Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables xi
5. Part 1: Introduction
6. 1. The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Canada: An Introduction and Overview 5
7. 2. Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy Revisited: The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Contemporary Government 19
8. Part 2: Policy Work in Canadian Government
9. 3. Policy Capacity and Incapacity in Canada’s Federal Government 39
10. 4. Policy Analysis and Policy Work at the Provincial and Territorial Level: Demographics and Description 58
11. 5. The Policy Analytical Capacity of the Government of Quebec: Results from a Survey of Officials 77
12. 6. Differences in Federal and Provincial Policy Analysis 87
13. 7. Intergovernmental Policy Capacities and Practices in Canada 100
14. 8. Public Managers and Policy Analytical Capacity in Canada 111
15. 9. Policy Work and the Political Arm of Government 134
16. Part 3: Policy Work outside Government
17. 10. The Role of Policy Consultants: “Consultocracy” or Business as Usual 155
18. 11. Inside the Black Box of Academic Researchers–Policy Analysts Interactions 183
19. 12. Government Science and Policy Advice: Evidence-based Policymaking at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Its Implications for the Practice of Policy Analysis 207
20. 13. Mandates, Political Parties, and Policy Capacity 224
21. 14. Policy Dialogue and Engagement between Non-Government Organizations and Government: A Survey of Processes and Instruments of Canadian Policy Workers 241
22. Part 4: Improving Canadian Policy Work
23. 15. Targeted Supply-Side Policy Capacity Dynamics: High-Calibre Policy Worker Recruitment in Canada 267
24. 16. (Re)Scaling Policy Capacity between Government and the Voluntary Sector in Canada 288
25. 17. Towards Policy Analysis 2.0: Platforms for Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration among Policy Analysts 302
26. Part 5: Conclusion
27. 18. Policy Work System Dynamics: Implications for Practice, Pedagogy, and Scholarship 325
28. References 335
29. Permission Credits 383
30. Contributors 385