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PRAIRIE PSA | 14
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
PRAIRIE POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
SEPTEMBER 12 - 14
BANFF, ALBERTA
PRAIRIE PSA | 14
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
PRAIRIE POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
SEPTEMBER 12 - 14
BANFF, ALBERTA
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PRESIDENT’S WELCOME
W
elcome to the Prairie Political Science Association’s Annual Conference. This is the second year that we’ve held this conference in Banff, and I think you’ll
agree that this site is unparalleled in its beauty. What a great place to have to
present a paper!
I am always delighted by the volume and the breadth of the papers we receive at
PPSA and every year I walk away inspired by the fantastic research conducted by
my colleagues. I look forward to lively and loud conversations (perhaps surrounded
by great wine and wonderful food) over this weekend and I know that I will be
taking home memories that will have to sustain me as I face the cold of yet another
Manitoba winter. Thank you for making the effort to come to Banff and to share
your ideas, research, and
friendship.
Thank you for making the effort
On a personal note, I want to thank some very special people to come to Banff and to share
who really made this come together. First, Karen Sharma. She is a remarkable organizer and because I shifted jobs and your ideas, research, and
focus mid-summer, without her, we would be a mess. friendship.
Please take the time to thank her personally (or better yet, buy
her a drink) for the countless hours she spent working on our
program. Second, Melanee Thomas. We could not ask for a more dedicated Secretary/Treasurer. She definitely kept
us on point and for that I am extraordinarily grateful. David McGrane and Anthony Sayers must also be thanked for
rolling up their shirt sleeves and helping out where needed. Thanks as well to Tom McIntosh for his work on the essay
prizes. He’s been an wonderful resource for us at the PPSA and I can’t thank him enough for taking on this important
role. Finally, and perhaps most importantly all my section heads and the chairs of the sessions. You were wonderful,
patient, and reliable. Many, many thanks for all of this.
Best wishes,
Shannon Sampert
President, Prairie Political Science Association
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome
3
Program at a Glance
5
Keynote Session
7
Concurrent Panel Sessions
9
Presenters
33
Staying in Banff
49
Map of the Banff Centre
50
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PRAIRIE PSA | 14 - PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Friday, September 12, 2014
CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
2:00 - 5:00 PM: Registration
Saturday, September 13, 2014
5:00 - 6:30 PM: Keynote Session - KC303
"Communications in a Conservative Time" featuring Tom Flanagan, political scientist and author of
Persona Non Grata: The Death of Free Speech and Winning Power: Canadian Campaigning in the TwentyFirst Century, Tamara Small (University of Guelph) and Paul Samyn (Editor, Winnipeg Free Press).
12:00 - 1:30 PM
6:30 - 8:00 PM: Cocktail Reception - MacLab Bistro
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Location
KC 301
KC 305
KC 206
KC 202
Political Thought
F-1: Theorizing
Identity, Culture
and
Marginalization
Contemporary
Political Theory
Workshop
CF-3: Part 3: The
Future of
Ideology in
Canada
Lunch
Provincial Politics
A-3: Racism and
Satisfaction
with Democracy
in Canadian
Provinces
Canadian Politics
D-2: Parties,
Elections, and
Political
Processes in
Canada Part I
Location
8:30 - 10:00 AM
KC 301
KC 305
KC 206
KC 202
Provincial
Politics
A1: Politics in
Alberta and
Saskatchewan
International
Relations
B-1: Regimes
and Governance
- Part I
Teaching and
Learning
E-1: New
Approaches to
Teaching and
Learning Politics
Contemporary Political
Theory Workshop
CF-1: Part 1 Constructing
Citizenship in a
Diverse Canada
10:00 - 10:30 AM
10:30 - 12:00 PM
3:00 - 3:30 PM
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Afternoon Break
Public Policy
A-4: Energy,
Climate Change
and Disaster
Management
International
Relations
B-4: The
Politics of
Foreign Policy
Political Thought
F-2: Deliberating
Democracy /
Postmodern
Political Thought
Contemporary
Political Theory
Workshop
CF-4: Part 4: The
Political Theory
of Indigeneity
Morning Break
Provincial
Politics
A-2: Prairie
Politics
Roundtable
International
Relations
B -2: Regimes
and Governance
- Part II
Canadian Politics
D-1:
Indigeneity,
Identity and
Politics in
Canada
Contemporary Political
Theory Workshop
CF-2: Part 2:
Negotiating
Democratic Practices
and Identity in
Canada
5:00 - 6:00 PM: Prairie Political Science Association’s Annual General Meeting and
Awards Ceremony - KC301
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Location
8:30 - 10:00 AM
KC 301
KC 305
KC 206
KC 202
Public
Administration
A-5: Changing
Landscapes in
Public
Administration
Comparative
Politics
C-1: Indigeneity,
Identity and
Politics in Settler
States
Canadian Politics
D-3: Parties,
Elections, and
Political
Processes in
Canada Part II
Contemporary
Political Theory
Workshop
CF-5: Part 5:
Theorizing Justice
and Equality in
Canadian Society
10:00 - 10:30 AM
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Morning Break
Public Policy
A-6: Health
Care Policy
International
Relations
B-3:
Globalization,
Trade and
Financial Crisis
Teaching and
Learning
E-2: Teaching
Political
Theory
Roundtable
Discussion
Canadian Politics
D-4: Canadian
Political
Institutions
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KEYNOTE SESSION
“Communications in a Conservative Time”
Location: KC303 (Kinnear Centre)
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Friday, September 12, 2014
Tom Flanagan “Stephen Harper’s Communication Strategy”
This presentation will draw on my experience as Mr. Harper’s campaign manager and chief of staff in the years 2001-05 to
illustrate how his approach to political communications was well established long before he became prime minister. Several of
the main features were present in these early years: strong message discipline, highly restricted media access, organizational
secrecy, and targeted policies. Negative advertising was the last to emerge, becoming important only after the Liberals won the
2004 campaign by going all-out negative against the Conservatives.
Tom Flanagan is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Distinguished Fellow at the School of Public
Policy, University of Calgary. He has managed several national and provincial campaigns for conservative
parties. He published two books in 2014, Winning Power: Canadian Campaigning in the Twenty-First
Century (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and Persona Non Grata: The Death of Free Speech in the Internet
Age (McClelland and Stewart).
Paul Samyn “More Monologue, Less Diaglogue: How Stephen Harper’s Media Gameplan Helps Him Win”
If you subscribe to the view that journalism plays a key role in the political life of a nation by producing a discussion so that the
polity can be part of the democratic discussion, then Feb. 6, 2006 marks a watershed. Almost from the moment Stephen Harper
was sworn in as Canada’s 22nd prime minister, he began moving the goal posts in terms of how he and his government would
communicate with the media, and by extension, the Canadian public. This presentation will argue that Harper’s media savvy
and discipline led to a fundamental rewriting of the rules of the game so that his monologue would dominate and serve the
partisan goals of his government.
Paul Samyn has been part of the Winnipeg Free Press newsroom for more than a quarter century, working his
way up after starting as a rookie reporter in 1988. And if you count the time he spent delivering the
newspaper as a boy growing up in St. James, his connection to the Free Press goes back even further. As a
reporter, Paul wrote for every section of the paper, covered elections, wars overseas and the funerals of a
royal princess and a prime minister. The graduate of the University of Winnipeg and Red River College
helped lead the Free Press’s political coverage for a decade as its Ottawa bureau chief before being named
city editor in 2007. Paul became the 15th Editor of this 142-year old newspaper in the summer of 2012.
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Tamara Small “#cpc: The Conservative Party in the Age of the Internet”
This presentation will explore the use of the Internet by the Conservative Party of Canada. It argues that when it
comes to digital technologies, the Conservatives engaged hybrid strategy. Coined by Andrew Chadwick, a hybrid
media system is built on the interaction between old and new media technologies. There is much evidence that the
Conservative use of the Internet is strongly meshed with the traditional media relations rather than being on creating
online community or online mobilization. Recent examples include the attack websites JustinOverHisHead.ca or the
YouTube video of Prime Minister’s singing the Beatles at the NAC. The paper concludes by considering the implications
of this hybridity in Canadian politics.
Tamara A. Small is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of
Guelph. Her research interests focus is digital politics: use and impact of the Internet by Canadian
political actors. Her work has been published in the Information Communication and Society, Party
Politics and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. She is a co-editor of Political Communication
in Canada: Meet the Press, Tweet the Rest (UBC Press).
Keynote Session will be chaired by Shannon Sampert.
Shannon Sampert is the Perspectives and Politics Editor at the Winnipeg Free Press. She is on leave
from the University of Winnipeg where she was an Associate Professor in the Department of
Political Science. Her research interests include media and politics particularly as they relate to
women and to elections.
Keynote Session will be followed by a cocktail reception in the MacLab Bistro from 6:30 - 8:00 PM.
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Public Administration, Public Policy and Provincial Politics
A-1: Politics in Alberta and Saskatchewan
Saturday, September 13, 8:30 AM, KC301 - Chair: Eleanor Glor (York University)
Banack, Clark (York University). “The Activity and Influence of Faith-Based Organizations With Respect to
Education Policy in Alberta”
Despite a growing interest in the activities of politically active religious groups in Canada, scholars have not yet considered the
influence of such groups at the provincial with much persistence. As a stepping-stone towards a larger cross-provincial study, this
paper considers the influence of religious-based organizations on public-policy decisions regarding public education in Alberta.
Through the use of interviews with leaders of politically active religious groups and Alberta government representatives with
responsibilities related to education policy, in addition to a documentary analysis of policy-relevant publications by these groups as
well as the government of Alberta, this study seeks to explore three questions. First, who are these active religious groups and what
are their goals with respect to education policy? Second, what strategies do they employ in their pursuit of such policy goals? And
third, to what degree are they successful influencing policy decisions in Alberta?
Cook, Derek (Thompson Rivers University). “The Effects of Socio-economic Circumstances On Psych-dynamic
Mechanisms: A Study of the Rise of Social Credit in Alberta”
When William Aberhart successfully combined Major Douglas and the Holy Ghost to inspire the voters of Alberta to join the Social
Credit movement, unbelieving commentators throughout Canada blamed the "hysteria" of the masses on Aberthart's demagoguery.
In my explanation, the attraction of people for a leader is more a function of the attributes of the people themselves than those of the
leader. Effective demagoguery is dependent on the latent hysteria of the masses as Irvine Schiffer sets out in his conception of
charisma, opposing the conception of Max Weber.
Sayers, Anthony (University of Calgary) and David Stewart (University of Calgary). “Non-Voters in Alberta”
As in many jurisdictions, Alberta experiences low voter turnout at provincial elections. This paper draws on surveys of 1500 eligible
voters conducted in the week after the last two provincial election to probe for differences between voters and nonvoters to
understand the nature of representative democracy in an era of electoral disengagement. We explore what is lost by the exclusion of
so many potential voter by comparing their socioeconomic profile, attitudes, and views of parties and leaders with those of voters.
While our findings are constrained by the perennial problem of underrepresentation of non-voters in surveys, they help us understand
the implications of low turnout for the theory and practice of representative democracy.
Stevens, Andrew (University of Regina) and Charles Smith (St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan).
“Gradualism or "death by a thousand cuts"? Labour Law reform in Saskatchewan”
Nearly two years after the provincial government launched its consultation paper on labour law reform, the omnibus Saskatchewan
Employment Act (SEA) was finally proclaimed at the end of April. Unions feared that Saskatchewan might be the setting for a
Wisconsin-style assault on labour rights just as some business groups called for an end to the Wagner-model of industrial relations in
the province. However, the SEA fell short of making radical changes to the province's labour relations laws. There were even advances
made in the employment standards provisions in the new legislation. Is Saskatchewan witnessing a process of gradual reform and
labour law "modernization", as the government suggests, or is this death by a thousand cuts for trade unions? This paper examines
the development of labour law reform initiated under the Sask Party by examining written submissions, access to information
documents, interviews, media debates, court decisions, and the newly crafted SEA.
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Public Administration, Public Policy and Provincial Politics Continued...
A-2: Prairie Politics at Mid-Term: Changing Agendas in the Run-Up to Re-Election
Saturday, September 13, 10:30 AM, KC301 - Chair: Tom McIntosh (University of Regina)
Roundtable Discussion featuring David McGrane (University of Saskatchewan), Shannon Sampert (University of
Winnipeg / Winnipeg Free Press) and Harold Jansen (University of Lethbridge). Moderated by Tom McIntosh
(University of Regina).
This round-table session will follow up on a similar session at the 2012 meetings that explored the future agenda of the three prairie
provinces after their respective elections. Those governments are all now half way through their mandates and, in some cases, things
have turned out differently than planned. The panel will explore both where the governments have gone in the first half of their
mandate but also where they might be going as they think about re-election. Brief presentations from the panelists will be followed
by questions from the moderator and a significant amount of time set aside for discussion & debate with the audience.
A-3: Racism and Satisfaction with Democracy in Canadian Provinces
Saturday, September 13, 1:30 PM, KC301 - Chair: Derek Cook (Thompson Rivers University)
Kanji, Mebs (Concordia University) and Kerry Tannahill (Concordia University). “Satisfaction with Democracy in
Quebec”
With a long history of democratic governance, Canada is often celebrated as "a vibrant example of democracy in action" (parl.gc.ca).
And while the underlying norms and procedures associated with such a regime remain highly revered, the functioning of that system
and its ability to satisfy individual citizens may be under significant stress. Survival of the regime requires a certain degree of public
support and recent evidence in Canada suggests that citizens are not as satisfied as they used to be with the way democracy works
(Samara 2012). Previous studies have shown that evaluations of the regime's norms and procedures are influenced by perceived
benefits of this regime and its tendency to match public expectations. Data from the Quebec component of the Comparative Provincial
Election Project provides a unique opportunity to compare the extent of public dissatisfaction with democracy across levels of
government. Moreover, these data offer insights into satisfaction with individual procedures of democracy. In this paper, we examine
whether Quebecers' evaluations of the workings of democracy differ at each the municipal, provincial and federal levels. Also, we
investigate whether there is variation in satisfaction with different aspects of democracy and what explains negative perceptions of its
performance.
Lashta, Erin (University of Saskatchewan) and Loleen Berdahl (University of Saskatchewan). “Interpersonal
Relations and Attitudes towards Aboriginal Peoples: Testing Contact Theory in Canadian Prairie Cities”
Canadian research finds that non-Aboriginal peoples often hold negative attitudes towards Aboriginal peoples. Might these attitudes
be expected to changes as non-Aboriginal peoples have increasing contact with Aboriginal peoples due to Aboriginal population
growth and urban migration? Contact theory suggests that interpersonal contact with minority groups can positively influence
dominant group members' attitudes regarding minority groups; however, contact theory has not been tested with respect to attitudes
regarding Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Using original 2014 survey data from Canadian prairie cities, this paper seeks to determine
the affects of interpersonal contact on racial attitudes in the Canadian context. The analysis will advance understanding of contact
theory and create knowledge to inform the promotion of social cohesion in Canada.
Muusse, Lauren (University of Alberta). “Structural Racism Embedded in Alberta Gang Policy”
This paper investigates whether Indigenous gang membership in Alberta might be shaped by structural racism in Alberta gang policy.
The study uses critical discourse analysis to analyse the Alberta Gang Reduction Strategy ("AGRS") and the resulting symposium. What
was measured is how the policy addresses Indigenous gang members. This is significant because the majority of gang involved
individuals in the province are Indigenous. The research found that the AGRS engages in symbolic racism by excluding the colonial
precursors that push Indigenous youth into gang membership. The strategy does not consider the colonial impacts on the spatiality of
Indigenous youth, their family involvement, and their potential economic marginalisation. The conclusion of the study found that the
AGRS reproduces colonialism and maintains the status quo of marginalisation by ignoring the realities of Indigenous people living in
current colonised environments.
