Carleton University Winter 2017 Department of Political Science

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1 Carleton University Winter 2017 Department of Political Science PSCI 6000W Political Process in Canada Friday, 11:35-2:25 Confirm location on Carleton Central Instructor: Christina Gabriel Office: Loeb D692 Phone: x Office Hours: Friday, 9:30-11:00 or by appointment Course Description: PSCI 6000 is designed to give PhD students with a broad and critical overview of the key issues, debates and themes within the field of Canadian politics. In conjunction with PSCI 6001 this course is intended to help students prepare for comprehensive exams in the field. This course engages with the scholarship within the field of Canadian politics with an explicit emphasis on the societal dimension of state-society relations in Canada. Students will consider the theories, approaches and concepts that have informed the study of various dimensions of Canadian political life. Format: This course runs as a seminar. It is expected that students will actively participate in the seminar. Each student will take responsibility for two seminar discussions over the course of the term. While the instructor will moderate these discussions it will be the students responsibility to facilitate discussion. Course Materials: Course material is available online through the Ares System on CuLearn or through the reserve desk at the library. Please advise the instructor immediately if you encounter difficulties in obtaining the course materials. Evaluation Summary: Participation (20%) Students are expected to come to each seminar prepared. Active, engaged and regular participation is a requirement of this course. It is expected that students will critically analyze the readings by focusing on key concepts, central themes and arguments within each of the five required readings and be prepared to offer short accounts of each. Three Review Essays (60%) Students must complete three review essays each worth 20% of the final grade. Each paper will address the readings for one of the course topics. Each essay should be pages in length and critically review four different assigned readings for that topic.

2 Class Presentation (20%) Students will prepare two class presentations on weekly themes. Each one should be 20 minutes in length and focus on three readings. They should not be a summary of the readings but rather presenters should offer critical reflections, compare approaches, identify connections where appropriate and raise questions for discussion. Students must also submit a written summary (no more than five pages) of their presentation. Students will sign into presentations in Week 1 and 2. STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE ALL COURSE REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A FINAL GRADE *Policies on Assignments: All assignments in this course must be 12 pt font, double-spaced and have standard one-inch margins. They must include appropriate citations and bibliography. Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date specified. They should be submitted directly to the Professor in class. If this is not possible use the Political Science Drop Box located on the sixth floor of the Loeb Building. The Drop Box is emptied daily at 4:00 p.m. Papers received after this time will be date stamped the following working day. Please do not submit papers to the staff in the Political Science Office or anyone else in the office. Late papers without a date stamp will be assessed a penalty based on the date the Professor actually receives the paper. Do not slip assignments under my office door, post them on my office door or place them it in my mailbox. Do not submit assignments by or fax. It is the student s responsibility to ensure that the Professor receives papers and it is the student s responsibility to collect the graded paper in a timely fashion. Students should make a copy of all of their assignments before submitting them and are advised to keep all notes and drafts of work until after the final grade has been assigned and awarded. Late Penalties Assignments are due on the dates specified in the course outline. Late papers will be subject to a penalty of 5% a day including weekends. Assignments submitted more than ten days late will not be accepted. No retroactive extensions will be permitted. Do not ask for an extension on the due date of the assignment. Exceptions will be made only in those cases of special circumstances, (e.g. illness, bereavement) and where the student has verifiable documentation. If you anticipate a problem with one of the above deadlines please approach me as soon as you can in advance of the assignment. Office Hours and Policy will be answered within two business days. Please use only to set up appointments outside of regularly scheduled office hours and/or to pose brief procedural or information related questions. Do not submit any class assignments by .

