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Wednesday, June 26, 2024
High-income countries are increasingly described as experiencing a growing sense of detachment. But does belonging matter? Abstract In their new paper, SPPA Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, Adjunct Research Professor Antoine Dedewanou and MPPA alumni Ian Allan demonstrate that belonging matters a lot for health. In fact, they show that a stronger... More
Thursday, June 20, 2024
A new report by the Parliamentary Budget Office cites and is informed by SPPA Professor Emeritus Saul Schwartz, PhD Graduate and Director of the Political Management Program Jennifer Robson, and PhD Graduate and Assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke Antoine Genest-Grégoire. Their work was also cited in a Globe and Mail Editorial on... More
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Abstract Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, there has been significant debate about understanding the background of the violence. This article explores the necessity of contextualizing the events, emphasizing that understanding is not equivalent to justifying terrorism. Drawing on the insights of Ian S. Lustick and historical parallels with... More
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse has co-authored a new study focusing on the gender pay gap affecting two types of female executives in US charities: executive directors and chief financial officers. It uses a novel identification strategy focused on executive hires to measure the ipay differences created by effects that are... More
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
In their recent publication, Questions persist as Ottawa prepares Citizenship Act amendments, MPPA student Parisa Vafaie and Assistant Professor Anna Kopec argue questions remain and more transparency is needed as Ottawa prepares amendments to the Citizenship Act. Overlooked for too long, more than 3,500 stateless people without access to... More
Thursday, May 9, 2024
"Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality" by Ed Broadbent co-authored with SPPA's Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas, and Luke Savage, was announced on May 9 on the shortlist for the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize. The prize memorializes John Wesley Dafoe, one of the most significant Canadian editors of the 20th... More
Monday, April 15, 2024
In her new paper, SPPA's Anna Kopec considers how policy characteristics interact to influence the political participation of individuals experiencing homelessness in two cases: Toronto and Melbourne. Drawing on over 100 qualitative interviews Kopec offers important theoretical contributions to policy feedback theory and our understanding of how... More
Friday, February 23, 2024
A newly released article by SPPA Professor, Robert Shepherd, and ENAP & SPPA Adjunct Professor, Daniel Caron, comments on the recent Report to the Clerk on Values and Ethics in Government. It provides several explanations as to how ethics is shifting in government, and that much greater attention must be given to a substantive... More
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Ed Broadbent's book, "Seeking Social Democracy", co-authored with SPPA's Frances Abele debuted on the Canadian non-fiction bestseller list earlier this month. Toronto Star bestsellers for the week ending Feb. 7, 2024 By Sarah Murdoch (Toronto Star) Trending “Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality,” published in... More
Thursday, February 15, 2024
SPPA's Dr. Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld, along with co-authors Gregory Britten and Boris Worm use "bright spot" analysis to better understand successful governance of fish populations in their newly published paper "Learning from positive deviants in fisheries". The authors suggest that a positive deviant approach, already used in... More
Thursday, February 1, 2024
As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we are sharing Research Summaries each month highlighting some of SPPA’s broad-ranging research. Here is this month’s Research Summary: Personality differences between doctors and patients can affect treatment outcomes. Through an observational study using two nationally... More
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Anna Kopec raises vital questions of theory development and research designs involving marginalized populations in her recent paper Policy Feedback & Research Methods: How Qualitative Research Designs With Marginalized Groups Inform Theory. Published in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol 22, Nov 2023... More
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