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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 6, 2024
Political decisions have played a key role in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the topic of a new paper by Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi and colleagues from Europe and Australia. Their paper investigates how political variables such as election and ideology affected the severity of the policy restrictions and the efficiency... More
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Lived Expertise in Homelessness Policy and Governance In this new article, SPPA Assistant Professor Anna Kopec and co-author Alison Smith (University of Toronto) bring together literature on democratic participation, policymaking, and lived experience to consider the inclusion of lived expertise in Canadian homelessness policy and governance. They... 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
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
Thursday, April 11, 2024
SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon is co-author, with Joel Lexchin and Carleton students Bleu Miraoran Dong and Aravind Ramanathan, on a recent paper published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) that underscore the existing institutional limitations in ensuring comprehensive reporting and publication of... More
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon is co-editor of a special issue of Frontiers in Medicine on research topic: Current priorities in health research agendas: tensions between public and commercial interests in prioritizing biomedical, social, and environmental aspects of health. This thought-provoking collection of manuscripts includes... More
Thursday, March 14, 2024
New paper from SPPA Associate Professor and lead author, Mehdi Ammi looks at COVID-19 policies and outcomes such as deaths, hospitalizations and ICU admissions across Canada, and the relationship between non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and COVID vaccine coverage. The study, which found varying experiences across provinces, suggests the... 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
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Edda Claus (Wilfrid Laurier University) and SPPA Adjunct Research Professor F. Antoine Dedewanou examine the importance of perceptions and beliefs on decision-making in their paper Expectations, Beliefs, and Perceptions in the Modern Economy: An Overview, published as a Special Issue Article in the Journal of Economic Surveys, January 2024.... More
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Marc-Andre Gagnon’s op-ed in La Presse ( Penser l’assurance médicaments pour l’intérêt de la population , Dec 6, 2023) debunks some misconceptions about drug coverage and explains that Pharmacare should be based on the interests of the population, not on the interest of private insurance companies. “In a nutshell, [with the proposal of... More
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