3 January 6 Introduction Schedule of Classes I Introductions Overview of course themes Review of course outline and requirements Indicate preferences for presentations Alain Noel Studying Your Own Country: Social Scientific Knowledge for Our Times and Places. In Canadian Journal of Political Science Dec Will Kymlika Citizenship, Communities, and Identity in Canada. In Canadian Politics. 6 th edition. Editors James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon. Toronto: UTP. Pp January 13 State-Society Relations Peter Graefe Political Economy and Canadian Public Policy. In Critical Policy Studies. Editors Michael Orsini and Miriam Smith. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp Les Pal State and Society. Conceptualizing the Relationship. In Canadian Politics. 3 rd Edition. Editors James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon. Peterborough: Broadview Press. pp Miriam Smith Diversity and Canadian Political Development. In Canadian Journal of Political Science. 42:4 pp Greg Albo and Jane Jenson A Contested Concept: The Relative Autonomy of the State. In The New Canadian Political Economy. Editors Wallace Clement and Glen Williams. Montreal: McGill Queens. Stephen McBride and Heather Whiteside Chapter 4 The Neoliberal State. In Private Affluence. Public Austerity. Halifax: Fernwood. Pp Alan Cairns The Embedded State: State-Society Relations in Canada, In State and Society. Canada in Comparative Perspective. Keith Banting ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press [Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, vol. 31], Murray Knuttilla and Wendee Kubick State Theories: Classical, Global and Feminist Perspectives. Third Edition. Halifax: Fernwood. (Chapters on Classical Liberalism, Elite Theory, Pluralist, Neo-Marxist, Feminism). Daiva Stasiulis and Radha Jhappan The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society: Canada. In Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class. Editors Nira Yuval-Davis and Daiva Stasiulis. London: Sage. pp January 20 Canadian Political Culture H. D. Forbes Hartz-Horowitz at Twenty: Nationalism, Toryism and Socialism in Canada and the United States. In Canadian Journal of Political Science 20:2. pp Gad Horowitz Notes on Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation. In Canadian Journal of Political Science 11:2. pp

4 Seymour Martin Lipset Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada. New York: Routledge. Chapters 1 and 2. Neil Nevitte The Decline of Deference: Canadian Value Change in Cross-National Perspective. Peterborough: Broadview Press. pp Nelson Wiseman Pathways to Political Culture. In Search of Canadian Political Culture. Vancouver: UBC Press, pp Michael Adams Fire and Ice: United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values. Toronto: Penguin Canada. Breton, Raymond From Ethnic to Civic Nationalism in English Canada and Quebec. In Ethnic Relations in Canada: institutional dynamics, ed. Jeffrey G. Reitz, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press. Ian Stewart Vanishing Points: Three Paradoxes of Political Culture Research. In Citizen Politics: Research and Theory in Canadian Political Behaviour. Editors J. Everitt and B. O Neill. Toronto: Oxford Press. pp January 27 Canadian Political Economy Wally Clement. Locating the New Canadian Political Economy for Change and Continuity: Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy, edited by Mark Thomas, Leah Vosko and Carlo Fanelli, Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press (forthcoming 2016) Jane Jenson Representations in Crisis: The Roots of Canada s Permeable Fordism. Canadian Journal Political Science 23:4. Pp Jerome Klassen Chapter Three Continentalism, Neoliberalism and the Canadian Corporate Elite. In Joining Empire: The Political Economy of the New Canadian Foreign Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Meg Luxton Feminist Political Economy in Canada and the Politics of Social Reproduction. In Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo- Liberalism. Editors Kate Bezanson and Meg Luxton. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queens. pp Stephen McBride Quiet Constitutionalism: The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change. In Canadian Journal of Political Science 36:2 pp Jane Jenson All the World s a Stage: Ideas, Spaces and Times in Canadian Political Economy. In Studies in Political Economy 36. pp Rianne Mahon The New Canadian Political Economy Revisited: Production, Space, Identity. In Production Space Identity: Political Economy Faces the 21 st Century. Editor Rianne Mahon. Toronto: Scholars Press. Leah Vosko The Past (and Futures) of Feminist Political Economy in Canada. Reviving the Debate. Studies In Political Economy 68. pp

