Working Paper Series
February 2010 | Issue 2
An Integrated Approach to Gender Equality: From Gender-Based Analysis to Gender Mainstreaming
Kathleen McNutt, Assistant Professor, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina campus
Gender mainstreaming, a gender equality governance strategy, is performing poorly across governments. While many national and regional governments have adopted gender equality policy tools, developing and implementing an integrated gender mainstreaming strategy requires substantive reforms to existing procedures and institutional structures.
November 2009 | Issue 1
Discrepancies in Corruption Perceptions, or Why is Canada So Corrupt?
Michael M. Atkinson, Executive Director and Professor, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan campus
In 1984 and again in 2006, Canadians went to the polls in the shadow of charges of ethical impropriety. During the years spanning the governments of Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, there were twenty-three episodes in which plausible accusations of ethical breeches were leveled and in several cases sustained. Survey research shows clearly that a large proportion of Canadians see their politicians and their institutions as fundamentally corrupt. Yet international corruption indices place Canada consistently among the lowest ranked countries. Why do Canadians see their country as corrupt, but informed international observers do not? This paper argues that the gap that exists between these two perceptions of reality has its roots in the meanings assigned to the term "corruption."