scholarly journals Presidential Address: The Invisible Historian

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Future

Abstract Although contemporary events have made it appear that there is widespread support in Canada for history as a discipline, the reality is otherwise. Many individuals, interest groups, and even institutions make considerable use of historical arguments in public debate to advance their causes, it is true. However, it is almost invariably the case that these advocates making historical arguments are not historians. This painful reality was brought home to the historical profession in 1996-97 by such events as the release of the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the debates over public policy issues such as copyright reform and a protocol for research involving humans. It is essential to the future of the discipline and of organisations such as CHAJSHC that historians reassert their role in the processes of researching, interpeting, and utilizing history in public discourse and academic arenas.

scholarly journals Aboriginal population of Canada: growth dynamics under conditions of encounter of civilisations

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatole Romaniuc
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Demographic Evolution

This paper endeavours to capture the broad configuration of demographic evolution of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada from the early contacts with Europeans to the present. The main stages thereof are identified and the underlying factors explored, against the historical background of Aboriginal and European civilisations' encounter. While taking stock of the past, the paper takes a glimpse into the future. It concludes with a review of demographically-driven policy issues that the First Nations are likely to confront as they step into the 21s Century.

scholarly journals Sentencing Reform in Canada: Recent Developments

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian V. Roberts ◽  
Andrew von Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Sentencing Guidelines ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Sentencing Reform ◽  
Solicitor General ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments

Changes to the sentencing process in Canada are finally imminent. A number of reports in recent years have called for reforms in the area of sentencing and parole. In 1987, the Canadian Sentencing Commission released its final report Sentencing Reform: A Canadian Approach. This was followed in 1988 by the report of the Daubney Committee following its investigation into sentencing and parole. In addition to these proposals, the now-defunct Law Reform Commission of Canada, the Department of Justice and the Ministry of the Solicitor General all published reports containing reform proposals. In this article, the authors review recent events in the area of sentencing since the publication of the report of the Canadian Sentencing Commission. After a brief introduction, four principal policy issues are examined: (i) statutory statements of sentencing purpose; (ii) sentencing guidelines; (iii) the future of release on parole; (iv) the creation of a permanent sentencing commission for Canada. For each issue, the article critically examines the position taken by major players in the area of criminal law reform. The article concludes with a brief examination of Bill C-90, which recently received first reading, and which will be the object of further parliamentary scrutiny in the fall of 1992. In a subsequent article, the authors offer their own proposals to reform the sentencing of offenders in Canada.

Philosophical Impediments to Citizens’ Use of Science

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Baron
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Moral Rules

This chapter discusses three impediments to proper use of science in the creation of public policy. First, citizens and policymakers follow moral rules other than those that involve consequences, yet the main role of science in policy is to predict outcomes. Second, citizens believe that their proper role is to advance their self-interest or the interest of some narrow group, thus ignoring the relevance of science to policy issues that affect humanity now and in the future. Third, people fail to understand the nature of science as grounded in actively open-minded thinking, thus giving it an advantage over some alternative ways of forming beliefs.

Arenas without Rules and the Policy Change Process: Outsider Groups and British Roads Policy

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Dudley ◽  
Jeremy Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Alternative Policy ◽  
Policy Arenas

A key task of governments is to construct and manage systems of consultation whereby the vast array of interest groups seeking to influence public policy can be accommodated. Conventional wisdom holds that key insider groups secure for themselves special privileges, not least of which is an ability to prevent radical policy change. A concomitant view is that public policy emerges from relatively stable networks of actors who have some mutual resource dependencies. One reason why this paradigm is showing signs of intellectual fatigue is that it seems weak in explaining policy change. Yet, policy change does take place. Indeed, it is one of the characteristics of the 1980s and 1990s. This article examines an example of the traditional modalities of consultation failing to accommodate new interests, knowledge and ideas. This breakdown appears to have occurred by the use of alternative policy ‘arenas without rules' by outsider groups, leading to a radical new ‘framing’ of transport policy. Moreover, government has failed to constrain the new policy issues in predictable and stable systems of consultation.

Presidential Address

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Shibley Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Women's Mental Health ◽  
Health Project

This article reviews policy issues involved in maternity leave or parental leave. Findings from the Wisconsin Maternity Leave and Health Project, a longitudinal interview study of 570 women and 550 of their husbands/ partners, are discussed, focusing especially on the issues of maternity leave and women's mental health, and fathers’ patterns of taking parental leave. I stress the importance of empirical research if feminist psychologists are to have an impact on public policy.

Interest Groups and the Market for Representation

2020 ◽  
pp. 452-469
Author(s):  
Jeremy Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Main Channel ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Policy Style ◽  
Vast Range ◽  
Effective Representation

For long periods, interest groups rather than parties were the main channel for effective representation on a vast range of policy issues (often not discussed in elections or in party programmes), leading to a consensual policy style. Citizens, via interest group membership, gained access to policy-makers (particularly, but not exclusively, civil servants) and were able to influence public policy. This long-established system of policymaking has been subject to now decades of challenges, with governments often marginalizing interest groups and resorting to an impositional, top-down (and often frenetic policy style leaving no time for effectuve consulation of those affected). Thus, effective representation via both traditional mass parties and interest groups has declined, assisting the rise of populism, or ‘Farumpism’

Division 18 presidential address: The future of public service psychology.

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-563
Author(s):  
Femina P. Varghese ◽  
Joshua Root ◽  
Jon Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Future

Particularity of Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in the Russian Federation: Public Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-322
Author(s):  
Václav Pravda
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recognition And Enforcement ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Broad Interpretation ◽  
Basic Ideas

Summary This article elaborates on the issue of recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in the Russian Federation. It is common knowledge that foreign companies seeking R&E in Russia suffered damage because of the broad interpretation of Russian public policy in the past decades. However, it is uncertain how the present judicial development appears like and where it will lead in the future. The article specifically considers two basic ideas on the issue at hand: one is slightly critical (Karabelnikov) while the second is rather optimistic in regard with the recent development (Zykov). The main goal is to introduce the issue to the respective readers and to try to inflame a discussion.

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