Michael Howlett
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 Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in public policy analysis, political economy, and resource and environmental policy. Professor Howlett taught at Queen's University (1986-1988) and the University of Victoria (1988-1989) before coming to SFU and was Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (2009-2010) and the Universita degli studi di Cagliari (2012). He is the author of Canadian Public Policy (2013) and Designing Public Policies (2011), and co-author of Application of Federal Legislation to Alberta's Mineable Oil Sands (2013), The Public Policy Primer (2010 and 2016), Integrated Policymaking for Sustainable Development (2009), Studying Public Policy (2009, 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 co-edited Elgar Handbook of Policy Formulation (2016); Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis (2016); Varieties of Governance (2015); Policy Paradigms in Theory and Practice (2015); Policy Work in Canada (2015); Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Bio-Technologies (2012), The Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (2012), British Columbia Politics and Government (2009), European and North American Policy Change (2009); Canada's Resource Economy in Transition (2008); 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 editor of the POLCAN listserver (1995-1997) and currently edits the CAN-POL Maillist (2008-present). He was also English language co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002-2006), co-editor of the World Political Science Review (2003-2014), Associate Editor of the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, (2011-2013) and administrative editor of the Canadian Political Science Review (2007-2010). He is currently organizer of the Policy Design Lab and editor of the Annual Review of Policy Design and Policy Sciences, and is co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (Book Review Editor 2001-2006), Policy & Society, the University of Toronto Press Series in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy, the Policy Press International Library of Policy Analysis, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy and Cambridge Elements of Public Policy. He served on the Editorial Boards of Canadian Public Administration (1996-2003); Policy Studies Journal (1992-2003), Canadian Journal of Political Science (2006-2010), State and Local Government Review (2007-2010), and Public Administration Review (2011-2015) and currently sits on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Public Policy, BC Studies, Policy Sciences, Canadian Political Science Review, Forest Policy and Economics, International Review of Public Administration, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Revista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, Energy Research & Social Science, Journal of European Public Policy, Public Policy and Governance Series, Palgrave Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy and Rowman Series on Challenging Governance. He is the current chair of Research Committee 30 (Comparative Public Policy) of the International Political Science Association and sits on the organizing committee of the International Conference on Public Policy.
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However, recent work on international regimes, especially that dealing with regime fragmentation and the interplay between regimes, suggests that the ‘failure’ of a regime to develop ‘hard law’ may simply reflect the lack of need for such efforts. This work has highlighted the corresponding need to deal with an issue at a national or local level. Efforts at these levels, however, have also often failed, in large measure due to the inability of national governments to control private sector actors. Much can be learned in water policy from other sectoral experiences in institutional policy design and this paper examines the nature of regime complexes in Forestry and Migration in order to draw lessons for international water policy-making. Both experiences suggest the correct approach to the problem on the part of domestic governments is to focus on multi-level governance (MLG) and the tools and instruments required to put an effective multi-level architecture in place. Water policy-making may be better served by regional agreements
than by efforts to develop national or international regimes.
resources necessary to make sound policy choices and implement them effectively. Adopting this definition allows for a more nuanced conceptualization of capacity as comprised of three essential
dimensions – analytical, operational and political. In order to operationalize this resource-based definition, we identified a fundamental set of resources that are institutionalized, mission-critical and promotive of dynamic learning since not all resources can form part of capacity. This set of resources can easily be evaluated using secondary data at the policy sub-system level but no equivalent tool exists to analyze organizational capacities. To address this gap, we developed a survey instrument to measure the multi-dimensional nature of organizational policy capacity.