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A-4: Energy, Climate Change and Disaster Management
Saturday, September 13, 3:30 PM, KC301 - Chair: Patrik Marier (Concordia University)
Doraty, Kelton (University of Victoria), Maureen Bourassa (University of Saskatchewan) and Loleen Berdahl
(University of Saskatchewan). “Emotions and Nuclear Risk Perception: Evidence from Saskatchewan”
Research on nuclear technology suggests that emotions are strong determinants of risk perceptions. The theory of "risk as feelings"
states that individuals' innate and instinctive reactions to danger influence their perceptions of risk in a non-cognitive and nonpurposeful way. The role of emotions as determinants of risk perceptions, however, has not been studied with respect to nuclear
power in Saskatchewan. This paper aims to study the role of emotions in predicting risk perceptions using recently collected 2013 data
of Saskatchewan residents, while controlling for other factors, including knowledge, trust, and worldviews. This research contributes
to our understanding of the role of emotions in predicting risk perceptions more generally by suggesting that positive emotions may
be a more important predictor as compared to negative ones. The findings of this paper will further the understanding of risk
perceptions and can inform nuclear power related public policy.
Berdahl, Loleen (University of Saskatchewan), Maureen Bourassa (University of Saskatchewan) and Jana Fried
(University of Saskatchewan). “Party Identification, Trust, and Nuclear Risk Perception”
Research finds that there are partisan and ideological divides on many scientific policy issues, including attitudes towards nuclear
policy. This paper examines the extent to which conservatives and non-conservatives differ in their perceptions of nuclear power risks.
Drawing on original 2013 survey data from Saskatchewan, the paper demonstrates that conservatives perceive fewer risks to be
associated with nuclear power generation. These risk perception differences appear to be related to levels of trust in nuclear sector
actors; specifically, conservatives have higher trust in regulatory agencies, industry representatives, and elected officials, and lower
trust in environmental groups, than do non-conservatives.
Torre, David (University of Calgary). “Why We Want and Can’t Have Economies of Scale: The Challenges for Nuclear
New-Builds and the Case of Finland”
While enthusiasm for nuclear power has been waning for decades in much of the developed world, some states continue to build new
reactors. The notoriously high cost of nuclear reactors and the industry’s failure to reduce construction costs in recent years have led
many to question whether it is a viable means for electricity production in the twenty-first century. This paper will explore the
challenges facing commercial nuclear projects in a variety of countries with a special focus on Finland and their experience with the
Olkiluoto 3 reactor. In this paper I will argue that the much-touted promise of economies of scale within the nuclear industry has
failed to materialize and is unlikely to do so in the near term due to their inability to deploy a standardized reactor design in the
quantities necessary to achieve the learning necessary for them to take effect. A variety of technical, commercial, and regulatory
reasons will be explored that help to explain this outcome.
Botha, Johanu (Carleton University). “Explaining Everything Explains Nothing: The Problem of Defining Disaster
Management”
The definition of disaster management (DM) – ‘preparation for, mitigation of, response to, and recovery from emergencies and
disasters’ – encapsulates every action taken before, during and after intensely adverse events, and so defines nothing in particular. It
fails to distinguish between ‘emergencies’ and ‘disasters.’ It does not specify which intensely adverse events warrants DM attention and
therefore includes events that can easily be accommodated by a given system. This lack of conceptual clarity has negative
consequences for DM study, policy, and practice. These problems can be remedied by 1.) articulating DM as the anticipation of those
adverse events that transcend expected emergencies, 2.) rooting DM in the specific academic discipline of public administration, and
3.) promoting DM’s normative understanding of both a given system’s goals and the broader political context.
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Boyd, Brendan (University of Victoria). "Provincial Climate Change Policy in Canada: Coordinated Response or
Patchwork of Policies"
While the Canadian government has faced domestic and international criticism for its national climate change policy, highlighted by
the decision to pull out of the Kyoto Accord, many Canadian provinces have developed policies to address climate change. Subnational leadership on climate change allows provinces to experiment with policies that suit their needs; however, it may lead to a
patchwork of policies across the country. Information sharing and collaboration, through arrangements like the Western Climate
Initiative, could support the development of innovative policy while mitigating policy fragmentation. Many collaborative efforts,
however, have not met expectations and sub-national jurisdictions have faced challenges meeting policy commitments. This paper
asks: Has collaboration among provinces led to learning about policy solutions and has it produced coordination in their policy
responses? The paper is based on semi-structured interviews with policy-makers in five provinces which took early action on climate
change: BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
A-5: Changing Landscapes in Public Administration
Sunday, September 14, 8;30 AM, KC301 - Chair: Byron Sheldrick (University of Guelph)
Marier, Patrik (Concordia University), Christopher Cooper (Université de Montréal) and Ali Halawi (Concordia
University). “A Merit Appointment? DM movements in Provincial Civil Services”
This paper analyses over a decade of deputy ministers' nominations and departures across all ten provinces. Contrary to previous
studies, which relied primarily on civil service's almanacs, we have employed diverse sources of information - including press releases
- to provide a more accurate and detailed picture of movement within the apex of the civil service in Canadian provinces. We then
analyse key variables, such as change in government, the ideology of the incoming government, and the name of the ministry, to
explain variation within and across Canadian provinces.
Glor, Eleanor (York University) and Garry Ewart (University of Regina). “Is Innovation Good for Organizational
Survival?”
Organizational survival is almost always a necessary condition for the survival of public sector innovations. This paper will attempt to
demonstrate (1) that organizational demography can be applied to public sector innovations and their organizations and (2) that the
survival profile of innovative organizations and the major factors in their fate can be determined 40 years after they were created. The
research will be framed within Glor's (2014) model. It will examine several case studies of innovations and their organizations focused
on strengthening the social fabric from the innovative Saskatchewan government of 1971-82 (Glor, 1997: Table 1), identify whether
the innovations and their organizations have survived, and explore whether a link can be drawn between the innovations and the
survival of their organizations. The intent is that in future the approach could be used to establish the demographics of innovative
organizations which could then be compared to normal organizational demographics (Glor, 2011, 2013).
Sharpe, Cody (Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy). “Strong or Weak? Variants of Sustainability in
the ICSPs of Small B.C. Cities”
City governments in Canada are an understudied lot, with smaller cities being especially neglected by academics interested in public
policy. Given that cities are geographical and political units within which much consumption of materials and production of wastes
occurs, they play a special role in shaping the future of environmental sustainability. In British Columbia, smaller cities have been
drafting Integrated Community Sustainability Plans since 2005, documents which must adhere to a general set of principles but are
otherwise flexible in content and objectives; accordingly, they are texts which have the potential to institutionalize a specific and
contextually-unique definition of environmental sustainability. Following a process of qualitative content analysis informed by the
theoretical distinctions between strong and weak sustainability, however, this study finds that ICSPs are embedding a more
homogenous definition of environmental sustainability than originally expected, one which reaffirms an institutional commitment to
economic and population growth within urban settlements.
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Wipf, Kevin (University of Alberta). “Termination of the CWB's Single Desk: The Market Liberal Paradigm and
Resistance in the Prairie Agriculture Sector”
This paper investigates the impact that the termination of the Canadian Wheat Board's (CWB) single desk power has had on the
prairie agriculture police community. The CWB was the last remaining organization representing the state assistance model that possessed real economic and political influence in the prairie agriculture sector. Through its single desk power, the CWB
had provided orderly marketing in the grains sector for almost 70 years. However, the federal Conservative government terminated
the single desk on August 1, 2012. In the vacuum that has ensued, the federal government has undertaken further market liberal
policy changes, commodity commissions in the wheat and barley sectors have been established, and there has been significant
disorder in grain transportation. While there is strong evidence that the market liberal paradigm has finally taken hold in prairie
agriculture, there is also evidence that the farmer resistance that began over a century ago, continues.
A-6: Health Care Policy
Sunday, September 14, 10:30 AM, KC301 - Chair: Shannon Sampert (University of Winnipeg / Winnipeg Free Press)
Barker, Paul (Brescia College, Western University) and John Church (University of Alberta). “Revisiting Health
Regionalization in Canada: More Bark Than Bite?”
A little over a decade ago, we reviewed the evidence associated with this organizational model and found little to support the bold
claims being made by advocates of health care regionalization. In this article, we re-examine the evidence accumulated by nearly two
decades of experience in the Canadian context. Provincial government efforts to introduce democratically elected regional health
boards were largely abandoned and replaced with increasingly centralized appointed boards or no boards at all. Some gains were
made in integrating services, but overall problems with timely access remain unresolved. Little is known about improvements in the
quality of services. The highly politicized and complex nature of health policy in Canada, has made it difficult for health regions to
realize their full potential or to be sufficiently accountable to the local communities they serve.
Epperson, Brent (University of Alberta). “Pioneering reform or undermining progress? Media representations of
the Utah Health System Reform (2004-2011)”
Nearly two decades after the failure of the American Health Security Act (HSA), Hillarycare), between 2002 and 2012, four state and
federal health care reforms—the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform Law (MHRL, Romneycare), the 2008 Utah Health System Reform
(UHSR), the 2010 federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare), and Vermont's Act Relating to a Universal and
Unified Health System of 2011 (VHR)—revealed greater political openness to health care policy change. The three state reforms were
often linked to the Obamacare debates in newspaper coverage; for example, the Utah reform was often presented as an alternative to
the federal approach for political conservatives. This paper examines newspaper coverage of the Utah Health System Reform at three
key points in time: the election campaign preceding the legislation, the legislative debates when the legislation was introduced, and
the legislative outcome, critically examining the movement of language framing metaphors within the state-based and national
newspaper media.
Epperson, Brent (University of Alberta). “Media Representations of Health Care Reform in the United States:
Policy Narratives, Media Frames, and Legislative Outcomes”
A generation ago, the failure of the Clinton Administration's federal 1993 Health Security Act (HSA) dashed the hopes of health reform
advocates and made substantial media waves (Budetti 2004; Skocpol 1996). Subsequent research demonstrated that media coverage
eroded public support for the HSA, deriding President Clinton's approach to health reform and inadequately explaining the potential
benefits of the plan (Cappella and Jamieson 1996; Hacker 1997; Huebner et al. 1997; Rhee 1997). Like the 1993 federal HSA, the 2010
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) garnered significant media attention; however, less is known about the
relationship between media representations and this legislative outcome. As part of my doctoral dissertation research, this paper
examines the newspaper coverage of the Affordable Care Act at three key points in time: the election campaign preceding the
legislation, the legislative debates when the legislation was introduced, and the legislative outcome, critically examining the
movement of language framing metaphors in the American print media.
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McIntosh, Tom (University of Regina). “Putting LEAN Patients First? Saskatchewan's New Approach to Health Care
Reform”
Since taking office in 2007 the SaskParty of government of Brad Wall has had a curious approach to health care policy reform. It began
with the "Patient's First" review that articulated a reform agenda pretty close to the consensus amongst health policy experts. But it
demonstrated little sustained commitment to that consensus and, in recent years, has invested heavily in the implementation of LEAN
management principles (borrowed from the Japanese auto industry) both inside the Ministry of Health but also, now, in the health
care system itself. Whatever value LEAN might have in terms of reforming bureaucratic operations of a government department, there
is a real question about whether it can be applied effectively to the delivery of real health care services to real citizens.
Fafard, Patrick (University of Ottawa). “When Government is Home to a Social Movement: The Case of Public
Health”
Almost by definition, a social movement arises from civil society and takes its energy from non-state actors. Social movements will
engage with governments more and less but they are analytically distinct from the state. Some, like the environmental movement,
rely extensively on government to advance their change agenda but politically remain distinct from government. Public health is
different. In this paper I will argue first, that public health is a social movement; second, that the political agenda of public health is
very broad and very deep; and third, that it is a somewhat unique insofar as it relies disproportionately on the state for its very
existence. In other words, state institutions (e.g., local boards of health; the World Health Organization), are an essential and critical
characteristic of the public health movement even as public health actors privilege their right and ability to engage in advocacy and
pressure governments at all levels to take action in specific areas.
International Relations
B-1: Regimes and Governance - Part I – The Sticks
Saturday, September 13, 8:30 AM, KC305 - Chair: Mojtaba Mahdavi (University of Alberta)
Aseltine, Paul (University of Manitoba). "Canada's Sanction Regimes: An examination of the sanctions against
Ukraine and Russia"
This paper will investigate the sanction regimes implemented against Ukraine/Russia, by the U.S., EU, and Canada. The question is
whether or not Canada has applied measures that are either different from those applied by the US or EU and/or have a different
objective. In other words, is Canada simply matching allied efforts or is Canada applying sanctions to pursue, separate foreign policy
goals? This paper is divided into three sections. The first outlines what are the sanctions that have been applied by the US, and EU. The second section outlines the sanctions instrument options that Canada has to apply sanctions and what measures Canada has
applied. The third section analyses the potential differences between the measures and stated goals of the US, EU and Canada vis-àvis Russia’s aggression against the Ukraine.
Önder, Nilgün (University of Regina). “The Global Governance Perspective, Pluralism, and Power in International
Relations”
My paper is a critique of the global governance perspective which has become rather influential in International Relations (IR) in the
past two decades. I argue that the global governance perspective has two major shortcomings. First, it cannot explain the structures
of power that underlie the emerging system of global governance. This failure is mainly because of the pluralist view of power
relations that this perspective adopts, and the ontological separation it makes between states and private actors. Second, although
this perspective's view of global governance as multileveled is a helpful analytical device, it largely fails to theorize the direction and
nature of determinations among the different levels of existing global governance, such as national, regional, transnational and
global levels. My paper proposes that the (neo)Gramscian theory of IR has more explanatory power because it can make visible the
structures of domination that connect the multiple sites of global governance.
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Mahdavi, Mojtaba (University of Alberta). “Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the Middle East: A Postcolonial
Critique”
This paper problematizes the implementation of the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the Middle East. It examines and
answers the following questions: What does postcolonial theory tell us about the implementation of R2P in the Middle East? To what
extent is the enforcement of the R2P doctrine in the Middle East just, fair, consistent and constructive?
The paper is divided into two parts. First, it will conceptualize the origins of R2P, followed by a brief examination of the connotations
of the R2P doctrine in practice. Second, it will problematize the implementation (or lack thereof) of the R2P doctrine in Syria, Libya,
Palestine and Iraq. The conclusion suggests that the question is not to act or not to act. Rather, the question remains "who has the
responsibility to protect whom under what conditions and toward what end?"
Keskin, Emrah (University of Alberta). “Health, Justice and Structural Prevention within Responsibility to Protect
Doctrine”
R2P doctrine is based on three pillars: prevention, reaction, rebuilding. However, the discussion has mostly been focused on the pillar
of reaction, specifically on the notion of humanitarian intervention. A focus on intervention allows the opponents of R2P to challenge
its legitimacy and claim that it is an imperialistic tool. As a result, R2P's legitimacy is weakened and its original focus is shaken.
I would like to investigate how healthcare could be a part of R2P and help it refocus on prevention. I believe concerns about
addressing health concerns of at risk populations could be discussed under the prevention aspect of R2P. I aim to show that inclusion
of healthcare into the discussion would strengthen R2P as a norm by drawing attention to socio-economic dimensions of prevention.
Therefore, the main question of this paper will be "What can healthcare contribute to the prevention aspect of the R2P doctrine and
how?"
B -2: Regimes and Governance - Part II – The Carrots
Saturday, September 13, 10:30 AM, KC305 - Chair: J. Andrew Grant (Queen's University)
Hanlon, Robert (Royal Roads University) and Kenneth Christie (Royal Roads University). “Chinese intervention in
Myanmar: Why global compacts can help shape sustainable development in Southeast Asia”
In May 2012, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon successfully launched the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in Myanmar. This
paper argues that despite its perceived weakness as a human rights mechanism, the UNGC is being endorsed in Myanmar in response
to China's growing regional influence. Drawing on constructivist theory, this paper frames the Compact as a transformative tool that
aims to incorporate the language of ethics into the local business dialect that is in-line with Western attitudes towards development.
Research findings are based on a series of interviews beginning in May 2012. Preliminary results suggest that the UNGC's launch in
Burma is opening new space for Western development in order to counter China's economic dominance in the country.
Grant, J. Andrew (Queen’s University). “Network Governance and Conflict-Prone Minerals in Africa: Promoting
Good Governance?”
Throughout Africa, mineral resource sectors are often afflicted by capacity-related shortcomings, which are compounded by their
'lootable' extractive characteristics and transnational challenges such as criminal networks, illicit cross-border trade, and armed
militias. The paper employs network governance theory (NGT) to examine how conflict-prone minerals are addressed via the
Kimberley Process Working Group on Alluvial and Artisanal Production (i.e., diamonds) and the International Conference on the Great
Lakes Region (i.e., gold, coltan, tin, tungsten). Through this novel analytical approach, the study provides an assessment of the
strengths and weaknesses of these compelling examples of mineral resource governance by introducing recent evidence and insights
from field research conducted in Africa. Particular attention is devoted to determining whether these governance initiatives are
serving private objectives rather than broader public goods. The paper concludes with a policy-relevant discussion of how the
KPWGAAP and ICGLR might augment inclusive and competent governance in mineral resource sectors.
