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POLI 4555

Political Science 4555 FA

Historical course

Fall 2015

Topics

  • Introduction: public policy as an object of study
  • Macroeconomic policy: the politics of perpetual growth
  • Social Policy: reproducing the social order
  • Health care policy: a question of accounting
  • Family policy: what about immigration and xenophobia?
  • Aboriginal policy and environmental policy
  • Context and agenda-setting
  • Howlett, Michael. Canadian Public Policy
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  • Policy formulation and decision-making: a systemic
  • approach
  • Policy implementation: the realm of entropy
  • Theories of public policy: evidence and illusions
  • Oral presentations

Readings

  • Required: - Miljan, Lydia. Public Policy in Canada: an introduction, sixth edition. Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780195442779
  • Required: - Howlett, Michael. Canadian Public Policy: selected studies in process and style. University of Toronto Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781442612419
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