POL2100Y Government and Politics of Canada

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1 1 DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO POL2100Y Government and Politics of Canada Instructor: Professor Sylvia Bashevkin Room E102 University College, Tel Office hour: 1-2 pm Tuesday and by appointment Overview: This course offers PhD students with Canadian politics as their major or minor field an opportunity to explore, discuss and analyze key themes in the field. The syllabus assumes students already possess a good understanding of Canadian politics at both academic and practical levels. Although the course is designed to help prepare students for the major field examination (MFE) in Canadian politics, it does not cover all the literature on which the MFE is based. A more extensive list of readings useful in preparing for the MFE will be made available. Course assignments have been constructed in order to immerse students rapidly in the broad intellectual currents of the area, notably in the research process integral to the preparation of a thesis proposal and dissertation. Format: The first four weeks focus on conceptual approaches to the study of Canadian politics. The outline then considers various substantive aspects of Canadian politics and the literature on them, from the perspective of these and other conceptual approaches. Course requirements: As a PhD only seminar, the course is built around student presentations and extensive student participation in weekly course meetings. Beginning October 14, students will act as discussion leaders, framing the assigned readings in short (likely minute) presentations and posing questions for discussion. It is expected that each student will offer at least two presentations in fall term and two in spring term. Seminar presentation schedule will be organized at the beginning of each term. Instructor will students individually with feedback on each presentation. Presentations should focus on critical questions and integrative points linking the readings, not on descriptive summaries of texts. Responsibility for presentations rests with students; the instructor must be notified at least three hours before the start of class if for any reason you will not be making your presentation on the given materials at a specified class. There is no guarantee that missed seminar presentations will be rescheduled. Students may but are advised not to write papers on and choose to lead discussions on the same topic. Background reading: Students should have recent and extensive familiarity with Canadian history, which can be refreshed or deepened by reading one of the following: Robert Bothwell, The Penguin History of Canada (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2007). Margaret Conrad, A Concise History of Canada (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Desmond Morton, A Short History of Canada (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2006). Roger E. Riendeau, A Brief History of Canada (New York: Facts on File, 2007).

2 2 Grading scheme Analytic paper (due 19 January 2016) 20 % Take home exam (distributed 5 April 2016) 20 % Four short papers on weekly readings (2 fall, 2 spring; 6.25%) 25 % Seminar presentations (2 fall, 2 spring; 5%) 20 % Participation (based on quality of in-class engagement, not attendance) 15 % Analytic paper: This paper, due January 19, should be no more than 25 pages, references included. Students will select one core empirical question or puzzle about Canadian politics, defend its conceptual and empirical significance, and describe in general how they d go about answering it. The paper must include: (a) a brief literature review that situates the question or puzzle in a clear scholarly context and (b) a concise discussion of alternative paths toward responding empirically to that question or puzzle. The objective is not so much to answer the question though students may offer tentative responses should they wish but rather to gain experience in linking empirical analysis with conceptual and theoretical approaches to the study of politics. Students who have tentatively identified a thesis topic are strongly encouraged to write their papers on that subject. A portion of one class late in fall term may be devoted to short student presentations that showcase progress on the analytic papers and address challenges with the assignment. Take home exam will be distributed at the final class, for submission within 72 hours via . Short papers: Each student will submit a total of four short papers, two in the fall term and two in the spring term. Papers are designed as think-pieces rather than research essays. To ensure comprehensive knowledge of the course material, students are encouraged to prepare presentations and write papers on different weeks and subjects. Papers must address one of the two questions indicated on the outline below for dates beginning 27 October. Papers should be 5 to 7 double-spaced typed pages in length, and are due at the beginning of class in hard copy. No late submissions will be accepted. While essays may consider (and offer full citation of) additional sources beyond the assigned readings for a given week, this is not necessary. Seminar participation: Weekly attendance is crucial to success in the course. Students are encouraged to demonstrate mastery of the assigned readings, an ability to respond constructively to the interventions of others and a grasp of how sub-sets of the academic literature fit with each other. Students are urged to prepare written comments on weekly readings as a basis for discussion, including when they are not scheduled to make a formal presentation. Back up your work: Students are strongly advised to keep electronic versions of all rough and draft work, and to make hard copies of their essays before handing them in to the instructor. These should be retained until the marked assignments have been returned and the grades posted on ROSI. Late penalty: A late penalty of 3 percentage points per day including Saturdays and Sundays will be assessed for the analytic paper and take-home exam. Academic Integrity: Plagiarism is a serious academic offence and will be dealt with accordingly. Offences may entail copying material from another source (e.g. book, journal, website, another student) without acknowledging the source; presenting an argument as your own instead of

