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Amanda Clarke

Public Administration, Digital Government, Data Governance, Civic Technology

Email:amanda.clarke@carleton.ca
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Associate Professor

Graduate Supervisor, Master of Public Policy and Administration
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

Biography

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. You can follow her work at amandaclarke.ca and on Twitter @ae_clarke.

Publications 

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, 7th 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). Available at http://www.jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/227/289

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.

Reports and Other Publications 

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. Available at http://www.ubcpress.ca/canadianelectionanalysis2015/CanadianElectionAnalysis2015.pdf

Clarke, Amanda & Dubois, Elizabeth. (2015). “Forced to tweet in both languages ministers lose their impact.” The Globe and Mail. 19 February.

Media Coverage 

Federal government went on ‘draconian witch hunts’ after news stories on Wikipedia edits by bureaucrats.” 3 June 2020. The National Post.

The Twin Faces of Public Sector Design.” 22 July 2019. The Mandarin.

Interview on the Code for Canada fellowship and government tech talent needs. 24 July 2019. All in a Day, CBC Radio.

Interview on government use of social media influencers. 15 June 2019. The House, CBC Radio.

Crafting a Digital Democracy.” 27 February 2019. Policy Options.

Interview on the Canadian Digital Service. 14 December 2017. The Current, CBC Radio.

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