Faculté des sciences sciales Faculty f Scial Sciences Public Plicy Develpment PAP 3350 WEDNESDAY 10:00-11:30 FRIDAY 8:30-10:00 Jennifer Wallner Fall 2014 COURSE OUTLINE Class schedule: W 10:00-11:30 F 8:30-10:00 Simard Hall 430 Prfessr s ffice hurs: Wednesdays 14:45-16:00 - r by appintment Office FSS 7040 E-mail: jennifer.wallner@uttawa.ca Any questins sent by email shuld receive a respnse within tw business days r during the fllwing class if taken place within the 48 hurs fllwing receipt f the email. Nte that the prfessr reserves the right nt t answer an email if the level f language used is inadequate. On Blackbard: Yes OFFICIAL COURSE DESCRIPTION This curse prvides students with a cmprehensive intrductin t public plicy develpment and implementatin, including the prcesses, institutins, ideas and instruments situating these cmpnents cmparatively in the Canadian and American plicy cntexts. The curse als expses students t sme key features f the cntemprary plicy-making envirnment including federalism, parliamentary versus presidential demcracy, the curts, and the internatinal cmmunity. In additin t being rted in the Canadian and American plicy cntext, this curse als explres in greater detail ne particular plicy sectr: elementary and secndary educatin. 1
GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES The primary bjectives f this class include: - Prviding students with a slid understanding f the institutins, prcesses, and instruments f Canadian public plicy; - Gaining an appreciatin fr the cmpnents f the public cycle and plicy subsystem; - Explring the interactins and interdependencies amng agenda setting, plicy develpment, and plicy implementatin; - Studying sme key features f the cntemprary plicy-making envirnment ntably federalism, parliamentary and presidential demcracy, the curts, and the internatinal cmmunity; and - Develping critical thinking and writing skills. COURSE ENGAGEMENT This class emplys a cmbinatin f lectures, discussin grups and experiential learning. Lectures will cver the week s readings, addressing the theretical cncerns f each week s tpic as well as seek t demnstrate the relevance f the thery and cncepts studied t the analysis f cntemprary events and issues in Canadian public plicy. There will als be five discussin grup sessins held during regularly scheduled curse hurs t explre the cncepts develped in class in the cntext f elementary and secndary educatin. The smaller grup sessins will ffer students the pprtunity t actively participate in discussins pertaining t plicy analysis and develpment. Students need t cme prepared t these sessins, as they will be expected t engage in discussins f the assigned readings and questins. Yu shuld read the assigned texts and reflect n their answers t the questins prir t attending the sessin. ASSESSMENT METHODS There are a variety f assignments designed t develp different skills sets, aptitudes, and knwledge t help students advance bth their specific appreciatin fr the plicy wrld and brader abilities that will be applicable in the wider university envirnment and the wrld beynd. In additin t a midterm and a final exam, all students are required t cmplete a bk review, participate in regular discussin grups and present in a grup befre the class. Exams *One in-class n Octber 10 th at 25% percent and ne in final exam perid at 30% cmbinatin f terms and shrt answers study guides will be prvided tw weeks befrehand A (85-100) answers will draw frm readings, lectures, and discussin grups crrectly identifying cre terms, prviding 2
accurate examples, and able t refer directly t specific authrs when they have been prvided Because guides are given in advance, the evaluatin will be rigrus marks will be deducted fr inaccurate identificatin f cncepts and examples Writing and grammar are als evaluated cmplete sentences must be used and writing must be legible While the final exam will nt be explicitly cumulative, yu will need t remember cmpnents frm the first part f the semester t fully address all the questins Bk Review 35 % (further details t be prvided) DUE NOVEMBER 19 th students must chse ONE f the fllwing bks t review: Gerard Bychuk, Natinal Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race Territry and the Rts f Difference. Washingtn: Gergetwn University Press, 2008. OR R. Blake Brwn, Arming and Disarming: A Histry f Gun Cntrl in Canada. Trnt: University f Trnt Press, 2012. Participatin, Discussin Grups, and Grup Presentatin 10 % (cumulative) Individually, students are encuraged t actively participate during class by raising issues and respnding t questins psed by the prfessr Additinally up t FOUR pp quizzes will be distributed thrugh the term yur perfrmance n the quizzes will be factred yur participatin grade Attendance will be taken fr the five discussin grups that are held during regular class time n September 12 th, September 26 th, Octber 8 th, Octber 31 st and Nvember 26 th. Each grup will als be respnsible fr reprting back nce t the full class, summarizing the main cmpnents f the discussin, the lessns that were learned thrugh the cnversatin, and prviding a cllective respnse t the central questins psed fr that day this is yur grup presentatin. Every member f the grup must speak publicly befre the class Presentatins will be develped during the class sessin, meaning that they will be mre ff-the-cuff and spntaneus than yu may be used t 3
Cmpnents f Final Mark Evaluatin frmat Weight Date Midterm exam 25 % In-class Octber 10 th details prvided tw weeks befre Bk Review 35 % Nvember 19 th Participatin weekly class cntributins five discussin grups ne grup presentatin Final exam details prvided up tw weeks befre r in the last class 10 % Cumulative 30 % Exam Perid Plicy n language quality and late submissins Class attendance is necessary t successfully cmplete this curse. Yu will als be judged n yur writing abilities. It is recmmended t take the apprpriate measures t avid mistakes. Yu will be penalized between 5% t 15%, t the prfessr s discretin. Late submissins are nt tlerated. Exceptins are made nly fr illness r ther serius situatins deemed as such by the prfessr. There will be a penalty f 5% per day fr late submissins, including weekends. University regulatins require all absences frm exams and all late submissins due t illness t be supprted by a medical certificate. The Faculty reserves the right t accept r reject the reasn put frth if it is nt medical. Reasns such as travel, wrk and errrs made while reading the exam schedule are nt usually accepted. In the event f an illness r related cmplicatins, nly the cunseling service and the campus clinic (lcated at 100 Marie-Curie) may issue valid certificates t justify a delay r absence ntes frm Appletree r ther clinics will nt be accepted. Each day f late submissin results in a penalty f 5% (weekends nt excluded). This als applies t assignments sent by email, and in this case, the time f receipt f the email by the recipient is guarantr f the time f delivery. We advise yu t ntify yur prfessr as sn as pssible if a religius hliday r event frces yur absence during an evaluatin. NOTE: The required text and bks fr the review are available fr purchase frm the AGORA Bkstre (http://tiny.cc/rg4ca - gglemap) Hwlett, Michael, M. Ramesh and Anthny Perl. Studying Public Plicy: Plicy Cycles and Plicy Subsystems, Third Editin. Dn Mills: Oxfrd University Press. 2009. (listed price: $76. 95) Additinal readings are available n-line. T help develp yur abilities t find readings that are available thrugh the library, links are nt prvided. 4
COURSE SCHEDULE AND REQUIRED READINGS Week 1: Intrductin t Public Plicy (September 3 rd and 5 th ) Hwlett and Ramesh Chapter 1 Week 2: Public Plicy and the Plicy Cntext (September 10 th and 12 th ) Hwlett and Ramesh Chapter 3 Discussin Grup 1 Friday September 12 th Explring Canadian Elementary and Secndary Educatin SOME GROUPS IN SMD 429 Jennifer Wallner. 2013. Lking Nrth f the 49 th Parallel Peabdy Jurnal f Educatin. Week 3: Appraches t the Study f PP: Institutins and Interests (September 17 th and 19 th ) Hwlett and Ramesh Chapters 2 and 3 Peter A. Hall and Rsemary C.R. Taylr, Plitical Science and the Three New Institutinalism Plitical Studies. XLIV (1996): 936-957 Paul Burstein, The Impact f Public Opinin n Public Plicy: A Review and an Agenda Plitical Research Quarterly March (2003): 29-40. Week 4: Appraches t the Study f PP: Ideas (September 24 th and 26 th ) - last day t drp the class w/ut penalty September 28 th Jhn L. Campbell. Ideas, Plitics, and Public Plicy. Annual Review f Scilgy. (2002): 21-38 (available n-line) Discussin Grup 2 Friday September 26 th What is an Educatinal Paradigm? SOME GROUPS IN SMD 428 Sctt Davis, The Paradx f Prgressive Educatin: A Frame Analysis Scilgy f Educatin 75 (Octber: 2002): 269-286. (available n-line) 5
