Christopher Stoney
IN MEMORIAM Associate Professor
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Community engagement in neighbourhood urban planning; emergency management and preparedness; intergovernmental relations; regulation, procurement and accountability
- Brief Biography
BA Honours, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
MA in Public Policy and Administration (Carleton University, Canada)
PhD (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)As the Director for the Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE), Chris’s main research focus examined infrastructure and urban sustainability and identifies barriers and opportunities in the field. His background in public management, federal and municipal government enabled him to bring a governance lens to analyze urban sprawl and key decisions about transportation and infrastructure, land-use planning, housing and energy. His findings illustrate that governance and systems of governance are crucial in understanding infrastructure policies and choices and, ultimately, the kinds of cities they produce.
Local decision-making and municipal government is intended to be the most inclusive, representative and transparent of all levels of government. As cities continue to increase in size and importance they face challenges to maintain these qualities and adapt their governance structure to adapt to growing responsibilities, demands and technologies. For economic, social, political and democratic reasons understanding the role and potential of cities has become crucial not only for municipal government but also for regional and national governments that must find ways to play an enabling role in developing urban centres and enhancing the quality of life for urban, sub-urban and rural based citizens.
His research also focused on federal government including key aspects of “good governance” in areas such as transparency, accountability and procurement, as well the changing relationship between public servants and elected officials.
Strategic management in a public sector context provides another focus for his research and, in particular, the complexity of planning for emergency and crisis situation following natural and man-made disasters.
Honours
- Recipient of the SPPA Teaching Award 2020
- Recipient of the SPPA Teaching Award 2017
- Recipient of the Carleton University teaching award 2010
- Recipient of the Faculty of Public Affairs teaching award 2009
- Recipient of the MA Graduate teaching award 2005-6; 2017
- Nominated for university teaching award 2004-5, 2005-6 and 2008-9
Books & Edited Collections
- Journal Articles
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- Gorman, Lisa, and Christopher Stoney. “Missed Opportunities: Public Health Disaster Management in Canada.” Journal of Public Management & Social Policy 22(2) (2015). Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. ISSN: 1080-8523
- Scanlon, Joseph, and Christopher Stoney. “Ad Hoc Rules, Rights, and Rituals: The Politics of Mass Death.” Journal of contingencies and crisis management 22(4): pp. 223–237 (December 2014) Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Stoney, Christopher, and Tamara Krawchencko “Crisis and opportunism: Public finances from stimulus to austerity in Canada” Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 24 (2013)
- Stoney, Christopher, and Tamara Krawchenko. “Transparency and Accountability in Infrastructure Stimulus Spending: A Comparison of Canadian, Australian and U.S. Programs.” Canadian public administration 55(4): pp. 481–503 (December 2012) Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Krawchenko, Tamara, and Christopher Stoney. “Public Private Partnerships and the Public Interest: A Case Study of Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park Development.” Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research 2(2): pp. 74–90 (November 2011) Calgary: Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research.
- Stoney, Christopher et al. “Steadily Increasing Control: The Professionalization of Mass Death.” Journal of contingencies and crisis management 19(2): pp. 66–74 (June 2011) Wiley-Blackwell Full Collection – CRKN.
- Stoney, Christopher, and Katherine A.H Graham. “Federal-Municipal Relations in Canada: The Changing Organizational Landscape.” Canadian public administration 52(3): pp. 371–394 (October 2009) Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing.
- Stoney, Christopher, and Robert Hilton. “Sustainable Cities: Canadian Reality or Urban Myth?” Commonwealth journal of local governance 4: pp. 46–76 (2009) Sydney: U T S ePRESS.
- Stoney, Christopher, and Catherine Waters. “The Federal Accountability Act: The Impact of Changes in Party Finances on the Democratic Functions of Political Parties.” Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 1: pp. 155-182 (2008) Toronto : Thomson Carswell.
- Robert Hilton et Christopher Stoney. “Ottawa’s LRT System: Dreams, Delusions and Deceptions” Revue Gouvernance 4(1) (March 2007) The Summit Group.
- Stoney, Christopher & Mark Roberts. “The Case for Older Workers at Tesco: An Examination of Attitudes, Assumptions and Attributes” Managing Older Workers (January 2003) Stirling, Scotland: University of Stirling.