3 acknowledging in explicit terms the source of the idea; having another person assist in writing your essay; or purchasing an essay. Penalties for breaches of academic integrity range from failing the assignment, failing the course, having a notation on your academic transcript, and/or suspension from the university. For further information on the University s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters, see: To avoid problems, consult How Not to Plagiarize by Margaret Proctor: Readings: Efforts will be made to ensure course readings are on the portal site for POL2100Y. Additional readings may be proposed as the course unfolds. Abbreviations used below: CJPS = Canadian Journal of Political Science CUP = Cambridge University Press UTP = University of Toronto Press OUP = Oxford University Press MQUP = McGill-Queens University Press 15 September -- No class meeting 22 September Introduction, organization of fall term seminar presentations PART ONE/CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO CANADIAN POLITICS 29 September -- Social approaches Emile Durkheim, The Concept of the State, in Anthony Giddens, ed., Durkheim on Politics and the State (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986), John Porter. The Vertical Mosaic: An analysis of social class and power in Canada. Toronto: UTP, 1965, ch. 1. Alan Cairns, The Embedded State: State-Society Relations in Canada, in Keith Banting, ed., State and Society: Canada in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: UTP/Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, 1986). [Reprinted in Douglas Williams, ed., Reconfigurations: Canadian Citizenship and Constitutional Change; Selected Essays by Alan C. Cairns (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1995), ] Barbara Arneil, Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital. Cambridge: CUP, 2006, ch. 1. Book is available online via UofT libraries. Paul Howe. Citizens Adrift: The Democratic Disengagement of Young Canadians. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010, ch. 8. Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, André Blais, Joanna Everitt and Patrick Fournier. Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections. Toronto: UTP, 2012, ch. 2 ( The changing social bases of party support ). Book is available online via UofT libraries. 6 October Economic approaches Harold Innis, The Importance of Staple Products [1930] and The Fur Trade [1930], in W.T. Easterbrook and M.H. Watkins, eds., Approaches to Canadian Economic History (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969),

4 4 Gregory Albo and Jane Jenson, A Contested Concept: The Relative Autonomy of the State in W. Clement and G. Williams, eds., The New Canadian Political Economy (Montreal: MQUP, 1989), Neil Bradford, The Policy Influence of Economic Ideas: Interests, Institutions and Innovation in Canada, in M. Burke et al., eds., Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism (Halifax: Fernwood, 2000), Ann Porter, Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, (Toronto: UTP, 2003), Thomas Flanagan, Game Theory and Canadian Politics (Toronto: UTP, 1998), chapter 1 on rational choice. Book is available online via UofT libraries. Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice, chap. 2 in Ian Shapiro, The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Book is available online via UofT libraries. 13 October Institutional approaches Theda Skocpol, Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research, in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: CUP, 1985), André Lecours, Theorizing Cultural Identities: Historical Institutionalism as a Challenge to the Institutionalists, CJPS 33:3 (September, 2000), Miriam Smith, Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (New York: Routledge, 2008), preface, chapter 1. Available as e-book via UofT libraries. David Docherty. Mr. Smith Goes to Ottawa: Life in the House of Commons. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997, ch. 1. Alan C. Cairns. The Electoral System and the Party System in Canada, CJPS 1: 1 (March 1968), OR Alan C. Cairns, The Judicial Committee and its Critics, CJPS 4:3 (Sept. 1971), Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Deliberative Democratic Practices in Canada: An Analysis of Institutional Empowerment in Three Cases CJPS 43:3 (September, 2009), Jacqueline D. Krikorian, International Trade Law and Domestic Policy (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012), chap. 2. Lisa Young, Can Feminists Transform Party Politics? The Canadian Experience, in Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble, eds., Women and Electoral Politics in Canada (Toronto: OUP, 2003), chap. 5.

