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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Policy Paper: “Multi-level Governance of Energy in the EU: a Model for the WTO?” by Davide Soto Naranjo

Policy Paper (September 2013) By Davide Soto Naranjo (LL.M, McGill University), former Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue research intern In this policy paper, the origins of the regulation of trade in energy will be explored from the beginning of the European integration process until today. Subsequently, an account of the state of play of the... More

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Commentary: “Governing Social Policy in Multi-Level Systems: Emerging Literature (and Critiques) of Social Policy in the EU and Canada” by Ivan F Dumka

Commentary (September 2013) by Ivan F Dumka, CETD intern and PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria This contribution is intended to synthesize the findings of research undertaken in Canadian Public Administration, June 2013, Volume 56 No 2, entitled “Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the EU: Social... More

Monday, August 19, 2013

Commentary and Literature Review: “The Europeanization of the Intersectional Approach to Combating Discrimination: Debates, Policies and Institutional Changes” by Kaisa Vuoristo

Commentary and Literature Review (August 2013) By Kaisa Vuoristo, PhD candidate (joint degree), Université de Montréal and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. The concept of intersectionality has been described as one of the most important theoretical insights of the Women’s Studies literature (McCall 2005, 1771). Although this... More

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Policy Brief: La mixité comme forme d’innovation sociale : stratégies canadienne et européennes en matière de logements sociaux par Maroine Bendaoud

Policy Brief (August 2013) By Maroine Bendaoud, doctorant au département de science politique à l’Université de Montréal. L’innovation sociale est un concept qui remonte à quelques décennies déjà, mais qui connaît un grain de popularité ces dernières années. Dans ce court document d’information, nous appliquerons le concept... More

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

CETD collaborators help launch June 2013 issue of Canadian Public Administration journal, comparing social governance systems in Europe and Canada

The June 2013 issue of the Canadian Public Administration journal, published by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and guest-edited by CETD lead investigator Amy Verdun and Postdoctoral Fellow Donna E. Wood of the University of Victoria, features the theme: Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union: Social... More

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

“Seven Presentations in Three European Countries on My Comparative Governance Research: What did I learn?”

Commentary by Donna Wood, University of Victoria Donna Wood recently returned to Canada after a five-week tour of Europe, where she gave seven presentations in three countries (Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom) intended to encourage dialogue on federalism between Canada and the European Union. Her key message in the talks was that, when... More

Friday, April 12, 2013

“A pre-analysis of Canada–EU Aviation Relations post-ICAO Assembly Meeting Concerning Emissions Trading System”

Policy Brief by Armand de Mestral and Md. Tanveer Ahmad, McGill University. On 12 November 2012, the European Commission proposed the deferral of the the requirement that airlines surrender emissions allowances for flights into and out of Europe under the greenhouse gas emissions trading system. As a member of the 17-countries High-level Group,... More

Friday, March 1, 2013

Policy Paper: “Financial Exchange Mergers: European and North American Experiences”

Policy Paper (March 2013) By Matthew Gravelle, Doctoral Candidate, University of British Columbia The last decade has seen a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the financial exchange industry. This policy paper looks at two recent, high-profile merger proposals that failed : DB’s blocked acquisition of NYX, and the London Stock Exchange’s... More

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

“Parties, Voters and the Environment”

Policy Brief by Russell J. Dalton, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine In Canada, the Liberal Party’s advocacy of a “Green Shift” in the 2008 federal elections, and the Conservative Party’s and NDP’s opposition, illustrate how division and choice on environmental policy exists in some party systems. In... More

Monday, January 21, 2013

Policy Paper: “The European Citizens’ Initiative: An early assessment of the European Union’s new participatory democracy instrument”

Policy Paper (January 2013) by Marcel Sangsari, Publications and Liaison Officer, Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue The world’s first transnational, digital right of initiative, the European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) took effect on April 1, 2012, when the EU Regulation on the citizen’s initiative entered into force. Despite its rocky... More

Friday, January 4, 2013

Report on the panel “The Euro Crisis: How it all started and where it might lead”

Summary report prepared by Igga Kurzydlo, Research Assistant, Centre for European Studies, and Natasha Joukovskaia, Manager, Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, Carleton University A briefing on the Euro crisis for politicians, diplomats, political staffers and public servants took place at Carleton University on Feb. 9, 2012. The event was... More

Monday, December 17, 2012

“Immigration and Multi-level Governance in Canada and Europe: The role of municipalities as integration ‘policy innovators'”

Policy Paper by Alexander Gunn, University of Victoria Cities are increasingly identified in Canadian academic and policy literature as being an integral support structure for the settlement and integration of immigrants to Canada – often serving as the “first point of contact” between newcomers and government due to the day-to-day... More

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