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Monday, April 15, 2024
In her new paper, SPPA's Anna Kopec considers how policy characteristics interact to influence the political participation of individuals experiencing homelessness in two cases: Toronto and Melbourne. Drawing on over 100 qualitative interviews Kopec offers important theoretical contributions to policy feedback theory and our understanding of how... More
Thursday, April 11, 2024
SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon is co-author, with Joel Lexchin and Carleton students Bleu Miraoran Dong and Aravind Ramanathan, on a recent paper published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) that underscore the existing institutional limitations in ensuring comprehensive reporting and publication of... More
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon is co-editor of a special issue of Frontiers in Medicine on research topic: Current priorities in health research agendas: tensions between public and commercial interests in prioritizing biomedical, social, and environmental aspects of health. This thought-provoking collection of manuscripts includes... More
Monday, April 8, 2024
“Whistleblowing is a mechanism for accountability. It tells you who is responsible for issues, and who should fix them" - Paloma Raggo, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the Charity Insights Canada Project By Ty Burke Whistleblowers shed light on problems that would otherwise remain in the shadows, alerting... More
Friday, March 15, 2024
We are proud to share that SPPA Instructor Angela Merriam has received the Contract Instructor Teaching Innovation Grant, one the 2024 CU Achievement Awards, in recognition of excellence in her teaching. This award provides support to a Contract Instructor for investigating student learning and alternative approaches to teaching and assessing... More
Thursday, March 14, 2024
New paper from SPPA Associate Professor and lead author, Mehdi Ammi looks at COVID-19 policies and outcomes such as deaths, hospitalizations and ICU admissions across Canada, and the relationship between non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and COVID vaccine coverage. The study, which found varying experiences across provinces, suggests the... More
Friday, March 1, 2024
As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we are sharing Research Summaries each month highlighting some of SPPA’s broad-ranging research. Here is this month’s Research Summary: What is a Territory? SPPA faculty member Jerald Sabin delves into this question in his recent paper by comparing Canadian and American... More
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Public health operates in the shadow. Surveilling and preventing disease, as well as promoting and protecting health are the missions of public health, but these missions result in outcomes mostly unobserved: diseases and deaths that are avoided. For these reasons, only a small fraction of health expenditures is allocated to public health.... More
Friday, February 23, 2024
A newly released article by SPPA Professor, Robert Shepherd, and ENAP & SPPA Adjunct Professor, Daniel Caron, comments on the recent Report to the Clerk on Values and Ethics in Government. It provides several explanations as to how ethics is shifting in government, and that much greater attention must be given to a substantive... More
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Ed Broadbent's book, "Seeking Social Democracy", co-authored with SPPA's Frances Abele debuted on the Canadian non-fiction bestseller list earlier this month. Toronto Star bestsellers for the week ending Feb. 7, 2024 By Sarah Murdoch (Toronto Star) Trending “Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality,” published in... More
Thursday, February 15, 2024
SPPA's Dr. Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld, along with co-authors Gregory Britten and Boris Worm use "bright spot" analysis to better understand successful governance of fish populations in their newly published paper "Learning from positive deviants in fisheries". The authors suggest that a positive deviant approach, already used in... More
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
SPPA Professor Robert Shepherd co-authors report with Evert Lindquist "Smarter Government for Turbulent Times", calling for strategic spending reviews by Federal Government. Published by the C.D. Howe Institute, February 2024. ISBN 978-1-77881-016-9; ISSN 0824-8001 (print); ISSN 1703-0765 (online) C.D. Howe Press Release (February 6, 2024): Six... More
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