- Alan Jacobs
- Kathryn Harrison
- Carey Doberstein
- Antje Ellermann
- Paul Quirk
- Matthew Wright
- Peter Dauvergne
- Lisa Sundstrom
- Michael Byers
- Gyung-Ho Jeong
- Vince Hopkins
- Sophie Borwein
- Max Cameron
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
Key Publications
- “The ‘Adaptation Paradox’ and Citizen Ambiguity over Government Climate Policies: Survey Findings From Bangladesh,” Sustainability, 2022.
- “Mass Opinion and Immigration Policy in the United States: Re-Assessing Clientelist and Elitist Perspectives,” Perspectives on Politics, 2016.
- “Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide: The Role of Categorical and Attribute-Based Decision-Making,” Political Behavior, 2015.
See Matthew Wright's full profile here
Key Publications
- “Why Equity is Fundamental in Climate Change Policy Research,” Global Environmental Change, 2017.
- “China’s Rising Influence on Climate Governance: Forging a Path for the Global South,” Global Environmental Change, 2022.
See Peter Dauvergne's full profile here
Key Publications
- “Private Actors, Public Policy Impacts: The Forest Stewardship Council in Russia and Brazil.” Forests, 2017.
- “Climate Change Policies in the Post-Socialist World,” Current History, 2014.
See Lisa Sundstrom's full profile here
Key Publications
- “US policy puts the safe development of space at risk,” Science, 2020.
- “US space policy: An international model—Response,” Science, 2020.
See Michael Byers' full profile here
Key Publications
- “Beyond Party: Ideological Convictions and Foreign Policy Conflicts in the US Congress,” International Politics, 2022.
- “The Polarisation of Energy Policy in the US Congress,” Journal of Public Policy, 2021.
- “Measuring Foreign Policy Positions of Members of the US Congress,” Political Science Research and Methods, 6(1): 181-196, 2018.
See Gyung-ho Jeong's full profile here
Key Publications
- Behavioural Insights and Political Science. Canadian Journal of Political Science. With Andrea Lawlor. Available here.
- Ambiguous COVID-19 Messaging Increases Unsafe Socializing Intentions. Journal of Behavioural Public Administration. With Mark Pickup and J. Scott Matthews. Available here.
- Does administrative burden influence support for a low-income childcare supplement? Evidence from a survey experiment. Canadian Journal of Political Science. With Yang Yang. Forthcoming.
Courses
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POLI 504D/405G Topics in Canadian Politics: Behavioural Public Policy
See Vince Hopkins' full profile here
Key Publications
- “National Standards or Territorial Autonomy? The politics of fiscal federalism for health care in Canada,” In Press at Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023.
- “Downstream from the Centennial: Navigating Fifty Years of Policy Change.” In Policy Transformation in Canada: Is the Past Prologue?, University of Toronto Press, 2019.
See Sophie Borwein's full profile here
Key Publications
- Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change (Edited with Eric Hershberg), Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2010.
- "Democratization of Foreign Policy: The Ottawa Process as a Model," Canadian Foreign Policy, 1998.
- Democracy and Foreign Policy: Canada Among Nations (Edited with Maureen Appel Molot), Carleton University Press, 1995.
See Max Cameron's full profile here
Research News
Alum Nikki Hill named one of Canada’s most powerful women in 2023 by WXN
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MA alum Haley Magrill awarded microgrant from Glocal Foundation of Canada
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Welcoming Assistant Professor Vince Hopkins to UBC Political Science
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