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Item Resurgence, populism, and politics 'from below'(Social Sciences, 2021) Cherry, KeithPopulist politics are an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary politics around the world. In settler colonies, Indigenous resurgence is also an increasingly important feature of political contestation. Both discourses involve questions of peoplehood, pluralism, and collective agency. The goal of this paper is to explore these phenomena side by side, and ask what they reveal about the present political conjuncture. I argue that both political projects involve a constructive element, as actors build spaces of political contestation beyond the state. In this way, each movement involves an often overlooked contest between politics ‘from above’ and ‘from below’. Ultimately, I conclude that the above/below distinction reveals important cleavages that are obscured by the traditional left/right distinction that structures much political analysis.Item 'We the People': Demarcating the demos in populist mobilization—the case of the Italian Lega(Social Sciences, 2021) Schmidtke, OliverThis article is a theoretically guided and empirically based analysis of how populist movements invoke the notion of the ‘people’ as a cornerstone of their political mobilization. While the confrontation between the virtuous ‘people’ and the unresponsive elites speaks to how populism challenges established political actors and institutions, the actual meaning of who the ‘people’ are and what they represent is shifting and often driven by strategic considerations. Analytically the article investigates the distinct ways in which nationalism and populism conceptualize and politically mobilize the notion of the ‘people’. Empirically it focuses on the Italian League and engages in a discourse analysis of its political campaigns over the past 30 years. Based on this textual analysis of political campaigns, the article sheds light on how the reference to the ‘people’ has been employed as this political actor has transformed from a regionalist party advocating for autonomy in Northern Italy to one taking up the role of a populist-nationalist party at the national level. This case study allows the author to make a generalizable hypothesis about the nature of identity politics promoted by populist actors and the way in which the invocation of the ‘people’ and their alleged enemies is a pivotal political narrative that opens and restricts opportunities for political mobilization. This interpretative approach also allows for a more concise conceptual understanding of the affinity that right-wing populists demonstrate toward nativist ideologies.Item Conservation Guidelines for Modernist Architecture in the Victoria Region(2020-01-10) Segger, MartinGuidelines provides a framework for articulating the significance of project authorship and “design intent” in the process of developing strategies for preserving the Modernist architectural heritage in Victoria, British Columbia (1935-1975). It outlines an aesthetic historical context, presents a summary of the unique design vocabulary of regional Modernism, and provides a series of case studies that illustrate how the intentions of designers and builders can be respected and preserved within differing building types.Item The Limits of Policy Analytics: Early Examples and the Emerging Boundary of Possibilities(Politics and Governance, 2018) Longo, Justin; Dobell, RodPolicy analytics has emerged as a modification of traditional policy analysis, where the discrete stages of the policy cycle are reformulated into a continuous, real-time system of big data collection, data analytics, and ubiquitous, connected technologies that provides the basis for more precise problem definition, policy experimentation for revealing detailed insights into system dynamics, and ongoing assessment of the impact of micro-scale policy interventions to nudge behaviour towards desired policy objectives. Theoretical and applied work in policy analytics research and practice is emerging that offers a persuasive case for the future possibilities of a real-time approach to policymaking and governance. However, policy problems often operate on long time cycles where the effect of policy interventions on behaviour and decisions can be observed only over long periods, and often only indirectly. This article surveys examples in the policy analytics literature, infers from those examples some characteristics of the policy problems and settings that lend themselves to a policy analytics approach, and suggests the boundaries of feasible policy analytics. Rather than imagine policy analytics as a universal replacement for the decades-old policy analysis approach, a sense of this boundary will allow us to more effectively consider the appropriate application of real-time policy analytics.Item An information policy agenda: Balancing the ticket(2015-12-09) Dobell, Rod(Cultivating the Tree of Knowledge through Public Investment versus Harvesting the Fruits of Wisdom Through Private Property)Item The continuing challenge of full employment(2015-12-09) Dobell, RodItem Fresh thoughts in fat city: innovation the federal public service(2015-12-09) Dobell, RodItem Human dimensions of global change: The social challenge(2015-12-09) Dobell, RodThe problems of global environmental change are both serious and urgent. This paper argues the need to find ways to handle the myriad social decisions on environmental questions routinely, without invoking all the heavy machinery of conscious collective choice. Such decentralization demans market instruments. But coupled with the appeal to market instruments must be the strengthening of public decision structures, accountability mechanisms, and democratic guarantees. An environmental "bill of rights: to go with environmental markets is thus the critical social transaction.Item NAFTA and the environment: Fearsome consequences or major opportunities?(2015-12-09) Dobell, RodItem Industrial policies and employment: Notes for a speech to the Conference Board of Canada(2015-12-07) Dobell, RodItem Consultation, Conflict Resolution and Social Adjustment(2015-12-07) Dobell, RodItem Research into government decision-making on environmental issues(2015-12-07) Dobell, RodItem World developments and trends(2015-12-07) Dobell, RodItem Materials for "Education finance and optimal investment with gestation lags"(2015-12-07) Dobell, RodItem Long-range planning and the role of "Systems Dynamics"(2015-12-07) Dobell, RodItem Greening of the TNC: Paying the piper(2015-12-04) Dobell, RodItem A microsimulation model for the evaluation of government transfer programs(2015-12-03) Dobell, Rod; Cohen, Morris A.Item NAFTA, NAC and NAMI: Perspectives. Second generation challenges and second decade agenda(2015-12-03) Dobell, RodItem The micro-simulation project(2015-12-03) Dobell, Rod; Cohen, Morris A.