- Alan Jacobs
- Kathryn Harrison
- Carey Doberstein
- Antje Ellermann
- Paul Quirk
Key Publications:
- Governing for the Long Term: Democracy and the Politics of Investment, 2011
- "Policy Attitudes in Institutional Context: Rules, Uncertainty, and the Mass Politics of Public Investment" American Journal of Political Science, 2017
- “Policymaking for the Long Term in Advanced Democracies,” Ann Rev of Polit Sci, 2016
Other Research Fields: Qualitative Methods, Europe
See Alan Jacobs' full profile here.
See Kathryn Harrison's full profile here
Key Publications
- "The origins and effects of public servant confidence in whistleblowing protection regimes." Public Administration, 2020
- "Whom do bureaucrats believe? A randomized controlled experiment testing perceptions of credibility of policy research". Policy Studies Journal, 2017
- "Experimenting with public sector innovation: Revisiting Gow for the digital era." Canadian Public Administration, 2020
Research Project: Canadian Public Sector Research Panel w/ Étienne Charbonneau (ENAP)
See Carey Doberstein's full profile here
Key Publications
- The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choice in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States (2021)
- “Do Policy Legacies Matter? Past and Present Guest Worker Recruitment in Germany,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2015
- “When Can Liberal States Avoid Unwanted Immigration? Self-Limited Sovereignty and Guestworker Recruitment in Switzerland and Germany," World Politics, 2013
Research Project: Immigration Bureaucracies in an Era of Anti-Immigration Populism
See Antje Ellermann's full profile here
Key Publications:
- “Deliberating Surveillance Policy: Congress, the FBI, and the Abuse of National Security Letters, “ Journal of Policy History, 2016.
- “The Cooperative Resolution of Policy Conflict,” American Political Science Review (1989)
- The Politics of Deregulation (1985)
Current Research Project: Deliberating Surveillance Policy in Congress
See Paul Quirk's full profile here
Research News
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Welcoming Assistant Professor Vince Hopkins to UBC Political Science
September 20, 2023

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UBC Political Science students learn from European Union travel experiences
June 8, 2023

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UBC Centre for Migration Studies, Profs Ellermann & Hopkins, part of $12M Bridging Divides research program
May 3, 2023
