Phil Ryan

Associate Professor

Email Phil Ryan

Teaching Concentration: Policy Analysis
Courses Taught: Introduction to State and Society, Multiculturalism Policy, Research Methods and Design, Policy Institutions and Processes, Public Policy Analysis

Publications

On the other hand: Canadian multiculturalism and its progressive critics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Facts, values, and the policy world. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023.
“The paradox of hegemony and the ‘Multiculturalism of the individual’,” Canadian Ethnic Studies 51, no. 2 (2019): 153-68. The published version is available, behind a wall, here.* The “Accepted Manuscript” (my final submitted version), is available here. *(Those with access to Carleton University Library journals may access it free of charge here.)
“‘Technocracy,’ democracy … and corruption and trust”, Policy sciences, 2018 The official version is available, behind a wall, here.* The “Accepted Manuscript” (my final submitted version), is available here. * (Those with access to Carleton University Library journals may access it free of charge here.)
“Does Canadian Multiculturalism survive through state repression?,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 22, no. 3 (2016): 342-50. The published version is available, behind a wall, here.* The “Accepted Manuscript” (my final submitted version), is available here. *(Those with access to Carleton University Library journals may access it free of charge here.)
“Positivism: Paradigm or culture?,” Policy Studies, 2015. The official version is available, behind a wall, here.* The “Accepted Manuscript” (my final submitted version), is available here. * (Those with access to Carleton University Library journals may access it free of charge here.)
After the New Atheist debate (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)
“The multicultural state and the religiously neutral state: Comment on Cliteur,” International Journal of Constitutional Law, 12, no.2 (2014): 457-463. Abstract
“Can We Regain’ Truth and Objectivity? A Reply to Baillie and Meckler,” Journal of Management Inquiry 23, no.2 (2014): 133-36.
“Stout, Rawls, and the idea of public reason,” Journal of Religious Ethics 43, no.2 (2014): 540 562. (Abstract).
“Our multiculturalism: Reflections in the key of Rawls,” in The Multiculturalism Question: Debating Identity in 21st Century Canada, ed. Jack Jedwab (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press): 2014.
“The per-vote subsidy: it’s the best deal in town,” Hill Times, 6 June, 2011.
“Canada’s great national itch: Debating multiculturalism,” Fedcan Blog, 28 February, 2011.
“Multiculturalism, Multicultiphobia and Pluralism,” Fedcan Blog, 13 December 2010.
Taming Memory. Presentation to the opening plenary of the Canadian Studies Association annual conference. Toronto, 4 November 2010.
Beware ‘Shared memory’ . Canadian Issues, 2010.
Multicultiphobia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

This interview with Embassy magazine provides a good introduction to the book.
Multiculturalism and Extremism? Four Questions. Metropolis (On-line)
This is the moment to reform government spending on PR, Globe and Mail (Online edition). April 20, 2005
“Meckler and Baillie on truth and objectivity,” Journal of Management Inquiry 14, no.2 (2005): 120-26. (Abstract).
“The policy sciences and the unmasking turn of mind,” Review of Policy Research 21, no. 5 (2004): 715-28. (Abstract).
“The Problem with Holocaust Talk,” Briarpatch 32, no. 10, December 2003, p. 30.
Foreign Policy and the Culture of Complaint, Policy Options, September 2003.
“Pastoral power in the age of partnership: Health Canada and the Jr. Jays Club,” Canadian Review of Social Policy, no. 51 (2003).
“Ethics and Resignation: A Classroom Exercise,” The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22, no. 2 (2003): 313-15.
“Incrementalism: A Classroom Exercise,” The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22, no. 2 (2003): 315-18
“Stanley Fish’s case for speech regulation: A critique ,” Canadian Journal of Higher Education 31, no.2 (2001): 167-82. (Excerpt.)
“Comment: Gare, MacIntyre, and Tradition,” Environmental Ethics 22, no.2 (Summer 2000).
Comment: Simeon on sovereignty, Policy Options, April 2000.
“Structure, Agency, and the Nicaraguan Revolution,” Theory and Society 29, no. 2 (Apr. 2000): 187- 213.
“Discourse, Democracy (and Socialism?): A Reading of Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms,” Studies in Political Economy (Fall 1999).
“The Backlash Against Multiculturalism Revisited” [Response to Jonathan Kay] Policy Options, September 1998, pp. 54-55.
“Subverting Government Business,” The Canadian Forum 77, no. 871, July/August 1998, pp. 14-19.

[Reprinted as: “Compromising Partnerships,” in Words in Common: Essays for Canadians on Language, Culture and Society, ed. Gillian Thomas (Toronto: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999)].
“Communication: On David Schlosberg’s ‘Communicative Action in Practice’,” Political Studies(1997) XLV, 853-54.
Review of Hungry Dreams: The Failure of Food Policy in Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979- 1990, by Brizio N. Biondi-Morra. In Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 1997, pp. 453- 56.
“On Political Correctness: Comment on Loury,” Rationality and Society 8, no. 3, August 1996, pp. 353-57. (Pre-publication version).
“Was Bloom PC?,” Canadian Review of American Studies, 26, no. 2, Spring 1996, 1-26. (Excerpt).
The Fall and Rise of the Market in Sandinista Nicaragua. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995. (Excerpt from Introduction).
The day Mr. Snobelen let the cat out of the bag. Globe and Mail, October 10, 1995.
“Of Miniature Mila and Flying Geese: Government Advertising and Canadian Democracy,” in How Ottawa Spends, ed. Susan Phillips. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1995.
Duet for Peasant and Socialist Revolutionary, with Obbligato Feminism: Lessons of the Nicaraguan Case, Studies in Political Economy no. 46, Spring 1995, pp. 79-112.
Review of Stalinism in Crisis, by Robert Knight. In Left History 1, no. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 144-146.
“Market Reforms and Democratization: The Dilemmas of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union,” Studies in Political Economy no. 34, Spring 1991, pp. 29-52.
Peace and recovery: New president must live up to high expectations. Ottawa Citizen, April 25, 1990.
“Nicaragua’s Economy: The Dilemmas of a Revolution at War,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 11, no. 22, 1986, pp. 37-58.
“Teoría y Política de Precios en Nicaragua.” Working paper of the Departamento de Economía Agrícola, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, Managua, 1987.