Hannah Millar
Biographic Data
| ID | 108033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Millar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Millar |
| SIGNATURE | MILLAR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Brunswick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5859-541X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward a Canadian agenda for sustainability transition research
Sustainability transitions research has expanded well beyond its original empirical settings, yet questions remain about how transition perspectives can be meaningfully translated across political economies with distinctive configurations of institutional, geographic, environmental, and historical characteristics. In Canada, these questions are especially salient, as political-economic particularities both complicate the application of transition…
Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada
New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic development, and energy security. We explore the politics of these emergent industries by examining subnational regulatory responses to the recent “crypto rush” in North America. We explore the interplay of material and interpretive dimensions of energy secur…
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people's involvement in research addressing sexual violence
Within our research to address sexual violence, we have developed an approach supporting collaboration between young people and academic staff called YRAP (Young Researchers Advisory Panel). YRAP exists to support young people's influence in research addressing sexual violence - both in our university and beyond. In this article, current and former YRAP members, as well as current and former academic supporting staff, reflect on our experiences a…
Investigating the English public's awareness of the Bern Convention and their education on environmental issues and laws
This paper investigates the knowledge of the general public on the legislative framework relating to wildlife conservation in England, with a specific focus on the Bern Convention and the public's awareness of the treaty, as well as the domestic legislation transposing it. By creating a publicly available survey, the study determined the environmental attitudes of the public and their knowledge of the legislative regime relating to wildlife conse…
Carbon Province, Hydro Province: The Challenge of Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism . Douglas Macdonald
Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter
Leveraging intra-provincial regulatory differences in a post-Paris context: Cryptocurrency mining “reverse battery” strategy in Atlantic Canada
Cheap and abundant energy is an important incentive for the proliferation of cryptocurrency mining farms. With China's crackdown on bitcoin mining, investors have moved to the United States, Scandinavian countries, and Canada. From the perspective of business, these jurisdictions provide cheap, reliable electricity within a stable institutional context. At the same time, cryptocurrency mining has the potential to generate instability, not only th…
Bridge fuel feuds: The competing interpretive politics of natural gas in Canada
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency: Processes of Learning and Emulation in Tax Policy Making
This article examines how ideational factors shape policy making during crisis conditions. Crises can generate 'problem uncertainty', in which policymakers are uncertain about the nature of policy problems. Existing studies have linked such conditions to processes of policy learning. Yet crises can also trigger 'policy urgency', where policymakers' preference for immediate policy action is paramount. This study suggests that bounded emulation, in…
Self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedbacks in subnational climate policy implementation
This study demonstrates how interpretive feedback functions as an intervening mechanism during policy implementation that helps explain variation in subnational climate policy entrenchment. We examine three interrelated climate policy processes in Ontario, Canada from 2001–2018: a coal phase-out (2001–2014), the feed-in-tarriff (FIT) program for renewable energy (2006–2013) and a cap-and-trade program (2008–2018). Successful framing of the coal p…
Puzzling Publics: The role of reflexive learning in universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) policy formulation in Canada and the US
Building on theories of social learning and policy change, this article argues that reflexive learning provides a causal mechanism for how public engagement in policy formulation can trigger policy innovation. Reflexive learning is a mode of learning that takes place during policy formulation and is most likely to occur in policy areas marked by considerable uncertainty and complexity (low problem tractability) and the participation of a wide ran…
Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
This study uses policy learning frameworks to explain variation in processes of hydraulic fracturing regulatory development in Canadian provinces. Using a cross-case comparison of British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the article demonstrates that differences in problem uncertainty and institutional insularity in each province determined modes of technical, social, and political learning in each province. In British Columbia elected officials framed …
Connecting models of the individual and policy change processes: A research agenda
Policy logics, framing strategies, and policy change: Lessons from universal pre-k policy debates in California and Florida
Balancing a House of Cards: Throughput legitimacy in Canadian Governance Networks
This article examines the interaction of different modes and levels of legitimacy within network governance institutions over time. Drawing on new theoretical directions in European governance studies and empirical findings from Canada, we contend that whereas input legitimacy can be exchanged, or traded-off, with output legitimacy to reinforce the overall legitimacy of a network governance institution, “throughput legitimacy” functions as a nece…
