4 Politics and Promise: A Feminist-Institutionalist Analysis of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

Grace, Joan

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“…Table indicates the type of policy change associated with each COI. It shows that three of the cases where policy change was transformative and direct were policy advisory COIs – the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (RCSW) (see Grace ), the Macdonald Commission (see Inwood ), the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies (RCNRT) (see Scala ). Three were investigative – the Krever Inquiry (see Orsini ), the Walkerton Inquiry (see Johns ) and the Goudge Inquiry (see Sossin ).…”

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Commissions of inquiry and policy change: Comparative analysis and future research frontiers

Inwood¹,

Johns²

2016

Can Public Adm

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Canadian governments have spawned hundreds of federal and provincial commissions of inquiry (COIs). Many scholars have completed in-depth analysis of particular COIs but less attention has been paid to policy impact and comparisons across COIs. This study addresses the following questions. What role do COIs play in policy change? Would policy change likely have occurred without the COI? Why do some COIs result in policy change and others do not? This analysis reports on findings from in-depth case studies of ten COIs. It uses a theoretical framework focusing on ideas, institutions, actors and relations to examine whether and how COIs lead to policy and administrative change. Sommaire : Le paysage de l'administration et de la politique publique canadienne a et e un terrain fertile pour des centaines de commissions d'enquête f ed erales et provinciales (CI). De nombreux chercheurs ont effectu e des analyses en profondeur de commissions d'enquête (CI) particulières, mais moins d'attention a et e accord ee aux r epercussions qu'elles ont sur les politiques et aux comparaisons entre les CI. Cette etude se penche sur les questions suivantes : Quel rôle jouent les CI dans les changements de politiques? Des changements d'orientation seraient-ils survenus sans les CI? Pourquoi certaines CI entraînent-elles des r esultats en matière de changements de politiques et d'autres non? Cette analyse offre des r esultats d' etudes de cas approfondies de dix CI. Elle se sert d'un cadre th eorique ax e sur les id ees, les institutions, les acteurs et les relations afin d'examiner si et comment les commissions d'enquête entraînent des changements administratifs et des changements de politiques.

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Commissions of inquiry and policy change: Comparative analysis and future research frontiers

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2016

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Public Inquiries and Policy Design

Stark,

Yates

2024

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Public inquiries regularly produce outcomes of importance to policy design. However, the policy design literature has largely ignored the many important ways that public inquiries can act as policy design tools, meaning the functions that inquiries can offer the policy designer are not properly understood. This Element addresses this gap in two ways. First, it presents a theoretical discussion, underpinned by international empirical illustrations, to explain how inquiries perform policy design roles and can be classified as procedural policy tools. It focuses on four inquiry functions – catalytic, learning, processual, and legitimation. Second, it addresses the challenge of designing inquiries that have the policy-facing capacities required to make them effective. It introduces plurality as a key variable influencing effectiveness, demonstrating its relevance to internal inquiry operations, the external inquiry environment, and policy tool selection. Thus, it combines conceptual and practical insights to speak to academic and practice orientated audiences.

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The Leadership Legacy of Commission Chairs: Building on and Extending a Comparative Study of Ten Canadian Commissions of Inquiry

Wallis

Brodtkorb

2020

Canadian Public Policy

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In 2014, Inwood and Johns analyzed the policy legacy of ten Canadian commissions of inquiry. This article extends that analysis by incorporating the policy legacy as one element of the leadership legacy of the commission chairs; the other two elements are the chair’s expressive legacy and fiduciary legacy. The expressive legacy can be that of a conservator, consolidator, entrepreneur, or catalyst, and the fiduciary legacy is determined by the commission chair’s respect for the norms and conventions of commissions of inquiry. Using the case studies from Inwood and Johns’ analysis of the commissions’ policy legacies, we ascribe expressive and fiduciary legacies to the chairs of the ten commissions. Through analysis of the relationships among the commissions’ policy legacies and the chairs’ expressive and fiduciary legacies, we explore the ways in which chairs’ conduct of the inquiry produce a leadership legacy for the chair.

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4 Politics and Promise: A Feminist-Institutionalist Analysis of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Commissions of inquiry and policy change: Comparative analysis and future research frontiers

Commissions of inquiry and policy change: Comparative analysis and future research frontiers

Public Inquiries and Policy Design

The Leadership Legacy of Commission Chairs: Building on and Extending a Comparative Study of Ten Canadian Commissions of Inquiry

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