Contributors
Marjorie Griffin Cohen is an economist and professor emerita of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has written extensively on political economy and public policy, with special emphasis on the Canadian economy, women, labour, electricity deregulation, energy, climate change and labour, and international trade agreements. Her most recent books are Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, Public Policy and Action (2017) and Public Policy for Women (2009).
Bryan M. Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. His research interests focus on the political and public administrative impact of neoliberalization and the political economy of Canada’s provinces. Recent publications include “Alternatives to the Low-Waged Economy: Living Wage Movements in Canada and the United States,” Austerity, Urbanism, and the Social Economy – Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research 28 (2017); and “Policy Dialogue and Engagement between Non-Government Organizations and Government: A Survey of Processes and Instruments of Canadian Policy Workers” (with Adam Wellstead), in Policy Work in Canada, edited by Michael Howlett, Adam Wellstead, and Jonathan Craft (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
John Hogan is a research fellow in the College of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology, and chair of the Comparative Public Policy Section of the Mid-west Political Science Association. He researches public policy, lobbying regulations, and elite formation. He has worked with various governments on regulating lobbying. He is published widely and is co-editor, with Michael Howlett, of Policy Paradigms in Theory and Practice.
Meghan Joy is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. Her recent publications include Toronto’s Governance Crisis: A Global City under Pressure (with Ronald K. Vogel) and Social Impact Bonds: The Next Phase of Third Sector Marketization? (with John Shields).
Simon Lee is senior lecturer in politics at the School of Law and Politics, University of Hull. He is the author of The State of England: The Nation We're In (forthcoming), and co-editor (with Matt Beech) of The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government (2015).
Stephen McBride is professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization at McMaster University, where he is also a member of the Institute of Globalization and the Human Condition and an associate member of the School of Labour Studies. Recent publications include After ’08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis (co-edited with R. Mahon and G. Boychuk).
Sorin Mitrea is a comparative public policy PhD candidate at McMaster University. His research explores how the cognitive elements of policy interact with their material effects to shape the behaviour and subjectivity of workers. He approaches cognition at the intersection of political economy and labour market policy in Canada. His most recent publication is ASEAN at 50: The Global Political Economy’s Contribution to Durability (2017), with Richard Stubbs.
Brendan K. O’Rourke works at the Dublin Institute of Technology, where he focuses on learning in the area of discourses of the economy, in particular examining narratives of neoliberalism, enterprise, and economists’ communication with non-experts. He has been published in journals such the Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Politics, and On the Horizon.
John Peters is an associate professor of labour studies at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. He is the author of Boom, Bust, and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power, and Politics in Canada (2012).
Dieter Plehwe is a scientist and senior fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Department of Inequality and Social Policy. He has recently co-edited Liberalism and the Welfare State: Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State (2017). He also serves on the editorial team of Critical Policy Studies.
John Shields is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. His recent publications include Immigrant Experiences in North America: Understanding Settlement and Integration (2015), edited with Harald Bauder, and he was a core researcher and author of The Precarity Penalty: The Impact of Employment Precarity on Individuals, Households and Communities – and What to Do about It (2015).
Gary Teeple, professor of sociology, teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, and is former director of the Labour Studies Program. His publications include Relations of Global Power: Neo-liberal Order and Disorder (2011) (co-edited with S. McBride); The Riddle of Human Rights (2004); Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform (1995/2000); Marx's Critique of Politics, 1842–47 (1984); and (editor) Capitalism and the National Question in Canada (1972).
Heather Whiteside is assistant professor of political science at the University of Waterloo and fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research and publications centre on the political economy of privatization, financialization, and fiscal austerity. She has published articles in journals such as Economic Geography, Studies in Political Economy, and Health Sociology Review, and her books include About Canada: Public-Private Partnerships (2016), and Purchase for Profit: Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System (2015).
Stephen Wilks is professor of politics, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Among his many publications is The Political Power of the Business Corporation (2013).
Richard Woodward is senior lecturer in the School of Strategy and Leadership at Coventry University. His research is concerned with international organizations (especially the OECD), tax havens, and offshore financial centres. He is author of The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2009) and (with Michael Davies) International Organisations: A Companion (2014).