Policy : from ideas to implementation : a book in honour of Professor G. Bruce Doern

A Festschrift In Honour Of G. Bruce Doern One Of A Handful Of Scholars Who, Beginning In The 1960's Pioneered The Modern Study Of Public Policy In Canada. Policy From Ideas To Implementation : Essays In Honour Of Professor G. Bruce Doern / Leslie A. Pal, Michael J. Prince, And Glen Toner -- Bruce The Builder / John A. Chenier -- The Accidental Theorist : Key Themes In G. Bruce Doern's Approach To The Policy Process / Leslie A. Pal -- The Policy Roles Of Central Agencies : Bruce Doern's Original Ideas / Peter Aucoin -- Self-regulation, Exhortation, And Symbolic Politics : Gently Coercive Governing? / Michael J. Prince -- New Directions And Old Dilemmas : Taxation As An Instrument Of Public Policy / Allan M. Maslove -- Science Advisory Mechanisms In Canada : An Institutional Analysis / Jeffrey S. Kinder -- Policies Of Culturing Science And Technology In Canada / Markus Sharaput -- Digital State 2.0 / Sanford Borins -- Canada-united States Energy Relations : From Domestic To North American Energy Policies / Monica Gattinger -- Policy Making In The Indeterminate World Of Energy Transitions : Carbon Capture And Storage As Technological Transition Or Enhanced Carbon Lock In / James Meadowcraft And Matthew Hellin -- Growing The Children Of Brundtland : The Creation And Evolution Of The Nrtee, Iisd, Cesd, And Sdtc / Serena Boutros, Lillian Hayward, Anique Montambault, Laura Smallwood, And Glen Toner. Edited By Glen Toner, Leslie A. Pal, And Michael J. Prince. Includes Bibliographical References. Contents Foreword 1 Policy from Ideas to Implementation: Essays in Honour of Professor G. Bruce Doern 2 Bruce the Builder 3 The Accidental Theorist? Key Themes in G. Bruce Doern’s Approach to the Policy Process 4 The Policy Roles of Central Agencies: Bruce Doern’s Original Ideas 5 Self-Regulation, Exhortation, and Symbolic Politics: Gently Coercive Governing? 6 New Directions and Old Dilemmas: Taxation as an Instrument of Public Policy 7 Science Advisory Mechanisms in Canada: An Institutional Analysis 8 Policies of Culturing Science and Technology in Canada 9 Digital State 2.0 10 Canada-United States Energy Relations: From Domestic to North American Energy Policies? 11 Policy Making in the Indeterminate World of Energy Transitions: Carbon Capture and Storage as Technological Transition or Enhanced “Carbon Lock In” 12 Growing the Children of Brundtland: The Creation and Evolution of the NRTEE, IISD, CESD, and SDTC Contributors Assembling an informed group of scholars, this volume focuses on the study and practice of central agencies, regulation, budgeting, energy and science policy, and governing instruments. A overview that looks beyond Doern's tremendous body of work, Policy: From Ideas to Implementation is also a survey of the methods and central issues of the Canadian and international public policy disciplines. Illuminating the ways in which neoliberal policies - such as the deregulation of economies and the transfer of governmental responsibilities to the private sector - have been implemented on a global scale, this book shows how neoliberalism has seeped into our social and political fabric and affected our daily lives