Kenny William Ie
Biographic Data
| ID | 4374453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenny William Ie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenny William |
| FAMILY NAME | Ie |
| SIGNATURE | IE K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5284-004X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethnic affinities and political engagement
Examining the Effects of 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates on 2SLGBTQI+ Voter Turnout in Canada
Affinity theory suggests that 2SLGBTQI+ candidates might empower and motivate 2SLGBTQI+ voters to become more politically engaged because they demonstrate that the political system is open to queer participation and voices. However, most research has focused on high-profile 2SLGBTQI+ candidates. Little attention has been paid to the impact of local candidates, particularly in a multi-party parliamentary system. This paper explores this candidate–…
Gender and the Collegial Face of Executive Politics
This article shows, for the first time, gendered patterns in the organization and composition of collegial executive institutions below the level of the cabinet. Drawing on an original dataset of ministerial cabinet committees since the 1990s, we investigate how ministerial supply, gendered norms, and ideology affect committee priorities, women's presence, and access to power in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Committee pr…
Where to run? Racialized minority affinities for in-group candidate districts in Canada
Drawing from an original survey quasi-experiment presenting respondents with fictional candidate slates varying in ethnic composition, this study examines the impact of racialized affinity on preferences for where to run for office. Prior research shows that racialized candidates typically run in districts with a high in-group ethnic population, and prior in-group candidates or elected officials. But these findings are largely based on observed o…
Unequal by Design
Cabinet ministers are formally equal but unequal in practice: for example, ministers may differ significantly in how they undertake policy activity. I use federal mandate letter data from 2015 to 2021 to explore variation in and correlates of ministerial policy activity. Both issue salience and portfolio prestige are strong, positive correlates of active policy work: more salient and prestigious portfolios are more likely to initiate new policy a…
From Gender Equity to Gendered Assignments? Women and Cabinet Committees in Canada and the United Kingdom
This article explores women's access to ministerial power in an important but understudied arena of executive politics: cabinet committees. Specifically, we analyse the gendered patterns in the distribution of cabinet committee assignments in two ‘typical’ Westminster cases, Canada and the United Kingdom, and under two prime ministers, Justin Trudeau (2015–2021) and David Cameron (2010–2016), who both made explicit gender-equity pledges. Informed…
Ministerial policy roles and mandate letters in the Justin Trudeau government
This article examines ministers as policy actors through analysis of tasks in mandate letters. These tasks were coded as involving either policy initiation, supplementation, maintenance, coordination, engagement, or information. The 2021 mandate letters show that policy maintenance tasks are most common, initiation the least, suggesting that most ministers are constrained to passive policy management. Four distinctive ministerial types are also i…
Ministerial Mandate Letters and Co-ordination in the Canadian Executive
Prime ministers in parliamentary systems confront a challenging agency problem in leading cabinets toward cross-government priorities: ministers tend to prioritize departmental interests and may lack incentives and/or information enabling co-ordinated effort. In Canada, a novel mechanism for both increasing incentives and information provision has been developed in recent decades: the mandate letter. These letters are issued by Canadian prime min…
Cabinet Composition, Collegiality, and Collectivity
This article examines one arena of decision-making in cabinet government: cabinet committees. It assesses the relationship between the composition of cabinets – their party make-up – and the structure of cabinet committees. Cabinet committees are groups of ministers tasked with specific policy or coordination responsibilities and can be important mechanisms of policymaking and cabinet management. Thus, the structure of committees informs our unde…
Representation and Ministerial Influence on Cabinet Committees in Canada
Cabinet committees are important sites of executive politics in Canada. This article examines the extent to which two representational attributes—gender and region—determine influence, as a function of cabinet committee structure. Employing a dataset of ministers under the three most recent prime ministers, I find that female ministers are less likely than male ministers to be influential in terms of connections to other ministers, to belong to t…
Tweeting Power
