COURSE PPG 1000H. Governance and Institutions FALL CG 150 (Canadiana) ~ office hours by appointment ~

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1 COURSE PPG 1000H Governance and Institutions FALL 2013 CG 150 (Canadiana) INSTRUCTORS Matthew Mendelsohn ~ office hours by appointment ~ COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is intended to provide foundational knowledge for the rest of your MPP studies. It focuses on the broader contexts within which policy is made and on the institutional and governance frameworks that both enable and constrain public policy choices and implementation. Students will learn some of the core theoretical concepts in political science and public policy and how they explain and can be applied to some of Canada s biggest policy challenges. Students will also be given the opportunity to develop some core skills (such as in the writing of briefing notes for a government audience) required to be successful practitioner. Each instructor will teach a third of the course. will teach Part 1 of the course (weeks of September 9, 16, 23 and 30). will teach Part 2 of the course (weeks of October 7, 14, 21 and 28). Matthew Mendelsohn will teach Part 3 of the course (weeks of November 4, 11, 18 and 25). Students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss the key themes in the literature for each week. THE DELIVERABLES Your assignments for each Part of the course will count for 1/3 of your final mark. We will discuss the requirements for each in more detail in class. Part 1 Theoretical paper This assignment requires you to reflect critically and analytically about the readings, theories, concepts and debates canvassed in the first four weeks of the course. This is not a descriptive exercise. Your task is to provide a critical analysis of a topic selected from a list to be provided in class. The paper must draw out the principle arguments associated with the topic and assess its relationship and implications for the practice of Canadian governance. Papers are expected to include theoretical and applied considerations. The assignment should not exceed 6 double spaced pages (excluding references). Due date: September 30 th. Matthew Mendelsohn 1

2 Part 2 Policy Essay The paper should identify and analyze an issue that arises out of the topics discussed in this part of the course, and examine the policy agenda and challenges that relate to it. The assignment should not exceed 6 double-spaced pages (excluding references). Hard copy only. Due date: November 8. Part 3 Options Note For your assignment, you may identify any one issue on which you would like to develop an options note. You should define clearly the problem you are trying to solve, your policy objectives, the various options you are considering, the process and manner through which you could make the proposed change, and the various policy considerations (including fiscal, legal, communications, etc). Your options note should be 4-5 pages. It should be written in bullet form, single spaced, with spaces between each bullet. Due date: December 6. PLAGIARISM The rules governing plagiarism as defined by the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) apply. Students should familiarize themselves with them by accessing the SGS website. EXTENSIONS AND LATE PENALTIES Late assignments will be subject to a penalty of 5% per day (this includes weekend days). Extensions will only be granted for documented medical or emergency situations. READINGS Readings will be available on the course portal. Students must do the readings and must prepare responses and comments to share with colleagues in class. NOTE: STUDENTS WITHOUT A STRONG BACKGROUND IN CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS SHOULD PURCHASE AND READ PATRICK MALCOMSON AND RICHARD MYERS, THE CANADIAN REGIME: AN INTRODUCTION TO PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN CANADA. Fifth ed., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012). COURSE SCHEDULE Section 1: Mondays 4:10 p.m. - 7 p.m. Section 2: Wednesday 9:10 a.m p.m. Section 3: Fridays 9:10 a.m p.m. NB: It is important that students attend their assigned section. If a situation arises in which you will not be able to attend your section, please the instructor beforehand to request permission to attend a different section that week. Matthew Mendelsohn 2

3 Organization of Part 1 PART 1 OF COURSE (JONATHAN CRAFT) The first class will begin with a brief overview of the course and assignments. All four sessions will include an opening lecture from the instructor on the content and issue under discussion. Following a break, students will be broken into groups and discuss a set of questions or complete a group exercise related to the weekly topic and readings. Classes will end with a plenary discussion. WEEK ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF GOVERNANCE (Week of September 9th) Osbourne, S. (2006). A New Public Governance? Public Management Review, 8(3): Stoker, G. (1998). Governance as theory: five propositions. International Social Science Journal, 50(155): Phillips, S.D. (2006). The Intersection of Governance and Citizenship in Canada: Not Quite the Third Way. IRPP Policy Matters. Vol. 7(4). (Blackboard). Blanco, I., Lowndes, V., Pratchett, L. (2011). Policy Networks and Governance Networks: Towards Greater Conceptual Clarity. Political Studies Review, 9: Patrick Le Galès, (2011). Policy Instruments and Governance, pp in The Sage handbook of governance, Mark Bevir (Eds). London: SAGE. (Blackboard). Discussion theme: Have we shifted to governance? Does it matter for Canadian policy making? WEEK TWO: INSTITUTIONAL THEORY AND APPLICATION (Week of September 16th) Peters, B.G. (2011). Institutional Theory, pp in The Sage handbook of governance, Mark Bevir (Eds). London: SAGE. (Blackboard). Atkinson, M. (1993) Introduction: Governing Canada, pp in Governing Canada: Institutions and Public Policy. M. Atkinson (ed.). Toronto: Harcourt, Brace Janovich Canada Inc. (Blackboard) Boothe, K., Harrison, K. (2009) The Influence of Institutions on Issue Definition: Children's Environmental Health Policy in the United States and Canada, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 11(3): Boucher. A. (2013). Bureaucratic Control and Policy Change: A Comparative Venue Shopping Approach to Skilled Immigration Policies in Australia and Canada, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice Discussion theme: What practical implications does institutional theory suggest for Canadian governance and policy making? Matthew Mendelsohn 3