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Simpson, Deborah (University of Regina). “'From Africa, To Africa': Celebrity humanitarianism and CSR in the era
of HIV&AIDS”
In labeling its Product (Red) coffee "From Africa, To Africa", Starbucks unintentionally highlights several problems of the recent wave
of celebrity humanitarianism. Branded as a way to 'save lives in Africa' by purchasing and drinking 'fair trade' coffee, the product and
particularly its packaging captures several contradictions of corporate social responsibility and the broader movements and
campaigns in which CSR initiatives can be located. In particular, a critical analysis of CSR products and programs and the wider
celebrity humanitarian campaigns they are attached to draws attention to the absence of a structural challenge; the implicit
identification by/through Product (Red) of Northern consumerism, the implicit presumption that there is a need for celebrity
spokespeople such as Bono, one of the co-founders of Product (Red), to organize and advocate on behalf of Africans; and the resulting
establishment/reinforcement of celebrity humanitarians such as Bono as interlocutors between the 'developed' North and
'underdeveloped' Africa.
Barkley, Blake (University of Calgary). “An Unexpected Balance: Exploring the Duality of Action by Somalia's AlShabaab”
This paper explores how the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab straddles the line between terrorism and insurgency. It argues
that Al-Shabaab has been able to make use of non-state institutions, such as Somalia's clan structure to sustain organizational
capabilities within the context of a 'failed state.' The use of such resources has resulted in Al-Shabaab's ability to successfully condition
their activities to best suit their needs in various theatres of action. Furthermore, a thorough discussion of failed state literature will
reveal this example to be an anomaly as it is typically the case that an effective state structure is a necessary precursor for successful
terrorist and insurrectionary movements. Particular attention is paid to Al-Shabaab's ability to plan and execute operations
domestically and abroad. Coupled with the ability to use non-state structures to their advantage, Al-Shabaab maintains functionality
in an environment without the organizational infrastructure of a state.
B-3: Globalization, Trade and Financial Crisis
Sunday, September 14, 10:30 AM, KC305 - Chair: Rob Aitken (University of Alberta)
Froese, Marc D. (Canadian University College). “Regional Trade Agreements and the Paradox of Dispute
Settlement”
This paper addresses the paradox of trade dispute settlement in which countries allocate resources to the creation of dispute
settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements even as the WTO's system has become the primary forum for the arbitration of
state-to-state disputes. I argue that while the WTO remains the primary insurance against the breakdown of trading relations, these
new instruments play a political role in securing the gains of regional and multilateral liberalization (real and potential) against the
possibility of multilateral failure. The paper reviews literature on the institutional and conceptual developments in the study of
regional dispute processes, develops an empirical study of the rise of regional DSMs over time, and then links this evidence to
changing ways of conceptualizing the costs and benefits of trade regionalization. A reinsurance hypothesis goes a ways towards
explaining why countries negotiate DSMs that for the most part, they do not use.
Aitken, Rob (University of Alberta). “Refiguring Debt in IPE: Indebtedness as a Social Practice”
Although debt has long been important to discussions in International Political Economy (IPE), there has recently been a resurgence in
a certain complex politics of debt that is more broadly constituted than earlier discussions of debt forgiveness, sovereign debt or the
politics of fiscal policy. Increasingly debt has been at the center of important new forms of political action; creatively resisted and
repurposed by activists and artists who increasingly frame a possible ‘generative’ politics of debt. This politics offers a sense of debt as
a signal of our social obligations to each other. The generative politics of debt, animated by Occupy and anti-austerity movements,
rests on a sense of our shared vulnerabilities. For Judith Butler this implies a precarity with a double inflection. Precarity refers to both
our immense vulnerability in the shadow of ubiquitous forms of debilitating debt, as well as the promise of a broader relational
politics (an indebted politics) built upon our shared exposure to that vulnerability. To emphasize these multiple inflections of debt,
this paper offers a particular reading of the Rolling Jubilee, an experiment organized by a network of activists and artists associated
with Occupy and Strike Debt designed to constitute debt publics by intervening into secondary debt markets in order to forgive debt.
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Based on interviews conducted with key organizers, I frame the Rolling Jubilee as an experiment—what one organizer refers to as a ‘
social hack’—which renders debt markets knowable (in a certain way) to the publics they enmesh. This rendering knowable, I argue,
constitutes a useful critical gesture in a moment of often overbearing and ubiquitous debt.
Tooker, Lauren (University of Warwick). “Staging democracy: morality plays and comedic assays in the debt
economy”
The global financial crisis has seen an explosion of aesthetic interventions designed to educate people in the politics and ethics of
indebtedness. This paper zooms in on three very different public stagings of indebtedness, ranging from plays to performance art,
with the aim of understanding the possibilities and limits of these stagings as forms of democratic education in finance. Drawing on
the work of Jacques Rancière and Stanley Cavell on aesthetics and democracy, I evaluate aesthetic performances of indebtedness in
terms of their ability to function as ‘improper events’ (Panagia, 2009) that redistribute the sensible and provoke new democratic
subjects in finance. In particular, I contrast moralising performances of debt crisis (morality plays), in which audiences are instructed
on duty and blame, with more playful attempts at provoking people to relate to financial practices and to each other differently
(comedic assays). The latter performances represent an important break with the disembodied logics of moral argument with which
the financial crisis has been governed to date. A thoroughgoing democratic aesthetic education, I argue, reaches beyond the passing
of moral judgements about liability to highlight the very partition of the sensible, and hence of allowable practice and thought, in
economic life.
Friesen, Elizabeth (Carleton University). “Normative ideas and the rules and practices governing international
finance: "Limits to debt" and "How to be good"
This paper asks two questions. First might there also be a “limit to debt”. In other words is there a point at which the effects of debt,
especially unserviceable debt, becomes so “intolerable” that it produces a shift in the conventional wisdom with respect to the
organization of the rules and regulations governing international finance. An example of this might be the implementation of the
original Bretton Woods financial order in 1944. Second, this paper asks what part normative factors might play in a shift in this
conventional wisdom. In other words how might the desire to be “good” fit into this process. From faith based prohibitions on usury to
distaste for “unfair” lending practices, debt evokes a surprisingly emotional response. This paper examines how the desire to be
“good” (or at least to be seen as “good”) might produce a shift in conventional wisdom and reframe of attitudes to debt. For example
the norm cascade associated with the MDRI at the WEF in 2005 (Friesen 2012).
B-4: The Politics of Foreign Policy
Saturday, September 13, 3:30 PM, KC305 - Chair: Martin Hewson (University of Regina)
Mahdavi, Mojtaba (University of Alberta). “Geopolitics and Ideology in Iran's Foreign Policy”
Postrevolutionary Iran has taken both ideological and pragmatic approaches in foreign policy making. There has been a pattern of
continuity and change, and a reciprocal relationship between domestic developments and foreign policy strategies. This paper
examines Iran's regional and international relations in light of Iran's geopolitical concerns and constrains. The paper problematizes the
role of ideology and pragmatism in Iran-US relations, Iran's Syria policy, Iran's Iraq policy, and Iran's nuclear policy -- including the
current nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1. The conclusion is twofold: first, it sheds light on how two relentless forces of global
structure and state-society relations have shaped Iran's foreign policies. Second, it examines a possibility of Iran-US cooperation in
Iraq and Syria, the extent to which such cooperation is guided by geopolitical concerns and constrains, and whether it would
contribute to the rise of new regional coalitions.
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Cote, Adam (University of Calgary). “Audience Cost Theory and the Securitization Framework: Using
(De)securitization as a Strategic Policy Tool?”
This paper argues that securitization/desecuritization can be used as a strategic tool by actors. Successful securitization/
desecuritization provides a clear signal to allies and adversaries concerning the urgency/severity of an issue and in what manner it will
be handled. It also creates a set of shared expectations between the securitizing actor and domestic audiences, and produces a
political/security cost structure that audiences may impose on actors should they fail to treat the issue as expected. This signal/cost
structure can be leveraged by actors to achieve desirable outcomes. Two implications arise from this argument. First, for securitization
theory, it suggests that securitization/desecuritization is not only a means to legitimize policy, but is itself a policy. Second, this
argument provides the foundation for explaining the gap between the theoretical prescriptions of audience cost theory and its
empirical applications by employing securitization as a means of understanding the capability of audiences to impose costs.
Hewson, Martin (University of Regina). “The Big Bang Model of World Politics: A Critique”
The Big Bang model holds that the main landmarks of modern world politics are (a) relatively recent, (b) have shallow roots and (c)
originated in a tremendous Big Bang transformation or great divergence. This model or approach has been particularly influential in
recent accounts of the evolution of nations, the international system, territoriality, and the rise of the West. This paper (a) provides an
anatomy of the Big Bang model and (b) pinpoints its flaws, one of which is a frequent Eurocentric bias.
Salt, Alexander (University of Calgary). “Revolutionists and Reactionaries: The Revolution in Military Affairs and
the Occupation of Iraq”
The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) came to light in American military thinking in the late 1980s which promised to alter the
nature of modern warfare. A debate has emerged over the various implications of the RMA for the American military as well as that of
its allies, such as Canada. RMA theorists claimed it could allow the U.S. to utilize technological superiority to overcome various
asymmetrical warfare challenges. However, much of the literature of the Iraq War has taken a quasi-reactionist response to the RMA.
Many observers have asserted that the RMA has been in fact detrimental to U.S. counter-insurgency (COIN)efforts due to a perceived
over-reliance on technology at the expense of manpower. This paper examines this debate, and explores the overall impact of the
RMA on COIN operations in Iraq. It takes the position that much of the criticism directed towards the RMA in Iraq has been misguided,
while at the same time acknowledging its limitations.
Comparative Politics
C-1: Indigeneity, Identity and Politics in Settler States
Sunday, September 14, 8:30 AM, KC305 - Chair: Karen Sharma (University of Manitoba)
MacDonald, David (University of Guelph). “Where are Our History Wars? Genocide Claims and the
Institutionalization of Aboriginal Settler Reconciliation in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa
New Zealand”
Momentum is building in Canada towards using the UN Genocide Convention as a means of interpreting the intentions and practices
of the Indian Residential Schools system. Australia during the 1990s saw a similar momentum, a process which had some parallels in
the United States. I argue that we may be seeing the development of a history war in Canada, although the contours of it will be
relatively different and more muted due to the institutionalized nature of the debate in Canada, which is being promoted by an
Aboriginal-led Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Claims of genocide are rarer still in Aotearoa New Zealand where the
institutionalization of bicultural norms between Maori and Pakeha has imposed even stronger political costs to advancing such claims.
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Green, Joyce (University of Regina) and Michael Burton (University of Alberta). “A Twelve-Step Program for a
Post-Colonial Future”
This work takes up the responsibility and process for settler Canadians to participate in the decolonization processes of Indigenous
liberation -- and of Canadian liberation. We frame the issue as one of privilege, to which many have become addicted, and which is
thus amendable to self-conscious consideration and to the rejection of processes that perpetuate privilege.
Cowie, Chadwick (University of Alberta). “Elite Theory and Marxist State Theory: A Comparative Analysis of
Colonialism and the Establishment of the Canadian and Australian States”
Colonialism has been a subject of intense debate since as early as the 1500s. Most recently, Elite and Marxist-State Theories have been
utilized to assess colonialism. Both theories point to different understandings of political, social, and economic change/control.
Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to address such questions surrounding Elite and Marxist State Theory and which best describes
the establishment of non-Indigenous dominance in the states of Canada and Australia. In order to achieve such assessment both
theories will be defined and discussed. Furthermore, Elite and Marxist-State Theory will then be cross examined alongside the concept
of colonialism. Lastly, the Canadian and Australian states will be used as case studies in pursuing which theory best describes nonIndigenous dominance through land usurpation and cultural disruption. Lastly, this paper concludes that Elite Theory is the sufficient
concept when looking at colonialism in both the Canadian and Australian states.
Canadian Politics
D-1: Indigeneity, Identity and Politics in Canada
Saturday, September 13, 10:30 AM, KC206 - Chair: Chadwick Cowie (University of Alberta)
Desmarais, Diedre A. (University of Manitoba). “Vulnerable, Isolated and Forgotten: The Contemporary
Consequence of Identity Regulation upon Canadian Metis Elderly”
Often referred to as the forgotten people, none are more so than the Metis elderly. Longest affected by colonialism, the most revered
of Aboriginal people must manage debilitating age related illness while enduring the consequence of intergenerational poverty, a
direct outcome of colonization. This paper will discuss the contemporary reality of Metis elders told from their racialized space that has
all too often been inescapable. Isolation, fragmented resources and lack of appropriate care and services have taken a toll on the most
vulnerable group in Canadian society.
Dubois, Janique (Brock University). “Creating Viable Models of Aboriginal Self-Government Through
Aggregation”
Implementing Aboriginal self-government is complicated. First Nations are spread across more than six hundreds communities, many
of which have a small land base and a limited governance capacity. Moreover, First Nations share diverse linguistic, cultural and tribal
characteristics as well as different political, social and economic customs. While there is widespread acknowledgment that First
Nations must work together to develop viable governance arrangements, the question remains: at what level(s) should aggregation
occur? Through a case study of First Nations in Saskatchewan, this paper examines three governance models that are being developed
at the band (Whitecap First Nation), treaty (Treaty Four) and tribal (Prince Albert Grand Council) level. Applying a historical
institutional analysis, this paper aims to identify factors that affect the viability of aggregative governance models in the
implementation of Aboriginal self-government.
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Lewis, Katie (University of Alberta). “Comparing Local Print Media Representations of Missing and Murdered
Female Sex Workers of Different Racial Backgrounds”
In Canada, approximately 600 Aboriginal women have disappeared or been murdered throughout the last several decades. Previous
scholarship has shown that among missing or murdered white and Aboriginal women who are not sex workers, reporting on white
victims includes more humanizing information than reporting on Aboriginal women. Focusing on women who occupy low social
status, this paper asks: Do local print media in Alberta report disappearances and murders of Aboriginal and white female sex workers
differently? This paper takes up the theoretical framework of abjection to conduct a discourse analysis of local print media reporting
on three white and three Aboriginal female sex workers from the Edmonton area who went missing or were murdered between 2004
and 2005. This study reveals a hierarchy of victims informed by race and class. Additionally, there is some evidence that murdered sex
workers receive more humanizing and sympathetic reporting than those who are missing.
D-2: Parties, Elections, and Political Processes in Canada Part I
Saturday, September 13, 1:30 PM, KC305 - Chair: JP Lewis (University of New Brunswick)
Koop, Royce (University of Manitoba) and Heather Bastedo (Queen’s University). “Representation in Action:
Preliminary Findings from Observation of Canadian Members of Parliament”
How do Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) engage in the process of representation in their constituencies away from Ottawa,
and how and why might they differ in doing so? Empirical studies of representation in Canada have traditionally relied on surveys of
and interviews with MPs. Such research instruments, however, may result in both recall and self-serving bias in MPs' responses. We
address these challenges through the use of direct observation of MPs' representational practices while in their constituencies. In
October 2012, we began observing MPs and staff in their constituency offices as well as at local community and party events. Passive
participant observation was supplemented with semi-structured follow-up interviews with each MP and several of their staff
members. Here, we report preliminary findings of this research by identifying recurring themes in MPs' practice of representation. We
also speculate on how our actor-centered ethnographic approach contributes to the present literature on representation in Canada,
which is dominated by institutional approaches.
Patten, Steve (University of Alberta). “Specifying the Contours of Canada's Fifth Party System”
The notion of historically discrete 'party systems'—that are distinctive in terms of the structure, norms and practices of partisan
competition, the institutional and legal basis of partisan politics, and the discursive framework within which partisan politics is
practiced—has been central to the study of party politics in Canada. There is some disagreement, however, on the precise beginning
and end of each historical party system and, in particular, the defining characteristics of the current party system. This paper explores
the emergence, over the past decade, of Canada's fifth party system. It argues that Canada's fifth party system is defined by recent
changes to campaign financing, a new Elections Act, Web 2.0 and social media, the impact that the 'permanent campaign' has had on
both parties and governing, the increased sophistication of databases that allow for narrow casting and microtargeting of campaign
messages, and the entrenchment of 'wedge politics'.