- Stoney, Christopher, and Diana Winstanley. “Stakeholding: Confusion or Utopia? Mapping the Conceptual Terrain.” Journal of management studies 38(5): pp. 603-626 (July 2001) Oxford, UK and Boston, USA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
- Stoney, Christopher. “Partnership and Workplace Learning in the UK: Pioneering Work at British Telecommunications Plc.” The journal of workplace learning 14(2): pp.58-67 (March 2002) Bradford: MCB UP Ltd.
- Stoney, Christopher. “Strategic Management or Strategic Taylorism?: A Case Study into Change Within a UK Local Authority.” The International journal of public sector management 14(1): pp. 27–42 (February 2001) Bradford: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Stoney, Christopher. “Lifting the lid on strategic management: a sociological narrative.” Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory 4(1): pp. 1-35 (1998).
- Bostock, Richard, and Christopher Stoney. “Japanese Corporate Governance: Governance for the Twenty-First Century or a Model in Decline?” Asia Pacific business review 4(1): pp. 63–82 (October 1997) Frank Cass.
- Book Chapters
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- The Changing Roles of Politicians and Public Servants, in The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration’ eds. Thomas R. Klassen, Denita Cepiku, T. J. Lah, Ch. 24, 2017, Routledge, (with Robert Shepherd, and Lori Turnbull)
- The Politics of Intergovernmental Transfers in Canada, in How Ottawa Spends 2017-18, Canada @150, eds. A. Maslowe and K.Graham, pp.69-81 (With Andrew Seto)
- ‘The Liberals in Power’, in How Ottawa Spends 2016-17, ch.1 eds. Doern, B.G. and Stoney C. (with B. G. Doern)
- ‘The Liberal Rise and the Tory Demise’, in How Ottawa Spends 2015-16, ch.1 eds. Doern, B.G. and Stoney C. (with B. G. Doern)
- ‘Leaner and Meaner: Government Spending from Stimulus to Austerity’ in The Harper Record 2008-2015 pp. 271-285, Eds. Healy, S. and L.Trew, October 2015, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, pp. 271-285 (with Tamara Krawchenko)
- ‘Justin Trudeau and Leadership Idolization: The Centralization of Power in Canadian Politics and Political Parties’ in How Ottawa Spends 2014-15, Chapter 5 with MacNaughton, C., 2014.
- ‘The Harper Government: Good to Go?’ Chapter 1. with G.B. Doern, 2014, in How Ottawa Spends eds. Stoney C. and G.B. Doern MQUP.
- The Harper Government: Mid-term Blues and Long-term Plans, with G.B. Doern, September 2013, in How Ottawa Spends 2013-14, Chapter 1, eds. Stoney C. and G.B. Doern,. MQUP.
- ‘The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts and the New Opposition, How Ottawa Spends’ with G.B. Doern, September 2012 in How Ottawa Spends 2012-2013, eds. G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney, MQUP
- ‘Public Private Partnerships in Canada: Current Issues, Dilemmas and Concerns’, in New Technologies in Public Administration as Reflected by Canadian and Russian Experience: («Новые технологии государственного управления в зеркале канадского и российского опыта») January 2013, Moscow Press
- ‘SARS in Canada’ in SARS from East to West, Edited by Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue, November 2011, Lexington Books (with Dan Markel).
- ‘Harper Budgeting in a Time of Austerity:Trimming Fat or Slicing Pork’, Ch1 in How Ottawa Spends 2011, with G.B. Doern, September 2011, MQUP
- ‘Do institutions responsible for parliamentary oversight offer better tools for scrutinizing and improving governance (with R. Shepherd)? Chapter 7, Contemporary Debates in Public Administration F. Omeheng, Edmond Montgomery Publications (Winter 2010-11).
- ‘Double Deficit: Fiscal and Democratic Challenges in the Harper Era’, Chapter 1, pp. 1- 30, with G. B. Doern, in How Ottawa Spends 2010-2011, ‘Reform and Realignment in a time of Crisis’ with G. B. Doern MQUP, (2010)
- ‘Conclusions: Changing Symbiotic Research Relationships: Conflict and Compromise”, with G. B. Doern, Chapter 12 pp. 289- 314 in Universities and Research and Innovation: Changing Federal Government University Relations (ed.) B Doern & C. Stoney, 2009, UTP.
- ‘Federal Gas Tax Transfers: Politics and Perverse Policy’, in How Ottawa Spends 2009-2010, MQUP with R. Hilton.
- ‘Federal Research and Innovation Policies and Canadian Universities: A Framework for Analysis’ with G. B. Doern, Chapter 1, pp. 1-34 in Universities and Research and Innovation: Changing Federal Government University Relations (ed.) G. Doern & C. Stoney, 2009, UTP.