5 5 20 October -- Ideational approaches Nancy Fraser, Politics, culture and the public sphere: Toward a postmodern conception, in Linda Nicholson and Steven Seidman, eds., Social Postmodernism: Beyond identity politics (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), Carol Bacchi, Discourse, Discourse Everywhere: Subject Agency in Feminist Discourse Methodology, Nordic Journal of Women s Studies 13:3 (Dec. 2005), Lori G. Beaman, Sexual Orientation and Legal Discourse: Legal Constructions of the Normal Family, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 14:2 (Fall 1999), Mike Morden, Telling Stories about Conflict: Symbolic Politics and the Ipperwash Land Transfer Agreement, CJPS 46: 3 (September, 2013), Lea Caragata, Lone Mothers: Policy Responses to Build Social Inclusion, in Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Jane Pulkingham, eds., Public Policy for Women: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues (Toronto: UTP, 2009), chap. 6. Janine Brodie, Meso-discourses, State Forms and the Gendering of Liberal Democratic Citizenship, Citizenship Studies 1:2 (July 1997), Sylvia Bashevkin, Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), chap. 4. PART TWO/SOURCES OF CLEAVAGE AND DIVERSITY 27 October -- Regions, provinces and regionalism/professor Christopher Cochrane visits Short paper topics (select one) a. Assess the tradeoff between conceptual or theoretical richness versus empirical insight in this literature. OR b. Are provinces more suitable units of analysis than regions? Robert Young, Phillippe Faucher and André Blais, The Concept of Province Building: A Critique, CJPS 17:4 (December 1984), Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett, eds., The Provincial State in Canada: Politics in the Provinces and Territories (Peterborough: Broadview, 2001), Ailsa Henderson, Regional Political Cultures in Canada, CJPS 37:3 (2004), Kathryn Harrison, Provincial Interdependence: Concept and Theories, in Kathryn Harrison, ed., Racing to the Bottom? Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), ch. 1. James Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon, Regions and Regionalism, in Bickerton and Gagnon, eds, Canadian Politics, 5 th ed. (Toronto: UTP, 2009),

6 6 Ailsa Henderson, Why Regions Matter: Sub-state Politics in Comparative Perspective, Regional and Federal Studies 20: 4-5 (October-December 2010), Christopher Cochrane and Andrea Perrella, Regions, Regionalism and Regional Differences in Canada: Mapping Economic Opinions, CJPS 45:4 (December 2012), November Quebec/French Canada Short paper topics (select one) a. Evaluate the extent to which this literature offers a theoretically informed analysis of Quebec politics. OR b. Is the national question in Quebec empirically tractable for contemporary scholars given the province s variegated social composition? Kenneth McRoberts, Misconceiving Canada: The Struggle for National Unity (Toronto: OUP, 1997), Luc Turgeon, Interpreting Quebec s Historical Trajectories: Between la société globale and the regional space, in Alain-G. Gagnon, ed., Quebec: State and Society, 3 rd ed. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2004), Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino, Federalism, Citizenship and Quebec: Debating Multiculturalism (Toronto: UTP, 2007), ch. 4. Available as e-book via UofT libraries. Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor, Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation (Quebec City: Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d'accomodement reliées aux différences culturelles, 2008), pp , Available as e-book via UofT libraries. Dolores Chew, Feminism and Multiculturalism in Quebec: An/Other Perspective, Canadian Woman Studies 27:2/3 (Spring 2009), Miriam Smith, Nationalism and Social Movement Politics: Gay and Lesbian Rights and the Effect of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Quebec, in Michael D. Behiels and Matthew Hayday, eds., Contemporary Quebec (Montreal: MQUP, 2011), Available as e-book via UofT libraries. Martin Papillon, Aboriginal Peoples in Quebec, in Stéphan Gervais, Christopher Kirkey and Jarrett Rudy, eds., Quebec Questions (Don Mills: OUP, 2011), November Fall break, no class meeting 17 November Race and multiculturalism/professor Erin Tolley visits Short paper topics (select one) a. Is diversity an analytically useful concept for the study of Canadian politics? OR b. How effectively have concepts of intersectionality been integrated at the empirical level into research on multiculturalism?

