selected scholarly activity
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books
- From consent to coercion: The continuing assault on labour, fourth edition 2023
- Introduction 2021
- The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity 2021
- Introduction: Transforming provincial politics: The political economy of Canada's provinces and territories in a neoliberal era 2015
- Transforming provincial politics: The political economy of Canada's provinces and territories in the neoliberal era 2015
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chapters
- Class Struggle from Above. 103-134. 2021
- Conclusion: Beyond Austerity. 177-198. 2021
- Insecurity and Poverty. 135-156. 2021
- Introduction: Varieties of Austerity. 1-28. 2021
- Limits and Possibilities of Resistance. 157-176. 2021
- List of Figures and Tables. iv-iv. 2021
- Selling Restraint. 55-80. 2021
- Spending in an Austere Era. 29-54. 2021
- Transforming the Public Sector. 81-102. 2021
- Conclusion. 292-300. 2021
- Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain. 176-194. 2021
- Policy analysis and advocacy in the Canadian labour movement: When the force of argument is not enough. 331-350. 2018
- The “lumpiness” thesis revisited: the venues of policy work and the distribution of analytical techniques in Canada. 49-68. 2018
- The “lumpiness” thesis revisited: the venues of policy work and the distribution of analytical techniques in Canada. 49-68. 2018
- The “lumpiness” thesis revisited: the venues of policy work and the distribution of analytical techniques in Canada. 49-68. 2018
- The “lumpiness” thesis revisited: the venues of policy work and the distribution of analytical techniques in Canada. 49-68. 2018
- Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis. 291-305. 2017
- Policy dialogue and engagement between non-government organizations and government: A survey of processes and instruments of Canadian policy workers. 241-264. 2016
- Chapter 8: Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: the distribution of analytical tools. 163-183. 2015
- Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: the distribution of analytical tools. 163-183. 2015
- The transformation of Ontario politics: The long ascent of neoliberalism. 162-192. 2015
- A Canada-Wide survey of deputy and assistant deputy ministers: A descriptive analysis. 324-363. 2014
- From ‘Gurus’ to chief executives?: The contestable transformation of Ontario’s deputy ministers, 1971 to 2007. 148-200. 2014
- From pragmatism to neoliberalism: Ontario’s hesitant farewell to Dr Keynes. 131-161. 2010
- Capacity, complexity, and leadership: Secretaries to cabinet and Ontario’s project of modernization at the centre. 121-160. 2008
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journal articles
- Policy capacity research: An overview and bibliography of the international literature, 1978 to 2023. International Review of Public Policy. 6:110-141. 2024
- Canada's Lobbying Industry: Business and Public Interest Advocacy from Harper to Trudeau. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 56:975-998. 2023
- What's going on in there? Canadian government policy labs and public value management. Canadian Public Administration. 66:514-532. 2023
- Canadian government policy innovation labs: An experimental turn in policy work?. Canadian Public Administration. 64:587-610. 2021
- Reductive Cleavage of Organic Peroxides by Iron Salts and Thiols. ACS Omega. 3:14054-14063. 2018
- Policy Advice from Outsiders: The Challenges of Policy Co-construction. International Journal of Public Administration. 41:1181-1191. 2018
- 2017 Canadian Surgery Forum Abstracts. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 60:S109-S181. 2017
- Co-constructing Performance Indicators in Home and Community Care: Assessing the Role of NGOs in Three Canadian Provinces. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research. 7:46-73. 2016
- Imagination warfare: targeting youths on the everyday battlefields of the 21st century. Social Identities. 22:230-246. 2016
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Are non‐government policy actors being heard? Assessing New Public Governance in three
C anadian provinces. Canadian Public Administration. 58:249-270. 2015 - Tales of Policy Estrangement: Non-governmental Policy Work and Capacity in Three Canadian Provinces. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research. 5:7-28. 2014
- The distribution of analytical techniques in policy advisory systems: Policy formulation and the tools of policy appraisal. Public Policy and Administration. 29:271-291. 2014
- Corrigendum to “Comparing sub-national policy workers in Canada and the Czech Republic: Who are they, what they do, and why it matters?” [Policy Soc. 33 (2) (2014) 103–115]. Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research. 33:299-299. 2014
- Comparing sub-national policy workers in Canada and the Czech Republic: Who are they, what they do, and why it matters?. Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research. 33:103-115. 2014
- Contemporary policy work in subnational governments and NGOs: Comparing evidence from Australia, Canada and the Czech Republic. Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research. 33:77-87. 2014
- Nonprofit engagement with provincial policy officials: The case of NGO policy voice in Canadian immigrant settlement services. Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research. 33:117-127. 2014
- Policy dialogue and engagement between non-governmental organizations and government: A survey of processes and instruments of canadian policy workers. Central European Journal of Public Policy. 7:60-87. 2013
- Building a Policy-Oriented Research Partnership for Knowledge Mobilization and Knowledge Transfer: The Case of the Canadian Metropolis Project. Administrative Sciences. 2:250-272. 2012
- Trends in Australian and Canadian Public Service Perceptions from an Employee Survey Perspective. Australian Journal of Public Administration. 71:423-439. 2012
- Assessing policy capacity in Canada's public services: Perspectives of deputy and assistant deputy ministers. Canadian Public Administration. 54:217-234. 2011
- Review of the prevalence of macroprolactinaemia in a South African hospital. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 47:882-884. 2009
- Profiling of the public‐service élite: A demographic and career trajectory survey of deputy and assistant deputy ministers in Canada. Canadian Public Administration. 50:609-634. 2007
- How the State Changes Its Mind: A Gramscian Account of Ontario’s Managerial Culture Change. Philosophy of Management. 5:25-46. 2005
- The Politics of Public Management: The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 37:1022-1023. 2004
- Longitudinal analyses of the effects of neutralizing antibodies on interferon beta-1b in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis. 10:126-138. 2004
- The Poverty of Comparative Public Administration in a Neo-Liberal Era: A Commentary on Subramaniam. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 67:329-334. 2001
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preprints