UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE WINTER 2010 SPP 1000H GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS. Thursdays 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

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1 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE WINTER 2010 SPP 1000H GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS SECTION A: Bahen Centre, Room 2179, 40 St. George Street (unless otherwise noted); room will shift to CG 150 after Reading Week Instructor: Prof. Phil Triadafilopoulos Office: Canadiana Building Room 61B, 14 Queen s Park Crescent West Office Hours: Thursdays 10:00 a.m.-12:00 Thursdays 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. SECTION B: Bahen Centre, Room B026, 40 St. George Street (unless otherwise noted); room will shift to CG 361 after Reading Week Instructor: Prof. Linda A. White Office: Canadiana Building Room 305, 14 Queen s Park Crescent West Office Hours: Thursdays 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon; or by appointment noon; or by appointment Telephone: Telephone: t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca lwhite@chass.utoronto.ca Course Synopsis and Objectives: This course explores how institutions formal and informal rules which enable and constrain actors shape policy-making in Canada. We consider the nature of institutions, distinguish governance from governing, and examine several key institutions in Canada, including responsible government, federalism and the courts. We then turn to questions of multi-level governance, focusing on federal-provincial relations, municipal governance, and indigenous selfgovernment. We conclude with discussions of stake-holder governance and the interplay of global structures and domestic institutions in the policy process. The course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of Canada s institutional context, the precise meaning of the term governance and its relation to governing, the complexity of multi-level governance in Canada, and the role of informal actors and global structures and processes. Required Readings: Students are expected to purchase Herman Bakvis, Gerald Baier, and Douglas Brown Contested Federalism: Certainty and Ambiguity in the Canadian Federation. Toronto: Oxford UP. Copies of this text have been ordered through the University of Toronto Bookstore, located at 214 College Street. Those who will be sitting in on the boot camp to be held in the first two weeks of class are encouraged to purchase Patrick Malcolmson and Richard Myers The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada. 4 th ed. Toronto: UTP, also available through the bookstore.

2 2 If you are looking for more encyclopedic information on the Canadian constitution, see Peter W. Hogg Constitutional Law of Canada. Toronto: Carswell. Some copies have been ordered at the bookstore as well. Most required/optional readings other than these texts are available online via the U of T Library s E-Resources and have been indicated as such on the syllabus. Required readings not available on E-Resources have been assembled into a course packet available for purchase at The Copy Place, 720 Spadina Ave (at Bloor, just north of the Canada Post) ( ). Please note, however, that readings for week 1 will be posted on Blackboard. Bootcamp Information: Two optional boot camp sessions have been scheduled for the beginning of term. We will use these sessions to review the core institutions and workings of the Canadian political system. Those who have little or no background in political science and Canadian politics/public policy are strongly encouraged to attend. Boot camp sessions will be held in CG-361 from 12 noon-2 pm on 8 and 15 January. Course Requirements: Grades for this course will be based on the following requirements: First essay: Due in class 4 March % Take home final: Questions to be handed out in the final class 35 % Seminar leadership: One per student 15 % Participation: Cumulative 15 % Participation: This course is an advanced, reading- and discussion-intensive seminar. Students are expected to complete each week s required readings in advance, attend every class, and contribute actively to class discussions. In order to ensure all students contribute to the class, attendance will be taken. It is the students responsibility to account for any absences, as unexplained and unexcused absences will be taken into account in calculating the class participation grade. In addition to consistent attendance (one cannot participate if one does not attend) the participation grade will be based on consistent, constructive, high-quality interventions in seminar discussion. The breakdown of the seminar participation grade of 15 per cent will be as follows: one third for attendance, one third for the quantity of participation, and one third for the quality of participation. Factors to be taken into consideration in evaluating the quality of your participation include being prepared for class, being attentive to class discussion, raising thoughtful comments and questions in class, and providing insight and analysis to the readings and discussions.