7 7 Ayelet Shachar, Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women s Rights (New York: CUP, 2001), ch. 2. Book is available online via UofT libraries. Keith Banting, Canada as Counter-Narrative: Multiculturalism, Recognition and Redistribution, in Linda White, Richard Simeon, Robert C. Vipond and Jennifer Wallner, eds, The Comparative Turn in Canadian Politics (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008), Debra Thompson, Is race political? CJPS 41:3 (2008), Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Diversity in Canadian Politics, in James Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon, eds., Canadian Politics 5 th ed. (Toronto: UTP, 2009), Will Kymlicka, Testing the Liberal Multiculturalist Hypothesis: Normative Theories and Social Science Evidence, CJPS 43:2 (June 2010), Richard Johnston et al., National Identity and Support for the Welfare State, CJPS 43:2 (June 2010), Nisha Nath, Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science: Accounting for the Absence of Race, CJPS 44:1 (March 2011), Joseph Carens, Immigrants and the Right to Stay (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010), Book is available online via UofT libraries. 24 November -- Aboriginal politics & analytic paper discussion Short paper topics (select one) a. Is the study of aboriginal politics in Canada best served by a particular conceptual approach? b. How has empirical research informed (or not) public understanding of aboriginal politics in Canada? Graham White, Westminster in the Arctic: The Adaptation of British Parliamentarianism in the Northwest Territories, CJPS 24:3 (Sept. 1991), Alan Cairns, Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000), ch, 4. Joyce Green, Canaries in the Mines of Citizenship: Indian Women in Canada, CJPS 34:4 (December 2001), Deborah McGregor, Coming Full Circle: Indigenous Knowledge, Environment, and Our Future, American Indian Quarterly 28: 3/4 (Summer 2004), Taiaiake Alfred, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (2 nd ed.; Toronto: Oxford, 2009),

8 8 Gabrielle A. Slowey, A Fine Balance? Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian North and the Dilemma of Development, in Annis May Timpson, ed., First Nations, First Thoughts (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009), Book is available online via UofT libraries. John Borrows, Drawing Out Law: A Spirit s Guide (Toronto: UTP, 2010), preface, scrolls one and two. Book is available online via UofT libraries. 1 December -- Gender and Canadian Politics Short paper topics (select one) a. Assess the choice of conceptual framework or frameworks used by scholars in this field. OR b. What research questions or areas in this field seem most promising for future empirical analysis? Jill Vickers, Feminisms and Nationalisms in English Canada, Journal of Canadian Studies 35:2 (Summer, 2000), Lisa Young, Can Feminists Transform Party Politics? The Canadian Experience, in Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble, eds., Women and Electoral Politics in Canada (Toronto: OUP, 2003), chap. 5. Elisabeth Gidengil and Joanna Everitt, Conventional Coverage/Unconventional Politicians: Gender and Media Coverage of Canadian Leaders Debates, CJPS 36:3 (July 2003), Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Jane Jenson, Shifting Representations of Citizenship: Canadian Politics of Women and Children Social Politics 11:2 (Summer 2004), Sylvia Bashevkin, Training a Spotlight on Urban Citizenship: The Case of Women in London and Toronto, in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29:1 (March 2005), Mary-Jo Nadeau, Rebuilding the House of Canadian Feminism: NAC and the Racial Politics of Participation, in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed., Opening Doors Wider: Women s Political Engagement in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009), Rianne Mahon and Cheryl Collier, Navigating the Shoals of Canadian Federalism: Childcare Advocacy, in Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawyer and Jill Vickers, eds, Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance (Surrey: Ashgate, 2010), Erin Tolley, Do Women Do Better in Municipal Politics? Representation across three levels of government, CJPS 44:3 (2011), December no class meeting

