Traditional definitions of public policy in Canada have been challenged in recent years by globalization, the transition to a knowledge-based economy, and the rise of new technologies. Critical Policy Studies describes how new policy problems such as border screening and global warming have been catapulted onto the agenda in the neo-liberal era. The book also surveys the recent evolution of critical approaches to policy studies, which have transformed decades-old issues. Contributors conceptualize the ways in which public policy questions cut across the traditional fields of policy. They cover both topical approaches such as Foucauldian and post-empiricist analysis and new applications of established perspectives, such as political economy. Conventional methodologies reveal new connotations when used to explore such topics as security issues, Canadian sovereignty, welfare reform, environmental protocol, Aboriginal policy, and reproductive technologies. Critical Policy Studies provides an alternative to existing approaches to policy studies, and will be welcomed by scholars, students, and practitioners of political science and public policy.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 320.60971
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0774813172 9780774855372
- LCCN
- JL86.P64
- LCCN Item number
- C75 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vii, 386 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00208541 (OCoLC)648347762 (CaOOCEL)408591
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Figures and Tables 9
- Acknowledgments 10
- 1 Critical Policy Studies 14
- PART 1: POLITICAL ECONOMY 30
- 2 Political Economy and Canadian Public Policy 32
- 3 Policy Analysis in an Era of "Globalization": Capturing Spatial Dimensions and Scalar Strategies 54
- PART 2: CITIZENS AND DIVERSITY 78
- 4 Citizen Engagement: Rewiring the Policy Process 80
- 5 Queering Public Policy: A Canadian Perspective 104
- 6 Gender Mainstreaming in the Canadian Context: "One Step Forward and Two Steps Back" 124
- 7 Political Science, Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy 150
- PART 3: DISCOURSE AND KNOWLEDGE 172
- 8 Governmentality and the Shifting Winds of Policy Studies 174
- 9 Agenda-Setting and Issue Definition 198
- 10 Scientists, Government, and "Boundary Work": The Case of Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Engineering in Canada 224
- 11 Between Respect and Control: Traditional Indigenous Knowledge in Canadian Public Policy 246
- 12 Framing Environmental Policy: Aboriginal Rights and the Conservation of Migratory Birds 270
- PART 4: RISKY SUBJECTS 290
- 13 From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State: A New Paradigm for Canadian Social Policy? 292
- 14 Canadian Post-9/11 Border Policy and Spillover Securitization: Smart, Safe, Sovereign? 312
- 15 The Permanent-Emergency Compensation State: A "Postsocialist" Tale of Political Dystopia 334
- 16 Discourses in Distress: From "Health Promotion" to "Population Health" to "You Are Responsible for Your Own Health" 360
- Contributors 378
- Index 382
- A 382
- B 383
- C 384
- D 386
- E 386
- F 387
- G 388
- H 388
- I 389
- J 390
- K 390
- L 391
- M 391
- N 392
- O 393
- P 393
- Q 394
- R 395
- S 396
- T 398
- U 398
- V 398
- W 398
- Y 399
- Z 399
