Předmět Government and Politics in Canada (JMM592)

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Sylabus

WEEKLY TOPICS AND READINGS:Class 1 (September 30): Introductionorganization of the course, requirements, introduction Class 2 (October 7): Historical BackgroundMandatory text: John Thompson and Mark Richard, Canadian History in North-American Context, in James and Kasoff, Canadian Studies in the New Millenium (Toronto: UTP, 2007), available in the SIS. Discussion text: W.L. Morton, The Relevance of Canadian History, pp. 37-50, in Taras, Rasporich eds. Passion for Identity, 1st edition, (ITP Nelson, 1997), available in the SIS.Newsletter:Class 3 (October 14): Political CultureMandatory text: S. Lipset, Continental Divide, Chapter 3 (Canadian Identity), Routledge, 1990, Available in the SIS.Discussion text: "Is the Canadian Political Culture Becoming Americanized?" in Crosscurrents, Contemporary Political Issues, Charleton and Barker eds., 7th edition, 2013, available at https://www.nelsonbrain.com/content/9780176644628.pdf. Newsletter:Class 4 (October 21): RegionalismMandatory text: Michael Broadway, Canada: Too Much Geography?, Chapter 1, pp. 8-35, Available in the SIS.Discussion text: John Ibbitson, The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus, Literary Review of Canada, 2012, http://reviewcanada.ca/essays/2012/01/01/the-collapse-of-the-laurentian-consensus/ Newsletter: Class 5 (November 4): Political systemMandatory text: Donald Savoie, First Ministers, Government and Public Service, Chapter 10 in John C.Courtney and David E. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics. pp. 172-191, available in the SIS.Discussion: Emmett MacFarlane, Senate Reform: THe GOod, the Bad and the Unconstitutional, IRRPP Policy Option, Sept, 2015,´http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/september-2015/the-future-of-the-senate/senate-reform-the-good-thebad-and-the-unconstitutional/. Newsletter: Class 6 (November 11): Quebec and the ConstitutionMandatory text: Sephan Dion, "The Quebec Challenge to Canadian Unity", Political Science and Politics, Vol. 26, 1993, available at  http://homepage.univie.ac.at/herbert.preiss/files/Dion_The_Quebec_challenge_to_Canadian_unity.pdfDiscussion: Ch. Taylor: Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism, Chapter 8 Shared and Divergent Values, (MQU, 1993), available in the SIS.Recomended text: Celine Cooper, The Quebec Question in the 21st Century,  Magazine of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (December 2012, January 2013), http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/MLIInsidePolicy/December2012/Cooper.pdfRecommended (good overview of relationship between Ottawa and Quebec, 1976-1982): Bothwell, Robert," A Province in Search of a Country, 1976-1982", Chapter 9 in Canada and Quebec,  1995, in the SIS.Newsletter: Class 7 (November 18):  Charter of Rights and freedomsMandatory text: Alain Cairn, The Charter: A Political Science Perspective, Osgoode hall Law Journal, Vol 30, No. 3, (1992), available at  http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1717&context=ohlj Discussion: The Charter Revolutio: Is it Undemocratichttp://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1716&context=scholarly_works?, COnsitutional Forum, 12 (2002), available at, http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1716&context=scholarly_worksRecommended: On the Impact of the Charter of Rights and freedom on Canadian political system, Jane l. Hiebert, The Canadian Charter of Rights and freeedoms, in John C.Courtney and David E. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics. pp. 54-69, available in the SIS under the title Canadian charter chapter 4, week 7  Newsletter:Class 8 (November 25): Political Parties and Electoral systemMandatory text: Keneth Carty and William Cross, Political Parties and the practice of Brokerage politics, Chapter 11 in John C.Courtney and David E. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics. pp. 191-208, available in the SIS. Discussion text: Stephen Clarkson, "Has the Centre Vanished?", Literary Review of Canada, 2011, http://reviewcanada.ca/essays/2011/10/01/has-the-centre-vanished/Recommended: Cochrane, Christopher, "Left/Right Ideology and Canadian Politics", Canadian Journal of Political Science 43. 3 (Sep 2010): 583-605, available electronically via Proquest. Newsletter:Class 9 (December 2):Managing diversity: multicultural policyMandatory text: Irene Bloemraad, Understanding Canadian exceptionalism in immigration and pluralism policy, Migration Policy Institute, July 2012, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CanadianExceptionalism.pdfRandall Hansen interview: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/2013/02/qa-with-randall-hansen-major-debates-and-challenges-in-immigration-canada-and-europe/Discussion text: Will Kymlicka, Testing the Bounds of Liberal Multiculturalism?, For distribution to the 2006 Trudeau Foundation's Conference on Public Policy, "Muslims in Western Societies", November 16-18, 2006, Available in the SIS.Recommended texts: Will Kymlicka, Current state of Multiculturalism, 2010, available in the SIS.Keith Banting,Is there a Progresssive Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State, Canadian Journal of Political Science 10, 2010, 797-802, available at  http://post.queensu.ca/~bantingk/Progressive%27s_Dilemma.pdfNewsletter: Class 10 (December 9):Aboriginal PolicyMandatory text: Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future,Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconsiliation Commission of Canada, 2015, Introduction, 1-23, available at: http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Honouring_the_Truth_Reconciling_for_the_Future_July_23_2015.pdfDiscussion text: Flanagan and Cairns on Aboriginal Policy, IRPP Policy Option, September 2001, pp. 43-53, available in the SIS.Recommended: Terry Fenge, Tony Pinekett, "Paper Promises", Literary Review of Canada, July-August 2014, http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2014/07/paper-promises/Recommended texts: Christina Woolner, Re-Storying Canada's Past: A Case Study in the Significance of Narratives in Healing Intractable Conflict, http://www.beyondintractability.org/casestudy/woolner-re-storying Newsletter:Class 11 (December 16): Canadian Foreign PolicyMandatory text: Cynthia Kite and Douglas Nord, "Canadian Foreign Policy", Canadian Studies in the New Millenium, pp. 245-276, available in the SIS.Discussion texts (they are short, so please prepare both of them): Omer Aziz, Alienating the United Nations: What’s at stake?, AND Smith, J., Reinventing Canada: Stephen Harper’s Conservative RevolutioHarper`s foreign policy: "The wealth of Western economies is no more inevitable than the poverty of emerging ones", by Stephen Harper, verbatim, speech pronounced on Jan. 26, 2012, published in Policy Options, April 2012, available as pdf at http://www.irpp.org/po/issue.php?month=April&year=2012. The whole issue of Policy Options of April 2012 is devoted to current Canadian foreign policy.Newsletter: Dismantiling democracy, p. 56-66, http://voices-voix.ca/sites/voices-voix.ca/files/dismantlingdemocracy_voicesvoix.pdf 