3 3 Seminar leadership: In the first week of class, students will sign up to lead off discussion in one of the seminar sessions in subsequent weeks. If two students sign up for the same session, they may present together and will be assigned a joint grade. The purpose of this assignment is NOT to summarize the week s readings students should assume everyone will have read the material in advance but rather to distill the week s readings into a one page (single-spaced) summary and a 5 minute (if one person) or 10 minute (if two people) presentation that outlines core questions raised in the material. The summary and presentation should be provocative and are meant to elicit discussion, NOT to provide class instruction. In other words, present the material as if you were telling a non-expert about what you are studying for the week and why it is interesting and important to understanding Canadian institutions and governance. The one-page summary of your presentation should be ed to the course instructor by 9 a.m. the morning of the class. The presentation is worth 15 per cent of your final grade. Written work: The rest of the grades for the course will be based on the results of two assignments: one essay and one take-home final exam: The essay questions are found at the end of the syllabus. Research for the essays will be based on and expanded from required readings on the course syllabus. You are of course welcome to go beyond these readings. The essays are due in class on 4 March The take-home final exam questions will be distributed in the final class (8 April 2010) and will be due the following Tuesday (13 April 2010). The exams must be provided in hard copy to the course instructors. Please note that you are expected to turn in all assignments on time. No exceptions will be made except in the case of an adequately documented emergency. You must make a reasonable effort to contact Professor Triadafilopoulos/Professor White as soon as the problem arises to inform your instructor of the problem, and present your written documentation to the instructor when you return. Professors Triadafilopoulos and White maintain discretion in determining whether to accept the late assignment and/or attach a lateness penalty. Class Schedule: Each class will start at 1:10 p.m (unless noted otherwise) and finish at 4 p.m. Each section will meet separately unless there is a guest speaker scheduled. When there is a guest speaker, you will meet in plenary session (both sections together) in TBA, and in Room 150 of the Canadiana Building when classes move back to the Canadiana Building after Reading Week. When there is a guest speaker, your instructors will begin with an introduction/overview of the day s topic. This will be followed by the guest speaker who will present and engage you in discussion for the first part of the class. After the break, you will reconvene in your assigned section. Led by the week s presenters, you will focus on that week s reading and the earlier guest speaker s remarks,

4 4 working either in the group as a whole or in break-out format. At the end of the class, your instructor will wrap up discussion and preview the next week s topic. Academic Integrity: Please be aware of the importance of academic integrity and the seriousness of academic dishonesty, including plagiarism. The more obvious instances of plagiarism include copying material from another source (book, journal, another student, and so on) without acknowledging the source, presenting an argument as your own whether or not it is a direct quotation rather than fully acknowledging the true originator of the idea, having another person help you to write your essay, and buying an essay. Taking materials from the internet without acknowledging the source is plagiarism. Use of unauthorized materials during exams is cheating. All of these are instances of academic dishonesty, which the university takes very seriously and they will result in academic penalty. Those penalties can 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 in your assignments, please consult How Not to Plagiarize, by Margaret Procter, Coordinator of Writing Support, U of T: Normally, students will be required to submit their course essays to Turnitin.com for a review of textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their essays to be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database, where they will be used solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. The terms that apply to the University's use of the Turnitin.com service are described on the Turnitin.com web site. If you object to using turnitin.com, please see the course instructors to establish appropriate alternative arrangements for submission of your written assignments. Office Hours, Policy: You are encouraged to see us during office hours, or, if that is not possible, by appointment, to consult about the written assignments or class material or to talk about the course in general. We will do our best to respond to within 48 hours of receiving messages (weekdays only). received during weekends and holidays may take longer to answer. Please do not submit course assignments via . Accessibility Needs: The University of Toronto is committed to accessibility. If you require accommodations for a disability, or have any accessibility concerns about the course, the classroom, or course materials, please contact Accessibility Services as soon as possible: disability.services@utoronto.ca or

5 5 Schedule of Seminar Topics and Readings Week 1 (7 January) Introduction: Institutions and Governance Class will meet in plenary if we find a room! Otherwise, we ll meet separately for the first session. Atkinson, Michael M Introduction: Governing Canada. In Governing Canada: Institutions and Public Policy. Ed. M. Atkinson. Toronto: Harcourt Brace and Co, Posted on Blackboard. Pierre, Jon and B. Guy Peters Governance, Politics and the State. New York: St. Martin s. Chapter 1 (pp ). Posted on Blackboard. BOOTCAMP 1 Friday 8 January Meet in CG am 12 noon Malcolmson, Patrick and Richard Myers The Canadian Regime. 4 th ed. Toronto: UTP: passim. The Constitution Act, 1867 to Online: Forsey, Eugene A How Canadians Govern Themselves. 6 th ed. Ottawa: Library of Parliament. Online: mselves-6ed.pdf. Government of Canada, Structure of the Government of Canada. Online: Week 2 (14 Jan) Responsible Government I: The Westminster Parliamentary Model Aucoin, Peter, Jennifer Smith and Geoff Dinsdale Responsible Government: Clarifying Essentials, Dispelling Myths and Exploring Change. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development. Online: Savoie, Donald J Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament. Toronto: UTP, chapter 1 (3-20). Course packet. Slattery, Brian Why the Governor General Matters. In Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis. Eds. Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin. Toronto: UTP, chapter 6 (pp ). Course packet.