This article examines the communication of leadership roles by prime ministers Justin Trudeau and Theresa May on Twitter. I argue that tweets from prime ministers implicitly communicate information about how prime ministers lead and what their job entails: what I call role performance and function. I develop an inductive typology of these leadership dimensions and apply this framework to Trudeau and May’s tweets in 2018 and 2019. I find first tha…
Cabinet committees as strategies of prime ministerial leadership in Canada, 2003–2019
Cabinet committees are key elements in parliamentary government, yet they are understudied. This article examines recent uses of cabinet committees in Canada as strategic instruments of their chief architects: prime ministers. My assessment of cabinet committees under three prime ministers – Martin, Harper, and Trudeau, from 2003 to 2019 – finds both similarities and differences in their use as coordination and placation mechanisms. Harper create…
Cabinet Composition, Collegiality, and Collectivity
This article examines one arena of decision-making in cabinet government: cabinet committees. It assesses the relationship between the composition of cabinets – their party make-up – and the structure of cabinet committees. Cabinet committees are groups of ministers tasked with specific policy or coordination responsibilities and can be important mechanisms of policymaking and cabinet management. Thus, the structure of committees informs our unde…
Representation and Ministerial Influence on Cabinet Committees in Canada
Cabinet committees are important sites of executive politics in Canada. This article examines the extent to which two representational attributes—gender and region—determine influence, as a function of cabinet committee structure. Employing a dataset of ministers under the three most recent prime ministers, I find that female ministers are less likely than male ministers to be influential in terms of connections to other ministers, to belong to t…
Cabinet committees as strategies of prime ministerial leadership in Canada, 2003–2019
Cabinet committees are key elements in parliamentary government, yet they are understudied. This article examines recent uses of cabinet committees in Canada as strategic instruments of their chief architects: prime ministers. My assessment of cabinet committees under three prime ministers – Martin, Harper, and Trudeau, from 2003 to 2019 – finds both similarities and differences in their use as coordination and placation mechanisms. Harper create…
Ministerial Mandate Letters and Co-ordination in the Canadian Executive
Prime ministers in parliamentary systems confront a challenging agency problem in leading cabinets toward cross-government priorities: ministers tend to prioritize departmental interests and may lack incentives and/or information enabling co-ordinated effort. In Canada, a novel mechanism for both increasing incentives and information provision has been developed in recent decades: the mandate letter. These letters are issued by Canadian prime min…
From Gender Equity to Gendered Assignments? Women and Cabinet Committees in Canada and the United Kingdom
This article explores women's access to ministerial power in an important but understudied arena of executive politics: cabinet committees. Specifically, we analyse the gendered patterns in the distribution of cabinet committee assignments in two ‘typical’ Westminster cases, Canada and the United Kingdom, and under two prime ministers, Justin Trudeau (2015–2021) and David Cameron (2010–2016), who both made explicit gender-equity pledges. Informed…
Ministerial policy roles and mandate letters in the Justin Trudeau government
This article examines ministers as policy actors through analysis of tasks in mandate letters. These tasks were coded as involving either policy initiation, supplementation, maintenance, coordination, engagement, or information. The 2021 mandate letters show that policy maintenance tasks are most common, initiation the least, suggesting that most ministers are constrained to passive policy management. Four distinctive ministerial types are also i…
Tweeting Power
This article examines the communication of leadership roles by prime ministers Justin Trudeau and Theresa May on Twitter. I argue that tweets from prime ministers implicitly communicate information about how prime ministers lead and what their job entails: what I call role performance and function. I develop an inductive typology of these leadership dimensions and apply this framework to Trudeau and May’s tweets in 2018 and 2019. I find first tha…
Cabinet committees as strategies of prime ministerial leadership in Canada, 2003–2019
Cabinet committees are key elements in parliamentary government, yet they are understudied. This article examines recent uses of cabinet committees in Canada as strategic instruments of their chief architects: prime ministers. My assessment of cabinet committees under three prime ministers – Martin, Harper, and Trudeau, from 2003 to 2019 – finds both similarities and differences in their use as coordination and placation mechanisms. Harper create…
