selected scholarly activity
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book reviews
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chapters
- The Policy Capacity of Political Parties in Canada. 257-274. 2018
- Rethinking Policy Capacity in Canada: The Role of Parties and Election Platforms in Government Policy-making 2017
- Rethinking or Redefining Judicial Activism: Section 1 and Reasons versus Outcomes 2017
- Why Study Political Science 2015
- Litigating the Right to Vote and Government Efforts at Limiting Electoral Participation and the Franchise. 433-446. 2015
- Who Controls Government? Elected Officials 2011
- Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism 2010
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journal articles
- Judicial Intervention or Activism? The Judicialization of Prerogative Powers in Canada. Parliamentary Affairs. 68:135-153. 2015
- Meaningful Participation? The Judicialization of Electoral Reform in Canada Post-Figueroa v. Canada. Canadian Political Science Review. 7:37-46. 2013
- Court Decisions, NIMBY Claims, and the Siting of Unwanted Facilities: Policy Frames and the Impact of Judicialization in Locating a Landfill for Toronto's Solid Waste. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 37:381-393. 2011
- Rethinking policy capacity in Canada: The role of parties and election platforms in government policy-making. Canadian Public Administration. 54:235-253. 2011
- An Internationalist Western Labour Response to the Globalization of India and China. Global Labour Journal. 1. 2010
- Strategic Defamation Lawsuits and Parliamentary Accountability. Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law. 4:283-298. 2010
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presentations
- Mental Health, Policy Change and the Courts: Assessing the Impact of PS v. Ontario 2022
- Do Canadian Politicians Keep Their Election Promises After Forming Government 2017
- Judicial Supervision: Activism, Dialogue or Democracy 2017
- Lack of Judicial Supervision: The Immigration Review Board and the non-accountability of quasi-judicial tribunals 2016
- Improving Instructor and Student Outcomes - Problem Based Learning in Political Science 2014
- Litigating Democracy: Judicial Resolutions of Electoral Controversies in Canada 2014
- Juristocracy? The Judicialization of Elections in Australia and Canada 2014
- Going Green or Protecting Turf? Limitations on Judicial and Tribunal Discretion to Review Environmental Legislation 2013
- The Legal and Political Influence of Justice Wilson’s Approach in Morgentaler 2013
- The Sources of Election Manifesto Commitments: Party Member Participation and Influence on Government Policy Outputs 2012
- The Policy Problems between Impact of the Judicialization of Multi-Venue Disputes: Cross-Border Environmental Canada and the United States 2011
- Explaining Outcomes: Leadership Experience and Saturation as Determinants in Elections on a Comparative Basis 2011
- The Judicialization of Democracy in Canada: The Case of the 2008 Federal Election 2011
- Judicial consideration of the Crown/executive's prerogative powers and the conduct of foreign affairs and national security policies in Australia and Canada 2011
- Election Promises and Minority Government 2010
- The Judicialization and Democratization of Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy in Canada 2010
- The Judicialization of Democracy in Canada: The Case of Senate Reform 2010
- The Impact of Defamation Suits on Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand and Canada 2010
- Strategic Defamation Lawsuits 2009
- Party Member and Public Participation in Party Policy Processes 2009
- Talking Trash – Different Institutions, Different Discourses, Different Outcomes 2009
- Leadership Saturation and Heeding the Calls for “Change”: An Explanation of the Outcomes of the Outcomes of the General Elections in Australia, Canada and New Zealand in 2007- 2008 2009
- Revisiting the Electoral Policy Mandate: An Examination of the Factors that Contribute to Election Promise Fulfillment in Canada 2008
- Bounded Rationality or Strategically Bound: The Drafting of Canadian Election Platforms and the Rise of Wedge Politics 2008
- The New Zealand Mandate: The Policy Capacity of Parties and Electoral System Change 2008