Michael Howlett (Professor) BSocSci.(Hon)(Ott), MA(Br Col), PhD (Queen's) is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University and specializes in public policy analysis, Canadian political economy, and Canadian resource and environmental policy. He is co-author of Studying Public Policy (2003 & 1995), In Search of Sustainability (2001), The Political Economy of Canada (1999 & 1992) and Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy (1997 & 2005). He has edited Canadian Forest Policy (2001) and coedited Policy Analysis in Canada (2007); Deregulation and Its Discontents (2006); Executive Styles in Canada (2005); Designing Government (2005); The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (2004); The Provincial State In Canada (1992 & 2000); Innovation Systems in a Global Context (1998); Policy Studies in Canada (1996), and The Puzzles of Power (1994 & 1998). His articles have been published in numerous professional journals in Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Howlett was founding member and Secretary-Treasurer (1995-2006) of the British Columbia Political Studies Association and co-editor of its Proceedings. He was English Language Co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002-2006) and is currently co-editor of the World Political Science Review, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (Book Review Editor 2001-2006), and the University of Toronto Press Series in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy. He served on the Editorial Boards of Canadian Public Administration (1996-2003) and Policy Studies Journal (1992-2003) and currently sits on the Editorial Boards of Policy & Society and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Articles
Convergence and Divergence in ‘New Governance’ Arrangements: Evidence from European Integrated Natural Resource Strategies (with Jeremy Rayner), Journal of Public Policy (2006)
To analyse convergence and divergence in Natural Resource New Governance Arrangements (NRNGAs) two regimes in...
Globalization and Governance Capacity: Explaining Divergence in National Forest Programs as Instances of "Next-Generation" Regulation in Canada and Europe (with Jeremy Rayner), Governance (2006)
New policy initiatives are increasingly embedded in novel governance strategies. These new modes of governance...
Understanding the historical turn in the policy sciences: A critique of stochastic, narrative, path dependency and process-sequencing models of policy-making over time (with Jeremy Rayner), Policy Sciences (2006)
This article evaluates four general models of historical change processes which have emerged in various...
Do Networks Matter? Linking Policy Network Structure to Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Four Canadian Policy Sectors 1990-2000, Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002)
Relatively recent contributions to the policy literature have called into question the utility of the...
Beyond Legalism? Policy Ideas, Implementation Styles and Emulation-Based Convergence in Canadian and U.S. Environmental Policy, Journal of Public Policy (2000)
Past studies of the dynamics of U.S.-Canada environmental policy and policy-making have found little evidence...