- ‘Barriers to Innovation: Universities, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship’, with Paul Madgett, in Universities and Research and Innovation: Changing Federal Government University Relations (ed.) G. Bruce Doern and C. Stoney, 2009, UTP.
- ‘Why Smart Growth Isn’t Working: An Examination of Ottawa’s Failure to Deliver Sustainable Urban Transit’ in Innovation, Science and Innovation, Canadian Policies and Performance 2008-2009 ed. G Toner, Montreal Queens University Press, with R. Hilton.
- ‘Challenges in Performance Management: Gas Tax Funding with Municipal Infrastructure’, in Holy Grail or Achievable Quest? International Perspectives on Public Sector Performance Management, pp. 67-84, with T. Bellefontaine KPMG/IPAC 2008.
- Addressing the Fiscal Imbalance through Asymmetrical Federalism:Dangerous Times for the Harper Government and for Canada’ (with Andrew Teliszewsky,) in How Ottawa Spends 2007-2008, (ed.) B.Doern, McGill-Queens June 2007, Ch. 2
- ‘Federal Approaches to the Regulation of Sin’ (with Malcolm Bird, in How Ottawa Spends, (ed.) B. Doern, McGill – Queens University Press (June 2006).
- ‘The Maritime Helicopter Project: The Costly Politics of Military Procurement’ (with T. Neima) in How Ottawa Spends, (ed.) B. Doern, McGill – Queens University Press (June 2006).
- ‘Still Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the New Deal and Local Government Autonomy’ in Rules Rules Rules: Multi-level Governance, B. Doern and R Johnson (eds), ch. 5, pp. 101-123 October 2006, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
- ‘Regulating Risk: An Assessment of Canada’s Multi-Level Emergency Management’ (With Phil Graham ) ‘Rules Rules Rules Issues of Multi-level governance in Canada’, Bruce Doern (ed), in Press October 2006.
- ‘Into the Long Grass? Evaluating the Role of Commissions of Inquiry in the New Mandate’ (with Ian Hodges), in How Ottawa Spends, Bruce Doern (ed), McGill – Queens University Press, pp.183-199, 2005.
Media coverage
SPPA News
Cooperatives and Renewable Energy – potential lessons learned from Alaska for Nunavut, 2017-present
(co-supervisor with advisor James Meadowdroft)
How Ottawa Spends 2016 – 2017 : The Trudeau Liberals in Power
Ottawa, ON, CA: Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy
Green-Lite: 50 Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Democracy and Governance
Anchored in the core literature on natural resources, energy production, and environmental analysis, Green-lite is a critical examination of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and politics drawing out key policy and governance patterns to show that the Canadian story is one of complexity and often weak performance.
Making a compelling argument for deeper historical analysis of environmental policy and situating environmental concerns within political and fiscal agendas, the authors provide extended discussions on three relatively new features of environmental policy: the federal-cities and urban sustainability regime, the federal-municipal infrastructure regime, and the regime of agreements with NGOs and businesses that often relegate governments to observing participants rather than being policy leaders. They probe the Harper era’s muzzling of environmental science and scientists, Canada’s oil sands energy and resource economy, and the government’s core Alberta and Western Canadian political base.
How Ottawa Spends 2014-2015: The Harper Government: Good to Go?
The 2014-15 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics and related fiscal, economic, and social priorities and policies, with an emphasis on the now long-running Harper-linked Senate scandal and the serious challenges to Harper’s leadership and controlling style of attack politics.
Contributors from across Canada examine the Conservative government agenda both in terms of its macroeconomic fiscal policy and electoral success since 2006 and also as it plans for a 2015 electoral victory with the aid of a healthy surplus budgetary war chest. Individual chapters examine several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms including the growing strength and nature of the Justin Trudeau-led Liberal Party challenge, the 2014 Harper Economic Action Plan, the demise of federal environmental policy under Harper’s responsible resource development strategy, the Conservative’s crime and punishment agenda, the growing evidence regarding the federal government’s muzzling of scientists and evidence in federal policy formation, and the now five-year story of the Harper creation, treatment, and role of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
How Ottawa Spends 2013-14: The Harper Government: Mid-term Blues and Long-term Plans
The 2013-14 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with a close lens on Stephen Harper’s Conservative party during the middle of their first term as a majority.
Contributors from across Canada examine the federal government and its not uncommon mid-term problems but also its considerable agenda of long term plans, both set in the midst of national economic fragility and a global fiscal and debt crisis. Individual chapters examine several related political, policy, and spending realms including the Budget Action Plan, the ten year Canada Health Transfer Plan, the Canada Pension Plan, and Old Age Security reforms. The contributors also consider austerity related public sector downsizing and strategic spending reviews, national energy, and related environmental strategies, and the growing Harper practice of “one-off” federalism.
How Ottawa Spends 2012-13, ‘The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition’
Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority’s mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies.
Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of majority government and a transformed political opposition both in Parliament and in provincial politics. Several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms are examined, including corporate tax reform, Conservative Party social policy, regional economic development, science and technology investments, Canada-US perimeter security and trade agreements, the rise and fall of regulatory regimes, and Canadian health care. Related governance issues such as federal infrastructure program impacts, the Harper government’s Economic Action Plan impacts in Ontario, and community colleges in the federal innovation agenda, are also discussed in detail.
How Ottawa Spends 2011-12, “Trimming Fat or Slicing Pork”
Continuing its tradition of timely and exemplary scholarship, the 2011-2012 edition of How Ottawa Spends examines national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the austerity measures and budget cutting strategy of the Harper Conservative government; it also includes an analysis of the outcome of the federal election in May 2011.
Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of “life under the knife” in the context of the Harper agenda after five years in power, the partisan calculus of a minority Parliament, and a deep global recession still in crisis mode. Given the budget-related pressure for an election, the book poses questions about the degree to which the budget agenda involves the political arts of “trimming fat” versus “slicing the pork” of partisan spending. Several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms are examined, including economic stimulus, environmental assessment, energy and climate change, health care, science and technology, immigration, and northern strategy (including affordable housing). Related governance issues such as the use of new media, regulatory budget cuts, Industry Canada as an economic regulator, and federal compensation costs are also discussed in detail.
How Ottawa Spends 2010-2011, ‘Reform and Realignment in a time of Crisis’
Continuing the excellent standards and traditions of timely scholarship, the 2010-2011 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with emphasis on federal economic and social spending. Given the political and budgetary challenges posed by the recession, this year’s instalment pays close attention to the growing fiscal deficit.
Informed authors from across Canada examine recession-related policy fields, including the Canadian banking system, new industrial policy pressures such as the automotive industry bailout, policies in science, technology, and innovation, and suggestions about how to resist the United States’ “buy America” trade policies. The chapters in this volume also consider Canada’s national, regional, and political divisiveness, the impact of the dynamic Obama Administration on Canadian domestic affairs, and governance during a time of minority government.
Research and Innovation Policy: Changing Federal Government – University Relations
In an increasingly knowledge-based economy, Canadian universities are important spaces for the development of research and innovation in many areas. This collection is the first systematic examination of the evolving relationship between the federal government and Canadian universities as revealed through changes in federal research and innovation policies.
Focusing on the last two decades of federal policy under the Chrétien and Martin Liberal governments and the Harper Conservative government, Research and Innovation Policy considers issues such as the transformation of federal research granting bodies, the creation of new research infrastructure funding organizations such as the Canada Foundation for Innovation, pressures and incentives to create intellectual property and to commercialize, and the regulation of research ethics. With timely essays ranging in scope from the regulation of research ethics to the pressures of commercialization, Research and Innovation Policy is essential reading for any student or scholar committed to the well-being of higher education in Canada.
Keeping Canada Running: Infrastructure and the Future of Governance in a Pandemic World
The federal government’s promises to “build back better” and “build back green” highlight opportunities to reimagine Canadian infrastructure. In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild.
2021
- April 2, 2021
The future of public transportation uncertain in post-pandemic times (Capital Current)
2020
- June 25, 2020
Glebe BIA seeks to turf local councillor over ‘adversarial approach’ (CBC) - February 27, 2020
SPPA Takes Gold Medal at National Public Administration Case Competition (FPA News)
2019
- March 1, 2019
Carleton Hosts National Case Study Competition Examining Public Policy Issues (Carleton Newsroom)
2017
- October 4, 2017
Phoenix creators helped build failed pay system’s business case (CBC)
2016
- June 28, 2016
Operations for LRT tunnel secret for VIP visits to Ottawa (Ottawa Citizen) - April 1, 2016
Straight To the Top: How Cities Look to the Feds for Support (FPA News)
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