9 1 DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO POL2100Y Government and Politics of Canada, Second Term Outline PART THREE/CULTURE, PARTIES AND ELECTIONS 12 January -- Political culture Short paper topics (select one) a. Is the concept of political culture analytically useful for empirical scholarship about Canada? b. Do quantitative, survey-based approaches to political culture reach conclusions reconcilable with those of qualitative, historical studies? Gad Horowitz, Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 32:2 (May 1966), Neil Nevitte The Decline of Deference: Canadian Value Change in Cross-national Perspective (Peterborough: Broadview, 1996), chapters 1-3, 9. (available as e-book) Ian Stewart, Vanishing Points: Three Paradoxes of Political Culture Research, in Joanna Everitt and Brenda O Neill, eds., Citizen Politics: Research and Theory in Canadian Political Behaviour (Toronto: OUP, 2002), James Johnson, Conceptual Problems as Obstacles to Progress in Political Science: Four Decades in Political Culture Research, Journal of Theoretical Politics. 15:1 (2003), Margaret Conrad, Addressing the Democratic Deficit: Women and Political Culture in Atlantic Canada, Atlantis 27:2 (2003), Ailsa Henderson, Regional Political Cultures in Canada, CJPS 37:3 (September 2004), (review) Nelson Wiseman, In Search of Canadian Political Culture (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007), Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 5. (available as e-book) Bonita Beatty, Loleen Berdahl and Greg Poelzer, Aboriginal Political Culture in Northern Saskatchewan, Canadian Journal of Native Studies 32:2 (2012), January -- Parties and party systems Analytic paper due on 19 January. Full details on fall term course outline. Short paper topics (select one) a. Is the literature on Canadian parties under-theorized? b. What are the major empirical weaknesses in research on Canadian parties and party systems? Frank H. Underhill, The Development of Canadian Political Parties in Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism (Toronto: U of T Press, 1961 [1935]).

10 2 Sylvia Bashevkin, When do outsiders break in? Institutional circumstances of party leadership victories by women in Canada, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 48:1 (February 2010), David Coletto, Harold J. Jansen and Lisa Young, Stratarchical Party Organization and Party Finance in Canada, CJPS 44:1 (March 2011), Royce Koop and Amanda Bittner, Parachuted into Parliament: Candidate Nomination, Appointed Candidates and Legislative Roles in Canada, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 21: 4 (November 2011), Richard Johnston, Alignment, Realignment and Dealignment: The View From Above, CJPS 46:2 (June 2013), Kenneth Carty, Has Brokerage Politics Ended? Canadian Parties in the New Century, in Amanda Bittner and Royce Koop, eds., Parties, Elections and the Future of Canadian Politics (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013), chap. 1. (available as e-book) Scott Pruysers, Reconsidering Vertical Integration: An Examination of National Political Parties and their Counterparts in Ontario, CJPS 47:2 (June 2014), January -- Elections and political behaviour **Professor Peter Loewen to visit** Short paper topics (select one) a. What gains could accrue from a deeper theoretical grounding of Canadian electoral research in the comparative literature? b. How significantly has Canadian empirical research in this field advanced since its beginnings? John Meisel, Working Papers in Canadian Politics, in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed., Canadian Political Behaviour: Introductory Readings (Toronto: Methuen, 1985), Peter Regenstreif, The Diefenbaker Interlude, in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed., Canadian Political Behaviour: Introductory Readings (Toronto: Methuen, 1985), Mildred Schwartz, Public Opinion and Canadian Identity, in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed., Canadian Political Behaviour: Introductory Readings (Toronto: Methuen, 1985), Richard Johnston, André Blais, Henry Brady, and Jean Crête Letting the People Decide. Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press, ch. 6, 8. (available as e-book) Clarke, Harold, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc and Jon H. Pammett Absent Mandate: Canadian Electoral Politics in an Era of Restructuring. Toronto: Gage, ch. 2, 3, 6. Elisabeth Gidengil, Challenge and Change: Voting and Elections in Canada, John Courtney and David Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics (Toronto: OUP, 2010). (available as e-book)

