I am happy to report a number of exciting developments in the Department of Political Science over the past year. In addition to high quality teaching and research, faculty and students were involved in efforts to contribute to community and public service. These include a report on women executive and community leadership in Hamilton and Halton, a Water Week at McMaster, and the annual graduate student conference on

Mapping the Global Dimensions of Public Policy. The year also witnessed the launch of the Clarke Prizes for projects on advocacy to help students discover the connections between theory and practice.

Our faculty continued to contribute to University governance. Dr. Michelle Dion has taken over as the President of the McMaster University Faculty Association (MUFA), and Dr. Karen Bird was elected to the University Budget Committee.

Dr. Marshall Beier won the prestigious OCUFA (Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations) award for teaching, and Dr. Karen Bird received the Jill Vickers Prize for her paper presented at the 2014 Canadian Political Science Association meeting.

We bid farewell to Kathleen Hannan who provided excellent service to the Department as Undergraduate Secretary for over ten years before retiring, and was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Service, 2014.

Our programs are scheduled for review under the Institutional Quality Assurance Process. This is an opportunity to review existing arrangements, consider the changing landscape of higher education in the province and country, and strengthen the teaching and learning environment to meet the needs and demands of students and the community.

I wish a productive and enjoyable year to all.

Ahmed Shafiqul Huque

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

D E P A R T M E N T O F P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E n M c M A S T E R U N I V E R S I T YPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES VOL. 8, ISSUE 1

FALL 2015

Ahmed Shafiqul Huque

n DISTINGUISHED VISITOR

By Zaynab Al-Waadh, 4th year Social Work and Political Science

n IN THIS ISSUE

n New Faculty and Staff

n MUFA President

n Awards

n Graduate Student Conference

n Water Week

n Toronto Election Study

Olivia Chow (third from left) visits with students

As part of the Academic Women’s Success and Mentorship (AWSM) Lecture series, former MP and Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow spent a day at McMaster University engaging with students and faculty about women and leadership. Her visit included several activities in the Political Science department, along with the keynote AWSM Lecture to the wider community. This was an exciting event and she shared insight on her experience as a politician, an advocate, and a leader. Ms Chow engaged in discussion with members of the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences and met with a small group of undergraduate and graduate students for an intimate discussion of challenges and opportunities for self-discovery and growth. She also met with students in the Department of Political Science to engage in a discussion on public transit policy.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Joanne Heritz as an Assistant Professor (CLA)in the Department. Joanne obtained a PhD degree in Comparative Public

Policy from McMaster University in 2012. Her dissertation was titled ‘The Inclusion of Atypical Minorities in Public Policy’ and field of research includes public policy and aboriginal representation. Joanne will teach courses on Canadian politics, public policy and administration.

n MUFA PRESIDENT n NEW UNDERGRADUATE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTIn 2015-16, Michelle Dion, like some

other political science faculty members before her, assumes the role of President of the McMaster

University Faculty Association, which represents all full-time instructional faculty at the University. As Vice-President in 2014-15, she helped negotiate the joint agreement for pay equity (http://macfaculty.ca/

wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Joint-Statement-on-Pay-Equity-April-2015.pdf), which implemented a remedy to bring the average female faculty member’s salary in line with those of male colleagues with similar experience, rank, and credentials. In 2015-16, MUFA will continue to represent faculty interests and to promote policies that ensure McMaster maintains its reputation as a leading research-intensive, student-centred university.

The Department of Political Science welcomes our new Undergraduate Administrative Assistant, Rebekah

Flynn, who joined us in April 2015. Prior to this, Rebekah worked as an Administrative Assistant in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at McMaster University. Welcome Rebekah!

FOCUS ON FACULTYn NEW FACULTY

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Inder S. Marwah to the Department as an Assistant Professor.

