Daniel Cohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Cohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohn |
| SIGNATURE | COHN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6001-0743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The new public autonomy
The Canadian province of British Columbia has been widely recognized as the North American leader in employing Design, Build, Finance Operate public–private partnerships to create new public infrastructure. Canada is one of the most decentralized federations in the world. Provinces exercise considerable autonomy and have powerful revenue raising power at their disposal. Although Canadian local governments are generally seen as substantially infer…
British Columbia's Capital Asset Management Framework
The Liberal government of British Columbia has had more success in terms of the number of public‐private partnerships they have managed to initiate than any other provincial government in Canada. Observers (whether they believe that this outcome is positive or negative) agree that part of this success is attributable to the Capital Asset Management Framework. Introduced in the spring of 2002, this is a province‐wide set of guidelines that all min…
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion , Junko Kato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 260. This book provides a surprisingly interesting look at an understudied problem within the field of comparative welfare state research: the relationship between funding and welfare state regime characteristics. The author proposes that researchers take a second look at regressive taxation, specifically …
Canadian Medicare
Political-economic theory posits that in the face of a perceived decline in service quality, those who might otherwise seek alternatives will be restrained by feelings of loyalty that are a product of their emotional and physical investment in a situation (Hirschman, 1970). Amartya Sen (1977) describes support for policies that is based exclusively in values—rather than self-interest or a combination of the two—as a commitment. This article sets …
The Best of Intentions, Potentially Harmful Policies
This article argues that conditions will favour the adoption of good policy when there is a consensus on goals, as well as a clear understanding of how these relate to the core values of society and underlying theories of human behaviour. This is especially true when advice takes the form of inter-related, complex recommendations. Failure to ensure the presence of such a consensus produces a strong likelihood that complex policy advice will only …
NO place to hide
The argument presented in this article is that the appointment of an ad hoc expert commission to carry out governance is unlikely to depoliticize difficult restructuring issues or to deflect blame from governments dealing with such problems in Westminster‐style polities. Unlike in American‐style presidential systems and parliamentary systems with proportional representation experiencing frequent minority governments, such commissions can never be…
Policy legacies and the potential for radical surgery on health‐care systerns
“Forces in the broader political arena have periodically opened windows of opportunity for major policy change in the health care arena. The systems that resulted were largely, if not entirely, ‘accidents' of the timing of their births.” Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Edited by carolyn hughes tuohy. New York: Oxford University Press . 1999. Pp. 312
Globalization and the possibility of human agency
Creating Crises and Avoiding Blame
The new public management (NPM) is the result of both pushes (attempts at crisis creation) and pulls (attempts to get along with less and to act more businesslike). These led to a new elite consensus on the role of the state, described by Jessop as the Schumpeterian workfare state. The NPM is seen as the management technology of this policy paradigm. To the degree that the NPM represents a broad agreement on how government should operate in light…
Creating Crises and Avoiding Blame
The new public management (NPM) is the result of both pushes (attempts at crisis creation) and pulls (attempts to get along with less and to act more businesslike). These led to a new elite consensus on the role of the state, described by Jessop as the Schumpeterian workfare state. The NPM is seen as the management technology of this policy paradigm. To the degree that the NPM represents a broad agreement on how government should operate in light…
British Columbia's Capital Asset Management Framework
The Liberal government of British Columbia has had more success in terms of the number of public‐private partnerships they have managed to initiate than any other provincial government in Canada. Observers (whether they believe that this outcome is positive or negative) agree that part of this success is attributable to the Capital Asset Management Framework. Introduced in the spring of 2002, this is a province‐wide set of guidelines that all min…
The new public autonomy
The Canadian province of British Columbia has been widely recognized as the North American leader in employing Design, Build, Finance Operate public–private partnerships to create new public infrastructure. Canada is one of the most decentralized federations in the world. Provinces exercise considerable autonomy and have powerful revenue raising power at their disposal. Although Canadian local governments are generally seen as substantially infer…
