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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792160103321

Titolo

Commissions of inquiry and policy change : a comparative analysis / / Carolyn M. Johns, Gregory J. Inwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6887-3

1-4426-6886-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 pages)

Collana

Institute of Public Administration of Canada Series in Public Management and Governance

Disciplina

353.4/630971

Soggetti

Governmental investigations - Canada

Political planning - Canada

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""List of Tables, Figures, and Chapter Appendices""; ""1 Why Study Commissions of Inquiry?""; ""2 Theories of Policy Change and a Four-Part Theoretical Framework for Comparative Analysis""; ""3 Structuring Canada's National Policy Debate: The Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects""; ""4 Politics and Promise: A Feminist-Institutionalist Analysis of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women""; ""5 The Lasting Impact of the Berger Inquiry into the Construction of a Pipeline in the Mackenzie Valley""

""6 Of Leaps of Faith and Policy Change: The Macdonald Royal Commission"" ""7 The Framing of Scientific Governance in Canada: Policy Change and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies""; ""8 The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: An Exercise in Policy Education""; ""9 Manufacturing Civil Society? How the Krever Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada Shaped Collective Action and Policy Change""; ""10 The Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: Laying the Groundwork or a Missed Opportunity for Policy Change?""



""11 The Walkerton Inquiry and Policy Change"" ""12 The Goudge Inquiry: Anatomy of Success for an Inquiry to Change Policy?""; ""13 Commissions of Inquiry and Policy Change: A Comparative Analysis""; ""References""; ""Contributors""

Sommario/riassunto

In search of answers, Commissions of Inquiry and Policy Change analyses ten landmark inquiries ranging across a variety of political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, and legal issues.