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Friday, May 19, 2023
Kristen Pue and Anna Kopec's paper “Do Service-providing Nonprofits Contribute to Democratic Inclusion?: Analyzing Democracy Promotion by Canadian Homeless Shelters” was published in the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 14(1), 1-29 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/cjnser615 Abstract Nonprofits are key social... More
Alison Smith (University of Toronto) and SPPA Associate Professor Anna Kopec have published the paper “Mapping Homelessness Research in Canada” in the American Review of Canadian Studies, 53(1), 42-62 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2170155 Abstract What is known about homelessness in Canada? In this article, we present... More
Anna Kopec's paper “Critical Junctures as Complex Processes: Examining Mechanisms of Policy Change and Path Dependence in the Canadian Pandemic Response to Homelessness” was published in the Journal of Public Policy, 1-21 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X23000053 Abstract Policy change is not an instantaneous or linear process. In... More
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Marc-André Gagnon and Miaoran Dong's paper "What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review" was published in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, Vol 1, Issue 3, May 2023, https://doi/.org/10.1002/cesm.12011 Abstract Objective To identify all scientific papers... More
SPPA Professor Lisa Mills' paper "Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia" was published in The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 11, September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101097 Highlights Mining legacies arising from orphaned and abandoned mines a global issue. Reform to address... More
Pedro Bigolin Neto and SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett's paper Public participation in environmental impact assessment processes through various channels – Can you listen to us now? Lessons from a Brazilian mining case was recently published in Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 13, March 2023, 101186, as part of a special... More
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, jointly with colleagues from the University of Queensland (Jonas Fooken) and the University of Melbourne (Jill Klein and Tony Scott), recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “Does doctors’ personality differ from those of patients, the highly educated and other caring professions? An... More
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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
Monday, April 3, 2023
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, March 27, 2023
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
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
Thursday, February 9, 2023
SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon published Commentary: Reconsidering Pharmaceutical Research and Development Investments in Healthcare Policy, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 25-30, February 2023. ISSN 17156572 DOI 10.12927/HCPOL.2023.27037 Abstract Following Lee and colleagues' (2023) article explaining how Canadians are being... More
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