The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy options. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the many ways in which the policy analysis movement has been conducted, and to what effect, in Canadian governments and, for the first...
The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour...
Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to 'next-generation' rules and regulatory processes linked to challenges originating in a wide variety of new technological processes and applications. Can lessons learned from past and current regulatory oversights of agricultural biotechnology - and other high-technology sectors - help us address new and emerging regulatory challenges in the agri-food genetics sector? The expert contributors in this volume discuss the experiences of a wide range of North American,...
Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to 'next-generation' ...
Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to next-generation rules and regulatory processes linked to challenges originating in a wide variety of new technological processes and applications. Can lessons learned from past and current regulatory oversights of agricultural biotechnology and other high-technology sectors help us address new and emerging regulatory challenges in the agri-food genetics sector?
The expert contributors in this volume discuss the experiences of a wide range of North...
Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to next-generation...
In 2011, Canada's New Democratic Party stunned voters with its breakthrough emergence as Canada's Official Opposition. After near collapse in the 1993 election, how did this distant third-comer manage to triple the seats won by its Liberal rivals and take more than three-quarters of Quebec ridings? Reviving Social Democracy's early chapters ? on the party's emergence in the 1960s, its presence in Quebec, and the Jack Layton factor ? pave the road for insightful analysis of issues such as political modernization, changing ideology, voter profile, and policy formation that played a...
In 2011, Canada's New Democratic Party stunned voters with its breakthrough emergence as Canada's Official Opposition. After near collapse in the 1...
With public confidence in representative institutions dropping to distressing levels, it is time for political theorists to turn their attention to representation, and to reconceive its normative foundations and connections to other aspects of a revived public life.
This volume investigates theoretical and practical aspects of innovative political representation in the early 21st century. Some contributors tackle problematic dimensions of representation head on, while others explore democratic participation and deliberation, multicutural pluralism, contested citizenship, and other...
With public confidence in representative institutions dropping to distressing levels, it is time for political theorists to turn their attention to...
In 2011, Canada's New Democratic Party stunned voters with its breakthrough emergence as Canada's Official Opposition. After near collapse in the 1993 election, how did this distant third-comer manage to triple the seats won by its Liberal rivals and take more than three-quarters of Quebec ridings? Reviving Social Democracy's early chapters ? on the party's emergence in the 1960s, its presence in Quebec, and the Jack Layton factor ? pave the road for insightful analysis of issues such as political modernization, changing ideology, voter profile, and policy formation that played a...
In 2011, Canada's New Democratic Party stunned voters with its breakthrough emergence as Canada's Official Opposition. After near collapse in the 1...