11 Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt and Patrick Fournier, Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections (Toronto: UTP, 2012), Intro., chaps. 1, 11. (available as e-book) Paul Thomas, Peter John Loewen and Michael MacKenzie, Fair Isn t Always Equal: Constituency Population and the Quality of Representation in Canada, CJPS 46 (2014), / PART FOUR/INSTITUTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONS 2 February Evaluating the Canadian state Short paper topics (select one) a. Is the phrase the Canadian state analytically useful? b. Have empirical studies effectively probed longitudinal change in the structure and operation of the Canadian state? Alan Cairns, The Embedded State: State-Society Relations in Canada, in Keith Banting, ed., State and Society: Canada in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: UTP/Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, 1986). [Reprinted in Douglas Williams, ed., Reconfigurations: Canadian Citizenship and Constitutional Change; Selected Essays by Alan C. Cairns (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1995), ] (review). Donald J. Savoie, Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers and Parliament (Toronto: UTP, 2003), chapters 1, 6, 7. Grace Skogstad, Who Governs? Who Should Govern? Political Authority and Legitimacy in Canada in the Twenty-first Century, CJPS 36 (December 2003), Olena Hankivsky, Gender Mainstreaming in Neoliberal Times: The Potential of Deep Evaluation, in Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Jane Pulkingham, eds., Public Policy for Women (Toronto: UTP, 2009), ch. 4. (available as e-book) Peter Aucoin, New Political Governance in Westminster Systems: Impartial Public Administration and Management Performance at Risk, Governance 25:2 (April 2012), David C.G. Brown, Accountability in a collectivized environment: From Glassco to digital public administration, Canadian Public Administration 56:1 (March 2013), Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather Bastedo, Conclusion: Taking Stock of Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up, in Gidengil and Bastedo, eds., Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014), (available as e-book) 9 February Federalism and multilevel governance Short paper topics (select one) a. Is it fair to argue that despite its volume, the Canadian federalism literature is theoretically impoverished? b. What empirically important dimensions of this field are under-researched? Samuel V. LaSelva, The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism (Montreal and Kingston: MQUP, 1996), chapters 1 and 10. (available as e-book) 3

12 4 Richard Simeon, Political Science and Federalism: Seven Decades of Scholarly Engagement (Kingston: Queen s University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 2002). Andre Lecours and Daniel Beland, Federalism and Fiscal Policy: The Politics of Equalization in Canada, Publius 40:4 (January 2010), Jill Vickers, A Two-Way Street: Federalism and Women s Politics in Canada and the United States, Publius 40:3 (January 2010) Martin Papillon, Canadian Federalism and the Emerging Mosaic of Aboriginal Multi-level Governance, in Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, eds., Canadian Federalism (3 rd ed.; Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2012), ch. 15. Julie Simmons, Democratizing Executive Federalism: The Role of Non-Governmental Actors in Intergovernmental Agreements, in Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, eds., Canadian Federalism (3 rd ed.; Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2012), ch. 17. François Rocher and Patrick Fafard, Is there a Political Culture of Federalism in Canada? Charting an Unexplored Territory, in Grace Skogstad, David Cameron, Martin Papillon and Keith Banting, eds., The Global Promise of Federalism (Toronto, UTP, 2013), Anna Lennox Esselment, A Little Help from My Friends: The Partisan Factor and Intergovernmental Negotiations in Canada, Publius 43:4 (October 2013), February NO CLASS READING WEEK 23 February -- Parliament and legislatures Short paper topics (select one) a. Is it accurate to depict this literature as operating in a conceptual straitjacket? b. Has too much attention been directed toward issues of responsible government, and too little toward other important questions about Parliament? David Docherty. Mr. Smith Goes to Ottawa: Life in the House of Commons. (Vancouver: UBCPress, 1997), ch. 1. (review) David E. Smith, The People s House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention (Toronto: UTP, 2007), chaps. 1, 7. (available as e-book) Peter Russell, Learning to Live with Minority Parliaments, in Peter Russell and Lorne Sossin, eds., Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis (Toronto: UTP, 2009), chap. 10. (available as e-book) Graham White, The Coalition that Wasn t, in Peter Russell and Lorne Sossin, eds., Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis (Toronto: UTP, 2009), chap. 11. (available as e-book) Stuart Soroka, Erin Penner and Kelly Blidook, Constituency Influence in Parliament, CJPS 42:3 (September 2009),

