Phil Ryan

Teaching Concentration:  Policy Analysis
Courses Taught: Introduction to State and Society, Multiculturalism Policy, Research Methods and Design, Policy Institutions and Processes, Public Policy Analysis

• Ryan, P. (2024). On The Other Hand. University of Toronto Press.
• Ryan, P. (2022). Facts, Values and the Policy World. Policy Press.
• Ryan, P. (2014). After the New Atheist Debate. University of Toronto Press.
• Ryan, P. (2010). Multicultiphobia. University of Toronto Press.
• Ryan, P. (1995). Fall and Rise of the Market in Sandinista Nicaragua. McGill-Queen’s Press – MQUP.

• Ryan, Phil. “Culture and Multiculturalism: A Canadian Reflection,” Perspectives on Political Science (2026).
  https://doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2025.2609018
• Ryan, Phil. “Charles Taylor and the ‘Equality of Cultures’,” Society, 62 (2025): 363–72.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-025-01069-w
• Ryan, Phil. “The Paradox of Hegemony and the ‘Multiculturalism of the Individual.’” Canadian ethnic studies 51(2): pp. 153-167 (June 2019) Calgary: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association.
• Ryan, Phil “‘Technocracy,’ democracy … and corruption and trust,” Policy Sciences 51(1): pp. 131-139 (2018) New York: Springer US.
• Ryan, Phil. “Does Canadian Multiculturalism Survive through State Repression?” Nationalism & ethnic politics 22(3): pp.342-350 (July 2016) Routledge.
• Ryan, Phil. “Positivism: Paradigm or Culture?” Policy studies 36(4): pp. 417-433 (July 2015) Routledge
• Ryan, P. “The Multicultural State and the Religiously Neutral State: A Reply to Paul Cliteur.” International journal of constitutional law 12(2): pp. 457–463 (April 2014) Oxford University Press.
• Ryan, Phil. “Can We ‘Regain’ Truth and Objectivity? A Reply to Baillie and Meckler.” Journal of management inquiry 23(2): pp.133-136 (April 2014) Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.
• Ryan, Phil. “Stout, Rawls, and the Idea of Public Reason.” The Journal of religious ethics 42(3): pp. 540–562 (September 2014) Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Ryan, Phil. “Meckler and Baillie on Truth and Objectivity: A Commentary.” Journal of management inquiry 14(2): pp. 120–126 (June 2005) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Ryan, Philip. “The Policy Sciences and the Unmasking Turn of Mind.” The Review of policy research 21(5): pp. 715–728 (September 2004) Oxford, UK and Malden.
• Philip Ryan. “Pastoral Power in the Age of Partnership: Health Canada and the Jr. Jays Club.” Canadian review of social policy (1987) 51: pg.87 (April 2003) Toronto: Canadian Review of Social Policy. ISSN: 0836-303X
• Ryan, Philip. “Ethics and Resignation: A Classroom Exercise.” Journal of policy analysis and management 22(2): pp. 313-315 (March 2003) New York: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Compan.
• Ryan, Philip. “Incrementalism: A Classroom Exercise.” Journal of policy analysis and management 22(2): pp. 315–318 (March 2003): New York: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company.
• Ryan, Phil. “Stanley Fish’s Case for Speech Regulation: a Critique.” Canadian journal of higher education (1975) 31(2): pg. 167 (January 2001) Toronto: Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. ISSN: 03161218
• Phil Ryan “Comment: Gare, MacIntyre, and Tradition,” Environmental Ethics 22(2): pp. 223-24 (Summer 2000) Environmental Philosophy (United States)
• Ryan, Phil. “Structure, agency, and the Nicaraguan Revolution.“ Theory and society 29(2): pp. 187-213 (April 2000) Springer.
• Ryan, Philip. “Discourse, Democracy (and Socialism?): A Reading of Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms.” Studies in political economy 60(1): pp. 121–138 (January 1999) Routledge.
• Ryan, Phil. “Communication: On David Schlosberg’s ‛Communicative Action in Practice’.” Political studies 45(5): pp. 853–854. (December 1997) Oxford, UK and Boston.
• Ryan, Phil. “On Political Correctness: Comment On Loury.” Rationality and society 8(3): pp. 353–357 (August 1996) Newbury Park, Calif: SAGE Publications.
• Ryan, Phil. “Was Bloom PC?” Canadian review of American studies 26(2): pp. 1–26 (1996) University of Toronto Press.
• Ryan, Phil. “Duet for Peasant and Socialist Revolutionary, with Obbligato Feminism: Lessons of the Nicaraguan Case.” Studies in political economy 46(1): pp. 79–112 (January 1995) Routledge.
• Ryan, Phil. “Market Reforms and Democratization: The Dilemmas of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.” Studies in political economy 34(1): pp.29-52 (January 1991) Routledge.
• Ryan, Phil. “Nicaragua’s Economy: The Dilemmas of a Revolution at War.” Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies 11(22): pp. 37–58 (January 1986) Ontario: Routledge.

• Ryan, Phil. “Foreword,” in Beyond Binaries and Polarization? Rethinking Pluralist Inclusion in Immigrant Nations, ed. Elke Winter (London: Routledge, 2025).
• “Our multiculturalism: Reflections in the key of Rawls,” in The Multiculturalism Question: Debating Identity in 21st Century Canada, ed. Jack Jedwab (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press): 2014.
• “Compromising Partnerships,” in Words in Common: Essays for Canadians on Language, Culture and Society, ed. Gillian Thomas: 236-42. (Toronto: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999).1
• “Of Miniature Mila and Flying Geese: Government Advertising and Canadian Democracy,” in How Ottawa Spends, ed. Susan Phillips. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1995.