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Book SynopsisCritical Policy Studies describes how new policy problems such as border screening and global warming have been catapulted onto the agenda in the neo-liberal era.
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Acknowledgments
1 Critical Policy Studies / Michael Orsini and Miriam Smith
Part 1: Political Economy
2 Political Economy and Canadian Public Policy / Peter Graefe
3 Policy Analysis in an Era of “Globalization”: Capturing Spatial Dimensions and Scalar Strategies / Rianne Mahon, Caroline Andrew, and Robert Johnson
Part 2: Citizens and Diversity
4 Citizen Engagement: Rewiring the Policy Process / Rachel Laforest and Susan Phillips
5 Queering Public Policy: A Canadian Perspective / Miriam Smith
6 Gender Mainstreaming in the Canadian Context: “One Step Forward and Two Steps Back” / Olena Hankivsky
7 Political Science, Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy / Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Part 3: Discourse and Knowledge
8 Governmentality and the Shifting Winds of Policy Studies / Karen Bridget Murray
9 Agenda-Setting and Issue Definition / Stuart N. Soroka
10 Scientists, Government, and “Boundary Work”: The Case of Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Engineering in Canada / Francesca Scala
11 Between Respect and Control: Traditional Indigenous Knowledge in Canadian Public Policy / Frances Abele
12 Framing Environmental Policy: Aboriginal Rights and the Conservation of Migratory Birds / Luc Juillet
Part 4: Risky Subjects
13 From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State: A New Paradigm for Canadian Social Policy? / Denis Saint-Martin
14 Canadian Post-9/11 Border Policy and Spillover Securitization: Smart, Safe, Sovereign? / Mark B. Salter
15 The Permanent-Emergency Compensation State: A “Postsocialist” Tale of Political Dystopia / Matt James
16 Discourses in Distress: From “Health Promotion” to “Population Health” to “You Are Responsible for Your Own Health” / Michael Orsini
Contributors
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