Policy change through sector intersection: forest and aboriginal policy in Clayoquot Sound
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Network and regime approaches to policy studies are both organized around the idea of a policy-specific subsystem. The problem with this sectoral focus is that it overlooks a potentially important source of policy: the intersection of one sector with another. This article analyses one example of policy change through sector intersection: the case of Clayoquot Sound on the western side of Vancouver, Island, British Columbia. Prior to the late 1980s, B.C. forest policy was conducted through a traditional regime emphasizing the mutually compatible interests of industry and government. Aboriginal policy, such as it was, was made in a relatively distinct policy regime. As a result of a critical combination of conditions in the early 1990s, these two policy regimes intersected, producing dramatic policy changes. This article analyses the separate regimes for forest and aboriginal policy in British Columbia and how the two regimes have been transformed in recent years and become increasingly entangled. The focus is then turned to Clayoquot Sound, a crucible of change, where these developments have been taken to their greatest extreme. The article concludes by examining the implications of these developments beyond Clayoquot Sound and for theories of public policy. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Canadian Public Administration
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0008-4840
Year: 1997
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Institutionalizing ambiguity: the management review group and the reshaping of the defense policy process in Canada
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The Department of National Defense (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CF) have been the subject of many studies intended to elicit a better return from defence efforts. None of these studies have been at all comprehensive. The 1971 white paper, Defense in the 70s, introduced a new study aimed at 'ensuring maximum effectiveness' in DND. The 1972 Management Review Group (MRG) report changed the entire administrative structure of DND and the CF, introduced new concepts for management, and shifted the power structure of the central bureaucracy. By the end of 1972, DND and the CF had a new set of principal actors, a new administrative structure, and a new policy process. To some the changes were more significant than previous unification reforms. The MRG report stands in sharp contrast to other studies because it has not been available to officials, scholars, or the public. Yet an awareness of the concepts that underlie the recommendations of the MRG is fundamental to understanding why the National Defence Headquarters exists and functions as it does today and why some issues are advanced over others. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Canadian Public Administration
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0008-4840
Year: 1987
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Can a party punish its faithful supporters? The Parti Quebecois and public sector employees
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The paper examines the electoral consequences of the Parti Quebecois' decision in the fall of 1982 to reduce expenditures by drastically cutting wages in the public sector. In doing so, the Parti Quebecois was attacking a group which was part of its core clientele. The episode offers the possibility of testing the proposition that a party which ignores its faithful supporters is doomed to perish. The analysis shows that the measure cost the Parti Quebecois a loss of seven percentage points among public sector employees; that the latter reacted as a group, their voting behaviour not being influenced by whether or not they were personally affected by the measure; and that the total net loss to the Parti Quebecois was 1.5 percentage points. The paper argues that the measure was less costly than the theoretical literature might have suggested and that the move could have been a successful one had the whole policy been handled more shrewdly by the government. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Canadian Public Administration
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0008-4840
Year: 1989
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