Literatura

Recommended materials:Abelson, Donald E.: The myth of the sacred: the Charter, the courts and the politics of the constitution in Canada, 2002.Carty, R. Kenneth, William Cross, and Lisa Young: Rebuilding Canadian party politics, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000.Jackson, Doreen: Politics in Canada: culture, institutions, behavior and public policy, 2001. McMenemy, John: The language of Canadian politics [electronic source available through the UK electronic library ]: a guide to important terms and concepts, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. Rocher, Francois and Miriam Smith: New Trends in Canadian Federalism, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1995.Thorburn, Alan Whitehorn: Party politics in Canada, 2001.Whittington, Michael and Glen Williams: Canadian politics in the 21st century, Scarborough: Nelson, 2000.Recommended websitesPrime minister of Canada http://www.pm.gc.ca/Parliament of Canada http://www.parl.gc.caDepartment of Foreign Affairs http://www.dfait.gc.caList of public policy think tanks is available here Major dailies: The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/Le Devoir http://www.ledevoir.com/National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/

Požadavky

ASSIGNMENTS:1. Active participation, including thorough preparation for each class and class discussion 10%2. Presentation of the discussion text 10%3. Newspaper review 10%4. Research Paper 30% or 40%5. Final examination 40% or 30%Active participation in class disussion 10%Students are required to read and discuss assigned texts. The texts are either available online (if there is a link in the syllabus) or through the SIS.In reading the texts you should be prepared to discuss what are the main points of the article, the issues or concerns raised by the article. You might pose questions about the shortcomings of its argument or analysis. You could also raise questions about the broader implications of an article. You should try to compare the situation in Canada with the U.S.Presentation of the discussion text: 10%Each student is required to prepere one brief executive summary (2-5 min) of the discussion text assigned to each class.Media summary 10%Each student is to prepare one newspaper summary (the links to major Canadian dailies is available in the section recommended materials) of major political and social issues raised by Canadian media that week. The assigned student will choose one most interesting article that she/he will send by e-mail to  class colleagues by Monday evening and prepare an oral 3minute presentation. The selected article is mandatory to everybody and it will be discussed in the class. If two students are assigned for one week, they send each one interesting article,  one student will focus on federal political scene, the other on provincal politics.Research paper 30% or 40%A/ Individual paper 30%Students are to write a term paper exploring the topic they will be assigned. Students will prepare a paper on current political or social issues related to Canada. The paper of approximatively 6 pages (max. 10 000 characters with spaces).To prepare an essay, students are to use the Canadian official government materials, articles from Academic Journals and books. You should use the Canadian Journal of Political Science (via Proquest) as a chief source for essays when possible. A minimum of five different sources should be referred to in the paper. Do not forget to acknowledge your sources (see the section on plagiarism).Your paper will be graded based on a) the quality of your summary of the existing arguments (10 points); b) the quality of your own argument (15 points); and c) the structure and style of your paper (5 points).B/ Team project 40%The students are asked to self-form their small team composed of 3 or 4 students. Each team will select one topic from the list (or come up with their own topic) and write a reserach paper or a position paper of approximatively 15 pages (team of 3) or 20 pages (team of 4). A position paper should represent a serious attempt to provide  a guidance to policy makers on how to deal with public policy problems. In researching the topic you should consult The position paper should contain one page executive summary. The position paper should contain a clear problem statement, provide at several alternative solutions to the problem, including the evaluation of the alterantive approaches. The research paper should clearly establish a claim (a thesis) and then provide it with logical reasoning, examples, and research. The thesis statement is a guideline, a unifying element, for every research paper and should unify the team work. For both papers - a position or reserach paper you should coordinate your theme, structure, logial arguments as well as a style of your writing.The group grade worth 50% (or 