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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
Thursday, January 5, 2023
SPPA Postdoctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld have published a paper, "Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations," in One Earth that looks at the evolving participation of industry in the annual meetings of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, one of five Regional Fisheries... More
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Green transformation in the iron and steel industry in India: Rethinking patterns of innovation Alexandra Mallett Prosanto Pal Highlights Innovation is needed for decarbonization of the iron and steel industry in a sustainable way. The adoption of technologies that significant reduce carbon emissions in countries like India serve as important... More
Friday, September 16, 2022
SPPA Adjunct Research Professor and Instructor Antoine Dedewanou recently had a research paper, "Peer-induced beliefs regarding college participation," published in Economics of Education Review. Abstract We study the heterogeneity of peer effects on the formation of beliefs regarding college participation. We present a structural model of... More
Thursday, September 15, 2022
For several decades, American private philanthropic foundations have invested extensively in organizations and projects supporting nature conservation and sustainable resource management. In a recently published piece in Conservation Science and Practice, Laurenne Schiller — a Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow at SPPA — and co-authors examine the... More
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Major efforts are afoot to govern the ethics of artificial intelligence. In a recent paper, Graeme Auld, Amanda Clarke, Ashley Casovan, and Benjamin Faveri offer a dynamic look at pathways along which private governance is engaged to shape future AI governance. Taking lessons from other private governance cases for sustainability, the pathways... More
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Daniel Rosenbloom (University of Toronto) and SPPA Chancellor's Professor James Meadowcroft's recent paper Accelerating Pathways to Net Zero: Governance Strategies from Transition Studies and the Transition Accelerator. was published in Current Climate Change Reports (Aug 2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00185-7. Abstract Purpose After... More
Monday, August 15, 2022
“We Cause a Ruckus”: Exploring How Indigenous Youth Navigate the Challenges of Community Engagement and Leadership by Robert P. Shepherd1,* and Treena R. Orchard2 1School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada 2School of Health Studies, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada *Author to... More
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Canadian Federalism, Multilevel Politics and the Occupation of Ottawa Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 July 2022 Jerald Sabin Abstract For three weeks in early 2022, the streets of downtown Ottawa were occupied by protestors associated with the so-called Freedom Convoy. The inability of Ottawa's municipal police to end the... More
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