| Core Faculty | Areas of Research Interests |
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| Michael Atkinson | Political institutions (institutional theory, rational choice); Public policy (business-state relations, industrial policy, labour market adjustment, science and technology); Political corruption (theories of corruption, comparative studies of conflict of interest regulation, attitudinal research) |
| Daniel Béland | Social policy; Comparative public policy; Globalization and public policy; Comparative, historical and political sociology |
| Bruno Dupeyron | Comparative politics; Multilevel governance; Processes of regional integration; Public action in the international and transnational fields; Border governance; Strategies of institutional building in the European Union, NAFTA and the Mercosur; Immigration policy |
| Murray Fulton | Innovation policy; Behavioural economics; Climate change policy; Intellectual property rights; Co-operatives and the social economy; Agricultural and resource policy |
| Robert E. Hawkins | Administrative law (public inquiries, bias, standards of review); Constitutional law (crown prerogative and conventions); Post-secondary education policy |
| Heather Heavin | International and interprovincial trade law ; International dispute resolution ; Law reform |
| Greg Marchildon | Public health care policy in Canada and other advanced industrialized nations and comparative health systems; Political, administrative and economic history of the Prairie Provinces |
| Kathleen McNutt | Policy analysis; Program evaluation; e-Government; Network analysis; Gender; Climate change policy; Web governance; Natural resource policy; Collaborative policy making; Policy theory |
| Haizhen Mou | Health care policy; Social policy; Population aging; Public choice |
| M. Rose Olfert | Public policy; Rural/regional economics; Rural-urban interdependence; People-based vs. Place-based policy; Rural economic restructuring; Resource based economies |
| Peter W.B. Phillips | International political economy; Public policy; Science, technology and innovation ; Regulation and trade policy |
| Ken Rasmussen | Public enterprise management; Administrative reform; Administrative history; Non-profit organizations; Ethics and leadership; Provincial politics |
| Jeremy Rayner | Global forest governance; Resource, environmental and energy policies; Policy theory (especially institutionalism and problems of policy change) |
| Keith Walker | Leadership philosophy and leader development; Professional and applied ethics; Governance; Policy making and decision making; Organizational theory and organizational development; Trust and moral agency; Public sector administration; Spiritual dimension of leadership; Capacity building in the new economy; Research methodologies |
| Jennifer Wallner | Comparative public policy; Comparative federalism; Social policy; Internationalization; Legitimacy and accountability; Canadian politics |
| Lihui Zhang | Labour economics; Applied econometrics; Crime economics; Economics of family and children; Population health and well-being; Poverty and inequality and public policies |
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| Associate Faculty | Areas of Research Interests |
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| Loleen Berdahl | Canadian politics; Research methodology; Political theory |
| Beth Bilson | |
| Joel Bruneau | Trade and environment; Pollution and industrial structure; Water resources |
| Sheila Carr-Stewart | Indigenous educational governance and policy; Comparative education; Canadian Aboriginal policy; Community development; Social issues |
| Brent Cotter | |
| Natalya Dygalo | Econometrics; Labour economics |
| Brett Fairbairn | |
| Joe Garcea | Public administration; Public policy analysis; Local government |
| Don Gilchrist | Public economics; Urban and regional economics |
| Richard Gray | Economics of innovation; Grain marketing; Science policy |
| Jill Hobbs | Bioresource policy; Business and economics |
| William Kerr | Commercial policy; International trade |
| Robert Lucas | Monetary economics; Macroeconomics; International monetary economics |
| David McGrane | Canadian, Saskatchewan and Quebec politics |
| Hans Michelmann | Comparative politics (Western Europe); European integration; Comparative public policy and administration |
| David Natcher | Applied anthropology; Common-property theory; Environmental anthropology; Human and political ecology; Natural resource management; Social forestry; Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) |
| Martin Phillipson | Intellectual property law; Biotechnology law; International environmental law; Law of property |
| Greg Poelzer | Aboriginal policy; Innovation; Northern development; Circumpolar north; Governance and development |
| Stuart Smyth | Innovation; Agricultural biotechnology |
| Kara Somerville | Globalization; Immigration; Transnational practices; Race and ethnic relations; Family |
| Ryan Walker | Urban geography and planning; Housing studies; Urban planning with Aboriginal peoples; Comparative urban Indigenous studies in Canada, New Zealand and Australia; Neighbourhood-based planning; Citizenship theory; Supported housing for people with mental illness; Program evaluation in community services |
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