Trimble, Linda (University of Alberta), Angelina Wagner (University of Alberta) and Shannon Sampert (University
of Winnipeg / Winnipeg Free Press). “Gender, Leadership Traits and News Coverage of Party Leadership
Candidates”
Based on a dataset drawn from content analysis of 2,463 Globe and Mail news stories about 11 Canadian national political party
leadership contests held between 1975 and 2012, our paper determines whether or not there was more focus on the leadership traits,
skills and characteristics of competitive women candidates than on the leadership qualities exhibited by their most closely situated
male comparators. By controlling for candidate viability (as leadership qualities of leading and highly competitive candidates are more
likely to be assessed by the media) and party viability (as the contenders for the leadership of parties closest to government are more
closely scrutinized in news accounts), we are able to discern the impact of gender on mediated presentations of leadership.
Note: complete list of authors is: Linda Trimble, Angelia Wagner, Shannon Sampert, Daisy Raphael and Bailey Gerrits.
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D-3: Parties, Elections, and Political Processes in Canada Part II
Sunday, September 14, 8:30 AM, KC206 - Chair: Linda Trimble (University of Alberta)
Young, Lisa (University of Calgary). “Cartel Busted: What the Cartel Theory tells us about the Conservative Party
of Canada”
This paper argues that Canada experienced a degree of 'cartelization' of its party system (drawing on Katz and Mair) prior to 1993, but
that the emergence of the Reform Party shattered the cartel. With opposition to the cartel and the public funding of parties that
underlies it essential to the identity of the Conservative Party, Canadian politics continues to be shaped by the formation – and
destruction – of the cartel. Viewing the contemporary Canadian party system through the lens of the cartel theory also gives us
insight into the Conservative Party's motivation to change existing electoral rules, not only to facilitate the party's re-election but also
to guard against a perceived bias in the electoral institutions developed by the cartel of parties Reform originally disrupted.
Thompson, Kai (University of Lethbridge), Harold Jansen (University of Lethbridge) and Frederick Bastien
(University of Lethbridge). “Youth and online political engagement in Canada”
Since the beginning of research into the impact of online technology on political participation, there has been a hope that such
technology might help to increase rates of political participation among groups that have typically participated less. This hope has
particularly focused on youth. In the Canadian case, there has been little data to evaluate this claim. This paper will present data from
a new survey of over 2,000 Canadians to examine youth patterns of use of digital technologies to gather information and to
participate politically.
Bodet, Marc André (Université de Laval), Melanee Thomas (University of Calgary) and Charles Tessier (Université
de Laval). “Come Hell or High Water: An Investigation on the Effects of Natural Disaster on Incumbent Vote
Choice”
How is electoral support for incumbent candidates shaped by natural disasters? Do incumbents in districts newly recovering from a
national disaster fare better or worse than their counterparts in unaffected districts? The City of Calgary is used as a case study. On 20
June 2013, the Bow and Elbow rivers flooded in the City of Calgary, devastating 26 neighbourhoods and displacing approximately 75
000 people, or 7 per cent of the city's population. We use this natural experiment to assess how the electoral campaign and incumbent
vote share varies across districts that have, and have not been affected by natural disaster. Alternative explanations, including
organized opposition by real estate developers are also assessed.
D-4: Canadian Political Institutions
Sunday, September 14, 10:30 AM, KC202 - Chair: Steve Patten (University of Alberta)
Harding, Mark (University of Calgary). “Judicial policy-making without invalidation: Strained interpretations in
Commonwealth states”
An abundant literature assesses how judicial review effects the elected branches of government. Much of this literature focuses on
judicial invalidation of government acts and evaluates legislative responses. This paper explores an under researched process whereby
judicial actors make substantive changes to statutes without using the power of invalidation. When these "creative" or "strained"
interpretations take place, the authoring judge(s) claim the bill of rights requires this result. This process of rewriting legislation raises
important questions with respect to judicial policy-making as well as the appropriate division of labour between the branches of
government. This paper explores this development within the Canadian context since the adoption of the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms. It also draws upon the use of strained interpretations in other legal regimes (i.e., New Zealand, United Kingdom). Like
Canada, these states recently adopted bills of rights. In contrast to Canada, scholarship within these states have been prescient in
considering the implications of strained interpretations.
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Lewis, J.P. (University of New Brunswick). “Developing a New Framework for Analyzing Canadian Political
Executives: The Dynamics and Diplomacy of Court Government”
Donald Savoie’s work has been significant in driving the public, political and media debate over the last fifteen years of Canadian
politics with heightened scrutiny on both the prime minister and the prime minister’s office. Still, while the Savoie thesis has helped
bring attention to problematic developments in the health of Canadian democracy, the central claim – simply put, that the prime
minister had bypassed cabinet - has been accepted without much caveat. This research is an attempt to provide that caveat in the
form of a new framework for analyzing the concentration of power in political executives in Canada. Based on a series of 71 semistructured with former Mulroney, Chretien, Martin and Harper ministers and staff I argue that an analytical framework based on the
dynamics (change over time) and diplomacy (prime minister/staff/cabinet relations) can help to accentuate our understanding of the
level of concentration of power with the prime minister.
Pickup, Mark (Simon Fraser University) and Sara Hobolt (London School of Economics). “The Conditionality of the
Trade-off between Government Responsiveness and Effectiveness: The Impact of Minority Status and Polls in the
Canadian House of Commons”
There is an extensive literature on the relative virtues of different electoral systems in producing more responsive and effective
governments, but far less attention has been paid to role of dynamic factors. This paper examines how government status and
popularity shapes the trade-off between government responsiveness and effectiveness. We argue that minority governments face
legislative constraints that incentivize them to be responsive to the public, but that this comes at the expense of legislative
effectiveness. This trade-off between responsiveness and effectiveness is, however, conditioned by the government's standing in the
polls. The more popular a minority government is in the polls, the less responsive and the more effective it becomes. These
propositions are tested using original time-series data on public policy preferences, government popularity, legislative output and
public expenditures in Canada from 1958 to 2009. Our findings demonstrate that minority governments are more responsive to the
median voter but less legislatively effective than majority governments, and that these effects are moderated by the popularity of the
government.
Sheldrick, Byron (University of Guelph). “Open Government and the Transformation (?) of Canadian Politics”
Discussions of open government are now common across all levels of government in Canada. The concept, however, is fraught with
ambiguity and frequently conflated with e-government, open data, and community engagement. There is need to clarify the term's
conceptual underpinnings, so that open government initiatives can be assessed. Open government is often understood as
incorporating objectives of community engagement and participation, enhanced policy innovation, increased transparency and
enhanced democratic accountability. This is achieved through a variety of mechanisms, including "open data", and the use of social
media as a communication strategy. It is assumed that greater engagement and accountability follow from the use of these
mechanisms. This paper will examine open government through the lens of participatory democracy. It will disaggregate the
competing policy agendas implicit in open government through an analysis of open government initiatives in Canada (municipal,
provincial, and federal). This will allow the creation an open government typology.
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Teaching and Learning
E-1: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning Politics
Saturday, September 13, 8:30 AM, KC206 - Chair: Loleen Berdahl (University of Saskatchewan)
Wesley, Jared (University of Alberta). “Cross-Canada Hangout: A Foray into Blended Learning”
Summer courses are known for their lack of student engagement. A combination of self-selection and the season’s distractions limit
instructors’ ability to draw and hook students using conventional teaching methods. In Summer 2014, I “flipped” half of my Provincial
Politics course – inviting students to five in-person seminars and a series of ten online guest lectures. The latter involved experts from
each jurisdiction, broadcast live and archived through Google Hangouts, YouTube, and Blogspot. I’ll share the results of this foray into
blended learning, including feedback from students.
Sharpe, Cody (University of Saskatchewan), Sara McPhee-Knowles (University of Saskatchewan) and Travis
Reynolds (University of Saskatchewan). "Embrace the Frustration": Community Engaged Scholarship and the
Student Experience”
The practice of Community Engaged Scholarship – in which university and community partners co-develop knowledge which meets
the needs of both groups – is increasingly relied on in Canadian universities to improve the student learning experience and promote
the practice of use-oriented social science research. From 2011, students at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
have been active practitioners of CES through their experience running the Policy Shop, a not-for-profit consultancy which provides
research services to community groups who lack the internal capacity to conduct such work themselves. Along the way, this collection
of students have developed an understanding of the difference between the official best practices of CES and the realities of its daily
operation though personal reflection and formalized evaluations. From these evaluations, an understanding of CES’s value to
enhancing student learning experiences is gained, tempered by the realization that this value only comes when you “embrace the
frustration.”
E-2: Teaching Political Theory
Sunday, September 14, 10:30 AM, KC206 - Chair: Neil Hibbert (University of Saskatchewan)
Roundtable Discussion featuring Joshua Goldstein (University of Calgary), Steven Lecce (University of Manitoba)
and Ann Ward (University of Regina). Moderated by Neil Hibbert (University of Saskatchewan).
This panel will offer a roundtable discussion on the unique challenges of teaching Political Theory. Panelists will discuss the teaching
and learning issues they have confronted in the course of their careers teaching historical and contemporary Political Theory and the
approaches they continue to refine in all aspects of delivering their courses.
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F-1: Theorizing Identity, Culture and Marginalization
Saturday, September 13, 1:30 PM, KC206 - Chair: Melanee Thomas (University of Calgary)
Challborn, Margot (University of Alberta). “Producing (M)Others – the Marginalization of Mothers in Political
Science”
What does a study of mothers teach us about political science? By focusing on the ways in which 'family' is understood, analyzed, and
described in Canadian political science, I argue that mainstream CPS does not incorporate 'the family' as a central unit of analysis and
instead leaves theorizing on the family to political science 'at the margins' (and often to sociology, women's studies, family studies, or
geography). Even further, little academic attention in mainstream political science is paid to mothers and the complex relationship
that state and society have towards mothering. I situate my discussion within broader debates of gender, women, governance/
regulation, family/intimate life, state investment in intimate lives, political economy, and political theory and together these lines of
inquiry illuminate how mainstream CPS marginalizes motherhood and studies of mothers and allow the reader to understand the
breadth of consequences for such marginalization.
Sharma, Karen (University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg). “Multicultural Relating: Canadian Politicians in
Ethnic Drag.”
My paper examines the practice of ethnic drag among politicians in Canada. In her text Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality
in West Germany, author Katrin Sieg defines ethnic drag as the “performance of race as masquerade” (2002: 2). Building on Sieg’s
conceptual framing, I forward two main arguments. First, that the use of ethnic drag as a means of relationality between political
actors and multicultural Others reveals a structure of racial and colonial feeling in Canada. Secondly, that various enactments of
ethnic drag in Canada – which form the infrastructure of my analysis – are not only undertaken to cement a problematic multicultural
ethic of identity in Canada, they work to secure the always tenuous foundation of settler sovereignty by simultaneously denying the
continued violence of the colonial encounter, while claiming indigeneity as a “property” of the nation.
Mahdavi, Mojtaba (University of Alberta). “Caught Between Cultural Essentialism and Hegemonic Universalism?
Muslims and Alternative Modernities”
This paper problematizes the complexity of Muslim approaches to the question of modernity. It challenges both a hegemonic voice of
a singular and superior colonial modernity and an essentialist Islamist response to modernity. It examines the alternative approach of
multiple modernities. This approach calls for a critical dialogue and negotiation between tradition and modernity, expedites the
possibility of emerging Muslim modernities, and a gradual shift from Islamism toward post-Islamism in the Muslim world. In the first
section, the paper conceptualizes three major responses to modernity in the Muslim context: radical modernist secularization,
Islamism, and post-Islamism. In the second section, we will argue that contemporary post-Islamist trends represent the emerging
alternative modernities in the Muslim world. They signify a subaltern voice of modernity -- modernity from below -- and a radial call
for a critical dialogue between local and global paradigms .The conclusion problematizes the challenges and future success of Muslims
alternative modernities.
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F-2: Deliberative Democracy / Postmodern Political Thought
Saturday, September 13, 3:30 PM, KC206 - Chair: Michael DeMoor (King’s University College)
DeMoor, Michael (King’s University College). “Moral Psychology and Deliberative Politics”
Moral psychologist Jonathan Haight's influential new book, The Righteous Mind presents an account of the origins of our political
disagreements with the aim of encouraging greater understanding and civility in public life. Haight's empirical studies give reasons to
suggest that the "faith" of deliberative democrats in public reasoning may be misplaced. This paper analyzes four explanatory
"stories" that Haight weaves together: (1) an evolutionary account of the development of morality; (2) a story about the psychological
mechanisms explaining human action; (3) a story about the historical and cultural determinants of our political attitudes; and (4) a
"normative" story about the grounds and justification of human action. The paper then examines these stories in an attempt to
discern: (a) how deliberative democrats might re-articulate their conception of public reasoning in the light of Haight's findings; and
(b) the flaws and oversights of Haight's inferences from his empirical studies.
Salomons, Geoff (University of Alberta). “Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change”
Deliberative democracy has increasingly been touted as a potential means of incorporating environmental concerns into political
decision making processes by green political theorists. Some of the strengths of deliberative approaches to the environment include
the negotiation of value pluralism (Smith, 2003), the potential to be more ecologically rational (Dryzek 1987, Baber & Bartlett, 2005),
or the ability to respect distinct environmental goods which cannot be treated as substitutable (which market based approaches do)
(O'Neill, 2006). However, climate change presents a distinct challenge that goes beyond many typical environmental problems. This
paper seeks to investigate, at a theoretical level, the potential for deliberative democracy to address the complex problem of climate
change. It will outline the relative strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy, as well as the unique features of the climate
challenge in order to ascertain the potential of deliberative democracy to respond to the unique challenge that climate change
presents.
Roche, Michael (University of Saskatchewan). “Foucault on the Throne: Sovereignty and Power in George R. R
Martin's Westeros” Through the rich, detailed, and complex fantasy world created by George R.R. Martin, one can see Foucault's sovereign power
relationships in action. In many of his works, Foucault explains how power relationships manifest themselves within and between
populations. This paper uses a Foucauldian approach to sovereign authority in Westeros. It analyzes the various discourses of claims to
the Iron Throne: the right to rule (the Targaryen and Baratheon claim), the competency to rule (the Baratheon claim in Robert's
rebellion), as well as the resistance to rule (Starks, Wildlings) that together form the basis of a quintessentially Foucaultian power
relationship. Because fantasy universes serve as especially vivid and appealing extended metaphors for concepts and structures,
Martin's unique fantasy world provides ample ground that is well suited for a better understanding of Foucault.
Cones, Nigel. “The Shepherd's Nudge: 'Libertarian Paternalism' as Pastoral Power” In comparison to Michel Foucault's concepts of governmentality, discipline, and biopower, pastoral power is relatively understudied. I
will reframe Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler's model of 'libertarian paternalism' - best described in their 2008 work 'Nudge' as the
designing of 'choice architecture' for influencing decisions in a desired direction - as an exemplary case of contemporary pastoral
power. Power as a pastoral relationship defines governance and its political technologies along the lines of a shepherd to its flock,
focusing on modulating conduct and piloting the governed towards their salvation. By looking at 'libertarian paternalism' as a
prominent manifestation of pastoral power, and as a specific mode of governing conduct, I want to display the uses of pastoral power
as an analytical framework. This use can open up possibilities for critique by finding latent pastoral themes in contemporary
paternalistic governing techniques and arrangements.
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CF-1: Part 1: Constructing Citizenship in a Diverse Canada
Saturday, September 13, 8:30 AM, KC202 - Chair: David McGrane (University of Saskatchewan)
Chung, Alex (University of New South Wales, Australia). “Human Rights and Terrorism: Safeguarding our
Principles in the Face of Political Violence”
This paper will purport that a consistent human rights approach can be reflected in government responses to terrorism by ensuring a
pre-commitment to the international human rights regime and the laws of war including the Geneva Conventions and Additional
Protocols and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), and absolute
adherence to non-derogable physical integrity rights such as freedom from torture found during peacetime, in times of exceptional
national circumstances and emergencies, and even war (Ignatieff 2002; Schrolemer 2003, p. 278; Warbrick 2004, p. 1017). In
conclusion, this essay will seek to answer the question of whether it is possible to maintain a strong human rights regime in the
context of global terrorism, and how Canada, as a traditional supporter of human rights, may exercise its middle power influence to
ensure that HRL and IHL and applied in a just, legal, and fair manner.
