Queen S Policy Studies imprint: 32 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
Government-Nonprofit Relations in Times of Recession brings together contributions by international scholars to examine how the relationships between governments and nonprofit organizations have shifted as a result of the global recession. Each chapter provides a detailed analysis of the impact of the...
Making EI Work
Research from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Making...
Paradigm Freeze
Why It Is So Hard to Reform Health Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Why has health care reform proved a stumbling block for provincial governments across Canada? What efforts have been made to improve a struggling system, and how have they succeeded or failed? In Paradigm Freeze, experts in the field answer these fundamental questions by examining and comparing six essential...
Making Policy in Turbulent Times
Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How is policy made in higher education, particularly in the wake of recent economic turbulence? Has policy development converged internationally, and if so, what impact has this had on academic life and institutions? What role does policy-oriented research play in shaping the direction of higher education?...
A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda
Policy, Governance, and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This collection is the result of a 2016 national leaders conference sponsored by Queen’s University to explore the prospects for a pan-Canadian healthcare innovation strategy. The conference themes were inspired by the 2015 report of the federally commissioned Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation,...
by Kim Nossal, Stéphane Roussel, Stéphane Paquin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The fourth edition of this widely used text includes updates about the many changes that have occurred in Canadian foreign policy under Stephen Harper and the Conservatives between 2006 and 2015. Subjects discussed include the fading emphasis on internationalism, the rise of a new foreign policy agenda...
Thinking Outside the Box
Innovation in Policy Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Thomas Courchene is the author or editor of numerous books and has published hundreds of academic papers on a wide range of Canadian public policy issues. Thinking Outside the Box honours his outstanding contributions to Canadian public policy thinking and practice. Research papers included in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
Until the 1990s social policy played an integrative role in Canada, providing a counter-narrative to claims that federalism and diversity undermine the potential of social policy. Today, however, the Canadian model is under strain, reflecting changes in both the welfare state and the immigration-citizenship-multiculturalism...
by Jocelyne Bourgon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity. Water as a Social Opportunity conveys...
Canada: The State of the Federation, 2013
Aboriginal Multilevel Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Traditionally associated with the federal government, Aboriginal policy has arguably become a far more complex reality. With or without formal self-government, Aboriginal communities and nations are increasingly assertive in establishing their own authority in areas as diverse as education, land management,...
Identities, Trust, and Cohesion in Federal Systems
Public Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
To what extent do federal systems promote multiple identities and attachments? How do their identities affect the trust that is assigned to various orders of government and contribute to cohesion in federalist systems? Do cohesive federations depend on public trust and strong attachment to the national...
Multiculturalism Question
Debating Identity in 21st Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Canada's policy of multiculturalism has been the object of ongoing debate since it was first introduced in 1971. Decades later, Canadians still seem uncertain about the meaning of multiculturalism. Detractors insist that government has not succeeded in discouraging immigrants and their descendants from...
Rethinking Higher Education
Participation, Research, and Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The basic structure of universities and colleges in Ontario - one focused primarily on expansion and greater access and put in place in the 1960s - is outdated. The system is now large enough, the eligible age group for entering post-secondary studies is shrinking, and participation rates are as high...