Alexandre Couture Gagnon

Toward Subnational Comparative Cultural Policy Analysis: The Case of Provincial Cultural Policy and Administration in Canada

Comparative policy analysis is an underdeveloped field of study in Canadian policy scholarship at the national and subnational levels. Cultural policy research is also underdeveloped in Canada, particularly at the provincial level. This article aims to contribute to the development of subnational comparative cultural policy analysis by assessing the analytical value of utilizing national-level cultural policy approaches as referents for provincial comparative analysis. We develop four main approaches to cultural policy and administration—the French, British, American, and hybrid (mixed) approaches—and explore their applicability to analyzing the origin and evolution of cultural policy and administration in five Canadian provinces. The article draws on a recently concluded three-year national study of provincial and territorial cultural policy and administration codirected by authors Gattinger and Saint-Pierre.

American Public Policy: An Introduction, 11th Edition

American Public Policy: An Introduction is an undergraduate textbook that provides an overview of the most important contemporary policy fields of the United States. The authors of the 11th edition are explicit about this, stating that the book “focuses on the substantive issues of public policy” (p. xv). In their view, presenting the contents of policy fields is key to sparking interest in students for public policy in general.

Review of Introduction to American Government, 7th edition

Teaching a mandatory American Government 101 course while maintaining the interest of numerous students is a perennial challenge for political science professors. This is the one chance a professor...