13 5 Christopher Kam, Party Discipline and Parliamentary Politics (Cambridge: CUP, 2009), chapters 1, 3. (available as e-book) Kelly Blidook, Constituency Influence in Parliament: Countering the Centre. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013), ch 1. (available as e-book) Livianna Tossutti and Jane Hilderman, Representing Canadians: Is the 41 st Parliament Still a Vertical Mosaic? in Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather Bastedo, eds., Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014), ch. 8. (available as e-book) 1 March Political executives Short paper topics (select one) a. Are centralization of power arguments theoretically well grounded? b. What empirical directions has the literature on political executives ignored? Sylvia Bashevkin, Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), Introduction, chap. 1. Graham White, Cabinets and First Ministers (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2005), chap. 5. (available as e-book) Lesley Byrne, Making a Difference When the Doors are Open: Women in the Ontario NDP Cabinet, , in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed., Opening Doors Wider: Women s Political Engagement in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009), (review) Donald Savoie, Power: Where Is It? (Montreal and Kingston: MQUP, 2010), chaps. 6, 10. (available as e-book) J.P. Lewis, Elite Attitudes on the Centralization of Power in Canadian Political Executives: A Survey of Former Canadian Provincial and Federal Cabinet Ministers, , CJPS 46:4 (December 2013), Jonathan Craft, Appointed political staffs and the diversification of advisory sources: Theory and evidence from Canada, Policy and Society 32:3 (2013), Manon Tremblay and Daniel Stockemer, Women s ministerial careers in cabinet, : A look at socio-economic demographic traits and career experiences, Canadian Public Administration 56:4 (December 2013), March -- Constitutions and the judiciary Short paper topics (select one) a. Is this literature characterized more by conceptual uniformity or variety? b. What empirical avenues in this field are not well tilled but worth pursuing? Alan C. Cairns, The Judicial Committee and its Critics, CJPS 4:3 (1971), Michael Lusztig, Constitutional Paralysis: Why Canadian Constitutional Initiatives Are

14 6 Doomed to Fail, CJPS 27: 4 (December 1994), Supreme Court of Canada, Reference re the Secession of Quebec. [1998] 2 S.C.R Stephen McBride: Quiet Constitutionalism in Canada: The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change, CJPS 26:2 (June 2003), Peter Russell, Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? (3rd ed.; Toronto: UTP, 2004), chaps. 1, 11, 12. (available as e-book) Ran Hirschl, Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), ch. 4. Miriam Smith, The Impact of the Charter: Untangling the Effects of Institutional Change, International Journal of Canadian Studies 36 (2007), Lori Hausegger et al., Does Patronage Matter? Connecting Influences on Judicial Appointments with Judicial Decision Making, CJPS 46 (2013), March NO CLASS MEETING PART FIVE/CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES 22 March Citizen engagement Short paper topics (select one) a. Are the tools of mainstream political science analysis well suited to research in this area? b. Do patterns of participation during the 2015 federal election campaign call into question core preoccupations of this literature? Mark Pickup, Anthony Sayers, Rainer Knopff, and Keith Archer. Social capital and civic community in Alberta. CJPS 37 (2004), Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Deliberative Democratic Practices in Canada: An Analysis of Institutional Empowerment in Three Cases, CJPS 42:3 (September 2009), (review) Paul Howe. Citizens Adrift: The Democratic Disengagement of Young Canadians (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), chaps. 2, 8. (review) Blayne Haggart, Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons for Online Social Movements from the First Canadian Facebook Uprising, CJPS 46:4 (December 2013), Miriam Smith, Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Movement, in Miriam Smith, ed., Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada (2 nd ed.; Toronto: UTP, 2014), chap. 8. (available as e-book) Kathleen McNutt, Public engagement in the Web 2.0 era: Social collaborative technologies in a public sector context, Canadian Public Administration 57:1 (March 2014),