Week 5: Agenda-Setting I (Octber 1 st and 3 rd ) Hwlett and Ramesh Chapter 4 Thmas Birkland, Fcusing Events, Mbilizatin, and Agenda Setting Jurnal f Public Plicy. 18, 1 (1998): 53-74 (available n-line) Debrah Stne, Causal Stries and the Frmatin f Plicy Agendas Plitical Science Quarterly. 104, 2 (Summer 1989): 281-300 (available n-line) Week 6: Discussin Grup and Mid-Term Exam IN CLASS Discussin Grup 3 Wednesday Octber 8 th Getting an Item n the Agenda SOME GROUPS SMD 428 Debra Thmpsn and Jennifer Wallner A Fcusing Tragedy: Public Plicy and the Establishment f Afrcentric Educatin in Trnt Canadian Jurnal f Plitical Science, December 2011. (available n-line) FRIDAY OCTOBER 10 th MID TERM EXAM IN CLASS FALL READING WEEK Octber 12 th 18 th Week 7: Plicy Instruments, Frmulatin, and Decisin-making (Octber 22 nd and 24 th ) Hwlett and Ramesh Chapters 5 and 6 Evert Vedung, Plicy Instruments: Typlgies and Theries In Carrts, Sticks and Sermns: Plicy Instruments and Their Evaluatin. Marie- Luise Bemelmans-Videc, Ray C. Rist, and Evert Vedung, eds. New Brunswick: Transactin Publishers, 1998. (psted n VC) Week 8: The Cntext I Federalism (Octber 29 th and 31 st ) Paul Piersn. Fragmented Welfare States: Federal Institutins and the Develpment f Scial Plicy Gvernance: Internatinal Jurnal f Plicy, Administratin and Institutins. 8, 4 (1995): 449-478. (available n-line) 6
Harld J. Laski. The Obslescence f Federalism The New Republic. 98 (May 1939): 367 (psted n curse website) Keith G. Banting, The Three Federalisms: Scial Plicy and Intergvernmental Decisin-Making In Canadian Federalism: Perfrmance, Effectiveness, and Efficiency. Herman Bakvis and Grace Skgstad, eds. (http://pst.queensu.ca/~bantingk/cdnfederalism2e_ch7.pdf) Discussin Grup 4 Friday Octber 31 st Federalism and Educatin Plicy HALF GROUPS SMD 428 Sandra Vergari, Safeguarding Federalism in Educatin Plicy in Canada and the United States Publius: The Jurnal f Federalism. 40:3 (2010): 534-557. Week 9: The Cntext II Parliaments versus Republics (Nvember 5 th and 7 th ) Beryl A. Radin and Jan Price Base. Federalism, Plitical Structure and Public Plicy in Canada and the United States Jurnal f Cmparative Plicy Analysis: Research and Practice. 2(2002): 65-89. Richard Simen and Beryl A. Radin. Reflectins n Cmparing Federalisms: Canada and the United States Publius: The Jurnal f Federalism. 40(3) 2010: 357-365. Jhn Campbell and Ove Pedersn. Knwledge Regimes and Cmparative Plitical Ecnmy 2007 http://laisumedu.rg/desin_ibarra/desin/imagenescampbell/ds-d.pdf Week 10: The Cntext III The Cnstitutin, the Charter, and the Curts (Nvember 12 th and 14 th ) Janet L. Hiebert Wrestling with Rights: Judges, Parliament and the Making f Scial Plicy, in Chices: Curts and Legislatures, Vl 5, n. 3 (Mntreal: Institute fr Research n Public Plicy, June 1999). http://www.irpp.rg/chices/archive/vl5n3.pdf Natasha Dube, Minrity Language Rights in Canada Centre fr Cnstitutinal Studies. http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs/issues/minritylanguage.php FIELD TRIP THIS WEEK TO THE SCC DETAILS TO FOLLOW Week 11: The Cntext IV The Internatinal Cmmunity (Nvember 19 rd and 21 th ) BOOK REVIEW DUE IN CLASS ON NOVEMBER 19 th Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashre, Glbalizatin, Fur Paths f Internatinalizatin and Dmestic Plicy Change: The Case f Ec- 7
frestry Plicy Change in British Clumbia, Canada Canadian Jurnal f Plitical Science. 33, 1 (2000): 67-99. (available n-line) R. Dale. Specifying Glbalizatin Effects n Natinal Plicy: A Fcus n the Mechanisms Jurnal f Educatin Plicy. (1999) 14, 1: 1-17. (available n-line) Week 12: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER (Nvember 26 th and 28 st ) DISCUSSION GROUP 5 Wednesday Nvember 26 th Putting it All Tgether HALF GROUPS IN SMD 428 Richard Simen, Studying Public Plicy Canadian Jurnal f Plitical Science, 1977 (available n-line) Friday Nvember 28 th recap and review BIBLIOGRAPHY Banting, Keith G. The Three Federalisms: Scial Plicy and Intergvernmental Decisin-Making In Canadian Federalism: Perfrmance, Effectiveness, and Efficiency. Herman Bakvis and Grace Skgstad, eds. (http://pst.queensu.ca/~bantingk/cdnfederalism2e_ch7.pdf) Bernstein, Steven and Benjamin Cashre, Glbalizatin, Fur Paths f Internatinalizatin and Dmestic Plicy Change: The Case f Ec-frestry Plicy Change in British Clumbia, Canada Canadian Jurnal f Plitical Science. 