4 WEEK THREE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CANADIAN STATE (Week of September 23rd) Aucoin, P., Smith, J., Dinsdale, G. (2004). Responsible Government: Clarifying Essentials, Dispelling Myths and Exploring Change. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development. Available online: Johnson, D. (2011). Chapter 3. Institutions of Governance, pp in Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Blackboard). Griffith, A. (June, 2013). Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism. Optimum Online. Vol. 43, Issue 2. Discussion Themes: Responsible government and the democratic deficit, public sector (re)organization, cabinet formation in Canada. WEEK FOUR: CLASSICAL THEMES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES * (Week of September 30th). Note: Theory paper due at the beginning of class (hardcopy only). NOTE: The final class for Part 1, Section 3 (Friday, September 27 th ) will be meeting in OI-5230 (O.I.S.E. Rm at 252 Bloor Street W.) from 9 a.m. 12 p.m. Skogstad, G. (2003). Who Governs? Who Should Govern?: Political Authority and Legitimacy in Canada in the Twenty-First Century. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 36(5): Kernaghan, K. (2000). The Post-Bureaucratic Organization and Public Service Values. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 66(1): David Zussman (2010). The Precarious State of the Federal Public Service: Prospects for Renewal, in G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney (eds.), How Ottawa Spends : Recession, Realignment and the New Deficit Era, Montreal and Kingston, McGill- Queen s University Press, (Blackboard). Savoie, D. (2010). Revisiting Governing From The Centre, pp , In Power Where Is It? Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press. (Blackboard). Discussion Theme: Legitimacy and defining the public interest, public sector renewal, is there life beyond governing from the centre? Organization of Part 2 PART 2 OF COURSE (DAVID CAMERON) The first hour of each class will be devoted to a presentation and general discussion of the seminar topic. After the break, the class will be divided into breakout groups. Each group will be responsible for addressing a specific question and reporting back to the plenary in the last hour of the class. Two or three students will be assigned the responsibility for leading the breakout-group discussion and making the presentation back to the plenary. Matthew Mendelsohn 4

5 WEEK FIVE: SOCIAL CONTEXT I: THE HISTORIC DIVISIONS: LANGUAGE, REGION, ABORIGINAL PEOPLES (Week of October 7) Taylor, Charles Shared and divergent values, in Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism, p Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press. (Blackboard) Task Force on Canadian Unity The anatomy of conflict, in A Future Together: Observations and Recommendations, p (Blackboard) Rocher, Francois "The Quebec-Canada Dynamic or the Negation of the Ideal of Federalism." In Contemporary Canadian Federalism: Foundations, Traditions, Institutions, ed. Alain-G. Gagnon, p Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Blackboard) Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Part I: The relationship in historical perspective, in Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Volume 1: Looking Forward, Looking Back, p (Blackboard, p in electronic format) Papillon, Martin Canadian federalism and the emerging mosaic of aboriginal multilevel governance, in Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, 3rd ed., eds. Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, p (Blackboard) Supplementary Readings: Laforest, Guy The meaning of Canadian federalism in Québec : Critical reflections. Revista d Estudis Autonomics i Federals 11(October): (Blackboard) Cameron, David Quebec and the Canadian federation, in Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, 3rd ed., eds. Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, p (Blackboard) White, Graham Governance in Nunavut: Capacity vs. culture? Journal of Canadian Studies 43(2): (Blackboard) WEEK SIX: SOCIAL CONTEXT II: CULTURAL PLURALISM, RELIGION, GENDER (Week of October 14) NOTE: October 14, Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday at U of T. The section of PPG 1000 that normally meets on Mondays will this week meet on Friday, October 18, 1-4 pm in CG 361. Winter, Elke A Canadian paradox, in Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identities in Diverse Societies, p Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Blackboard) Banting, Keith, and Will Kymlicka Canadian multiculturalism: Global anxieties and local debates. British Journal of Canadian Studies 23(1): (Blackboard) Matthew Mendelsohn 5

