. edited by G. Bruce Doern, Toronto: C. D. Howe Institute, 1990. 89-110
Fenge, T. and L.G. Smith. "Reforming the Federal Environmental Assessment Act." Canadian Public Policy 12, no. 4 (1986): 596-604.
Doern, G. Bruce. "Shades of Green: Gauging Canada's Green Plan." Commentary 29(1991): 1-12. and Doern, G. Bruce. "The Federal Green Plan: Assessing the 'Prequel'." Commentary 17(1990): 1-8.
George Hoberg and Kathryn Harrison, "It's Not Easy Being Green: The Politics of Canada's Green Plan" Canadian Public Policy, 20 (2) 1994 pp. 119-137
Recommended Reading:
La Forest, G.V. Natural Resources and Public Property Under the Canadian Constitution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969.
Lucas, Alistar R. "Jurisdictional Disputes: Is Equivalency a Workable Solution." In Into the Future: Environmental Law and Policy for the 1990's, edited by D. Tingley. Edmonton: Environmental Law Centre, 1990. 25-36
Mitchell, Bruce. "The Provincial Domain in Environmental Management and Resource Development." In Resources and the Environment: Policy Perspectives for Canada, edited by O. P. Dwivedi. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980. 49-76
Skogstad, Grace and Paul Kopas. "Environmental Policy in a Federal System: Ottawa and the Provinces." In Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics and Process, edited by R. Boardman. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. 43-59
Nemetz, Peter. "Federal Environmental Regulation in Canada." Natural Resources Journal 26, no. 3 (1986): 551-608.
WEEK IX: CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (IV) : POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Required Reading:
Webb, Kernaghan. "Between the Rocks and Hard Places: Bureaucrats, the Law and Pollution Control." Alternatives 14, no. 2 (1987): 4-13.
Paehlke, Robert. "Regulatory and Non-Regulatory Approaches to Environmental Protection." Canadian Public Administration 33(1990)
Schrecker, Ted. "The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act: Tremulous Step Forward to Retreat Into Smoke and Mirrors?" Canadian Environmental Law Reports 5(1991): 192-246.
Brown, M. Paul. "Organizational Design as Policy Instrument: Environment Canada in the Canadian Bureaucracy." In Canadian Environmental Policy, edited by R. Boardman. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. 24-42
Recommended Reading:
Ted Schrecker, "Of Invisible Beasts and the Public Interests: Environmental Cases and the Judicial System" in Canadian Environmental Policy, edited by R. Boardman. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. pp. 83-108
Howlett, Michael. "The Judicialization of Canadian Environmental Policy 1980-1990: A Test of the U.S.-Canada Convergence Thesis." Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1994.
Lucas, Alistair R. "The New Environmental Law." In Canada and the State of the Federation 1989, edited by R. Watts and D. M. Brown.Kingston: Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1989. 167-192
Dorcey, A.H.J. and C.L. Riek. "Negotiation-Based Approaches to the Settlement of Environmental Disputes in Canada." In The Place of Negotiation in Environmental Assessment, edited by B. Sadler. Ottawa: Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council, 1989. 7-36
WEEK X: CANADIAN NATIVE POLICY (I): AGENDA SETTING
Required Reading:
Berger, Thomas. "Native History, Native Claims and Self-Determination." BC Studies 57(1983): 10-23.
Weaver, Sally. Making Canadian Indian Policy: The Hidden Agenda 1968-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. 1-50
Recommended Reading:
Bradford Morse, "The Resolution of Land Claims" in Morse, Bradford. Aboriginal Peoples and the Law. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1989. 617-683
David W. Elliott, "Aboriginal Title" in B. Morse ed. Aboriginal Peoples and the Law (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1989) 48-121
WEEK XI: CANADIAN NATIVE POLICY (II): POLICY FORMULATION
Required Reading:
Long, J. Anthony. "Political Revitalization in Canadian Native Indian Society." Canadian Journal of Political Science 23, no. 4 (1990): 751-774.
Tennant, Paul. Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia 1849-1989. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990. 196-212
Jill Wherrett, "The Research Agenda of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples" in Canadian Public Administration 38 (2) , 1995 pp. 272-282
Recommended Reading:
Sanders, Douglas. "The Nishga Case." BC Studies 19(1973): 3-20.
Tennant, Paul. "Native Indian Political Organization in British Columbia 1900-1969: A Response to Internal Colonialism." BC Studies 55(1982): 3-49.
Tennant, Paul. "Native Indian Political Activity in British Columbia 1969-1983." BC Studies 57(1983): 112-136.
WEEK XII: CANADIAN NATIVE POLICY (III): DECISION-MAKING
Required Reading:
Brock, Kathy L. "The Politics of Aboriginal Self-Government: A Canadian Paradox." Canadian Public Administration 34, no. 2 (1991): 272-286.
Weaver, Sally. Making Canadian Indian Policy: The Hidden Agenda 1968-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. 51-204
Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self-Government. Indian Self-Government in Canada. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1983.
Mary Ellen Turpel, "The Charlottetown Discord and Aboriginal People's Struggle for Fundamental Political Change" in K. McRoberts and P. Monahan eds. The Charlottetown Accord, the Referendum, and the Future of Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993)
Recommended Reading:
Cumming, Peter A. and Neil H. Mickenberg, ed. Native Rights in Canada. Toronto: General Publishing Co., 1972. 65-206
Bartlett, Richard H. Subjugation, Self-Management and Self-Government of Aboriginal Lands and Resources in Canada. Kingston: Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1986.
WEEK XIII: CANADIAN NATIVE POLICY (IV): POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Required Reading:
Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long, "Native Self-Government: Instrument of Autonomy or Assimilation" in Long, J. Anthony and Menno Boldt, ed. Governments in Conflict? Provinces and Indian Nations in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. 38-56
Cassidy, Frank and Robert L. Bish. Indian Government: Its Meaning in Practice. Halifax: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1989.
McInnis, Simon and Perry Billingsley. "Canada's Indians: Norms of Responsible Government Under Federalism." Canadian Public Administration 35, no. 2 (1992): 215-236.
Recommended Reading:
Malone, Marc. Financing Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada,. Kingston: Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1986.
Cowie, Ian. Future Issues and Co-ordination Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Governments. Kingston: Queen's University Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, 1987.
Gibbins, Roger and Rick Ponting. "An Assessment of the Probable Impact of Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada." In The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Language, edited by A. Cairns and C. Williams. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.
Boisvert, David. Forms of Aboriginal Self-Government. Kingston: Queen's University Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, 1985.
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