The growth of what some academics refer to as ?the policy analysis movement? represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy options. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the many ways in which the policy analysis movement has been conducted, and to what effect, in Canadian governments and, for the first time, in business associations, labour unions, universities, and other non-governmental organizations.

Editors Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, and David Laycock have brought together a wide range of contributors to address questions such as: What do policy analysts do? What techniques and approaches do they use? What is their influence on policy-making in Canada? Is there a policy analysis deficit? What norms and values guide the work done by policy analysts working in different institutional settings? Contributors focus on the sociology of policy analysis, demonstrating how analysts working in different organizations tend to have different interests and to utilize different techniques. They compare and analyze the significance of these different styles and approaches, and speculate about their impact on the policy process.

Laurent Dobuzinskis is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

Michael Howlett is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

David Laycock is a professor and chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

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1. Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art
   LAURENT DOBUZINKIS, MICHAEL HOWLETT, and DAVID LAYCOCK

PART I: THE STYLES AND METHODS OF PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS IN CANADA

2. The Policy Analysis Profession in Canada
   STEPHEN BROOKS
3. The Choice of Formal Policy Analysis Methods in Canada
   AIDAN R. VINING and ANTHONY E. BOARDMAN
4. Beyond Formal Policy Analysis: Governance Context, Analytical Styles, and the Policy Analysis Movement in Canada
   MICHAEL HOWLETT and EVERT LINDQUIST
5. Policy Analysis and Bureaucratic Capacity: Context, Competences, and Strategies
   EVERT LINDQUIST and JAMES DESVEAUX

PART II: PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS IN CANADA: HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXT

6. The Policy Analysis Movement
   MICHAEL MINTROM
7. Soft Craft, Hard Choices, Altered Context: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Policy Advice in Canada
   MICHAEL J. PRINCE
8. In Between Trends: Developments of Public Policy Analysis and Policy Analysis Instruction in Canada, the United States, and the European Union
   IRIS GEVA-MAY and ALLAN M. MASLOVE

PART III: POLICY ANALYSIS BY GOVERNMENTS

9. Policy Analysis in the Federal Government: Building the Forward-Looking Policy Research Capacity
   JEAN-PIERRE VOYE
10. Policy Analysis in Provincial Governments in Canada: From PPBS to Network Management
    DOUG MCARTHUR
11. Immature Policy Analysis: Building Capacity in Eight Major Canadian Cities
    KENNEDY STEWART and PATRICK J. SMIT>H

PART IV: COMMITTEES, PUBLIC INQUIRIES, RESEARCH INSTITUTES, CONSULTANTS, AND PUBLIC OPINION

12. The Public of Public Inquiries
    LIORA SALTER
13. Back to the Future? Is There a Case for Re-establishing the Economic Council and/or the Science Council?
    LAURENT DOBUZINSKIS
14. Committees inside Canadian Legislatures
    JOSIE SCHOFIELD and JONATHAN FERSHAU
15. How Policy Makers View Public Opinion
    FRANÇOIS PETRY
16. The Invisible Private Service: Consultants and Public Policy in Canada
    KIMBERLY SPEERS

PART V: PARTIES AND INTEREST GROUP-BASED POLICY ANALYSIS

17. Policy Study and Development in Canada’s Political Parties
    WILLIAM CROSS
18. Business Associations and Policy Analysis in Canada
    ANDREW STRITCH
19. Policy Analysis by the Labour Movement in a Hostile Environment
    ANDREW JACKSON and BOB BALDWIN
20. Policy Analysis and the Voluntary Sector: Evolving Policy Styles
    SUSAN D. PHILLIPS

PART VI: ACADEMIC AND ADVOCACY-BASED POLICY ANALYSIS

21. The Media
    CATHERINE MURRAY
22. Any Ideas? Think Tanks and Policy Analysis in Canada
    DONALD E. ABELSON
23. Academics and Public Policy: Informing Policy Analysis and Policy Making
    DANIEL COHN

Contributors