Research
Over the course of my academic career, my research has critically
engaged with many of the core challenges in Canadian politics,
political economy, and public policy, including partisanship, gender
and politics, citizenship and social policy, spatial politics, and
governing paradigms.
Since my appointment as a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Political
Economy and Social Governance in 2004, I have further pursued these
themes primarily through two streams of investigation. One stream
explores the transformative shift in governing philosophies from
postwar social liberalism to neoliberalism in the past two decades and
the many ways in which neoliberal governing practices have
reconfigured Canadian social policies, gender politics, and
citizenship identities and practices. The second stream in my CRC research
program examines the shifts in governance advanced through the North American
Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP), which was adopted
by the leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada in 2005. While
largely implemented under the radar of public opinion, I argue that
this ongoing continental governing project has “denationalized” public
policy, while empowering political executives, private actors and
private authority inside the state.
Drawing on critical political economy traditions as well as
contemporary discourse analysis, my research agenda emphasizes that
what “states say” matters and that engaged research must cast its
analytic eye to ongoing public discourses and official transcripts in
all their varieties.For a list of recent publications please click on this link (pdf document)
A complete CV can be viewed here (pdf document)
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