Canadian Medicare
Political-economic theory posits that in the face of a perceived decline in service quality, those who might otherwise seek alternatives will be restrained by feelings of loyalty that are a product of their emotional and physical investment in a situation (Hirschman, 1970). Amartya Sen (1977) describes support for policies that is based exclusively in values—rather than self-interest or a combination of the two—as a commitment. This article sets …
NO place to hide
The argument presented in this article is that the appointment of an ad hoc expert commission to carry out governance is unlikely to depoliticize difficult restructuring issues or to deflect blame from governments dealing with such problems in Westminster‐style polities. Unlike in American‐style presidential systems and parliamentary systems with proportional representation experiencing frequent minority governments, such commissions can never be…
The Best of Intentions, Potentially Harmful Policies
This article argues that conditions will favour the adoption of good policy when there is a consensus on goals, as well as a clear understanding of how these relate to the core values of society and underlying theories of human behaviour. This is especially true when advice takes the form of inter-related, complex recommendations. Failure to ensure the presence of such a consensus produces a strong likelihood that complex policy advice will only …
Creating Crises and Avoiding Blame
The new public management (NPM) is the result of both pushes (attempts at crisis creation) and pulls (attempts to get along with less and to act more businesslike). These led to a new elite consensus on the role of the state, described by Jessop as the Schumpeterian workfare state. The NPM is seen as the management technology of this policy paradigm. To the degree that the NPM represents a broad agreement on how government should operate in light…
Globalization and the possibility of human agency
NO place to hide
The argument presented in this article is that the appointment of an ad hoc expert commission to carry out governance is unlikely to depoliticize difficult restructuring issues or to deflect blame from governments dealing with such problems in Westminster‐style polities. Unlike in American‐style presidential systems and parliamentary systems with proportional representation experiencing frequent minority governments, such commissions can never be…
Policy legacies and the potential for radical surgery on health‐care systerns
“Forces in the broader political arena have periodically opened windows of opportunity for major policy change in the health care arena. The systems that resulted were largely, if not entirely, ‘accidents' of the timing of their births.” Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Edited by carolyn hughes tuohy. New York: Oxford University Press . 1999. Pp. 312
The Best of Intentions, Potentially Harmful Policies
This article argues that conditions will favour the adoption of good policy when there is a consensus on goals, as well as a clear understanding of how these relate to the core values of society and underlying theories of human behaviour. This is especially true when advice takes the form of inter-related, complex recommendations. Failure to ensure the presence of such a consensus produces a strong likelihood that complex policy advice will only …
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion , Junko Kato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 260. This book provides a surprisingly interesting look at an understudied problem within the field of comparative welfare state research: the relationship between funding and welfare state regime characteristics. The author proposes that researchers take a second look at regressive taxation, specifically …
Canadian Medicare
Political-economic theory posits that in the face of a perceived decline in service quality, those who might otherwise seek alternatives will be restrained by feelings of loyalty that are a product of their emotional and physical investment in a situation (Hirschman, 1970). Amartya Sen (1977) describes support for policies that is based exclusively in values—rather than self-interest or a combination of the two—as a commitment. This article sets …
The new public autonomy
The Canadian province of British Columbia has been widely recognized as the North American leader in employing Design, Build, Finance Operate public–private partnerships to create new public infrastructure. Canada is one of the most decentralized federations in the world. Provinces exercise considerable autonomy and have powerful revenue raising power at their disposal. Although Canadian local governments are generally seen as substantially infer…
British Columbia's Capital Asset Management Framework
The Liberal government of British Columbia has had more success in terms of the number of public‐private partnerships they have managed to initiate than any other provincial government in Canada. Observers (whether they believe that this outcome is positive or negative) agree that part of this success is attributable to the Capital Asset Management Framework. Introduced in the spring of 2002, this is a province‐wide set of guidelines that all min…
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