5 II February 3 Interest Groups Eric Montpetit Are Interest Groups Useful or Harmful? Take Two. In Canadian Politics. Sixth Edition. Editors James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon. Toronto: UTP Press. Grace Skogstad Policy Networks and Policy Communities: Conceptualizing State- Societal Relationships in the Policy Process. In The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science. Editors Linda White Richard Simeon, Robert Vipond and Jennifer Wallner. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp Miriam Smith Introduction: Theories of Group and Movement Organizing. In Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada. Editor Miriam Smith. Toronto: UTP Press. pp. xixxxi. Lisa Young and Lisa Everitt Advocacy Groups. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp Michael Atkinson and William Coleman Policy Networks, Policy Communities and the Problems of Governance. In Governance 5:2 pp Les Pal Interests of State. The Politics of Language, Multiculturalism and Feminism in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queens Press Chapters 1 and 2. Paul Pross Group Politics and Public Policy 2 nd Edition. Toronto: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9. February 10 Social Movements Alexandra Dobrowolsky The Women s Movement in Flux: Feminism and Framing, Passion and Politics. In Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada. Editor Miriam Smith. Toronto: UTP Press. pp Jane Jenson and Susan Phillips Regime Shift: New Citizenship Practices in Canada. In International Journal of Canadian Studies 14. Pp Miriam Smith. Social Movements and Equality Seeking: The Case of Gay Liberation in Canada. In Canadian Journal of Political Science 31:2 pp Manon Tremblay Introduction. In Queer Mobilizations. Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp Lisa Vanhala Disability Rights Activists in the Supreme Court of Canada. In Canadian Journal of Political Science 42:4. Pp William Carroll and Elaine Coburn Social Movements and Transformation. In Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation. Editors Wallace Clement and Leah Vosko. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. Susan Phillips Voluntary Sector-Government Relations in Transition: Learning from International Experience in the Canadian Context. In The Non-Profit Sector in Interesting Times. Editors Kathy Brock and Keith Banting. Montreal: McGill-Queens. Cheryl Collier Not Quite the Death of Organized Feminism in Canada: Understanding the Demise of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Canadian Political Science Review. 8:2

6 III February 17 Indigenous Politics [I] Alan Cairns The Constitutional Vision of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. In Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp Glen Coulthard Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Recognition in Canada. Contemporary Political Theory 6:4. Pp Joyce Green Canaries in the Mines of Citizenship: Indian Women in Canada. In Canadian Journal of Political Science. 34:4 pp Radha Jhappan The New World : Legacies of European Colonialism in North America. In Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations Yasmeen Abu- Laban, Radha Jhappan and Francois Rocher, eds. Peterborough: Broadview Press. pp Kiera Ladner Negotiated Inferiority. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal People s Vision of a Renewed Relationship. American Review of Canadian Studies. 31:1-2. Pp John Burrows Questioning Canada s Title to Land: The Rule of Law, Aboriginal Peoples and Colonialism. Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Martin Papillon Framing Self-Determination: The Politics of Indigenous Rights in Canada and the United States. In Comparing Canada. Editors Luc Turgeon et. al. Vancouver: UBC Press Reading Week Feb March 3 Visions for Canada 2042: Imagining the Canada of the Future Conference No scheduled class or office hours Try to make time to attend this Faculty of Public Affairs Event. [ March 10 Indigenous Politics [II] T Alfred and J. Corntassel Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Capitalism. In Government and Opposition 40:4 pp Kiera Ladner Gendering Decolonisation, Decolonising Gender Australian Indigenous Law Review :1. pp Dale Turner On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics. In. Reconciling Canada. Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham Editors University of Toronto Press Adam Barker, A Direct Act of Resurgence. A Direct Act of Sovereignty: Reflections on the Idle No More, Indigenous Activism, and Canadian Settler Colonialism. Globalizations. 12:1, Rauna Kuokkhanen From Indigenous Economies to Market-Based Self-Governance: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis. Canadian Journal of Political Science 44:2 pp

7 Glenn Sean Coulthard Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Fiona McDonald Indigenous Peoples and Neoliberal Privatization in Canada: Opportunities, Cautions and Constraints Canadian Journal of Political Science 44:2 pp March 17 Quebec Daniel Béland and André Lecours Canada, Nationalism, Federalism and Social Policy. In Nationalism and Social Policy: The Politics of Territorial Sovereignty. Toronto: Oxford University Press. pp Nadine Changfoot and Blair Cullen Why is Quebec Separatism Off the Agenda? Reducing National Unity Crisis in the Neoliberal Era. Canadian Journal of Political Science 44:4 pp Alain Gagnon Five Faces of Quebec: Shifting Small Worlds and Evolving Politcal Dynamics. In Canadian Politics. 6 th edition. Editors James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon. Toronto: UTP. Pp Peter Graefe Quebec Nationalism and Quebec Politics, from Left to Right. In Transforming Provincial Politics. Editors Bryan M. Evans and Charles W. Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp Kenneth McRoberts Misconceiving Canada: The Struggle for National Unity. Toronto: Oxford Press. Chapters 1-3. Francois Rocher The Quebec-Canada Dynamic or the Negation of the Ideal of Federalism. In Contemporary Canadian Federalism. Ed. Alain Gagnon. Toronto: UTP. Pp Daniel Salee and William Coleman The Challenge of the Quebec Question: Paradigm, Counter Paradigm and? In Understanding Canada. Building on the New Canadian Political Economy. Editor Wallace Clement. Montreal: McGill-Queens. Pp Michael Seymour Quebec and Canada at the Crossroads: A Nation within a Nation. In Nations and Nationalism 6:2 pp III March 24 Thinking about Class Peter Clancy Business Interests and Civil Society in Canada. In Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada. Editor Miriam Smith. Toronto: UTP Press. pp William Coleman Business, Labour and Redistributive Politics. In Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics. Editors Keith Banting and John Myles. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp Meg Luxton Feminism as a Class Act: Working Class Feminism and the Women s Movement in Canada. Labour/Le Travail 48. pp