Comparing accountability relationships between governments and non‐state actors in C anadian and E uropean international development policy
This article examines the alignment of different governance arrangements and alternative accountability mechanisms in international development policy making in C anada and the E uropean Union ( EU ), with a particular focus on relationships between governments and non‐governmental organizations. The C anadian case illustrates an entrepreneurial mode of governance that aligns with fiscal auditing and performance management mechanisms, while the n…
Balancing a House of Cards: Throughput legitimacy in Canadian Governance Networks
This article examines the interaction of different modes and levels of legitimacy within network governance institutions over time. Drawing on new theoretical directions in European governance studies and empirical findings from Canada, we contend that whereas input legitimacy can be exchanged, or traded-off, with output legitimacy to reinforce the overall legitimacy of a network governance institution, “throughput legitimacy” functions as a nece…
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency: Processes of Learning and Emulation in Tax Policy Making
This article examines how ideational factors shape policy making during crisis conditions. Crises can generate 'problem uncertainty', in which policymakers are uncertain about the nature of policy problems. Existing studies have linked such conditions to processes of policy learning. Yet crises can also trigger 'policy urgency', where policymakers' preference for immediate policy action is paramount. This study suggests that bounded emulation, in…
Bridge fuel feuds: The competing interpretive politics of natural gas in Canada
Comparing accountability relationships between governments and non‐state actors in C anadian and E uropean international development policy
This article examines the alignment of different governance arrangements and alternative accountability mechanisms in international development policy making in C anada and the E uropean Union ( EU ), with a particular focus on relationships between governments and non‐governmental organizations. The C anadian case illustrates an entrepreneurial mode of governance that aligns with fiscal auditing and performance management mechanisms, while the n…
Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
This study uses policy learning frameworks to explain variation in processes of hydraulic fracturing regulatory development in Canadian provinces. Using a cross-case comparison of British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the article demonstrates that differences in problem uncertainty and institutional insularity in each province determined modes of technical, social, and political learning in each province. In British Columbia elected officials framed …
Connecting models of the individual and policy change processes: A research agenda
Leveraging intra-provincial regulatory differences in a post-Paris context: Cryptocurrency mining “reverse battery” strategy in Atlantic Canada
Cheap and abundant energy is an important incentive for the proliferation of cryptocurrency mining farms. With China's crackdown on bitcoin mining, investors have moved to the United States, Scandinavian countries, and Canada. From the perspective of business, these jurisdictions provide cheap, reliable electricity within a stable institutional context. At the same time, cryptocurrency mining has the potential to generate instability, not only th…
Puzzling Publics: The role of reflexive learning in universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) policy formulation in Canada and the US
Building on theories of social learning and policy change, this article argues that reflexive learning provides a causal mechanism for how public engagement in policy formulation can trigger policy innovation. Reflexive learning is a mode of learning that takes place during policy formulation and is most likely to occur in policy areas marked by considerable uncertainty and complexity (low problem tractability) and the participation of a wide ran…
Policy logics, framing strategies, and policy change: Lessons from universal pre-k policy debates in California and Florida
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people's involvement in research addressing sexual violence
Within our research to address sexual violence, we have developed an approach supporting collaboration between young people and academic staff called YRAP (Young Researchers Advisory Panel). YRAP exists to support young people's influence in research addressing sexual violence - both in our university and beyond. In this article, current and former YRAP members, as well as current and former academic supporting staff, reflect on our experiences a…
Self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedbacks in subnational climate policy implementation
This study demonstrates how interpretive feedback functions as an intervening mechanism during policy implementation that helps explain variation in subnational climate policy entrenchment. We examine three interrelated climate policy processes in Ontario, Canada from 2001–2018: a coal phase-out (2001–2014), the feed-in-tarriff (FIT) program for renewable energy (2006–2013) and a cap-and-trade program (2008–2018). Successful framing of the coal p…
Comparing accountability relationships between governments and non‐state actors in C anadian and E uropean international development policy
This article examines the alignment of different governance arrangements and alternative accountability mechanisms in international development policy making in C anada and the E uropean Union ( EU ), with a particular focus on relationships between governments and non‐governmental organizations. The C anadian case illustrates an entrepreneurial mode of governance that aligns with fiscal auditing and performance management mechanisms, while the n…
