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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
- Numéro spécial APC 2009: Le fédéralisme, la politique publique et les municipalités - Introduction. Canadian Public Administration. 52:343-345. 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
- Editor's introduction. Canadian Public Administration. 49:409-411. 2006
- Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers and Parliament. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 38:229-230. 2005
- The rapid emergence of civil society in Botswana. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. 42:333-355. 2004
- The Great Books Revisited series. Canadian Public Administration. 46:117-119. 2003
- 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 consolidation of democracy in Mauritius. Democratization. 6:179-197. 1999
- The Question of Changing Moral and Ethical Standards in Canadian Political Life?. Journal of Canadian Studies. 34:201-212. 1999
- Civic Networks, Legitimacy and the Policy Process. Governance. 12:1-28. 1999
- Response to environmental change in the residential house building industry in Ontario (1978 -1984). Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 7:1-26. 1998
- 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
- Program drift: the rational road to policy perversity. Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 4:21-41. 1995
- The Mauritian senior public service since independence: some lessons for developing and developed nations. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 59:423-440. 1993
- 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
- Politics and Administration: A Trichotomy?. Governance. 3:345-366. 1990
- 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. 18:64-74. 1989
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