6 Cameron, David Church and state in a binational multicultural society: The case of Canada, in The Nation State and Religion: The Resurgence of Faith, eds. Anita Shapira, Yedidia Stern, and Alexander Yakobson, p. XX-XX. Sussex Academic Press. (Blackboard) Bouchard, Gérard, and Charles Taylor Chapter III: Perceptions and the reality of accommodation, in Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation, p (Blackboard) Jenson, Jane "Writing gender out: The continuing effects of the social investment perspective" in Women and Public Policy in Canada: Neoliberalism and After?, ed. Alexandra Dobrowolsky, p Toronto: Oxford University Press. (Blackboard) Supplementary Readings: Cameron, David An Evolutionary Story, in Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada, eds. Janice Gross Stein et al., p Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. (Blackboard) Abu-Laban, Yasmeen Keeping em out: Gender, race, and class biases in Canadian immigration policy, in Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada, eds. Veronica Strong-Boag et al., p Vancouver: UBC Press. (Blackboard) WEEK SEVEN: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT (Week of October 21) Required readings: Cameron, David and Janice Stein The State as place amid shifting spaces, in Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and the State, eds. and Janice Stein, Vancouver: UBC Press. (Blackboard) Muller, Jerry Z Capitalism and Inequality. Foreign Affairs 92(2): (Blackboard) 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, p Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Blackboard) Carney, Mark The implications of globalization for the economy and public policy. Remarks by Governor of the Bank of Canada to the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce and the Business Council of British Columbia. February pp. (Blackboard) Supplementary Readings: Slaughter, Anne-Marie. February Preface, in The Arab Spring and Climate Change. Center for American Progress/The Stimson Center: 1-6. ( Wolfgang Streeck The Crises of Democratic Capitalism, New Left Review 71 (September- October 2011) (Blackboard) Matthew Mendelsohn 6

7 Hale, Geoffrey E In pursuit of leverage: The evolution of Canadian trade and investment policies in an increasingly multipolar world. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 18(1): (Blackboard) Evans, Paul Canada, Meet Global China. International Journal 61(Spring): (Blackboard) WEEK EIGHT: POLICY CONDITIONS: GEOGRAPHY, DEMOGRAPHY AND TIME (Week of October 28) Geography Robert D. Kaplan, The revenge of geography, in The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (2012), pp (Blackboard) Martin Jones, Rhys Jones, and Michael Woods, Public policy and political geography, in An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics (2004), pp (downloaded) Demography Jack A. Goldstone, Eric P. Kaufmann, and Monica Duffy Toft, eds., Politics and demography: A summary of critical relationships, in Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (2012), pp (Blackboard) Larry S. Bourne and Damaris Rose (2001), The changing face of Canada: The uneven geographies of population and social change, The Canadian Geographer 45(1): (Blackboard) Time Paul Pierson, Introduction: Placing Politics in Time, Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis (2004), pp (Blackboard) Candace I. J. Nykiforuk, John Eyles, and H. Sharon Campbell (2008), Smoke-free spaces over time: a policy diffusion study of bylaw development in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, Health and Social Care in the Community 16(1): (Blackboard) Organization of Part 3 PART 3 OF COURSE (MATTHEW MENDELSOHN) The first class (November 4) will be lecture style and will outline the elements of an Options Note, Cabinet Submission or Memorandum to Cabinet. The next three classes (November 11, 18, and 25) will begin with a one hour lecture from the instructor on the content and issue under discussion. Following a break, students will be broken into groups and will have one hour to prepare one of the sections of a cabinet submission (stakeholder analysis, constitutional analysis, fiscal analysis, etc). Groups will present their section of the cabinet submission to the class in the final half hour of class. Matthew Mendelsohn 7

8 WEEK NINE: The Elements of Decision-Making in Canada (examples: The Clarity Act, The Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform) (Week of November 4th) Readings: Choudhry, Sujit Referendum? What Referendum? Literary Review of Canada 5(3):7-9. (Blackboard) Rose, Jonathan The Ontario Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform. Canadian Parliamentary Review Autumn(2007):9-16. (Blackboard) WEEK TEN: EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (week of November 11th) Readings: Mowat Centre Making It Work: Final Recommendations of the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force. Toronto: Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation. Available online: Bishop, Grant and Derek Burleton Is Canada s Employment Insurance Program Adequate? TD Economics Special Report. April Toronto: TD Economics. Available online: WEEK ELEVEN: RETIREMENT INCOME (week of November 18th) Readings: Ontario Ministry of Finance Securing Our Retirement Future: Consulting with Ontarians on Canada s Retirement Income System. Available online: Michael Wolfson Not-So-Modest Options for Expanding the CPP/QPP. IRPP. Available online: Ambachtsheer, Keith The Canada Supplementary Pension Plan (CSPP): Towards an Adequate, Affordable Pension for All Canadians. C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (265). Available online: Martin Hering & Thomas Klassen Is 70 the New 65? Raising the Eligibility Age in the Canada Pension Plan. Mowat Centre. Available online: WEEK TWELVE: IMMIGRATION (week of November 25th) Readings: Report of the Expert Roundtable on Immigration. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, Available online at website of Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration. Alboim, Naomi Adjusting the Balance: Fixing Canada s Economic Immigration Policies. Maytree Foundation. Available online: Matthew Mendelsohn 8

9 Alexander, Craig, Derek Burleton, and Francis Fong Knocking Down Barriers Faced by New Immigrants to Canada: Fitting the Pieces Together. TD Economics Special Report. February Toronto: TD Economics. Available online: Matthew Mendelsohn 9