8 Richard Helmes-Hayes and James E. Curtis, eds The Vertical Mosaic Revisited. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Chapters by Clement and Armstrong Leo Panitch Elites, Classes and Power in Canada. In Canadian Politics in the 1990s. Editors M. Whittington and G. Williams. Toronto: Nelson Canada. pp William Carroll and Jerome Klassen Hollowing Out Corporate Canada? Changes in the Corporate Network Since the 1990s. In Canadian Journal of Sociology 35:1 pp John Porter The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. March 31 Gender, Women and Politics Karen Bird and Andrea Rowe. Women, Feminism and the Harper Conservatives. In Conservatism in Canada. Editor James Farney and David Rayside. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp Janine Brodie We Are All Equal Now: Contemporary Gender Politics in Canada. Feminist Theory. 9:2 pp Dominique Masson Changing State Forms, Competing State Projects: Funding Women s Organization in Quebec. Studies in Political Economy 89. pp Melanee Thomas and Lisa Young Women (Not) in Politics: Women s Electoral Participation. In Canadian Politics. 6 th edition. Editors James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon. Toronto: UTP. Jill Vickers Can We Change How Political Science Thinks? Gender Mainstreaming in a Resistant Discipline. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 48:4 pp Jill Vickers A Framework for Feminist Political Science. In Reinventing Political Science. A Feminist Approach. Halifax: Fernwood. Jacquetta Newman and Linda A. White Women, Politics and Public Policy. 2 nd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Chapters 4 and 5. Louise Chappell Gendering Government. Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press April 7 Matters of Race and Nation Keith Banting Is there a Progressive s Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State. Canadian Journal of Political Science 43:4. pp Matt James. Neoliberal Heritage Redress. In Reconciling Canada. Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp Nisha Nath Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science. In Canadian Journal of Political Science 44:1 Sunera Thobani Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada. Chapter I Founding a Lawful Nation & Chapter 2 Nationals, Citizens and Others Will Kymlicka Neoliberal Multiculturalism. In Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era. Editors Peter Hall and Michele Lamont. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp

9 Yasmeen Abu-Laban Diversity in Canadian Politics. In Canadian Politics. 6 th edition. Editors James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon. Toronto: UTP. Himani Bannerji The Dark Side of the Nation. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. Vic Satzewich The Political Economy of Race and Ethnicity. In Race and Ethnic Relations in Canada. Editor Peter Li. Don Mills: Oxford. Debora Thompson Is Race Political? Canadian Journal Of Political Science. 41:3 pp Academic Accommodations The Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) provides services to students with Learning Disabilities (LD), psychiatric/mental health disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), chronic medical conditions, and impairments in mobility, hearing, and vision. If you have a disability requiring academic accommodations in this course, please contact PMC at or pmc@carleton.ca for a formal evaluation. If you are already registered with the PMC, contact your PMC coordinator to send me your Letter of Accommodation at the beginning of the term, and no later than two weeks before the first in-class scheduled test or exam requiring accommodation (if applicable). After requesting accommodation from PMC, meet with me to ensure accommodation arrangements are made. Please consult the PMC website for the deadline to request accommodations for the formally-scheduled exam (if applicable). For Religious Observance: Students requesting accommodation for religious observances should apply in writing to their instructor for alternate dates and/or means of satisfying academic requirements. Such requests should be made during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist, but no later than two weeks before the compulsory academic event. Accommodation is to be worked out directly and on an individual basis between the student and the instructor(s) involved. Instructors will make accommodations in a way that avoids academic disadvantage to the student. Instructors and students may contact an Equity Services Advisor for assistance ( For Pregnancy: Pregnant students requiring academic accommodations are encouraged to contact an Equity Advisor in Equity Services to complete a letter of accommodation. Then, make an appointment to discuss your needs with the instructor at least two weeks prior to the first academic event in which it is anticipated the accommodation will be required. Plagiarism: The University Senate defines plagiarism as presenting, whether intentional or not, the ideas, expression of ideas or work of others as one s own. This can include: reproducing or paraphrasing portions of someone else s published or unpublished material, regardless of the source, and presenting these as one s own without proper citation or reference to the original source; submitting a take-home examination, essay, laboratory report or other assignment written, in whole or in part, by someone else; using ideas or direct, verbatim quotations, or paraphrased material, concepts, or ideas without appropriate acknowledgment in any academic assignment;