20 points), and the individual contribution of each member grade worth 50% (20points). This is not ideal breakdown but it will allow to assess the project as group product as well as individual product. This breakdown will hopefully motivate the diligent students for the team work. The assessment of the group work will incorporate also self-assessment and evalutation of process work (i.e. did the group communicate effectively, who was responsible for project planning, division of roles, setting up of project aims, did everybody meet the deadlines etc.) - this self-assessment will be provided to lecturer oraly or in written. Individual parts will be graded based on a) the quality of the existing solutions(10 points); b) the quality of your own argument /solutions (15 points); and c) the structure and style of your paper (5 points). A thorough research should be based on the academic resources - the official government materials, serious academic articles  as well as books, certainly not only on media articles. Be diligent in using resources, quoting and managing your citations (Chicago footnote style or MLA in-text citation style with brackets).For this semester, students should choose one of the following topics or  come up with their own topics as long as they are specific and approved by the lecturer:o Religion in the public sphere  (analysis of regional disparities within Canada), Quebec's Charter of Value debateo Discourse analysis of current election campaign in Canada (comparative analysis with previous campaigns)o  Canadian asylum system and its challenges face to face to current refugee crisiso  Current reform of Senate and its shortfallso  Canadian federalism - analysis of challenges of current equalization payment system or  sustainable health care funding for provinces or  coordination of energy policy puzzle, environmental policy differences across provinceso Canada's climate change policy - Canada's Climate action plan of 2015 Paris action plano  Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic: analysis of Canadian defence policy or Canada-US relationso  Canada-US border - security vs. tradeo  Analysis of current Canada-EU relationso  Aboriginal issues: Urban Aboriginal Policy or Aboriginal economic self-effeciency or analysis of the grassroot movement Idle no more, Reconciliation action plano US media on Idle No More movement (media analysis)o Provincial/territorial issues: higher education funding (Quebec), responsible government (Yukon, Nunavut), Alberta latest elections in historical perspective Note that a topic is not automatically a problem of investigation, you should clearly state your thesis (individual or collective paper) or identify public policy problem (team position paper) and provide your own arguments (individual or collective paper) or present several public policy alternatives (team position paper). Students can come up with their own topics as long as they are specific and approved by the lecturer.The paper, both individual and team, should be emailed (in doc or docx format) to the instructor by January 30, 2016. However, if you wish to get a chance to rewrite the paper futher to my comments and suggestions, your paper is due on January 18, 2016.Academic Integrity and Avoiding Plagiarism:(A) Any use of quoted texts in seminar papers and theses must be acknowledged. Such use must meet the following conditions: (1) the beginning and end of the quoted passage must be shown with quotation marks; (2) when quoting from periodicals or books, the name(s) of author(s), book or article titles, the year of publication, and page from which the passage is quoted must all be stated in footnotes or endnotes; (3) internet sourcing must include a full web address where the text can be found as well as the date the web page was visited by the author.(B) In case the use of any texts other than those written by the author is established without proper acknowledgement as defined in (A), the paper or thesis will be deemed plagiarized and handed over to the Disciplinary Commission of the Faculty of Social Sciences.The key to avoiding plagiarism is to learn how to do research and how to cite sources properly. The following web sites provide advice: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.htmlFinal exam 40% (students with individual paper) or 30% (students with team projects)The final exam will consist of both short definition and essay questions. In the first part, students will have to provide definitions for basic terms and concepts, the second part will contain questions focusing on the assigned readings and the last part will contain a choice among three more general questions which will require a longer analytical response based on thorough understanding of the course materials.  

Garant

Mgr. Ing. Magdalena Fiřtová, PhD.

Vyučující

Mgr. Ing. Magdalena Fiřtová, PhD.