Balancing a House of Cards: Throughput legitimacy in Canadian Governance Networks
This article examines the interaction of different modes and levels of legitimacy within network governance institutions over time. Drawing on new theoretical directions in European governance studies and empirical findings from Canada, we contend that whereas input legitimacy can be exchanged, or traded-off, with output legitimacy to reinforce the overall legitimacy of a network governance institution, “throughput legitimacy” functions as a nece…
Policy logics, framing strategies, and policy change: Lessons from universal pre-k policy debates in California and Florida
Connecting models of the individual and policy change processes: A research agenda
Puzzling Publics: The role of reflexive learning in universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) policy formulation in Canada and the US
Building on theories of social learning and policy change, this article argues that reflexive learning provides a causal mechanism for how public engagement in policy formulation can trigger policy innovation. Reflexive learning is a mode of learning that takes place during policy formulation and is most likely to occur in policy areas marked by considerable uncertainty and complexity (low problem tractability) and the participation of a wide ran…
Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
This study uses policy learning frameworks to explain variation in processes of hydraulic fracturing regulatory development in Canadian provinces. Using a cross-case comparison of British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the article demonstrates that differences in problem uncertainty and institutional insularity in each province determined modes of technical, social, and political learning in each province. In British Columbia elected officials framed …
Self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedbacks in subnational climate policy implementation
This study demonstrates how interpretive feedback functions as an intervening mechanism during policy implementation that helps explain variation in subnational climate policy entrenchment. We examine three interrelated climate policy processes in Ontario, Canada from 2001–2018: a coal phase-out (2001–2014), the feed-in-tarriff (FIT) program for renewable energy (2006–2013) and a cap-and-trade program (2008–2018). Successful framing of the coal p…
Bridge fuel feuds: The competing interpretive politics of natural gas in Canada
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency: Processes of Learning and Emulation in Tax Policy Making
This article examines how ideational factors shape policy making during crisis conditions. Crises can generate 'problem uncertainty', in which policymakers are uncertain about the nature of policy problems. Existing studies have linked such conditions to processes of policy learning. Yet crises can also trigger 'policy urgency', where policymakers' preference for immediate policy action is paramount. This study suggests that bounded emulation, in…
Investigating the English public's awareness of the Bern Convention and their education on environmental issues and laws
This paper investigates the knowledge of the general public on the legislative framework relating to wildlife conservation in England, with a specific focus on the Bern Convention and the public's awareness of the treaty, as well as the domestic legislation transposing it. By creating a publicly available survey, the study determined the environmental attitudes of the public and their knowledge of the legislative regime relating to wildlife conse…
Carbon Province, Hydro Province: The Challenge of Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism . Douglas Macdonald
Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter
Leveraging intra-provincial regulatory differences in a post-Paris context: Cryptocurrency mining “reverse battery” strategy in Atlantic Canada
Cheap and abundant energy is an important incentive for the proliferation of cryptocurrency mining farms. With China's crackdown on bitcoin mining, investors have moved to the United States, Scandinavian countries, and Canada. From the perspective of business, these jurisdictions provide cheap, reliable electricity within a stable institutional context. At the same time, cryptocurrency mining has the potential to generate instability, not only th…
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people's involvement in research addressing sexual violence
Within our research to address sexual violence, we have developed an approach supporting collaboration between young people and academic staff called YRAP (Young Researchers Advisory Panel). YRAP exists to support young people's influence in research addressing sexual violence - both in our university and beyond. In this article, current and former YRAP members, as well as current and former academic supporting staff, reflect on our experiences a…
Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada
New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic development, and energy security. We explore the politics of these emergent industries by examining subnational regulatory responses to the recent “crypto rush” in North America. We explore the interplay of material and interpretive dimensions of energy secur…
Toward a Canadian agenda for sustainability transition research
Sustainability transitions research has expanded well beyond its original empirical settings, yet questions remain about how transition perspectives can be meaningfully translated across political economies with distinctive configurations of institutional, geographic, environmental, and historical characteristics. In Canada, these questions are especially salient, as political-economic particularities both complicate the application of transition…
Political science (13 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)