Amanda Clarke

Teaching Concentrations: Public Management, Digital Government, Data Science Courses Taught: Public Management: Principles and Approaches, and Digital Government: Modernising policy, services, and administration for the digital age

Professor Amanda Clarke’s research examines public administration reform, public service delivery and the relationship between state and non-state actors, focusing in particular on the impact of digital technologies in these domains. She is author of Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age and a research fellow with the Canada School of Public Service. In 2021 she was awarded a Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award, and included in Apolitical‘s list of the Top 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.

• Auld, Graeme*, Ashley Casovan*, Amanda Clarke* & Benjamin Faveri*. 2022. “Governing AI Through Ethical Standards: Learning From the Experiences of Other Private Governance Initiatives.” Journal of European Public Policy. 19 pages. In press.
• Wright, Julia M.*, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun*, Amanda Clarke*, Matthew Herder* & Howard Ramos*. 2022. “Protecting Expert Advice for the Public: Promoting Safety and Improved Communications.” FACETS. 7(1).
• Clarke, Amanda. (2020). “Digital government units: what are they, and what do they mean for digital era public management renewal?” International Public Management Journal. 23(3): 358-379.
• Clarke, Amanda & Elizabeth Dubois. (2020). “Digital era open government and democratic governance: The case of Government of Canada Wikipedia editing.” Canadian Public Administration.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2019). “Data Governance: The Next Frontier of Digital Government Research and Practice” in Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda for Digital Citizenship. Elizabeth Dubois and Florian Martin-Bariteau, eds. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, pp. 97-117.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2019). “The Civil Service” in Canadian Politics, 7^th ed., James Bickert & Alain G. Gagnon, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Accepted for publication October 2018. 28 pages.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2019). Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. Vancouver: UBC Press. ***Included in The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019
• Clarke, Amanda & Benjamin Piper. 2018. “A Legal Framework to Govern Online Political Expression by Public Servants.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 21(1): 1-50.
• Clarke, Amanda & Jonathan Craft. 2018. “The Twin Faces of Public Sector Design”. Governance. 32(1): 5-21.
• Craft, Jonathan & Amanda Clarke (Eds). (2018). Issues in Canadian Governance. Toronto: Emond Montgomery.
• Clarke, Amanda, Evert Lindquist & Jeffrey Roy. (2017). “Understanding Governance in a Digital Era: An Agenda for Public Administration Research in Canada.” Canadian Public Administration, 60(4): 457-475.
• Clarke, Amanda & Jonathan Craft. (2017). “The Vestiges and Vanguards of Policy Design in a Digital Context“. Canadian Public Administration, 60(4): 476-497.
• Clarke, Amanda & Francoli, Mary. (2017). “Digital Government and Permanent Campaigning” in Permanent Campaigning in Canada. Eds. Alex Marland, Anna Esselment & Thierry Giasson, pp. 241-258.
• Clarke, Amanda & Margetts, Helen. (2014). “Governments and Citizens Getting to Know Each Other? Open, Closed and Big Data in Public Management Reform”. Policy & Internet, 16(4), 393-417.
• Clarke. Amanda. (2014). “Business as Usual? An Evaluation of British and Canadian Digital Diplomacy as Institutional Adaptation” in Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice. Corneliu Bjola & Marcus Holmes, eds. London: Routledge.
• Clarke, A., & Francoli, M. (2014). “What’s in a name? A comparison of ‘open government’ definitions across seven Open Government Partnership members”. eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 6(3).
• Clarke, Amanda. 2014. “One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Bottom-up Reform, Open Information, Collaboration and…the Harper Government.” in How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015. G. Bruce Doern & Christopher Stoney, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

• Clarke, Amanda. (2021). “One year into pandemic, federal digital government is largely business as usual”. Policy Options, 8 March.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2019). “Transforming (Digital) Government in Ontario.” Three part blog series.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2019). “Digital Government Doesn’t Equal Democratic Government.” Policy Options. 30 January.
• Clarke, Amanda & Jonathan Craft. (2019). “Insights for Canada’s New Digital Government Minister.” Policy Options. 8 February.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2017). “Why We Need Code for Canada.” The Hill Times. 10 April.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2016) “Outrage over government Wikipedia edits sends wrong message”. Policy Options. Institute for Research on Public Policy.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2016). “The Innovation Challenge: Modernizing the Public Service”. Policy Options. Institute for Research on Public Policy.
• Clarke, Amanda. (2015). “We’ve Got Some Catching Up to Do: The Public Service and the 2015 Federal Election” in Canadian Election Analysis: Communication, Strategy, and Democracy. Eds. Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson. UBC Press and Samara Canada.
• Clarke, Amanda & Dubois, Elizabeth. (2015). “Forced to tweet in both languages ministers lose their impact.” The Globe and Mail. 19 February.

• “Federal government went on ‘draconian witch hunts’ after news stories on Wikipedia edits by bureaucrats.” (The National Post, June 2020)
• “The Twin Faces of Public Sector Design.” (The Mandarin, July 2019)
• Interview on the Code for Canada fellowship and government tech talent needs. (All in a Day | CBC Radio, July 2019)
• Interview on government use of social media influencers. (The House | CBC Radio, June 2019)
• “Crafting a Digital Democracy.” (Policy Options, Feb 2019)
• Interview on the Canadian Digital Service. (The Current | CBC Radio, Dec 2017)