Grace Skogstad

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Grace Skogstad is a Canadian political scientist and professor at the University of Toronto. [1] and a cross-appointed affiliate faculty in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

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Education and career

Grace Skogstad holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining the University of Toronto in 1986, she was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, an associate professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and a visiting associate professor in the School of Public Administration at Carleton University, Ottawa. At the University of Toronto, she directed the Transatlantic Master’s Program in Public Policy and the Global Economy (1997-2001) and served as chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough (2012–2020). [2]

She has served on editorial advisory boards for Cambridge University Press (Studies in Comparative Public Policy Series), the University of Toronto Press (Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy series), the Canadian Journal of Political Science,Canadian Political Science Review,  Policy Sciences, and Policy and Society.

Grace Skogstad is known for serving as a consultant to the Government of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the Canadian Centre for Management Development, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Science Council of Canada, and the Council of Canadian Academies, and has prepared briefs for a number of Canadian policy institutes.

She has been an active participant in several international Conferences on Public Policy, as a panelist and recognized international scholar. [3] In 2019 she was elected as President of the International Public Policy Association for two years. [4]

Research interests

Grace Skogstad is a specialist in Canadian politics and comparative public policy. Her research on Canadian politics has focused primarily on Canadian federalism and public policy-making. She is recognized as Canada’s foremost authority on the politics of agricultural policy-making in Canada. [5] Her comparative public policy research has examined North American, European Union, and international policies with respect to genetically modified crops and foods, and biofuels. [6] Her research has appeared in a number or books and international journals, including the Journal of European Integration, [7] Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, [8] Policy Sciences, [9] Biomass and Bioenergy, [10] Publius: The Journal of Federalism, [11] Journal of Common Market Studies, [12] Journal of European Public Policy, [13] the Australian Journal of Political Science, [14] Global Governance journal, [15] Journal of Public Policy and the Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics; [16] and many others. Professor Skogstad has received research grants for her research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Awards and honours

Grace Skogstad, in 2023, is the previous president of the International Public Policy Association. [17]

She was President of the Canadian Political Science Association in 2002-2003. She received the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association in August 2019 . [18] [19]    She  was invited to give the Seagram Lecture at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University in May 2006. In 2007-2008, she held a Senior Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the  European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Selected publications

Professor Skogstad has published ten books, and over 70 articles and book chapters. Her substantive areas of focus are North American and EU policies with respect to agriculture, genetically modified crops and foods, and, biofuels.

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References

  1. ↑ "Faculty members - University of Toronto". Department of Political Science. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  2. ↑ "Grace Skogstad | Department of Political Science". www.utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  3. ↑ "International Scholars at the International Summer School on Public Policy in Nairobi". International Public Policy Association. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  4. ↑ "Grace Skogstad chosen as President of IPPA". Department of Political Science. 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  5. ↑ "Review of the book by Grace Skogstadt - Internationalization of Canadian Agriculture Policy and Governing Paradigms" (PDF). login.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
  6. ↑ "Grace Skogstad - Review on citations and publications". WorldCat.
  7. 1 2 Skogstad, Grace; Verdun, Amy (2009-05-01). "The Common Agricultural Policy: Continuity and Change". Journal of European Integration. 31 (3): 265–269. doi: 10.1080/07036330902782105 . ISSN   0703-6337.
  8. ↑ Skogstad, Grace (2020-04-24). "Political Parties and Policy Change in Canadian Agricultural Marketing Institutions". Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. 23 (5–6): 561–575. doi:10.1080/13876988.2020.1749519. ISSN   1387-6988. S2CID   219000807.
  9. ↑ Skogstad, Grace (1992-06-01). "The State, Organized Interests and Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy: The Impact of Institutions*". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 25 (2): 319–347. doi:10.1017/S0008423900004005. ISSN   1744-9324. S2CID   153631274.
  10. ↑ Mondou, Matthieu; Skogstad, Grace; Bognar, Julia (2018-09-01). "What are the prospects for deploying advanced biofuels in Canada?". Biomass and Bioenergy. 116: 171–179. Bibcode:2018BmBe..116..171M. doi: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2018.06.014 . ISSN   0961-9534. S2CID   102966958.
  11. ↑ Schertzer, Robert; McDougall, Andrew; Skogstad, Grace (2018-09-01). "Multilateral Collaboration in Canadian Intergovernmental Relations: The Role of Procedural and Reciprocal Norms". Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 48 (4): 636–663. doi:10.1093/publius/pjx066. ISSN   0048-5950.
  12. ↑ Skogstad, Grace (2011). "Contested Accountability Claims and GMO Regulation in the European Union". JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 49 (4): 895–915. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02166.x. ISSN   1468-5965. S2CID   154570139.
  13. ↑ Skogstad, Grace (2017-01-02). "Policy feedback and self-reinforcing and self-undermining processes in EU biofuels policy". Journal of European Public Policy. 24 (1): 21–41. doi:10.1080/13501763.2015.1132752. ISSN   1350-1763. S2CID   155142851.
  14. ↑ Coleman, William D.; Skogstad, Grace (1995-07-01). "Neo-liberalism, policy networks, and policy change: Agricultural policy reform in Australia and Canada". Australian Journal of Political Science. 30 (2): 242–263. doi:10.1080/00323269508402335. ISSN   1036-1146.
  15. ↑ Skogstad, Grace (2019-01-17). Stone, Diane; Moloney, Kim (eds.). "Global Public Policy and the Constitution of Political Authority". The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758648.001.0001. ISBN   9780198758648 . Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  16. ↑ Bognar, J.; Mondou, M.; Skogstad, G. "Best Practices for Biofuel Policy: What Canada's Biofuel Industry Can Learn From Experiences in the U.S., the E.U., and Brazil". escholarship.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
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  18. ↑ APSA, SECTION 40. CANADIAN POLITICS (2019). "2019 APSA Organized Section Awards". PS: Political Science & Politics. 52 (4): 838–858. doi: 10.1017/S1049096519001550 . ISSN   1049-0965.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ↑ "Grace Skogstad, Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award". Department of Political Science. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  20. ↑ Bakvis, Herman; Skogstad, Grace Darlene (2002). Canadian federalism : performance, effectiveness and legitimacy. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-541598-8.
  21. ↑ Skogstad, Grace; Cameron, David; Papillon, Martin; Banting, Keith (January 2013). The Global Promise of Federalism. University of Toronto Press. ISBN   978-1-4426-2647-8.
  22. ↑ "Canadian federalism : performance, effectiveness, and legitimacy / | University of Toronto Libraries". search.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  23. ↑ Press 2011, Grace Skogstad U. of T. "Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics". Department of Political Science. Retrieved 2020-05-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. ↑ Hedley, Douglas D. (2009). "Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture: Policy and Governing Paradigms by GRACE SKOGSTAD". Canadian Public Administration. 52 (2): 317–319. doi:10.1111/j.1754-7121.2009.00078.x. ISSN   1754-7121.
  25. ↑ Bakvis, Herman; Skogstad, Grace (2008). Canadian federalism: performance, effectiveness, and legitimacy. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-542512-3. OCLC   137329929.
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