Paquet, Mireille (Concordia University). “Immigration and Borders in Canada: Looking Outward, Looking Inward
and Breaking Away from Legacies”
In Canada, in contrast with other settler societies, immigration plays a distinct yet less foundational role in the myths surrounding the
creation of the nation. Political actors and theorist have nonetheless always had concerns about immigration and border control in
Canada, but these have tended to be more policy-focused. Following historical developments, these have been centered first on
territorial integrity and settlement, then on racial integrity and finally, on nation building. After reviewing its genesis, this paper will
present the two directions contemporary Canadian political thought has taken regarding immigration. First, the outward direction,
with a focus on transnational justice, border control and redistribution (e.g.: Carens, Karmis). Second, the inward direction that
discusses the growing discourses of immigrants as resources for Canada's knowledge economy, and their criticisms (e.g.: Abu-Laban).
Using these two body of thoughts, the paper will discuss the federal Conservative government reform of Canada' immigrant selection
regime implemented in 2014 – the "Expression of Interest" system – and demonstrate that it represents a break with political
thought and policy legacy regarding immigration in Canada.
Blythe, Mark (University of Alberta) and Jay Makarenko (University of Alberta). “Multiculturalism, the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, and Equality Rights in Canada”
The basic question of this work is as follows: can Canadian Charter jurisprudence on equality inform liberal conceptions of and
justifications for group-differentiated citizenship in multicultural societies? In answering this question, this work will explore the
intersection between the liberalism of John Rawls and contemporary Canadian jurisprudence on the Charter's Section 15 right to
equality. The authors intend to apply lines of judicial reasoning to an alternative rendering of Rawls's theory, Justice as Fairness, to see
if it can coherently construct and justify a group-differentiated approach to multicultural citizenship. More specifically, this work will
reconceive the Rawlsian original position and veil of ignorance in order to justifying group-differentiated citizenship along cultural,
ethnic, and linguistic lines.
Afsahi, Afsoun (University of British Columbia). “Barriers to Multicultural Deliberation”
Canada has an increasingly diverse and plural population. As such, it has been the source of some of the most important scholarly
works on multiculturalism (i.e. Kymlicka, Taylor, and Tully). The inevitable pluralism of identities (and the values and interests
associated with these identities) arising out of varying cultural and religious backgrounds has become a source of conflict requiring
normatively more positive, inclusive, and dialogical approaches for learning how to live together in face of deep diversity. Within
multiculturalism scholarship, many have pointed out the potential of multicultural deliberations (i.e. Benhabib, Deveaux, Song, and
Valadez). Deliberative multiculturalists, as I refer to them, see deliberative democracy as a helpful lens for studying, promoting, and
fulfilling the promises of multiculturalism. However, their enthusiasm has been matched by the concerns of skeptics regarding
possible limitations in transferability and success of deliberative democratic techniques in cases of deep diversity such as in Canada.
Particularly, cultural difference has been cited as a potential barrier to deliberative democracy (i.e. Bohman, Dryzek, Gastil, Fung).
Despite these concerns, there has been no systematic survey of the potential barriers to deliberation posed by cultural (and religious)
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diversity. Theorists of deliberation have not expounded upon how factors arising from cultural difference operate to undermine the
desirable conditions (such as representativeness, justification, respect, etc…) of deliberation. Nor has there been sufficient descriptive
or analytical work discussing how these “barriers” can be the cause of undesirable outcomes (bolstering of cultural and religious
values and stances, co-option, etc…) often assumed within such deliberations. In short, there is a conceptual insufficiency in regards
to the barriers to democratic deliberation.
In this paper, I seek to address this gap by distinguishing between barriers to and barriers within deliberation. While often not
mutually exclusive, the distinction is important as barriers at different stages of deliberation will require different approaches to
mitigation and/or accommodation. For example, a barrier such as resource scarcity can pose challenges to deliberation whereas
deeply-held partisan orientation can be problematic within deliberation. Subsequently, I will examine the barriers that are
particularly problematic (or are unique) to deliberations under conditions of deep diversity such as the desire to (appear to) remain
loyal to cultural values (distinct to multicultural deliberations) and pre-existing biases (more problematic under conditions of deep
diversity). I will also discuss the particular ways in which a general barrier such cultural difference can contribute to the occurrence or
exacerbation of other barriers (including lack of reciprocal willingness, deeply vested interests, and pre-existing opinions and biases).
Moreover, I will also introduce and briefly discuss prospective institutional arrangements such as cultural vouching, cultural
translation, and forced understanding (to name a few) which are specifically designed, and put in place, to target barriers within
multicultural dialogues and to facilitate deliberation and encourage investments in, what I refer to as, deliberative capital within
particular deliberations. If deliberative democracy is to be a contender in Canadian politics, it must be able to address conditions of
deep diversity.
CF-2: Part 2: Negotiating Democratic Practices and Identity in Canada
Saturday, September 13, 10:30 AM, KC202 - Chair: Neil Hibbert (University of Saskatchewan)
Ward, Lee (University of Regina). “Democratic Political Community and the Problem of Constitutional Change in
Canada”
This paper reconsiders the possibilities for deliberative democracy in Canada by exploring the relation between the structural
dimension of the 1982 constitutional settlement, on the one hand, and the development of democratic political community in
Canada, on the other. In particular, this paper will focus on the question: Does the procedural mechanism for constitutional
amendment established in 1982 impact, and even undermine, the prospects for deliberative democracy in Canada? Indeed, is the
extreme difficulty of our amendment formulae partly responsible for what Peter Russell famously identified as Canada's inability to
"constitute itself as a people"? The domestic amendment formula set out in Part V of the 1982 Constitution Act is notoriously complex
and prohibitive with practically any change in the fundamental law requiring either a supermajority of provincial consent or even
unanimous provincial agreement. The cumulative effect of this stringent standard for constitutional amendment, as well as the
dramatic failure of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords, has been to create an increasingly powerful impression that the
Canadian constitution is in effect unamendable. This paper will consider whether this sense of having an unamendable constitution
hampers the citizenry's confidence in the efficacy of meaningful political debate and discourse being capable of producing
fundamental legal, political and institutional change. Arguably, the issues raised recently by the debate over Senate reform and
alterations to the monarchical succession have shown how the immense obstacle of constitutional amendment stifles public discourse
about Canada's fundamental law and basic structures of government. This paper will draw upon the work of Tully, Taylor and Kymlicka
to explore whether Canadian democracy would be healthier and stronger if Canada possessed a less onerous constitutional
amendment process. I will examine not only the Canadian context through the Supreme Court's opinion on the Quebec Secession
Reference and the recent submission for the Senate Reform Reference, but I will also examine Canada's situation in a comparative
approach by looking at Canada's amendment process in an international context including other democratic states.
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Sokolon, Marlene K. (Concordia University). “Deliberative Democracy and the Canadian Experience”
This paper looks at deliberative democracy within the Canadian experience. Some recent Canadian perspectives include Fuji Johnson's
(2008) examination of the potential for deliberative democracy in ethical policy analysis of nuclear waste management, Taylor's
(2003) study of Transport Canada, MacLean and Burgess (2014) investigation of deliberation in ethics and science policy, and
examinations of the failed attempt of the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly to redesign the electoral system (Warren and Peirce
2008). As Fuji Johnson's (2011) notes, such attempts at deliberative democratic policy making often fail due to the convergence of
economic interests and the deliberative empowerment of the public. Yet, as McNairn (2000) has argued, what we now call deliberative
democracy has a long history in Canada stretching back to debates as early as 1791 in Upper Canada; thus, the demands of
participation have formed the very fabric of the Canadian experience. Specifically this paper will argue that deliberative democracy is
part of the democratic experience in Canada from the colonial experience to new ventures, such as the recent Alberta Climate
Dialogue. The purpose of this examination is to explore Canada's unique contributions to the understanding of democratic process and
refining of deliberative democratic theory.
Nesbitt, Darin (Douglas College). “Prohibiting Voluntary Euthanasia: What is the State's Interest?”
The deliberative parameters concerning voluntary euthanasia revolve around the duty of the state to protect human life. The
procedural safeguards woven into so-called death with dignity legislation enacted in Washington and Oregon, for example, clearly
demonstrate the state's interest in protecting lives of its citizens is not balanced with individual autonomy but in fact weighted more
heavily. An extensive body of philosophical literature has articulated reasonable grounds for respecting individual autonomy as a
matter of political and moral principle. What is less clear is the nature and meaning of the "interest" the state has with respect to the
lives of its citizens. Since Canadian governments and courts employ this interest to justify the criminalization of voluntary euthanasia,
its meaning has great importance. What specifically is this interest? What choices and activities does it legitimately circumscribe?
What are the conceptual and practical limits of this "interest-duty?" The paper will examine and critically assess the state's interest in
protecting life. The classic formulation to weigh individual autonomy or self-determination against the interest of the state to
legitimately limit freedoms is found in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which has had considerable influence on the development of
modern liberal freedoms and law. Mill's well-known argument is that legislation restricting individual autonomy can be justifiable on
the grounds of self-protection and preventing harm to others. Less discussed and frequently overlooked is Mill's attempt in
subsequent papers of On Liberty to develop a conceptual and functional distinction between the legitimate interests of individuals
and those of the state. The latter will be the central focus of this philosophical, conceptual, and legal assessment of the state's
objective to preserve life.
CF-3: Part 3: The Future of Ideology in Canada
Saturday, September 13, 1:30 PM, KC202 - Chair: Marlene Sokolon (Concordia University)
Farney, Jim (University of Regina). “Canadian Conservatism: More than Variations on a Free Market Theme?”
Canadian conservatism -- both as partisan inclination and explicit ideology -- is a part of the broader Anglo-American tradition of
conservatism. This paper places Canadian conservatives in that broader context, stressing especially the increasing importance of freemarket thought to conservatives over the last forty years. It examines the relatively weak contribution of Quebec thinkers and
politicians, and by extension Continental forms of conservatism, to the broader Canadian movement. The paper then turns to areas
where Canadian conservatives are presently distinctive and identifies two inter-related issues: tolerance of immigration and ethnic
diversity and the way in which conservatives relate religious claims to political life. It argues that the Canadian solution to both of
these challenges, which depends on a fundamentally individualistic and free-market approach, may offer conservatives in other
countries a useful model.
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Jeffrey, Brooke (Concordia University). “New Approaches to Canadian Liberalism”
The paper will then assess the impact of recent Liberal Party elites on Canadian liberalism (Pearson, Roberts, Trudeau), and argue that
another unique element of Canadian liberalism was the emergence of a cross-cutting federalist axis related to the national unity
debate, one that situated liberals at the centralizing end of the federal spectrum, in opposition to both the conservative and socialist
decentralist approaches. Next the paper will examine the challenges faced by liberalism in recent times, partly as a result of the
impact of globalization and a neoconservative narrative which liberals were unable to successfully counter, (Reich, Lasch) and partly
due to the Mulroney constitutional agenda, which temporarily destroyed the liberal consensus on the federalist axis. A concluding
section will assess the current state of Canadian liberalism, and argue that although the challenge on the federalist axis has been
resolved, (Chretien, Justin Trudeau) the party's philosophical renewal on the left-right axis remains a work in progress, in which the
relationship between individual rights and social cohesion is being re-imagined in the context of environmental rights, (Dion)
intergenerational fairness (Ignatieff) and greater international cooperation (Axworthy). However an alternative narrative concerning
the role of the state remains a pressing concern in light of the neoliberal economic agenda, and one that has only recently begun to be
addressed by Justin Trudeau.
McGrane, David (University of Saskatchewan). “Siblings or Distant Relatives? Social Democracy and Reform
Liberalism in Canada”
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent famously remarked that CCFers were merely "Liberals in a hurry." Nearly fifty years later, Prime
Minister Paul Martin made a plea to NDP supporters to strategically vote for the Liberal Party of Canada because the NDP and the
Liberals share a "common wellspring of values." The purpose of this paper is to prove St. Laurent and Martin wrong. It will argue that
reform liberalism and social democracy have different philosophical foundations and the differences between these two ideologies do
extend to the political thought of the leaders of Canada's NDP and Liberal parties. As such, social democracy and reform liberalism in
Canada are best 'distant relatives' as opposed to siblings that belong to the same immediate family.
Saurette, Paul (University of Ottawa). “Studying Ideology in Canada: Beyond Conservatism versus Liberalism”
Many contemporary popular and academic analyses of political 'ideology' in North America divide the political spectrum into two
clear and quite distinct ideologies: one left/liberal and one right/conservative (e.g. Lakoff 2001, 2008, Westen 2007). Over the last
decade, moreover, many Canadian observers have followed American scholars (e.g. Thomas Frank 2004) in highlighting the ways in
which contemporary Canadian conservatism is characterized by certain 'backlash populist', anti-science, and religious strains
(MacDonald 2010; Saurette and Gunster 2011; Farney 2013). Examples of conservative discourse and policy surrounding the Rob Ford
saga, the dismantling of the long-form census, the refusal of the Harper government to fund abortions internationally (even in cases
of rape), and many others have demonstrated that this dimension is an important part of conservative ideology and discourse in
Canada. However, this portrait also fails to capture a variety of other central dimensions of contemporary Canadian conservatism and
risks painting a far too one-dimensional image. In particular, it underplays not only the fact that both conservatism and liberalism in
Canada share certain key bedrock assumptions (e.g. the primacy the individual rights). Perhaps more importantly, it ignores the ways
in which divergent ideological positions in North America profoundly, and increasingly, borrow and colonize the political language,
concepts, ideas and rhetorical tropes of their ideological opponents. Disregarding this element, we argue, leaves us not only with an
inaccurate image of contemporary conservatism. It also allows us to continue to unquestioningly employ theories of ideology that are
perhaps too rigid and categorical to capture the dynamic and nuanced processes of exchange and contestation that are at the heart of
contemporary political and ideological struggles in North America. This paper will therefore argue that we need to carefully and
empirically study these processes of ideological exchange, and to reflect on the theoretical implications of these findings for the
theoretical approaches we use. Based on a systematic and rigorous qualitative and quantitative study of anti-abortion discourse in
Canada, this paper will (i) illustrate the ways in which even one of the most 'socially conservative' political movements – the antiabortion movement – has sought to appropriate and employ traditionally progressive and feminist themes, tropes and concepts; (ii)
identify the substantive implications regarding conceptualizations of Canadian conservatism; and (iii) outline the theoretical and
methodological implications regarding the study of ideology more broadly.
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CF-4: Part 4: The Political Theory of Indigeneity
Saturday, September 13, 3:30 PM, KC202 - Chair: Jim Farney (University of Regina)
Melançon, Jérôme (University of Alberta ). “Idle No More: A Movement of Dissent”
Idle No More is a movement of dissent insofar as it is refusing the reality and the truth about Indigenous people that is imposed by the
state and the majority of the population. To describe Idle No More as a movement of dissent is to highlight what unites its members as
well as what distinguishes them from other political movements and institutions. Based on a definition of dissent established on the
basis of totalitarian and colonial context and revised through this study, Idle No More can be seen as dissenting against the settler
colonial state and against the established political institutions that structure the relationship between Indigenous peoples, the
Canadian state, and Euro-Canadians.
This paper will focus on two central concerns: the circumventing of established political structures and the appeal to rights. Opposition
to a cluster of government actions and laws became a gateway toward dissent against settler colonialism as a mindset and as a
structure for political relationships, opening new paths for the politics of each nation and for their relationships with other Indigenous
peoples and with Euro-Canadians. Against the colonial attitude and practices of the Canadian state and the cultural norms of the
Euro-Canadian majority, Idle No More claimed the right to live and express a truth that does not need to be recognized by the
colonizers (cultural justice); it claims the right to consultation, as expressed in the emerging doctrine of the duty to consult; and it
claims the rights guaranteed in Section 35 of the Constitution (for nation-to-nation relationships). The appeal to rights in Idle No More
is then not only a judicial question, but rather the re-opening of political questions.
Michael Murphy (University of Northern British Columbia). “Self-Determination Theory: Psychological and
Political”
This paper undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between self-determination and the psychological health
of indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world. The paper draws on two very different theoretical approaches to selfdetermination. The first, self-determination theory, is an empirically derived theory of human development and well-being which
identifies three basic psychological needs that all human beings require to thrive. First and most important is the need for autonomy.