6 6 Smith, Jennifer The Grass is Always Greener: Prime Ministerial vs. Presidential Government. In Canada and the United States: Differences that Count. 2 nd ed. Ed. David M. Thomas. Peterborough: Broadview Press, Online: BOOT CAMP II Friday 15 January Meet in CG am 12 noon Please review readings from our first boot camp session and bring along your questions! Week 3 (21 Jan) Responsible Government II: Executive-Legislative Relations Guest speaker: Lorne Sossin - meet in plenary for the first part of the class in TBA Savoie, Donald J The Federal Government: Revisiting Court Government Canada. In Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government. Eds. Luc Bernier, Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett. Toronto: UTP, Online: Note also Donald Savoie s podcast: The King and His Courtiers: Donald Savoie on the Dangers of Concentrating Power in the Prime Minister s Office. The Agenda with Steve Paikin (26 January 2009). Online: 26%2005:00:00.0. Sossin, Lorne Speaking Truth to Power? The Search for Bureaucratic Independence in Canada. University of Toronto Law Journal, 55(1): Online: Levy, Gary A Crisis Not Made in a Day. In Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis. Eds. Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin. Toronto: UTP, chapter 2 (pp ). Course packet. (For further background reading on the December 2008 constitutional crisis, please see Michael Valpy s chapter in the same volume). Russell, Peter H Two Cheers for Minority Government: The Evolution of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, chapter 5 ( ). Course packet. Week 4 (28 Jan) Federalism I: The Workings of Canadian Federalism Bakvis, Baier, and Brown, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7.

7 7 Rocher, François and Miriam Smith The Four Dimensions of Canadian Federalism. In New Trends in Canadian Federalism. 2 nd ed. Eds. François Rocher and Miriam Smith. Peterborough: Broadview UP: Will be posted on Blackboard. Week 5 (4 Feb) Federalism II: New Issues in Canadian Federalism Guest speaker: Matthew Mendelsohn - meet in plenary for the first part of the class in TBA Bakvis, Baier, and Brown, chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Gibbons, Roger, Antonia Maioni and Janice Gross Stein Canada by Picasso: The Faces of Federalism. Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada. Essays by Gibbons and Stein. Online: Week 6 (11 Feb) Local Governance Guest speakers: Gabe Eidelman and Zack Taylor - meet in plenary for the first part of the class in TBA Bakvis, Baier, and Brown, chapter 13 Bradford, Neil Whither the Federal Urban Agenda? A New Deal in Transition. CPRN Family Network Research Report F/65. Online: Frisken, Frances Jurisdictional and Political Constraints on Progressive Local Initiative. In The Politics of the City: A Canadian Perspective. Ed. Timothy Thomas. Toronto: ITP Nelson: Course packet. Martin Prosperity Institute Ontario in the Creative Age. Online: Slack, Enid and Richard M. Bird Cities in Canadian Federalism. Policy Options (December): Online: (18 Feb) READING WEEK: NO CLASSES (25 Feb) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEEK NO CORE CLASSES PLEASE NOTE: CLASSES SHIFT BACK TO THE CANADIANA BUILDING FOR THE REST OF THE TERM. PROF. TRIADAFILOPOULOS S CLASS MEETS IN CG150 AND PROF. WHITE S CLASS MEETS IN CG 361; PLENARY SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN CG 150 AS INDICATED

