POLI 2P99 Lecture Notes - Canadian Economics Association, Constitutionalism, North American Free Trade Agreement
6 Nov 2013
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The canadian context of public policy structural theories can explain it in any jurisdiction the context in which we apply theories. Economy: party, ideology cutbacks, public opinion, economic groups, supreme court, judiciary, executive, legislative. Attempts to understand public policy usually distinguish between what happens inside the state system and the societal factors that influence them. Hard time deciding what is distinctly canadian. Can we really make connections between foreign or international phenomena and canadian domestic policy outcomes: do they help us explain what we have or don"t have. Answering the above questions would require a distinction between contextual and proximate influences on public policy. Slide 2: influences contextual influences refer to a systemic (environmental) parameters of a policy space like political culture, the constitution, the economy and the international system. Canada has bee describes as being more deferential towards authority, more collectivists (less individualistic), and more tolerant of hierarchy. Lack of controversy in the public and power in canada.