To live autonomously is to live a life that is self-endorsed, a life that accords with one's genuine values and preferences. The second,
relatedness, refers to our basic need for social connectedness, our need to feel a sense of belonging and a sense of importance to a
larger social order or social grouping. The third is competence, which refers to our basic need to master certain skills or techniques that
enable us to operate more effectively in the world and to achieve our desired ends in life. The second body of literature is focused on
the political philosophy of self-determination, and in particular the link between collective self-determination and individual
autonomy. Two messages emerge from this literature, one of them more familiar, the other somewhat less so. The first message is that
collective self-determination is an essential precondition for individual autonomy, and as such should be regarded as a right to which
all peoples, minority and majority alike, are entitled as a basic requirement of justice. The second message is that both autonomy and
a sense of cultural belonging are essential to an individual's quality of life, which in turn suggests that collective self-determination
should be regarded as a basic human need to which all peoples can lay claim as a fundamental component of their well-being.
To date there has been little attempt to synthesize the insights of self-determination theory in its political-philosophical and
psychological variations, despite the remarkably similar connections each identifies between autonomy, belonging and well-being. In
this paper I am aim to correct this oversight, and in the process to argue that there are both good theoretical reasons, and some
compelling empirical evidence, to support the hypothesis that meaningful self-determination is a factor that contributes positively to
indigenous mental health and well-being, and that the absence (or denial) of self-determination has a decidedly negative impact on
indigenous mental health outcomes.
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Bériault, Xavier (University of Ottawa). “The Métis Resistance of 1869-1870: An Exercise in Political Thought”
If Canada is often considered an international model for its policy on multiculturalism – which allows stateless minorities to take part
in governance – this has historically not always been the case. In theorizing multiculturalism, we must never forget that Canada's
colonial past is marred by violent events which systematically suppressed national minorities' resistance to British-Canadian nationbuilding. Political scientists who are devising mechanisms of representation that promote democratic participation of minorities
would do well to pay heed to the political practices of minorities who, in the 18th and 19th centuries, devised their own. Too little is
known about these vital political experiences of Canada's national minorities, whose originality more often than not cannot be
properly understood using Canada's dominant ideologies: they escape the main categories of liberalism and conservatism.
This paper thus proposes to examine the political practices of the communities that experimented with diverse mechanisms of
representation in the Red River colony in 1869-1870. In the late summer months of 1869, the Métis, fearing that their political,
linguistic and religious rights would be trampled following annexation to the Confederation, initially organized their resistance on the
model of the bison hunt. Following the foundation of the Métis National Comity in October, the Métis then invited the other
communities to designate delegates to join them in a Convention to discuss the formation of a provisional government. This period of
intense political activity, witnessed through numerous meetings, assemblies and conventions that mobilized the population,
culminated in the formation of a provisional government, mandated by the population to represent them during negotiations with
Canada's government. In order to understand the associative dynamic involved in the Métis Resistance, this paper proposes to use a
methodology drawn from social network analysis. Using UCINET, this paper will attempt to represent graphically the patterns of
association amongst various actors involved in the resistance. This method enables us to treat the historical matter in a way that has
never been done before. While the practices of representation developed by Canada's western national minorities are conjured up
from the past, they may nonetheless reveal themselves as particularly novel and relevant in rethinking representative mechanisms for
minorities. An exercise in thought all the more pertinent since the Métis rights were inscribed in the 1982 Constitution.
CF-5: Part 5: Theorizing Justice and Equality in Canadian Society
Sunday, September 14, 8:30 AM, KC202 - Paul Saurette (University of Ottawa)
Gordon, Kelly. (University of Ottawa). “Gender and Ideology: Masculinity and Conservatism in Canada”
This paper examines the role that gender (defined broadly) plays in conservative ideology in Canada. Building on the growing
literature on masculinity (Connell 2005; Kimmel 2000, 2013) and a systematic empirical study of three sites of conservative discourse
in Canada (the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, the Canadian anti-abortion movement, and Men's Right Edmonton), this
paper will outline the nature of masculinity that is championed in various strains of conservative ideology in Canada, and then reflect
on the methodological implications this holds for how we study ideology more generally.
Lecce, Steven (University of Manitoba). “What’s Wrong with Private Schools”
Egalitarians claim that justice requires people to have equal amounts of whatever ultimately lies at the foundations of political
morality—rights, resources, primary goods, welfare, or basic capabilities, for instance—not no matter what, but to whatever extent
is permitted by values that compete with this requirement. Recently, egalitarians have objected to the existence and/or the state
funding of private schools on three separate and competing grounds. Allegedly, private schools: i. allow parents to be unjustifiably
partial towards their own children, and at the expense of equality of opportunity; ii. compromise the value of solidarity; and iii. in the
case of faith-based private schools, are indoctrinatory, in a way that violates children's rights to autonomy. This paper assesses the
case for banning private schools, by evaluating each strand of the egalitarian critique, and concludes the following: the partiality
objection assumes a controversial view of the family that may be reasonably rejected; the solidarity objection indefensibly confuses a
liberal-democracy with a civic republic; and, finally, even if the charge of indoctrination could be made out, at best, this establishes
the injustice of religious schools only, and not of private schools per se.
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Hibbert,Neil (University of Saskatchewan). “The Changing Normativity of the Canadian Welfare State”
Over the past two decades the Canadian welfare state has undergone significant transformation. While this development involves
diverse policy and political dynamics, the cumulative result is an evolution of the general normative character of the welfare state in
Canada. Building on Joseph Heath's typology of normative models of the welfare state, this paper argues that the Canadian welfare
state has, during this period, moved away from an egalitarian model of redistribution to a public-economic model of efficiency. It
begins by presenting the concept of a normative model as an interpretive account of the normativity of existing practices, and
contrasts the aims of redistributive and efficiency conceptions of the welfare state. Building on this classification, despite its frequent
categorization as a 'liberal' welfare state, the significant egalitarian character of post-war welfare state formation in Canada is
presented. The discussion then turns to how diverse processes of reform beginning in the 1990s undermined the redistributive
impacts of the Canadian welfare state and re-configured it in close alignment with an efficiency model of the aims of social policy. The
argument proceeds on an assessment of major lines of change in the functioning of the Canadian welfare state. While efficiency
elements, particularly broad-based insurance policies (health care and pensions) that produce 'horizontal redistribution' (i.e.,
redistribution over the life course of an individual), have remained relatively stable, egalitarian elements targeted at the needs of the
poor and the vulnerable (unemployment insurance and social assistance) have undergone significant retrenchment. This pattern of
policy change has also been accompanied by processes of diminished progressivity in the tax system and the absence of social policy
formation oriented towards addressing new risks associated with post-industrialism. Taken together, these developments have
resulted in significant weakening of the redistributive impacts of the Canadian welfare state, such that its implicit normative
commitments are no longer egalitarian and instead are best modeled along the lines of efficiency.
Ward, Ann (University of Regina). “Lament for a ‘pre-Modern’ Nation? Grant and Byers on Canadian Identity”
This paper will also explore the concepts of modernity and progress understood by Grant to be the deeper philosophic cause of
Canada's loss of independence. Modern political theory, Grant argues, teaches freedom as the human essence, and the modern theory
of progress, spearheaded by the United States, espouses the universal, homogeneous society as the key instrument for making the
essence of freedom a social and political reality. For Grant, however, the progressive ideal of the "global village" is a threat to all "local
cultures," including Canada, which is founded on the conservative principles of the Loyalists. Grant suggests that like pre-Quiet
Revolution Quebec the Loyalists adhered to a pre-modern or perhaps Aristotelian conception of nature and politics that justified limits
on individual freedom for the common good. Unable to restore the pre-modern organization of society, Grant turns to Canadian social
democracy in its belief that the social good is necessary for individual flourishing, as the way forward.
This paper will conclude with a brief exploration of Michael Byers' response to Grant in Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? I will
argue that Byers praises Canada for reasons contrary to Grant. Considering contemporary issues such as terrorism, peacekeeping
versus counter-insurgency, missile defence, climate change, and others, Byers concludes that America is a conservative, reactionary
society characterized by strong nationalism, whereas Canada has been and should continue as a beacon of modern, progressive,
cosmopolitanism.
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AFSAHI, AFSOUN
Afsoun Afsahi is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on how the tools of deliberative
democracy can be used to enhance communication under difficult conditions. Under the supervision of Barbara Arneil, Fred
Cutler and Mark Warren, Afsoun's dissertation examines whether or not the willingness and capacity for deliberation changes
under conditions of deep diversity. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and Masters degree
from the University of British Columbia. AITKEN, ROBERT
Robert Aitken is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. His research interests include critical
international relations and security, governmentality and the cultural economy and the international political economy. His
recent publications include "Financializing Security: Political Prediction Markets and the Commodification of Uncertainty” (in
Security Dialogue), "Regul(ariz)ation of Fringe Credit: Payday Lending and the Borders of Global Financial Practice" (in
Competition and Change) and "The Ambiguities of Financial Belonging: Microfinance and Global Governmentality" (in Global
Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs).
ASELTINE, PAUL
Paul is a graduate student in the department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. Prior to enrolling in the U of M
graduate program, he completed his Bachelor of Arts (advanced) degree at the University of Manitoba with a major in Political
Studies, and a minor in History. Currently, Paul is focusing his research on sanctions, particularly Canada’s use of them since
1990. Some of his other research interests include: Canadian Politics, the Middle East, and Security Studies. He is also a co-chair
for the 2015 Political Studies Students Conference titled; The Great Wars: Marking History and Humanity at the University of
Manitoba. BANACK, CLARK
Clark Banack teaches Canadian and Provincial Politics and Canadian Political Thought at York University in Toronto. His research
interests revolve around questions related to religion and politics across North America
BARKER, PAUL
Paul Barker is an associate professor of political science at Brescia University College, an affiliate of the Western University. He
received his PhD from the University of Toronto. His research interests include health care in Canada and public sector decisionmaking.
BARKLEY, BLAKE
Blake Barkley is a Master of Strategic Studies student at the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies.
Blake is the recipient of a 2014-2015 Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada. His research focuses on the relationship between terrorist organizations and state failure in East Africa.
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BASTEDO, HEATHER
Heather Bastedo is a visiting assistant professor at Memorial University. Her research focuses on understanding the psychology
of youth voter engagement. She is also interested in democratic representation in practice; namely how Members of Parliament
function both inside and outside of Ottawa. Dr Bastedo is currently conducting a SSHRC funded focus group study project
involving disengaged youth across Canada. Her recent articles include “Young Canadians in the 2008 Federal Election
Campaign: Using Facebook to Probe Perceptions of Citizenship and Participation” and “Losing Heart: Declining Support and the
Political Marketing of the Afghanistan Mission,”both appearing in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
BERDAHL, LOLEEN
Loleen Berdahl (Ph.D. Calgary) is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research
interests include Canadian federalism and regionalism, public policy, and public opinion, and her current research is focused on
evidence and policy in Canada. She has published in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Regional and Federal Studies, and the
Canadian Journal of Political Science, and she is the coauthor of Looking West: Regional Transformation and the Future of Canada
(University of Toronto Press, 2014, with Roger Gibbins) and Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political
Science, Third Edition (Oxford University Press, 2015, with Keith Archer). Loleen is the Project Leader for the Survey and Group
Analysis Laboratory (SGAL) at the University of Saskatchewan’s Social Sciences Research Laboratories, and recipient of the 2012
University of Saskatchewan Provost’s Award for Outstanding New Teacher and the 2014 University of Saskatchewan Provost’s
Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Arts and Science, Division of Social Science. Loleen is a member of the
Canadian Political Science Association Board of Directors (2014-2016).
BÉRIAULT, XAVIER
Xavier Bériault is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa.
BLYTHE, MARK
Mark Blythe teaches at the University of Alberta. His research interests include Rawlsian liberalism, functional capability theory
and identity and multiculturalism.
BOTHA, JOHANU
Johanu Botha studied political science, English and psychology at McGill University. He found that the unifying factor among
these disciplines was their unique contribution in understanding and responding to public problems. He obtained a Masters of
Public Administration (distinction) at the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg, and found his research interest in
how political institutions accommodate or break under crisis. He has worked as a Policy Analyst and Special Projects Coordinator
at Manitoba Health's Office of Disaster Management, and is currently pursuing a SSHRC-funded PhD in Public Policy at
Carleton's School of Public Policy and Administration. BOYD, BRENDAN
Brendan Boyd is a Ph.D candidate in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Brendan’s research
interests include climate change policy and the transfer of policy information and ideas across Canadian provinces. Prior to
pursuing a Ph.D, Brendan spent three years working for the Manitoba Government on climate change issues.
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BURTON, MICHAEL
Michael Burton is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Alberta.
CHALLBORN, MARGOT
Margot Challborn is a second-year Master's student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. She
completed her undergraduate degree in political science at Carleton University, focusing on gender and politics and sexuality
studies. Her areas of study include family policy, social policy, and the political, social, legal and economic consequences of
neoliberalism and austerity. Specifically, her thesis research examines the intersections between motherhood (queer and ‘single
mothers by choice’) and public policy, focusing on who benefits from family-oriented policy agendas.
CHRISTIE, KENNETH
Kenneth Christie is a Professor in the School of Humanitarian Studies at Royal Roads University. His work focuses on issues of
human rights, security and democratization. He is the author of numerous publications, including America’s War on Terrorism:
the Revival of the Nation State versus Universal Human Rights (2008).
CHUNG, ALEX
Alex Chung is a graduate student at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
CHURCH, JOHN
John Church, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. His research
interests revolve around the role of institutions, ideas and interests in health care policy making. Dr. Church has worked with
international, national, provincial and regional health agencies in the evaluation of health care reforms. In 2012-2013, he
appeared as an expert witness before the Alberta Health Services Preferential Access Inquiry. He is co-editor and contributing
author for Paradigm Freeze: Why It Is So Hard to Reform Health Care in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2013).
CONES, NIGEL
Nigel Cones is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.
COOK, DEREK
Derek Cook teaches politics at Thompson Rivers University.
COOPER, CHRISTOPHER
Christopher A. Cooper is a PhD candidate at the University of Montreal. His doctoral dissertation studies the politics of deputy
ministerial appointments in Canada’s provincial bureaucracies. Christopher holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian
Graduate Doctoral Scholarship.
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COTÉ, ADAM
Adam is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. His areas of research include
securitization, security studies, outer space politics, and foreign policy decision-making. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he was
employed at the Department of Foreign Affairs, working on outer space policy.
COWIE, CHADWICK
Chad Cowie is currently a 2nd year Prospective PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta, where he focuses in Canadian and
Comparative Politics. Prior to attending the University of Alberta, Chad obtained his Master of Arts (Political Studies) from the
University of Manitoba as well as his Honours Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) at Western University. Chad’s research interests
include: Indigenous/Canadian relations; Indigenous governance, politics and theory theory; elections and voting behavior;
federalism; and concepts relating to sovereignty and state formation.
DEMOOR, MICHAEL
Michael J. DeMoor is Assistant professor of social philosophy in Politics, History, and Economics at the King's University in
Edmonton. His research focuses on the sources and nature of normativity (particularly rationality) in democratic political
thought.
DESMARAIS, DIEDRE A.
Dr. Diedre A. Desmarais is of Métis ancestry and was born and raised in Saskatchewan. Currently, Dr. Desmarais, Associate
Professor, University of Manitoba serves as Area Director of the Access and Aboriginal Focus Programs. Previously she served as
Registrar of the First Nations University of Canada for fifteen years, five of which also as Director of Students, lecturer for both
FNUniv and University of Regina in Indigenous Studies, Women and Gender Studies and Political Science. Dr. Desmarais’
doctorate is in Political Science and her research interests include Canadian Politics, post-colonial and conflict theory,
Indigenous identity and health care as it relates to Indigenous elderly. DORATY, KELTON
Kelton Doraty is a Master of Public Administration candidate at the University of Victoria and recently defended his Masters
project which assesses predictors of attitudes and risk perceptions towards the nuclear sector in Saskatchewan. He also holds a
bachelor of arts majoring in public administration from the University of Saskatchewan. Kelton is currently employed in the
Result-based Budgeting branch at the Government of Alberta where he performs a number of roles related to planning,
performance reporting, and evaluation.
DUBOIS, JANIQUE
Janique Dubois is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Brock University. Her research focuses on contemporary debates
about minority rights through community-based research with Indigenous and francophone communities in Canada.
EPPERSON, BRENT
Brent Epperson is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Alberta. His dissertation focuses on the role of media
frames and health policy narratives in the most recent American health care reform debates. In addition to his doctoral research,
Brent applies his study of narrative policy analysis and issue framing to the post-secondary education sphere, writing and
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commenting frequently on higher education debates in the Canadian press and working as the Graduate Ombudsperson at the
University of Alberta. FAFARD, PATRICK
Patrick Fafard has an extensive career in both academe and government. His public service career includes service with the
Government of Canada where he served as Director General in the Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat of the Privy Council
Office and with three provincial governments including serving as Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Commission on
Medicare (2000-2001). Patrick is the author, co-author and editor of several publications dealing with federalism, health and
environmental policy. He is the author of Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from Health and Political Sciences a report
prepared for the National Collaborating Centre on Healthy Public Policy. His work has appeared also in Regional and Federal
Studies, International Journal, Canadian Public Administration, and the Journal of Urban Health. His current research includes
work on evidence and public policy and the role of “science” and “social justice” in public health policy.
FARNEY, JIM
Jim Farney is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Regina. His primary research
interests are Canadian party politics, political institutions, and religion and politics. He is the author of Social Conservatism and
Party Politics in Canada and the United States (UTP) and editor (with David Rayside) of Conservatism in Canada (UTP), as well as a
number of book chapters and journal articles on those topics. He is currently working on a book examining the different ways
that Canadian provinces fund and regulate religious schools, an edited volume on Canadian federalism with Julie Simmons at
the University of Guelph, and projects on Canadian party politics with Royce Koop at the University of Manitoba.
FLANAGAN, TOM
Tom Flanagan is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Distinguished Fellow at the School of Public Policy, University of
Calgary. He has managed several national and provincial campaigns for conservative parties. He published two books in 2014,
Winning Power: Canadian Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and Persona Non Grata: The
Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age (McClelland and Stewart).
FRIESEN, ELIZABETH
Elizabeth Friesen Lecturer in Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research explores the role of social
and normative forces in supporting, as well as contesting, the rules and practices which govern international economic
relations. She is the author of Challenging Global Finance: Civil Society and Transnational Networks (Palgrave MacMillan: 2012).
FROESE, MARC D.
Marc D. Froese is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Founding Director of the International Studies Program at
Canadian University College. His research focuses upon the politics of international economic law within the context of North
American economic integration. He is the author or co-author of a number of books and articles examining the juridical and
institutional aspects of trade politics including Canada at the WTO: Trade Litigation and the Future of Public Policy, University of
Toronto Press, 2010. Current work focuses on the uneven development of mechanisms for dispute settlement in regional trade
agreements, and the international politics of compliance with dispute settlement decisions. His work may be accessed at http://
ssrn.com/author=887299.
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GLOR, ELEANOR
Eleanor Glor is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional
Studies and Fellow, McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto, Canada. During her career as a public servant, she worked for
the Government of Canada, two Canadian provincial governments (Sask. and Ont), a regional municipality and a city
(Edmonton). Before retiring she worked on sustainable development in the Public Health Agency of Canada. Eleanor has
published about innovation in the areas of aging, rehabilitation, public health, and aboriginal health. She has published four
books, a chapter and numerous articles on public sector innovation from an organizational, especially a public service
perspective. Eleanor is editor-in-chief of The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, www.innovation.cc It is
published by Rutgers-Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) https://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/publications GORDON, KELLY
Kelly Gordon is a PhD candidate in the school of Political studies, University of Ottawa.
GRANT, J. ANDREW
J. Andrew Grant is Associate Professor of International Relations at Queen’s University. Dr. Grant has conducted field research
throughout Africa and edited/co-edited four books: Darfur: Reflections on the Crisis and the Responses; The New Regionalism in
Africa; The Research Companion to Regionalisms; and New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa.
GREEN, JOYCE
Joyce Green is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Regina. Her research interest are currently focused on
Aboriginal-settler relations and the possibility of decolonization in Canada; and a transformative ecology of relationship with
place, epitomized by many traditional Aboriginal conceptions of land and place. Her recent publications include Making Space
for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood and Zed books, 2008); (with Ian Peach) "Prescribing Post-Colonial Politics and Policy in
Saskatchewan", in Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada (Keith Banting, Thomas Courchene and F.
Leslie. Seidle, eds), "From Stonechild to Social Cohesion: Anti-Racist Challenges for Saskatchewan" in Canadian Journal of
Political Science (2006) and "Self-determination, Citizenship, and Federalism: Indigenous and Canadian Palimpsest" in
Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations (Michael Murphy, ed).
HANLON, ROBERT
Robert Hanlon is a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and an Associate
Faculty Member in the School of Humanitarian Studies at Royal Roads University. His research explores the connection between
human rights violations, corporate social responsibility and corruption with a focus on Asia. He regularly serves as a consultant
to major multinational corporations on issues of business and human rights. Prior to joining TRU, Robert served as a
postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, for three years. He has taught at
the University of British Columbia, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Simon Fraser University, and the Royal Military College of
Canada. Outside academia, Hanlon has worked for the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in
Hong Kong, as well as the High Commission of Canada in Australia. Robert received his PhD in Asian politics from City University
of Hong Kong. He has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Oxford), the Liu Institute for Global Issues
(UBC), and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration (Chulalongkorn).
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HARDING, MARK
Mark Harding is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. His research interests are in
Canadian politics and political theory. Mark specializes in the relationship between courts and the elected branches of
government in Commonwealth states. He has articles in the National Journal of Constitutional Law and the Review of
Constitutional Studies.
HEWSON, MARTIN
Martin Hewson is Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina. His research interests
include the history of international relations, global conflict, warfare and security, comparative foreign policy and international
relations theory.
HIBBERT, NEIL
Neil Hibbert's (Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan) research examines issues of justice, equality and
authority in Contemporary Political Theory. His work in these areas has appeared in Politics and Ethics Review, Canadian Journal
of Political Science, Theoria, Journal of International Political Theory and Social Philosophy Today.
JANSEN, HAROLD
Harold Jansen is a Professor of Political Science and Board of Governors Teaching Chair at the University of Lethbridge. His
research interests include Alberta politics, electoral systems and electoral reform, Canadian political party finance, and the
impact of the Internet on political communication and democratic citizenship.
JEFFREY, BROOKE
Brooke Jeffrey is a Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. Her research is broadly focused on federalism and
Canadian public administration. Her current work on Canadian federalism examines the potential impact of the Harper
government’s ‘open federalism’ policies on social welfare, intergovernmental relations and national unity. She also investigates
federalism from a comparative perspective, most recently examining the role of federalism in political integration and the
internal cohesion of political parties in the European Union. Dr. Jeffrey’s current research interest concerning Canadian public
administration focuses on public service reform, in an ongoing project that explores issues of accountability and transparency in
light of recent structural changes in Canada’s public service. She is the author of three books including, Divided Loyalties: The
Liberal Party of Canada 1984-2008 (University of Toronto Press, 2010), as well as numerous journal articles.
KANJI, MEBS
Dr. Mebs Kanji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. His research interests
include Canadian politics, comparative politics, value diversity, social cohesion, political support and democratic governance.
KESKIN, EMRAH
Emrah Keskin is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.
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KOOP, ROYCE
Royce Koop is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Grassroots Liberals:
Organizing for Local and National Politics (UBC Press, 2011) and co-editor of Parties, Elections and the Future of Canadian
Politics (UBC Press, 2013).
LASHTA, ERIN
Erin Lashta is a graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan.
LECCE, STEVEN
Steven Lecce teaches political theory in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he is
Department Head. His research is primarily concerned with contemporary theories of social and distributive justice, and the
ethical bases of the liberal-democratic state. He is the author of Against Perfectionism: Defending Liberal Neutrality (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2008), and numerous articles about political philosophy. Last year, he was a Visiting Scholar at
Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of Social Justice. He was one of the co-organizers of the recent Fragile Freedoms lecture
series at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Currently, he is co-editing a book version of Fragile Freedoms for Oxford
University Press.
LEWIS, J.P.
J.P. Lewis is an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick - Saint John. He teaches Canadian Politics and research
Canadian cabinets and first ministers.
LEWIS, KATIE
Katie Lewis was raised in Calgary and moved to Edmonton to pursue her undergraduate degree in political science at the
University of Alberta in 2008. She is now earning her MA in the same department, which she hopes to complete in December
2014. Her research is in gender and politics, with a focus on how class, race and gender intersect in media representations of
victims of violent crime. She is a proud Edmontonian and loves living in the Old Strathcona area with her fiancé and pitbull,
Bristol.
MACDONALD, DAVID
David B MacDonald is professor of political science at the University of Guelph, Canada. He has written three books related to
issues of ethnicity and nationalism, genocide, collective identity, and the politics of memory, as well as numerous book chapters
and articles on similar themes. He has also co-edited three books, and recently co-authored a political science textbook with
Oxford University Press. His books include Thinking History, Fighting Evil (Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield), and Identity Politics
in the Age of Genocide (Routledge). Funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant,
Professor MacDonald is comparing models of indigenous-settler relations and debates about binationalism and
multiculturalism in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. Before moving to Guelph, he was a faculty member at the University of
Otago and the Graduate School of Management – Paris. He has a PhD in international relations from the London School of
Economics.
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MAHDAVI, MOJTABA
Mojtaba Mahdavi is Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle East Studies at University of Alberta. His recent books
include Under the Shadow of Khomeinism: Problems and Prospects for Democracy in Post-revolutionary
Iran(forthcoming), and Towards the Dignity of Difference? Neither End of History nor Clash of Civilizations (co-editor, Ashgate
Publishing 2012). He is the guest editor of the special issue of Journal of Sociology of Islam on “Contemporary Social Movements
in the Middle East and Beyond” (forthcoming), and is currently working on two book projects: Post-Islamism in Context: NeoShariati Discourse, and Political Sociology of Postrevolutionary Iran. His contributions have appeared in several refereed journals
and essays, edited volumes and interviews in English, Farsi, Arabic and Turkish languages. Dr. Mahdavi has given numerous
public talks and lectures to many academic institutions and communities in North America and the Middle East. He was the Liu
Institute Visiting Fellow in Residence at Green College, University of British Columbia (2012-13). He is the recipient of several
awards and grants. His research interests lie in social movements and democratization in the Muslim World; secularism,
Islamism and post-Islamism; modern Islamic political thought, comparative political theory, and international politics of the
Middle East. MARIER, PATRIK
Dr. Patrik Marier obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh (which also included a certificate in
West European studies). He holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Comparative Public Policy, which focuses mainly on the
policy challenges surrounding population aging. He is involved with a group of researchers at Concordia involved with the
creation of a research network on ageing. Dr. Marier's current research focuses on challenges to the welfare state, the impact of
population aging on public policy, and the elaboration and transformation of fiscal policies. His main project consists of
analysing comparatively, strategies elaborated by public administrations across Canadian provinces and American states to face
the upcoming demographic challenge. He has also received a SSHRC grant to pursue his work on pension reform in Latin
America (with Jean Mayer). His recent publications include Pension Politics: Consensus and Social Conflicts (Routledge: 2008),
"Affirming, Transforming, or Neglecting Gender? The Politics of Gender in the Pension Reform Process," (in Social Politics), and
"The Impact of Gender and Immigration on Pension Outcomes in Canada" with Suzanne Skinner (in Canadian Public Policy).
MCGRANE, DAVID
Dr. David McGrane was born and raised in Moose Jaw and did his undergraduate degree in Political Science at the University of
Regina and his Masters’ degree in Political Science at York University in Toronto. He completed his Ph.D. in political science at
Carleton University in Ottawa and is now an Associate Professor of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College and the
University of Saskatchewan. He has published in several academic journals and his most recent research is book entitled
Remaining Loyal: Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
McINTOSH, TOM
Tom McIntosh is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Faculty at the Saskatchewan Population Health and
Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) at the University of Regina. He earned a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of
Alberta(1986) and completed his graduate studies (M.A. 1988; PhD 1996) in Political Studies at Queen's University. He has held
positions at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and the
Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy at the University of Regina. He also served as a Senior Policy consultant to
Saskatchewan Health and a consultant to the Saskatchewan Commission on Medicare. From 2001 to 2002, he served as
Research Coordinator for the (Romanow) Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. From 2004 to 2007 he served as
Director of the Health Network for the Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN). His recent publications include the three
volumes of The Romanow Papers (2004), The Brain Drain of Health Professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa to Canada (2007) and
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articles in Canadian Public Administration (2004), Critical Public Health (2005) and The Lancet (2008). He is also the co-editor
of Redistributing Health: New Directions in Population Health Research in Canada (CPRC: 2010).
MELANÇON, JÉRÔME
Jérôme Melançon teaches political philosophy and Canadian politics at the University of Alberta Augustana Campus, where he is
also the chair of the Aboriginal Engagement Committee. His previous research on dissent has led to publications on the Czech
philosopher Jan Patočka and on the Vietnamese philosopher Tran Duc Thao. His current research, set in the phenomenological
tradition, seeks to develop a philosophy of democracy centred on personal experience, as well as a political philosophy of
culture.
MURPHY, MICHAEL
Michael Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, where
he holds the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Indigenous State Relations. Michael's research interests include citizenship
and democratic theory, indigenous rights and governance, multiculturalism, and the political philosophy of nationalism and
self-determination. Michael is co-author (with Helena Catt) of Sub-State Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional
Design (Routledge 2002), and (with Siobhan Harty) of In Defense of Multinational Citizenship (UWP 2005; Spanish Translation,
451 Editores 2008). He is also the editor of Re-Configuring Aboriginal-State Relations. Canada: The State of the Federation 2003
(McGill-Queen’s 2005), and Quebec and Canada in the New Century: New Dynamics, New Opportunities Canada: The State of the
Federation 2005 (McGill-Queen’s 2007). Michael is currently writing a critical introduction to multiculturalism, to be published
as part of the Routledge Contemporary Political Philosophy series, and continues to work on a longer-term comparative project
on democracy, reconciliation and indigenous self-determination.
MUUSSE, LAUREN
Lauren Muusse is a Masters student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, concentrating on
Canadian Politics. She is interested in the intersections of mainstream Canadian politics and Indigenous politics. Specifically, she
is interested in how public policy embraces Indigenous populations, and how policy affects various Indigenous groups.
Additionally, she is currently working on the topic of how Canadian nationalism intersects with Indigenous notions of
nationhood and identity.
NESBITT, DARIN
Darin Nesbitt teaches political science at Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia. His past academic publications
have examined topics such as individual rights, property rights, ethics, and democracy and education.
ÖNDER, NILGÜN
Dr. Nilgun Onder received a BSc degree with the highest distinction in Political Science and Public Administration from the
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. After receiving her MA degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, she completed
her PhD in Political Science at York University, Toronto. Dr. Onder joined the University of Regina in 2003. Besides having a fulltime faculty appointment in the Department of Political Science, she was appointed Coordinator of the International Studies
Program from 2006-2011. Her areas of specialization are International Relations, International Political Economy and
Comparative Political Economy. Her current research interests include the international political economy of global finance;
global economic governance; international financial institutions; globalization and state transformation; and Turkish politics. Dr. Onder teaches in both the Department of Political Science and the interdisciplinary International Studies Program. In
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addition to the introductory-level course in Political Science and International Studies, she teaches senior undergraduate and
graduate courses in the field on International Relations. She has published articles in international journals and presented
papers at numerous international academic conferences.
PAQUET, MIREILLE
Mireille Paquet is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. Mireille studies public policies for immigrant
selection and immigrant integration in Canada and in other traditional immigrant-receiving societies. Her current work –
funded by the FQRSC – focuses on the governance of immigration and integration policies in federal regimes (Canada, United
States and Australia), with a specific attention to the activism and activities of subnational units. Dr. Paquet is also conducting
research on public administration and immigration, and is especially interested in the role of public servant in the formulation
of immigrant selection policies. In the past, she has also conducted research on citizenship policy, citizenship tests and civic
integration, immigration integration in Canada and on policies to attract and integrate newcomers in francophone minority
communities. Dr. Paquet is one of the co-director, with Daniel Salée, Antoine Bilodeau and Chedly Belkhodja, of the Centre for
the Evaluation of Immigration Policies. Her recent and forthcoming publications include " The Federalization of Immigration
and Integration in Canada” (Canadian Journal of Political Science, forthcoming) and "Beyond Appearances: Citizenship Tests in
Canada and the UK " (Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2012).
PATTEN, STEVE
Steve Patten is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, where he teaches and
researches contemporary Canadian politics. He is coeditor (with Lois Harder) of Patriation and Its Consequences: ConstitutionMaking in Canada (UBC Press, forthcoming 2015) and author of a number of other publications, including: “The Politics of
Alberta’s One-Party State” in Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada’s Provinces and Territories in a
Neoliberal Era, ed. Bryan Evans and Charles Smith (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2015) and “The Triumph of
Neoliberalism within Partisan Conservatism in Canada” in Conservatism in Canada, ed. James Farney and David Rayside
(University of Toronto Press, 2013). With Lois Harder he also edited The Chrétien Legacy: Politics and Public Policy in Canada
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).
PICKUP, MARK
Mark Pickup is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. He is a specialist in
comparative politics and political methodology. Substantively, his research primarily falls into three areas: (1) the economy and
democratic accountability, (2) polls and electoral outcomes, and (3) conditions of democratic responsiveness. His research
focuses on political information, public opinion, the media, election campaigns, and electoral institutions within North
American and European countries. His methodological interests concern the analysis of longitudinal data (time series, panel,
network, etc.), with a secondary interest in Bayesian analysis. He has published in a variety of leading journals. He holds
degrees in chemical physics (BSc) and political science (BA, MA, and PhD). He received his doctoral degree at the University of
British Columbia. In addition to his current position at Simon Fraser University, he has been a lecturer at the University of
Nottingham and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford.
ROCHE, MICHAEL
Michael Roche is a graduate student is Political Studies at the University of Alberta.
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SALOMONS, GEOFF
Geoff Salomons is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Alberta.
SALT, ALEXANDER
Alexander Salt is a graduate student with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He received
his M.A. in Political Studies from the University of Manitoba in 2014 and a B.A (Hons.) in Political Studies and History from
Queen’s University in 2010. He has worked as a research assistant for the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, where he
examined the perceptions of Muslim community leadership on the causes of youth radicalization. In 2012-2013 he was the
senior Co-Chair and organizer of the University of Manitoba’s Political Studies Students’ Conference.
SAMPERT, SHANNON
Shannon Sampert is the Perspectives and Politics Editor at the Winnipeg Free Press. She is on leave from the University of
Winnipeg where she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research interests include media
and politics particularly as they relate to women and elections.
SAMYN, PAUL
Paul Samyn has been part of the Winnipeg Free Press newsroom for more than a quarter century, working his way up after
starting as a rookie reporter in 1988. And if you count the time he spent delivering the newspaper as a boy growing up in St.
James, his connection to the Free Press goes back even further. As a reporter, Paul wrote for every section of the paper, covered
elections, wars overseas and the funerals of a royal princess and a prime minister. The graduate of the University of Winnipeg
and Red River College helped lead the Free Press’s political coverage for a decade as its Ottawa bureau chief before being named
city editor in 2007. Paul became the 15th Editor of this 142-year old newspaper in the summer of 2012.
SAURETTE, PAUL
Paul Saurette is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include
contemporary political theory, ideology and politics of Conservatism and the "Right,” the role of humiliation in global relations
and international relations theory. He is the of several publications, including The Kantian Imperative: Humiliation, Common
Sense, Politics (University of Toronto Press: 2005).
SAYERS, ANTHONY
Anthony Sayers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. His research explores political
institutions including political parties, elections, federalism and parliaments, with a particular focus on the organizational and
campaigning aspects of political parties and the distribution of power in federal states. He is the author of Parties, Candidates
and Constituency Campaigns in Canadian Elections (UBC Press, 1999) as well as numerous articles in referred journals. He is
currently working on Alberta Rising: Politics in a One Party Province with David Stewart.
SHARMA, KAREN
Karen Sharma is a student in the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg’s Joint Masters Program in Public
Administration. Her research focuses on the intersections between traumatic histories and public policy. Karen’s recent paper,
“Mea Maxima Culpa: The Political Apology as an Instrument of Public Policy in Canada,” won the Institute of Public
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Administration of Canada’s Willard J Condo Memorial Prize (2013) and Silver Prize in IPAC’s National Student Thought
Leadership Awards (2013). Karen has experience working with government in the areas of immigration, labour market training
and federal-provincial relations. At present, she manages the secretariat of a federal-provincial/territorial working group under
the Forum of Labour Market Ministers, tasked with improving qualifications recognition systems for internationally educated
individuals.
SHARPE, CODY
Cody Sharpe is a PhD student at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. His dissertation focuses on how policy
makers in Canadian cities transform sustainability from an idea into a policy objective through the use of policy narratives,
stories which use elements like heroes, villains, and victims to provide structure to complex issues and identify courses of action.
He looks forward to teaching my first course in the winter term, and after graduation he hopes to work for an NGO focused on
helping cities develop in more sustainable ways.
SHELDRICK, BYRON
Byron Sheldrick is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. Before joining the University of
Guelph he taught in the Department of Law at Keele University in the U.K. and in the Politics department at the University of
Winnipeg. His research focuses on the intersection of law and politics, social policy, public administration and state
restructuring, and the politics of social democracy SIMPSON, DEBORAH
Deborah Simpson is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Regina. Her research interests include
civil society and social movements; participatory democracy and democratic transition; discourses of development; HIV and
AIDS; gender and development; planning, monitoring and evaluation; cultural forms of resistance; and North-South relations.
SMALL, TAMARA
Tamara A. Small is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. Her research
interests focus is digital politics: use and impact of the Internet by Canadian political actors. Her work has been published in the
Information Communication and Society, Party Politics and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. She is a co-editor of Political
Communication in Canada: Meet the Press, Tweet the Rest (UBC Press).
SMITH, CHARLES
Charles Smith is an Assistant Professor of POlitical Studies at St. Thomas More College (University of Saskatchewan). His
research interests include Canadian provincial politics in the age of globalization, organized labour and the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms, law, politics and collective bargaining in Canada. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters,
including "Public Sector Unions and Electoral Policies in Canada." (with Larry Savage) In The Politics of the Public Sector Unions,
edited by Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage (Fernwood, 2013), "The Politics of Transparency and Independence before
Administrative Boards," (with Lorne Sossin) Saskatchewan Law Review, ""The courts have seldom been the worker's friend": Labour, courts and the erosion of workers' freedoms in Canada," in Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage eds., Rethinking the Politics
of Labour in Canada (Fernwood: 2012) and "The "New Normal" in Saskatchewan: Neoliberalism and the Challenge to Workers
Rights," in David McGrane ed., New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy (University of Regina Press, 2011).
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SOKOLON, MARLENE K.
Marlene Sokolon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. Dr. Marlene K.
Sokolon’s main area of research is ancient Greek political thought, but she also has wider interests in the history of political
ideas, Roman, medieval, and modern political thought, politics and literature, and politics and emotions; in the field of public
policy, Dr. Sokolon researches the political and ethical challenges of new technologies, such as agriculture and medical
biotechnology, to policy formation. Her current research program focuses on the contribution of ancient poetic and dramatic
texts to the understanding key political concepts, such as justice and authority, as well as how literary texts enhance the
epistemology of political analysis. She currently is working on a book concerning the conceptualization of justice in several of
Euripides’ plays and how this ancient Greek understanding can help clarify modern debates on the meaning of justice. She is the
author of several publications including the book Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion
(Northern Illinois University Press, 2006). In the future, she intends to bring together her expertise in ancient political thought
with interests in public policy; in particular, she intends to explore how ancient conceptualizations of the human relationship to
the natural world shed light on contemporary debates concerning biotechnology and public policy.
STEVENS, ANDREW
Andrew Stevens is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Business
Administration at the University of Regina. Andrew’s interests reside in the areas of industrial relations and trade unionism. His
current research involves a study of unions representing employees at Air Canada and the effects that federal back-to-work
legislation has had on labour-management relations at the company. He is also interested in how migrant service workers are
changing the face of Saskatchewan’s labour market. Andrew is currently working on a book manuscript, titled “Call Centers and
the Global Division of Labor: A Political Economy of Post-Industrial Employment and Union Organizing”.
STEWART, DAVID
David Stewart is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. His research interests include Canadian politics,
political parties and provincial politics. He is the author of numerous publications, including (with Ian Stewart) Conventional
Choice: Maritime Leadership Politics (UBC Press, 2007) and (with Keith Archer) Quasi-Democracy? Parties and Leadership Selection
in Alberta (UBC Press, 2001).
TANNAHILL, KERRY
Kerry Tannahill is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. Her areas of interest are
comparative and Canadian Politics with special attention to political support, value diversity, and identity.
THOMAS, MELANEE
Melanee Thomas joined the University of Calgary’s Department of Political Science in 2012. Prior to this, she was the SkeltonClark Post-Doctoral Fellow in Canadian Affairs in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. Her research focuses
on the causes and consequences of gender-based political inequality in Canada and other post-industrial democracies, with a
particular focus on political attitudes and behaviour, and policy feedback. Her current projects include an edited collection titled
Mothers and Others: Understanding the Impact of Family Life on Politics (funded by a SSHRC Aid to Workshops Grant), an
exploration of the effects of gender, stereotype threat, and psychological orientations to politics, and project examining the
selection of women to the premier's office in Canada.
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THOMPSON, KAI
Kai Thompson is a student in Political Science at the University of Lethbridge.
TOOKER, LAUREN
Lauren Tooker is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Her
research interests lie in the field of political economy broadly conceived, with a focus on the politics and ethics of finance,
everyday practices of ethics, and cultural political economy. Her doctoral project examines the everyday politics and ethics of
indebtedness. TORRE, DAVID
David Torre is a PhD Candidate and Sessional Instructor at the University of Calgary in the Department of Political Science. He
has been awarded a 2014-15 Doctoral Award from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). David’s thesis
focuses on the factors that shape a state’s relationship to commercial nuclear power.
TRIMBLE, LINDA
Linda Trimble is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she teaches courses
on Canadian politics, media politics and research methods. She is an award-winning teacher and recent winner of the Killam
Award for Excellence in Mentoring. An expert on women’s legislative representation, Dr. Trimble’s current work focuses on the
relationships between media, gender and political leadership.
WARD, ANN
Ann Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political and International Studies at Campion College, University of Regina.
Her research interests are in the history of political philosophy, especially ancient political philosophy, 19th century political
thought, and feminist philosophy. She is the author of Herodotus and the Philosophy of Empire (Baylor, 2008), and has edited
Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy (Lexington, 2009), and Socrates: Reason or Unreason as the
Foundation of European Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). She has also co-edited with Lee Ward Natural Right and
Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert (UNDP, 2013), and The Ashgate Research Companion
to Federalism (Ashgate, 2009).
WARD, LEE
Dr. Lee Ward is Alpha Sigma Nu Distinguished Associate Professor in Campion College at the University of Regina. His research
interests are in the history of political philosophy. He is the author of Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in
Spinoza, Rousseau and Jefferson (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014), John Locke and Modern Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), The
Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and co-edited with Dr. Ann Ward The
Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism (Ashgate Publishing, 2009) and Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor
of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert (University of Note Dame Press, 2013). He has also written articles on John Locke,
Aristotle, Montesquieu, Algernon Sidney, James Otis, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Plato and Spinoza that have appeared in a variety
of journals.
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WESLEY, JARED
Jared Wesley (PhD Calgary) is adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, adjunct professor of Political
Studies at the University of Manitoba, and Director of Social Policy in Alberta International and Intergovernmental Relations. His teaching and research interests include Canadian federalism and provincial politics, with a focus on party politics and
elections. WIPF, KEVIN
Kevin Wipf teaches courses in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, and has been working on several
projects in the Government of Alberta for the Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General and the Southern Alberta Flood Recovery
Task Force. Kevin's interest in agriculture policy is driven by his experience working on his family's grain farm while growing up. YOUNG, LISA
Lisa Young is Vice Provost and Dean, Graduate Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. She is
author/co-author/co-editor of Money, Politics and Democracy; Advocacy Groups; Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics; and Feminists
and Party Politics, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her research interests include political finance, party
membership and women’s participation in politics.
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STAYING IN BANFF
EAT
Restaurants and bars abound in Banff. Banff Avenue has the highest density of eateries. Here is a short
list of good hits. Reservations recommended.
THE BISON
ST. JAMES GATE OLDE IRISH PUB
John Gilchrist gave an unflattering
review but the locals think more favorably.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in a
contemporary alpine timber space.
211 Bear Street 403-762-5550
A pub originally constructed and built in Dublin, Ireland,
then transported and rebuilt in Banff. Guinness, anyone?
207 Wolf Street 403-762-9355
THE GRIZZLY HOUSE
A cozy place, Coyote’s Southwestern Grill is a great spot for
lunch or supper spot if you are looking for a good
home-cooked meal.
206 Caribou Street 403-762-3963
PLAY
Fondue has never been this wild: you can try gator,
rattlesnake,wild boar, shark, and buffalo.
207 Banff Ave 403-762-4055
COYOTE’S
SOME SUGGESTIONS
TAXI SERVICE
Bow Falls
The Whyte Museum
Tunnel Mountain Hike from the Banff
Centre (1.5-2 hours)
Hike along the trail at Surprise Corner
Sulfur Mountain Gondola
Banff Upper Hot Springs
Walk along the Bow River
Visit Vermillion Lakes
Shop on Banff Ave
Go for ice cream at Cow’s on Banff Ave
Taxi Taxi 403-762-0000
Mountain Taxi and Tours 403-762-3351
Banff Taxi 403-762-3351
CURRENT EVENTS
For a list of current events in Banff, visit:
http://www.banfflakelouise.com
THE BANFF CENTRE
STAY
Founded in 1933, THE BANFF CENTRE began with a single course in drama. As arts programming flourished, conferences
and management programs in the 1950s. In 1978, Alberta government legislation granted The Banff Centre full autonomy
as a non-degree granting educational institution under the governance of an appointed board.
In the mid-1990s, the Centre, along with most public institutions in Alberta, sustained cuts to its operating grant. It
responded in an entrepreneurial way, raising funds for state-of-the-art revenue generating conference facilities, as well as
a new Music & Sound complex. The Centre was later recognized as a National Training Institute by the federal government
and was awarded $3 million over three years for artistic training programs.
The Banff Centre is the largest arts and creativity incubator in Canada. Their mission is inspiring creativity. Over 8,000
artists, leaders, and researchers from across Canada and around the world participate in programs at The Banff Centre every
year. Through its multidisciplinary programming, The Banff Centre provides them with the support they need to create, to
develop solutions, and to make the impossible possible.
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MAP OF THE BANFF CENTRE
Tunnel Mountain hike trail head
Elevation 1,445 metres
(4,743 feet)
TUNNEL MOUNTAIN DRIVE
Road closed
in winter
ST. J
Box Office
ST. JU
LIEN
WAY
Eric
Harvie
Theatre
Farrally
Hall
MAD
SEN
To Town
of Banff via
Wolverine St.
Banff
Cemetery
To Town of
Banff via
Buffalo St.
Leighton Artist's Colony
no public access
Rolston
Recital
Hall
Music
Huts
Laszlo
Funtek
Teaching
Wing
passthrough
Vinci
Hall
Donald
Cameron
Centre
PATH
Corbett
Hall
(BIRS)
Service
Building
Margaret
Greenham
Theatre
The Club
Campus Directory
Xerox
Printshop
Music
Huts
AY
Music &
Sound
Building
Overflow parking
Town of Banff
KEN
U
W
LIEN
Lloyd
Hall
Sally Borden
Building
Kinnear Centre
for Creativity
and Innovation
Becker
Hall
Professional
Development
Centre
Dining Centre
Three Ravens
Vistas
Le Café
Swimming Pool
Front Desk
Reception
TU
EL
MO
UN
TAIN
DRI
VE
To Town of Banff
via Bow Falls
ATM
ST. JU
NN
Campus Directory
LIEN
ROAD
Maclab
Bistro
Max
Bell
Building
TransCanada
PipeLines
Pavilion
Shaw
Amphitheatre
Jeanne
& Peter
Lougheed
Building
Walter
Phillips
Gallery
Glyde
Hall
Dining Facilities
Elevation 1,412 metres
(4,634 feet)
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