Inder is a political theorist whose research examines the ways in which different traditions of political thought respond to the fact of human diversity and pluralism. Inder obtained a PhD from the University of Toronto and was a Post-Doctoral

Fellow at the University of Chicago and McMaster University. Inder is also interested in democratic theory and multiculturalism, as well as in various issues in public policy. He has taught classes in ancient, modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, international ethics, multiculturalism and European politics, and will teach courses in political theory, critical theory and decolonization, and cosmopolitanism.

n AWARDS

Dr. Marshall Beier was the winner of the prestigious teaching award from the Ontario Confederation of

University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). In his citation, the President of OCUFA stated: “Professor Beier treats his students as colleagues and collaborators, and excels at integrating his students into the research enterprise.” Marshall was earlier recognized as a 3M National Teaching Fellow.

Dr. Karen Bird won the Jill Vickers Prize for her paper titled ‘Challenges to Intersectional Inclusion: Institutional Dynamics of Ethnic Quotas and their Impact on Ethnic Minority Women’. The paper was presented at the 2014

Canadian Political Science Association meeting at Brock University.

Kathleen Hannan won the President’s Award for Outstanding Service, 2014.

This is a well-deserved recognition for Kathleen’s contribution to the Department and McMaster University. Congratulations to Kathleen for her excellent work and accomplishment, and we wish her all the best in retirement.

n WATER WEEK

n TORONTO ELECTION STUDY

The inaugural 2014 McMaster Water Week convened researchers, students and partners working at the intersection of water science, policy and technology. The format featured a mixture of distinguished lectures, student showcases, networking events, field tours and high level dialogues aligned with flagship projects related to water and climate change, public health and sustainable development. Over 400 people participated in 11 events that showcased the breadth and depth

of water research and teaching, while shaping and responding to the regional and global water agenda for science, policy and enterprise. McMaster’s Department of Political Science was also involved through a RIPS session on Governance in the Great Lakes. The 2nd annual McMaster Water Week will be held October 5-9, 2015 and is being led by Dr. Dustin Garrick and an interdisciplinary leadership team of faculty and students from the McMaster Water Network.

Dr. Karen Bird and PhD student Samantha Jackson collaborated with scholars from Western and Bishop’s University to analyze results from the Toronto Election Study survey. The project examined voter choice in the heavily contested 2014 Toronto mayoral election and accompanying ward races, with a focus on understanding who votes for women and racialized candidates in a non-partisan municipal context. Dr. Bird and Ms. Jackson presented their findings at the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics annual meeting in Uppsala, Sweden in summer 2015.

FOCUS ON EVENTSn MAPPING CONFERENCE DEFEATS WINTER SNOWSTORM

The fourth graduate conference on Mapping the Global Dimensions of Public Policy got off to a tough start last February 2nd when a rare closure of the university was ordered in the face of a winter snowfall. Some of the Day 1 participants had already arrived, others had stayed home, and Day 2 participants wondered if they should change their plans and cancel. In the face of all this, the graduate students on the conference organizing committee did a magnificent job in contacting everyone, rescheduling all paper givers from the first day who were able to stay on for sessions on Day 2 of the conference, and rebooking the always popular reception at the Phoenix from the first to second day.

As a result, a slightly shorter but intense program made for a very successful conference on February 3rd. Guest speakers included Dr. Angela Carter from University of Waterloo and Dr.Patrik Marier from Concordia University. As usual the highpoint of the conference was the graduate papers presented by MA and PhD students from across Canada. Themed sessions were held on the Welfare State, Development, Finance, Trade, and the Environment. A concluding roundtable on Cutting Waste or Wasting Cuts had to be cancelled to make space for rescheduled papers, but was held as a separate event in March.

Karen Bird Samantha Jackson

FOCUS ON PUBLICATIONSMarshall Beier- J. Marshall Beier. 2015. “Children, Childhoods, and Security Studies: An Introduction,” Critical Studies on Security 3:1, pp. 1-13.

Karen Bird- Karen Bird. 2015. “Intersections of Exclusion: The Institutional Dynamics of Combined Gender and Ethnic Quota Systems.” Politics, Groups and Identities. DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2015.1053399- Karen Bird. 2015. “‘We are Not an Ethnic Vote!’ Representational Perspectives of Minorities in the Greater Toronto Area.” Canadian Journal of Political Science. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423915000256 -Karen Bird. 2014. “Ethnic Quotas and Ethnic Representation Worldwide.” International Political Science Review, 35: 1, pp. 12-26.

