2 Political Economy and Canadian Public Policy

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Critical Policy Studies 1
6. Political Economy
7. Political Economy and Canadian Public Policy 19
8. Policy Analysis in an Era of “Globalization”: Capturing Spatial Dimensions and Scalar Strategies 41
9. Citizens and Diversity
10. Citizen Engagement: Rewiring the Policy Process 67
11. Queering Public Policy: A Canadian Perspective 91
12. Gender Mainstreaming in the Canadian Context: “One Step Forward and Two Steps Back” 111
13. Political Science, Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy 137
14. Discourse and Knowledge
15. Governmentality and the Shifting Winds of Policy Studies 161
16. Agenda-Setting and Issue Definition 185
17. Scientists, Government, and “Boundary Work”: The Case of Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Engineering in Canada 211
18. Between Respect and Control: Traditional Indigenous Knowledge in Canadian Public Policy 233
19. Framing Environmental Policy: Aboriginal Rights and the Conservation of Migratory Birds 257
20. Risky Subjects
21. From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State: A New Paradigm for Canadian Social Policy? 279
22. Canadian Post-9/11 Border Policy and Spillover Securitization: Smart, Safe, Sovereign? 299
23. The Permanent-Emergency Compensation State: A “Postsocialist” Tale of Political Dystopia 321
24. Discourses in Distress: From “Health Promotion” to “Population Health” to “You Are Responsible for Your Own Health” 347
25. Contributors 365
26. Index 369