8 8 Week 7 (4 March) Indigenous Governance NOTE! Papers due in class Guest speaker: Graham White - meet in plenary for the first part of the class in CG 150 Guimond, Eric Fuzzy Definitions and Population Explosion: Changing Identities of Aboriginal Groups in Canada. In Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal People, ed. D. Newhouse, E. Peters. Ottawa: Policy Research Initiative: Online: Papillon, Martin The (Re)Emergence of Aboriginal Governments. In Canadian Politics. 5 th ed. Eds. James Bickerton and Alain-G Gagnon. Toronto: Oxford UP: Course packet. Ross, Rupert. Discussion Paper: Exploring Criminal Justice in the Aboriginal Healing Paradigm. Unpublished paper, n.d. Course packet. White, Graham Governance in Nunavut: Capacity vs. Culture? Journal of Canadian Studies, 43(2): Online: Week 8 (11 March) The Courts and Democracy Bakvis, Baier, and Brown, chapter 5. Hirschl, Ran Canada s Contribution to the Comparative Study of Rights and Judicial Review. In The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science. Eds. Linda A. White, Richard Simeon, Robert Vipond, and Jennifer Wallner. Vancouver: UBC Press, Course packet. Hogg, Peter W. and Allison A. Thornton. 2001, The Charter Dialogue between Courts and Legislatures. And rejoinders by Morton, Russell, and Manning. In Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy. Eds. Paul Howe and Peter H. Russell. Montreal and Kingston: McGill- Queen s UP, Online: Manfredi, Christopher P Judicial Power and the Charter: Canada and the Paradox of Liberal Constitutionalism. 2 nd ed. Toronto: Oxford UP, chapter 1 (3-24). Course packet. Week 9 (18 March) The Courts and Public Policy Guest speaker: Brenda Cossman - meet in plenary for the first part of the class in CG 150 READINGS TBA!!

9 9 Week 10 (25 March) From Government to Governance Aucoin, Peter New Public Management and the New Public Governance: Finding the Balance. In Professionalism and Public Service. Eds. David Siegel and Kenneth Rasmussen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: Course packet. Minow, Martha Public and Private Partnerships: Accounting for the New Religion. Harvard Law Review VOL. 116: Online: Pal, Leslie Modern Governance: The Challenges for Policy Analysis. In Beyond Policy Analysis: Public Issue Management in Turbulent Times, 4 th ed. Toronto: Nelson: Will be posted on Blackboard. Skogstad, Grace Who Governs? Who Should Govern? Political Authority and Legitimacy in Canada in the Twenty-First Century. Canadian Journal of Political Science 36, 5: Online: Week 11 (1 April) Stakeholder Democracy and Participatory Governance Guest speaker: Shaun Young - meet in plenary for the first part of the class in CG 150 Johnson, Genevieve Fuji Deliberative Democratic Practices in Canada: An Analysis of Institutional Empowerment in Three Cases. CJPS Vol. 42 No. 3: Online: Phillips, Susan D The Intersection of Governance and Citizenship in Canada: Not Quite the Third Way. IRPP Policy Matters Vol. 7 No. 4. Online: Pierre, Jon. Public Consultation and Citizen Participation: Dilemmas of Policy Advice. In Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reforms. Eds. B.Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen s U.P., 1998, Online: Resnick, Phillip Parliament vs. People: An Essay on Democracy and Canadian Political Culture. Vancouver: New Star Books: Will be posted on Blackboard. Week 12 (8 April) LAST CLASS - The International/Domestic Nexus Bernstein, Steven and Benjamin Cashore, Globalization, Four Paths of Internationalization and Domestic Policy Change: The Case of EcoForestry in British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science VOL. 33, No. 1 (March 2000): pp Online:

10 10 Hoberg, George, Keith G. Banting and Richard Simeon The Scope of Domestic Choice: Policy Autonomy in a Globalizing World. In Capacity for Choice: Canada in a New North America. Ed. George Hoberg. Toronto: UTP. Online: Triadafilopoulos, Phil Normative Contexts, Domestic Institutions and the Transformation of Immigration Policy Paradigms in Canada and the United States. Book chapter submitted to Grace Skogstad and Vivien Schmidt, eds. (in progress). Posted on Blackboard. White, Linda A Institutional Stickiness and Ideational Resistance to Paradigm Change: Canada and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Policy. Book chapter submitted to Grace Skogstad and Vivien Schmidt, eds. (in progress). Posted on Blackboard. Essay Questions: Length: Approximately 8-10 pages (2000 to 2500 words) Due: in class 4 March 2010; Worth: 35 per cent Please choose ONE of the following topics: 1. How would you characterize the development of Canadian federal executive-legislativeadministrative relations historically? What have been the key drivers shaping relations between the executive, legislative and administrative branches of government? How are relations between the executive, legislative and administrative branches likely to evolve in the current era? 2. How would you characterize the state of federal-provincial relations in Canada? How has the emergence of multilevel governance and new political actors (e.g. municipal governments, First Nations) affected traditional federal-provincial institutions? Please use a standard citation style, being sure to cite all relevant sources. We suggest Chicago: