Archives: Faculty and Instructors

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Mehmet Akif Demiricioglu: Editorial Board Appointment

Congratulations to SPPA Assistant Professor Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, who has been appointed to the editorial board of the Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA). The ROPPA publishes articles that reflect timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service organizations, that reflect the varied approaches used in... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Christopher Stoney: Policy-making, policy-taking, and policy-shaping: Local government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

  We are pleased to share a final paper of the late SPPA Professor Christopher Stoney "Policy-making, policy-taking, and policy-shaping: Local government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic"  published posthumously in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, March 30, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12585 . It is a timely paper... More

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Congratulations to SPPA Prof. Nathan Grasse on ASPA Nonprofit Section’s Best Paper Award!

SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse has won the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Section on Nonprofits Best Paper Award along with co-authors Elizabeth Searing and Daniel Neely for their work on the associations between government grants and the donations received by charities. Their findings, which suggest government support... More

Monday, April 3, 2023

Mehdi Ammi: Political and Fiscal Determinants of Expenditures on Public Health

Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, jointly with political scientists Olivier Jacques and Alain Noël from Université de Montréal and health services researcher Emmanuelle Arpin from the University of Toronto, recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures:... More

Monday, April 3, 2023

Wanted: new federal ethics commissioner. Salary: $110,000 less than the others were paid

SPPA Professor Robert Shepherd comments in this Montreal Gazette article on the new salary range for the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. Article by Christopher Nardi OTTAWA — The Liberal government is cutting the pay of the next person hired to oversee its ethical issues by more than $110,000 per year, even though... More

Monday, March 27, 2023

Mehdi Ammi and Antoine Dedewanou: Priorities for Public Health Systems / Representativeness of Primary Care Surveys

                      Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi and Adjunct Research Professor Antoine Dedewanou, jointly with colleagues from the University of Toronto and McGill University, recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “Prioritization of public health financing, organization, and... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Under the influence: The celebrity factor in policy capture

By Christopher Dougherty and Susan Phillips Celebrity is a form of policy influence that can occur under distinctive circumstances. This paper draws on the regulatory/policy capture literature to develop a model of celebrity capture that explains how interest groups can affect policy in the absence of economic clout or constituency mobilization.... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Auditors have a role in Canadian AI governance initiatives, but it needs clarification

By Graeme Auld, Amanda Clarke, Benjamin Faveri Private auditors provide third-party conformity assessments against principles, practices, standards, and legislation. Big names in this field include accounting firms like EY and Deloitte and technical inspection firms like Bureau Veritas and Intertek. These firms already play a significant role in... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Congratulations to Stephan Schott – 2023 Research Achievement Award Recipient

Carleton University has awarded SPPA Professor Stephan Schott a 2023 Research Achievement Award, in recognition of his outstanding research achievements. Professor Schott's research project associated with this award is titled "Stakeholder and Rightsholder Engagement and Decision-making for Forestry Resources and Stewardship."   This research... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

NET-ZERO NOW: Researcher helps accelerate decarbonization in Canada

By Dan Rubinstein To ward off the worst impacts of climate change, Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. That means in less than three decades the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere from all sources of emissions — buildings, industry, transportation and so forth — must be no greater... More

Friday, February 17, 2023

Robert Shepherd: Critical considerations for the future of the public service

Let’s move away from subjective and sporadic reform efforts to a routine system that generates institutional learning based on ongoing evidence. by Daniel J. Caron,  Evert Lindquist,  Robert P. Shepherd February 14, 2023 In a December 2022 column in Policy Options, “Canada needs a royal commission to fix problems with the federal public... More

Monday, February 13, 2023

Graeme Auld: Governing Artificial Intelligence Workshop Slated for May

The public discussion about artificial intelligence centres not only on its ubiquity, but also on the lack of governance over its use. A new workshop intends to “bring together experts from government, academia, private industry, and regulatory agencies to inform policy discussions that are ongoing and have lasting effects on the risks AI... More

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