Policy Paradigms and Policy Change |
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| Authors: | Michael Hewlett |
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| Institution: | Michael Howlett;is associate professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. from Queen's University (Kingston). His research interests include public policy analysis, Canadian political economy, and Canadian resource and environmental policy. He is coauthor of Canadian Political Economy: An Introduction (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992) and Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles, Subsystems, Instruments and Learning (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995). His articles have been published in numerous professional journals in Canada, the United States, Europe, and New Zealand, including;Canadian Journal of Political Science, Publius, World Competition: Law and Economics Review, Studies in Political Economy, Alternatives, Political Science, American Review of Canadian Studies, Policy Studies Review, Policy Sciences, Policy Studies Journal, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Environmental History Review, Prairie Forum, and Canadian Public Administration. He has also contributed chapters to several books and writes the annual section on federal-provincial relations for the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Political Affairs. |
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| Abstract: | Canadian policy towards Aboriginal Peoples is a complex regime involving property rights, constitutional entitlements, cultural concerns, and interlocking administrative, social, economic, and political aims and goals. Recent events related to constitution-making have led investigators to suggest that an old "assimilationist" paradigm established in colonial times is in the process of being replaced by a new policy paradigm of "self-government" and "peaceful coexistence." Utilizing a model of paradigmatic policy change put forward by Peter Hall, this paper examines the development of the old and new Canadian policy and the reasons for the transition between the two. In so doing, it establishes the need to focus more closely on the relationships existing between endogenous and exogenous sources of change in policy subsystems in understanding the liming and content of policy change. |
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