10 using another s data or research findings; failing to acknowledge sources through the use of proper citations when using another s works and/or failing to use quotation marks; handing in "substantially the same piece of work for academic credit more than once without prior written permission of the course instructor in which the submission occurs. Plagiarism is a serious offence which cannot be resolved directly with the course s instructor. The Associate Deans of the Faculty conduct a rigorous investigation, including an interview with the student, when an instructor suspects a piece of work has been plagiarized. Penalties are not trivial. They may include a mark of zero for the plagiarized work or a final grade of "F" for the course. Student or professor materials created for this course (including presentations and posted notes, labs, case studies, assignments and exams) remain the intellectual property of the author(s). They are intended for personal use and may not be reproduced or redistributed without prior written consent of the author(s). Submission and Return of Term Work: Papers must be submitted directly to the instructor according to the instructions in the course outline and will not be date-stamped in the departmental office. Late assignments may be submitted to the drop box in the corridor outside B640 Loeb. Assignments will be retrieved every business day at 4 p.m., stamped with that day's date, and then distributed to the instructor. For essays not returned in class please attach a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you wish to have your assignment returned by mail. Final exams are intended solely for the purpose of evaluation and will not be returned. Grading: Standing in a course is determined by the course instructor, subject to the approval of the faculty Dean. Final standing in courses will be shown by alphabetical grades. The system of grades used, with corresponding grade points is: Percentage Letter grade 12-point scale Percentage Letter grade 12-point scale A C A C A C B D B D B D- 1 Approval of final grades: Standing in a course is determined by the course instructor subject to the approval of the Faculty Dean. This means that grades submitted by an instructor may be subject to revision. No grades are final until they have been approved by the Dean. Carleton Accounts: All communication to students from the Department of Political Science will be via official Carleton university accounts and/or culearn. As important course and University information is distributed this way, it is the student s responsibility to monitor their Carleton and culearn accounts. Carleton Political Science Society: The Carleton Political Science Society (CPSS) has made its mission to provide a social environment for politically inclined students and faculty. Holding social events, debates, and panel discussions, CPSS aims to involve all political science students

11 at Carleton University. Our mandate is to arrange social and academic activities in order to instill a sense of belonging within the Department and the larger University community. Members can benefit through numerous opportunities which will complement both academic and social life at Carleton University. To find out more, visit or come to our office in Loeb D688. Official Course Outline: The course outline posted to the Political Science website is the official course outline.

12 Review Essays: Due Date: Due in class same day as topic. Worth: Each review is worth 15% Length: pages double spaced Task: You are responsible for completing three critical reviews. Each review should focus on four required readings from the selected topic. Ideally, each review paper will (i) briefly summarize the readings (ii) compare and contrast their main approaches (iii) provide a critical analysis of each (iv) offer an assessment of their contribution to the field. Review #1 Readings from Jan. 27 or Feb. 3 or Feb. 10 Review #2 Reading from Feb. 17 or Mar. 10 or Mar. 17 Review #3 Readings from Mar. 24 or Mar. 31 or Apr. 7 Please note you cannot write a critical review on the same week s readings as your in-class presentation In Class Presentation Due Date: To be assigned in first two classes. Presentations will start January 27. Worth: Two 10% each. Length: Each student will submit a three to five page summary of their presentation. It must be submitted the same day as the presentation. Task: During each class one or two students will lead the seminar discussion. The formal presentation should be no longer than 20 minutes in length and focus on two readings. It should not offer a summary of the week s readings. It is expected all members of the class will have read all the readings. Each presenter will offer an analysis of the readings by examining them in terms of the arguments advanced and the authors persuasiveness. Presenters should offer critical reflections, compare and contrast approaches and identify connections. Presenters should also prepare one or two discussion questions.

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