Katherine Boothe- Katherine Boothe. 2015. Ideas and the pace of change: national pharmaceutical insurance in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Michelle Dion- Jessica C Shearer, Michelle Dion, and John N. Lavis. 2014. “Exchanging and using research evidence in health policy networks: a statistical network analysis.” Implementation Science 9:126 doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0126-8.

Dustin Garrick- Dustin Garrick. 2015. Water Allocation in Rivers under Pressure: Water Trading, Transaction Costs and Transboundary Governance

in the Western US and Australia. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.- Dustin Garrick and E. O’Donnell. 2015. “Exploring Private Roles in Environmental Watering in Australia and the US”. In J. Bennet, ed., Protecting the Environment, Privately. London: Imperial College Press.- J.W. Hall, D. Grey, Dustin Garrick, F. Fung, C. Brown, S.J. Dadson and C.W. Sadoff, 2014. “Coping with the curse of freshwater variability”. Science,346(6208), 429-430.

Peter Graefe- Peter Graefe. 2015. “Quebec Nationalism and Quebec Politics, from Left to Right.” In C. Smith & B. Evans, eds., Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada’s Provinces and Territories in the Era of Neoliberalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.- Peter Graefe. 2014. “Development policies in Ontario and Quebec: Thinking about Structures of Representation.” In L. Turgeon, M. Papillon, J. Wallner & S. White, eds, Canada Compared: Methods and Perspectives on Canadian Politics. Vancouver: UBC Press, 271-291.- Peter Graefe and Brent Toye 2014. “Minority Nationalism in a Time of Austerity.” In Stephen McBride and Donna Baines, eds., Orchestrating Austerity. Halifax: Fernwood.

Shafiqul Huque-Chris Higgins and Shafiqul Huque. 2015. “Public Money and Mickey Mouse: Evaluating Performance and accountability in the Hong Kong Disneyland joint venture public-private partnership”, Public Management Review, Vol. 17:8, pp. 1103-1123.

-Shafiqul Huque. 2015. “Public Management as a Building Block for Governance: Drawing on the Experience of Hong Kong,” in I. Jamil, S. Aminuzzaman and S.T. Haque, eds., Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia, Springer, pp. 65-81.- A. Ullah and Shafiqul Huque. 2014. Asian Immigrants in North America with HIV/AIDS: Stigma, Vulnerabilities and Human Rights, Singapore: Springer.- Shafiqul Huque and H. Zafarullah. 2014. “Public Administration as an Academic Discipline in Bangladesh,” in N. Ahmed ed., Forty Years of Public Administration and Governance in Bangladesh, Dhaka: University Press, pp. 33-47.

Stephen McBride-Carla Lipsig-Mummé and Stephen McBride, eds, 2015. Work in a Warming World. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. -Stephen McBride. 2015. “Canada’s Policy Response to the Global Financial Crisis” in Christopher Kukucha and Duane Bratt, eds., Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas. 3rd ed, Toronto: Oxford University Press.- Stephen McBride and Carla Lipsig-Mummé. 2015. “Introduction” in Lipsig-Mummé and McBride, eds. Work in a Warming World, McGill-Queen’s University Press.- Stephen McBride, John Shields and Stephanie Tombari. 2015. “Cities, Climate Change and the Green Economy” in Lipsig-Mummé and McBride, eds. Work in a Warming World. McGill-Queen’s University Press- Donna Baines and Stephen

McBride, eds. 2014. Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance. Halifax: Fernwood.- Stephen McBride. 2014. ‘“In Austerity We Trust”: elite responses to times of crisis’, in Donna Baines and Stephen McBride eds., Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance, Halifax: Fernwood.- Donna Baines and Stephen McBride. 2014. “Introduction” in in Donna Baines and Stephen McBride eds. Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance, Halifax: Fernwood.-Stephen McBride and Hepzibah Munoz Martinez. 2014. “The ‘Depoliticization’ of Trade Disputes in the North American Region”, International Journal of Political Economy, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 100–15.

