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Thursday, June 6, 2024
A major issue that remains to be figured out for AI governance is how potential third-party audits will be performed and overseen. This piece, written by Benjamin Faveri, Graeme Auld, and Stefan Renckens, reviews three current challenges to AI audits and presents thoughts on ways forward. AI Audit Objects, Credentialing, and the... 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
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
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
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
SPPA Professor Robert Shepherd co-authors report with Evert Lindquist "Smarter Government for Turbulent Times", calling for strategic spending reviews by Federal Government. Published by the C.D. Howe Institute, February 2024. ISBN 978-1-77881-016-9; ISSN 0824-8001 (print); ISSN 1703-0765 (online) C.D. Howe Press Release (February 6, 2024): Six... More
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
SPPA Assistant Professor Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Assel Mussagulova (Signapore University of Technology and Design) recently published "What affects the turnover intention of civil servants: Evidence from Bhutan" in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages 325 - 345 September 2023. Abstract Research utilising... More
Friday, June 23, 2023
While we all agree on the serious problems that exist, no government – Conservative or Liberal – has ever done much to address them. by Amanda Clarke Originally published by Policy Options magazine, June 12, 2023 also published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 20, 2023 In Canada, we are exceptionally good at identifying what... More
Monday, June 12, 2023
SPPA Distinguished Research Professor Frances Abele collaborated with Ed Broadbent, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage on Broadbent's new book, Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality. ECW Press will release the book on October 10,... More
Dritjon Gruda, Alexandros Psychogios, and SPPA Professor Adegboyega Ojo published a review of two recent studies in the Harvard Business Review in May 2023. Summary Our emotional state — such as feelings of anxiety, nervousness, and apprehension — can rub off on our team negatively impact their work performance and wellbeing. This is called... 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
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