Kathleen McNutt
Kathleen McNutt is an Associate Professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina and a faculty associate in the department of political science. Kathleen's research interests include e-government, climate change, gender and policy, policy networks, and federal policy-making. Her work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Political Science Review, Russian Journal of Political Science, Global Social Policy, HealthcarePapers,Federal Governance, and The Encyclopedia of Digital Government. She also has chapters in Women and Public Policy in Canada: Recent Trends, Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance and The OECD and Global Governance. Current research projects include contemporary policy analysis methods, feasibility study of nuclear power in Saskatchewan, and an evaluation of gender mainstreaming in Canada.
Designations
•PhD, Simon Fraser University
•MA, University of Alberta
•BA, University of Regina
Areas of Interest
•Policy analysis
•Program evaluation
•e-Government
•Network analysis
•Gender
•Climate change policy
•Web governance
•Natural resource policy
•Collaborative policy making
•Policy theory
Phone: Phone: 306-585-5460
Address: University of Regina Campus
3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, Canada, S4S 0A2
Designations
•PhD, Simon Fraser University
•MA, University of Alberta
•BA, University of Regina
Areas of Interest
•Policy analysis
•Program evaluation
•e-Government
•Network analysis
•Gender
•Climate change policy
•Web governance
•Natural resource policy
•Collaborative policy making
•Policy theory
Phone: Phone: 306-585-5460
Address: University of Regina Campus
3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, Canada, S4S 0A2
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The success or failure of policy reform is often attributable to the poor integration of new policy interventions into existing policy regime. Where instrument mixes are poorly coordinated ambiguity over policy goals can lead to confusion over program objectives and instrument application. Too often gender mainstreaming and gender-based analyses are used interchangeably which has significant implications for planning and implementation practices. This paper argues that the implementation of a new policy instrument is not isolated from the established policy regime and must contribute to the existing policy mix to perform optimally. Using Canada as a case study the gender equality policy instrument mix is examined to demonstrate how different abstractions of the problem result in sub-optimal performance.
however, similar considerations of real world policy communities that are fully established, and then become web-enabled are sparse. This project takes tentative steps towards addressing this dearth in the literature by examining
the networked relations of the Canadian climate change VPN. The key research questions addressed are what policy actors are participating in the web-based policy community, who has the most influence in the virtual climate change domain, and how is information organized.
climate-change policy in Canada.
The success or failure of policy reform is often attributable to the poor integration of new policy interventions into existing policy regime. Where instrument mixes are poorly coordinated ambiguity over policy goals can lead to confusion over program objectives and instrument application. Too often gender mainstreaming and gender-based analyses are used interchangeably which has significant implications for planning and implementation practices. This paper argues that the implementation of a new policy instrument is not isolated from the established policy regime and must contribute to the existing policy mix to perform optimally. Using Canada as a case study the gender equality policy instrument mix is examined to demonstrate how different abstractions of the problem result in sub-optimal performance.
however, similar considerations of real world policy communities that are fully established, and then become web-enabled are sparse. This project takes tentative steps towards addressing this dearth in the literature by examining
the networked relations of the Canadian climate change VPN. The key research questions addressed are what policy actors are participating in the web-based policy community, who has the most influence in the virtual climate change domain, and how is information organized.
climate-change policy in Canada.