Peter Nyers- Peter Nyers. 2015. “Migrant Citizenships and Autonomous Mobilities”, Migration, Mobility & Displacement, Vol. 1.1.

Tony Porter- Tony Porter. 2014. “The political economy of private management of high impact low probability risks in finance and the environment”, in Achim Lang and Hannah Murphy, eds., Business and Sustainability: Between Government Pressure and Self-Regulation, Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer Press, pp. 81-101.- Heather McKeen-Edwards and Tony Porter. 2014. “The Role of Private Governance in Global Finance,” in Manuela Moschella and Catherine Weaver, eds. Handbook of Global Economic Governance: Players, Power and Paradigms. New

York: Routledge, 129-42.- Kathryn Lavelle and Tony Porter. 2014. “Banks, Banking, Regulatory Mechanisms, and the Public Interest: What’s So Different?”, in David Thomas and David Biette, eds., The Canada and the United States: Differences that Count, 4th edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 211-29.- Tony Porter. 2014. “Canada, the FSB and the international institutional response to the current crisis”, in Rohinton Medhora and Dane Rowlands, eds., Canada Among Nations 2014. Crisis and Reform: Canada and the International Financial System Waterloo: Centre for International Governance Innovation and Carleton University, pp. 71-86.

Netina Tan- Netina Tan. 2015. “Institutionalized Hegemonic Party Rule in Singapore.” In Erik Kuhonta and Allen Hicken, eds., Party Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies and the Shadows of the Past, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 49-73.- Netina Tan, editor. 2015. Critical Perspectives section on “Quotas and Non-Quota Strategies in East Asia.” Politics and Gender 11(01): 171-217- Netina Tan. 2015. “Introduction: Quotas and Non-Quota Strategies in East Asia.” Politics & Gender 11 (01): 171–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X14000622- Netina Tan. 2015. “Party Quotas and Rising Women Politicians in Singapore.” Politics & Gender 11 (01): 196–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X14000622

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n CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR RECENT PHD GRADUATESPhilippe Frowd – Securing Borders in West Africa: Transnational Actors, Practices, and KnowledgesJessica Merolli – Feeling like a Citizen: Integration Exams, Expertise, and Sites of Resistance in the United Kingdom and the NetherlandFalin Zhang – Comprehending China’s Stances Toward Global Financial Governance: A Two-stage Model

n STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTSHonours 4th year students Zaynab Al Waadh and Romita Sur were recently awarded the 2015 YWCA Woman of Distinction Awards for young women. Both completed their degrees in Political Science and Social Work. Zaynab received the award for Young Woman of Distinction (21 and under). Romita is the Young Woman of Distinction (age 22 to 30). Zaynab and Romita have each made extraordinary contributions to addressing issues of gender and social equity, at McMaster and in the wider Hamilton community. First Place prize was awarded to the team of Yasmen Abdelkhalek and Karishma Sooknarine for the inaugural Clarke Prizes in Advocacy and Action Citizenship. The second place prize went to James Ankers. Kesia Correia was awarded the third place prize.

n STUDENT AWARDSNicholas Bernards: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)Danielle Blab:Ontario Graduate Fellowship (OGF)Marcel Goguen: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)Saba Hussain: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s (SSHRC CGS MA) Samantha Jackson: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS)Kelsey Leonard: Ontario Trillium Scholarship (OTS)Marguerite Marlin: Ontario Graduate Fellowship (OGF)Liam Midzain-Gobin: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)Jacob Muirhead: SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Doc)Angela Orasch: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)Hubert Rioux Ouimet: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)Zeina Sleiman-Long: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

n STUDENT EMPLOYMENTPhilippe Frowd, Research Fellow in the ‘Politics of International Migration’, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.Jessica Merolli, Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellow in ‘Canadian Affairs’, Department of Political Science, Queen’s University, Canada.