April 21, 22, 23
OPENING SESSION
AVRIL 21
1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Fiscal Federalism in Canada: Analysis, Evaluation, Prescription
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This conference features some of the most prominent Canadian scholars and experts on a wide range of topics related to fiscal federalism.
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2020-21 University Governance Cohort
The Centre on Governance has had the pleasure of offering the training and research program in university governance for the second year in a row. The program is funded by Global Affairs Canada through the Programme canadien de bourses de la Francophonie (PCBF), which is led by Director Tony Toufic. This year the program is fully online with the training modules being delivered virtually.
The program began in September 2020 and is expected to be completed in June 2021.
Our academic administrators currently completing the program are joining us from Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Mauritania, and Morocco.
The program covers topics such as governance of internationalization, governance of francophonie, use of technologies in universities, and university governance in times of crises.
The Centre is very happy to be hosting virtually the following interns for 2020-2021:
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The Center on Governance and the Forum of Federations are happy to announce the recipients of the Doctoral Scholarship on federalism. This $8,000 scholarship supports research on federalism by helping students produce important work in the fields of federalism studies and multi-level governance.
The 2021 recipients are:
Eric Desrochers, doctoral candidate in Political Science at the School of Political Studies. His dissertation looks at the Impact of Federalism on the implementation of citizens' policy preferences.
Silvana Gomes, doctoral candidate in Public Administration at the School of Political Studies. Her research looks at Policy Networks and Multi-level Cooperation in the Implementation of Digital Government Policies.
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The research of these recipients will be published in the Center on Governance Working Papers Series and the Forum of Federations Occasional Papers Series. |
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PPX-COG Research Excellence Scholarship |
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The Centre on Governance in partnership with the Performance and Planning Forum - Performance and Planning Exchange (PPX), continues its mission to encourage excellence in academic research in the areas of program planning, performance measurement and evaluation.
Recipients for the year 2020-2021 are:
Pauliana Borgella, Ph.D. student in Public Administration under the supervision of Professor Éric Champagne for a project entitled: L’utilisation de l’évaluation de programmes comme outil d’amélioration des politiques publiques : le cas d’Haïti (Using program evaluation as a tool for improving public policies: the case of Haiti).
Jackson Reggie, Ph.D. student in Public Administration under the supervision of Professor Christopher Cooper, whose project is entitled: Implementation of the Results Agenda: Unpacking the role public servants play in institutional work (Mise en œuvre de la Politique sur les résultats : le décryptage du rôle des fonctionnaires dans le travail institutionnel).
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IN FOCUS: FEDERALISM AND MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE |
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Federalism and multi-level governance are at the heart of contemporary politics. In industrialized liberal democracies, the decentralization of political power requires the presence of intergovernmental relations as an important component of the public policy process. Federalism and multi-level governance in industrialized liberal democracies also raise questions of legitimacy, constitutionalism and democratic practices related to the conditions under which communities can integrate and leave political blocs. In democratizing states, the decentralization of political power is usually a necessary condition for people's engagement in processes of significant political and institutional change. In these states, federalism and multi-level governance are typically called upon to manage significant challenges of rebuilding political institutions, accommodating cultural and territorial diversity, economic and social development and shaping democracy.
The Centre's research focus on federalism and multi-level governance therefore makes it possible to address both the major contemporary political issues such as democracy and political legitimacy as well as the most pressing issues such as the environment, diversity and development.
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DIRECTOR: ANDRÉ LECOURS
André Lecours is a Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His main research interests are Canadian politics, European politics, nationalism (with a focus on Quebec, Scotland, Flanders, Catalonia and the Basque country) and federalism.
Don't miss André Lecours during our conference on Fiscal Federalism in Canada:
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Centre on Governance
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ottawa
120, University
Social Sciences building
office 5043
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
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