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Grace Skogstad

Research Interests

  • Canadian agricultural and food policy
  • European and North American biofuels policies
  • Internationalization and Public Policy

Awards & Grants

  • 2010 - 2014 SSHRC "Biofuels Policy Development in Canada, the United States and the Europeans Union,' .
  • 2004 – 2008 SSHRC, "Embedding Social Concerns in Plant Biotechnolog Regulation and Trade."
  • 2000 – 2001 SSHRC Federalism and Federations Aid to Research Conference grant for conference on "Canadian Federalism in the New Millennium: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy."
  • 1999 - 2003 SSHRC "Internationalization, Regionalization and Food Safety Regulatory Policies 1980 – 2000."

Teaching Interests

  • Topics in Canadian and Comparative Politics
  • Canadian Politics
  • Canadian Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations

Publications

Selected Books:
  • Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy. Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. 2012; 2nd ed. 2008; 1st ed, 2002.
  • Grace Skogstad, ed. Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics. University of Toronto Press, 2011.
  • Grace Skogstad and Amy Verdun, eds. The Common Agricultural Policy: Continuity and Change. Routledge, 2010.
  • Grace Skogstad, Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture: Policy and Governing Paradigms. University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • William D. Coleman and Grace Skogstad, eds. Policy Communities and Public Policy in Canada, Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1990.
  • Grace Skogstad, The Politics of Agricultural Policy-Making in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Selected Recent Articles and Book Chapters:
  • 'Contested Accountability Claims and GMO Regulation in the European Union,’ Journal of Common Market Studies, 49 (4), 2011, 895-915.
  • `Canadian Agricultural Programs and Paradigms: The Influence of International Trade Agreements and Domestic Factors,’ Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 56 (2008), 493-507.
  • `Biotechnology in North America’ in Peter Phillips, Stuart Smyth and David Castle, eds. Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development. Edward Elgar, 2012. (with Julia Bognar).
  • `Effecting Paradigm Change in the Canadian Agriculture and Food Sector: Towards a Multifunctionality Paradigm’, in Rod MacRae and Elisabeth Abergel, eds. Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
  • `Global Governance and Canadian Federalism: Reconciling External Accountability Obligations Through Internal Accountability Practices’, in Peter Graefe, Julie M. Simmons and Linda A. White, eds., Overpromising and Underperforming?: Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes. Toronto: UTP Press, 2012.
  • `An Unfinished Project: The Evolution of the EU’s Mode of Governance of Biotechnology,’ in Michael Howlett and David Laycock, eds. Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnology: Lessons from European and Asian Experiences. Routledge, 2012 (with Paulette Kurzer).
  • `Transnational Ideas, Federalism and Public Accountability: Education and Food Safety Policies in Canada,’ in Mark D. Jarvis and Herman Bakvis, eds. From `New Public Management’ to `New Political Governance’: Essays in Honour of Peter C. Aucoin, McGill-Queen’s University, 2012 (with Jenn Wallner).
  • `Science and Technology: Politicians and the Public’, pp. 699-726 in John Courtney and David Smith, eds. Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics. OUP, 2010.
  • `Internationalization and Paradigm Change: The Case of Agriculture,’ pp. 91-115 in Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett, eds. European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and Dynamics, Routledge, 2009.
  • `Western Canada and the `Illegitimacy’ of the Liberal-NDP Coalition Government,’ pp. 163-174 in Peter Russell and Lorne Sossin, eds. Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
  • `Canada’s English and French Farm Communities,’ pp. 52-73 in David Cameron and Richard Simeon, eds., Language Matters: How Canadian Voluntary Associations Manage French and English. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.
  • `The Two Faces of Canadian Agriculture in a Post-Staples Economy,’ pp. 63-82 in Michael Howlett and Keith Brownsey, eds. Canada’s Resource Economy in Transition: The Past, Present and Future of Canadian Staples Industries. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2008.
  • `Policy Networks and Policy Communities: Conceptualizing State-Societal Relationships in the Policy Process,’ pp. 205-220 in Linda White et al., eds. The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008.
  • Grace Skogstad and Sarah Hartley, `Science and Policy-Making: The Legitimation Conundrum,’ pp. 215-238 in Peter Phillips and Jene Porter, eds. Public Science in Liberal Democracy: The Challenge to Science and Democracy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
  • `Governance of Food Safety in the NAFTA Region: Regulatory Cooperation by the United States, Canada, and Mexico,’ pp. 163-201 in Reba A. Carruth, ed. Global Governance of Food and Agriculture Industries. Edward Elgar, 2006 (with Reba A. Carruth).
  • `Multi-Level Regulatory Governance of Food Safety: A Work in Progress,’ pp. 157-179 in Bruce Doern and Robert Johnson, ed., Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules: Multi-Level Regulatory Governance in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2006.
  • `European Food Safety Regulation in Comparative Perspective,’ pp. 213-36 in Chris Ansell and David Vogel, eds. What’s the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety Regulation. MIT Press, 2006.
  • `The Liberal Party and Western Canadian Agriculture: Still Getting it Wrong?’ pp. 225-244 in Cris de Clercy and Hans Michelmann, eds. Continuity and Change in Canadian Politics: Essays in Honour of David Smith. University of Toronto Press, 2006.
  • `Contested Political Authority, Risk Society and the Transatlantic Divide in Genetic Engineering Regulation,’ pp. 238-260 in Edgar Grande and Louis W. Pauly, eds. Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-first Century, University of Toronto Press, 2005.
  • `The Uphill Struggle to Prevail: National Farm Organizations in Canada,’ pp. 189-212 in Darren Halpin, ed. Surviving Global Change? Agricultural Interest Groups in Comparative Perspective. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2005.
  • `International Institutions and Food Safety Regulation: Values in Conflict,’ pp. 109-27 in Jenny Fleming and Ian Holland, eds., Government Reformed: Values and New Political Institutions, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.