15 7 Quinn Albaugh and Christopher Waddell, Social Media and Political Inequality, in Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather Bastedo, eds., Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014, ch. 5. (available as e-book) 29 March -- Assessing public policy **Professor Ludovic Rheault to visit** Short paper topics (select one) a. Can interests, institutions and ideas all be effectively considered in a single study of Canadian public policy? b. Have empirical scholars in this field responded adequately to the concerns raised by Simeon back in 1976? Richard Simeon, Studying Public Policy, CJPS 9:4 (December 1976), Richard Simeon, Afterword: New Directions in Canadian Policy Studies, in Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett and David Laycock, eds., Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art (Toronto: UTP, 1996), Sylvia Bashevkin, "Losing Common Ground: Feminists, Conservatives and Public Policy in Canada during the Mulroney Years," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 29:2 (June 1996), Grace Skogstad Globalization and Public Policy: Situating Canadian Analyses, CJPS 33: 4 (December 2000), Michael Howlett, Policy analytical capacity and evidence-based policy-making: Lessons from Canada, Canadian Public Administration 52:2 (June 2009), Jacqueline D. Krikorian, International Trade Law and Domestic Policy (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012), chap. 2. (review) Katherine Boothe, Ideas and the Limits of Program Expansion: The Failure of Nationwide Pharmacare in Canada since 1944, CJPS 46: 2 (June 2013), Ludovic Rheault, Corporate Lobbying and Immigration Policies in Canada, CJPS 46:3 (September 2013), April Urban politics Take home exam will be distributed after class for submission via within 72 hours. Short paper topics (select one) a. Are institutional approaches relevant to a constitutionally devalued layer of government in Canada? b. What empirical questions need to be prioritized in research on Canadian cities? Warren Magnusson, Are Municipalities Creatures of the Provinces? Journal of Canadian Studies 39:2 (Spring 2005), Sylvia Bashevkin, Training a Spotlight on Urban Citizenship: The Case of Women in London

16 8 and Toronto, in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29:1 (March 2005), (review) Louise Carbert, Are Cities More Congenial? Tracking the Rural Deficit of Women in the House of Commons, in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed., Opening Doors Wider: Women s Political Engagement in Canada (Vancouver: UBCPress, 2009), chap. 5. (available as e-book) Kristin Good, Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver (Toronto: UTP, 2009), chapters 1, 2, 8. (available as e-book) Zack Taylor and Gabriel Eidelman, Canadian Political Science and the City: A Limited Engagement, CJPS 43:4 (December 2010), Carey Doberstein, Metagovernance of urban governance networks in Canada: In pursuit of legitimacy and accountability, Canadian Public Administration 56:4 (December 2013), Rianne Mahon, Cities and Child Care Policy in Canada: More than a Puppet on (Intergovernmental) Strings? in Katherine A. H. Graham and Caroline Andrew, eds., Canada in Cities: The Politics and Policy of Federal-Local Governance (Montreal: MQUP, 2014), chap. 8. (available as e-book) Frances Abele and Katherine A. H. Graham, Federal Urban Aboriginal Policy, in Katherine A. H. Graham and Caroline Andrew, eds., Canada in Cities: The Politics and Policy of Federal- Local Governance (Montreal: MQUP, 2014), chap. 10. (available as e-book)