33, 1 (2000): 67-99. Birkland, Thmas. Fcusing Events, Mbilizatin, and Agenda Setting Jurnal f Public Plicy. 18, 1 (1998): 53-74 Campbell, Jhn L. Ideas, Plitics, and Public Plicy. Annual Review f Scilgy. (2002): 21-38. Campbell, Jhn L. and Ove Pedersn. Knwledge Regimes and Cmparative Plitical Ecnmy 2007 http://laisumedu.rg/desin_ibarra/desin/imagenescampbell/ds-d.pdf Cuncil f Ministers f Educatin Canada, Educatin in Canada. July 2008. http://www.cmec.ca/publicatins/lists/publicatins/attachments/64/educati n-in-canada2008.pdf Dale, R. Specifying Glbalizatin Effects n Natinal Plicy: A Fcus n the Mechanisms Jurnal f Educatin Plicy. (1999) 14, 1: 1-17. 8
Davis, Sctt. The Paradx f Prgressive Educatin: A Frame Analysis Scilgy f Educatin 75 (Octber: 2002): 269-286. Hall, Peter A. and Rsemary C.R. Taylr, Plitical Science and the Three New Institutinalism Plitical Studies. XLIV (1996): 936-957 Hwlett, Michael, M. Ramesh and Anthny Perl. Studying Public Plicy: Plicy Cycles and Plicy Subsystems, Third Editin. Dn Mills: Oxfrd University Press. 2009. Laski, Harld J. The Obslescence f Federalism The New Republic. 98 (May 1939): 367 Piersn, Paul. Fragmented Welfare States: Federal Institutins and the Develpment f Scial Plicy Gvernance: Internatinal Jurnal f Plicy, Administratin and Institutins. 8, 4 (1995): 449-478. Radin, Beryl A. and Jan Price Base. Federalism, Plitical Structure and Public Plicy in Canada and the United States Jurnal f Cmparative Plicy Analysis: Research and Practice. 2(2002): 65-89 Simen, Richard. Studying Public Plicy Canadian Jurnal f Plitical Science 9, 4 (December 1976), pp. 548-580 Simen, Richard and Beryl A. Radin. Reflectins n Cmparing Federalisms: Canada and the United States Publius: The Jurnal f Federalism. 40(3) 2010: 357-365. Stne, Debrah. Causal Stries and the Frmatin f Plicy Agendas Plitical Science Quarterly. 104, 2 (Summer 1989): 281-300. Thmpsn, Debra and Jennifer Wallner A Fcusing Tragedy: Public Plicy and the Establishment f Afrcentric Educatin in Trnt Canadian Jurnal f Plitical Science, December 2011. Vedung, Evert. Plicy Instruments: Typlgies and Theries In Carrts, Sticks and Sermns: Plicy Instruments and Their Evaluatin. Marie-Luise Bemelmans-Videc, Ray C. Rist, and Evert Vedung, eds. New Brunswick: Transactin Publishers, 1998. Vergari, Sandra. Safeguarding Federalism in Educatin Plicy in Canada and the United States Publius: The Jurnal f Federalism. 40:3 (2010): 534-557. 9
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Beware f Academic Fraud! Academic fraud is an act cmmitted by a student t distrt the marking f assignments, tests, examinatins, and ther frms f academic evaluatin. Academic fraud is neither accepted nr tlerated by the University. Anyne fund guilty f academic fraud is liable t severe academic sanctins. Here are a few examples f academic fraud: engaging in any frm f plagiarism r cheating; presenting falsified research data; handing in an assignment that was nt authred, in whle r in part, by the student; submitting the same assignment in mre than ne curse, withut the written cnsent f the prfessrs cncerned. In recent years, the develpment f the Internet has made it much easier t identify academic plagiarism. The tls available t yur prfessrs allw them t trace the exact rigin f a text n the Web, using just a few wrds. In cases where students are unsure whether they are at fault, it is their respnsibility t cnsult the University s Web site at the fllwing address: http://www.scialsciences.uttawa.ca/eng/writing_tls.asp «Tls fr Writing Papers and Assignments». Persns wh have cmmitted r attempted t cmmit (r have been accmplices t) academic fraud will be penalized. Here are sme examples f the academic sanctins, which can be impsed: a grade f «F» fr the assignment r curse in questin; an additinal prgram requirement f between 3 and 30 credits; suspensin r expulsin frm the Faculty. Last sessin, mst f the students fund guilty f fraud were given an «F» fr the curse and had between three and twelve credits added t their prgram requirement. Fr mre infrmatin, refer t: http://www.uttawa.ca/academic/inf/newsletter/fraud_e.html 11