selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Decentralisation and Devolution in Canadian Social Housing Policy. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 28:389-404. 2010
- CPA special issue 2009: Federalism, public policy and municipalities - Introduction. Canadian Public Administration. 52:341-342. 2009
- Editor's introduction to the special issue on public-private partnerships. Canadian Public Administration. 51:1-4. 2008
- Enduring, ephemeral and emerging issues in public administration in Canada: Trends in Canadian Public Administration over fifty years (1958–2007). Canadian Public Administration. 50:477-491. 2007
- Breaking the bargain: Public servants, ministers and parliament. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 38:229-230. 2005
- Policy-making and administrative discretion: The case of immigration in Canada. Canadian Public Administration. 45:239-257. 2002
- The Road to Innovation, Convergence or Inertia: Devolution in Housing Policy in Canada. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 26:277-277. 2000
- Trouble in paradise: Ethnic conflict in Mauritius. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. 38:25-50. 2000
- Movers and stayers: mobility patterns among senior public servants in Canadian provinces. Canadian Public Administration. 43:198-217. 2000
- Accommodating ethnic diversity in a modernizing democratic state: theory and practice in the case of Mauritius. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 23:120-142. 2000
- Beyond inequalities: women in Mauritius. Journal of Modern African Studies. 37:723-724. 1999
- The Question of Changing Moral and Ethical Standards in Canadian Political Life?Honest Politics: Seeking Integrity in Canadian Public Life. Ian Greene and David'. Shugarman. Toronto: Lorimer, 1997.Corruption, Character and Conduct: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics. Jhn W. Langford and Allan Tupper. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994.The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism: Paradoxes, Achievements, and ragedies of Nationhood. Samuel V. LaSelva. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University ress, 1996.. Journal of Canadian Studies. 34:201-212. 1999
- Civic Networks, Legitimacy and the Policy Process. Governance. 12:1-28. 1999
- State and ethnicity in Botswana and Mauritius: A democratic route to development?. Journal of Development Studies. 33:464-486. 1997
- Is there empirical evidence of a David E. carkuttrendtowards "managerialism"? A longitudinal study of six countries. Canadian Public Administration. 39:535-553. 1996
- Bureaucratic élites: some patterns in career paths over time. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 62:383-399. 1996
- The road to better public services: Progress and constraints in five Canadian Federal Agencies - Doern,GB. Canadian Public Administration. 39:258-260. 1996
- Book Review: Joseph White and Aaron Wildavsky. The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980’s, University of California Press, 1990, pp. xxiv, 671, $US45.00 (hardcover). Political Science. 43:83-84. 1991
- The structure of the Canadian bureaucratic elite: Some evidence of change. Canadian Public Administration. 34:359-372. 1991
- Systemic Conservatism in North American Organizations. Organization Studies. 11:413-433. 1990
- Administrative devolution and accountability: the case of the non-profit housing program. Canadian Public Administration. 32:345-366. 1989
- Post-War Trends in Canadian Housing Policy. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 18:64-64. 1989