Tweeting Power
This article examines the communication of leadership roles by prime ministers Justin Trudeau and Theresa May on Twitter. I argue that tweets from prime ministers implicitly communicate information about how prime ministers lead and what their job entails: what I call role performance and function. I develop an inductive typology of these leadership dimensions and apply this framework to Trudeau and May’s tweets in 2018 and 2019. I find first tha…
Representation and Ministerial Influence on Cabinet Committees in Canada
Cabinet committees are important sites of executive politics in Canada. This article examines the extent to which two representational attributes—gender and region—determine influence, as a function of cabinet committee structure. Employing a dataset of ministers under the three most recent prime ministers, I find that female ministers are less likely than male ministers to be influential in terms of connections to other ministers, to belong to t…
Cabinet Composition, Collegiality, and Collectivity
This article examines one arena of decision-making in cabinet government: cabinet committees. It assesses the relationship between the composition of cabinets – their party make-up – and the structure of cabinet committees. Cabinet committees are groups of ministers tasked with specific policy or coordination responsibilities and can be important mechanisms of policymaking and cabinet management. Thus, the structure of committees informs our unde…
Ministerial Mandate Letters and Co-ordination in the Canadian Executive
Prime ministers in parliamentary systems confront a challenging agency problem in leading cabinets toward cross-government priorities: ministers tend to prioritize departmental interests and may lack incentives and/or information enabling co-ordinated effort. In Canada, a novel mechanism for both increasing incentives and information provision has been developed in recent decades: the mandate letter. These letters are issued by Canadian prime min…
Ministerial policy roles and mandate letters in the Justin Trudeau government
This article examines ministers as policy actors through analysis of tasks in mandate letters. These tasks were coded as involving either policy initiation, supplementation, maintenance, coordination, engagement, or information. The 2021 mandate letters show that policy maintenance tasks are most common, initiation the least, suggesting that most ministers are constrained to passive policy management. Four distinctive ministerial types are also i…
Ethnic affinities and political engagement
Examining the Effects of 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates on 2SLGBTQI+ Voter Turnout in Canada
Affinity theory suggests that 2SLGBTQI+ candidates might empower and motivate 2SLGBTQI+ voters to become more politically engaged because they demonstrate that the political system is open to queer participation and voices. However, most research has focused on high-profile 2SLGBTQI+ candidates. Little attention has been paid to the impact of local candidates, particularly in a multi-party parliamentary system. This paper explores this candidate–…
Gender and the Collegial Face of Executive Politics
This article shows, for the first time, gendered patterns in the organization and composition of collegial executive institutions below the level of the cabinet. Drawing on an original dataset of ministerial cabinet committees since the 1990s, we investigate how ministerial supply, gendered norms, and ideology affect committee priorities, women's presence, and access to power in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Committee pr…
Where to run? Racialized minority affinities for in-group candidate districts in Canada
Drawing from an original survey quasi-experiment presenting respondents with fictional candidate slates varying in ethnic composition, this study examines the impact of racialized affinity on preferences for where to run for office. Prior research shows that racialized candidates typically run in districts with a high in-group ethnic population, and prior in-group candidates or elected officials. But these findings are largely based on observed o…
Unequal by Design
Cabinet ministers are formally equal but unequal in practice: for example, ministers may differ significantly in how they undertake policy activity. I use federal mandate letter data from 2015 to 2021 to explore variation in and correlates of ministerial policy activity. Both issue salience and portfolio prestige are strong, positive correlates of active policy work: more salient and prestigious portfolios are more likely to initiate new policy a…
From Gender Equity to Gendered Assignments? Women and Cabinet Committees in Canada and the United Kingdom
This article explores women's access to ministerial power in an important but understudied arena of executive politics: cabinet committees. Specifically, we analyse the gendered patterns in the distribution of cabinet committee assignments in two ‘typical’ Westminster cases, Canada and the United Kingdom, and under two prime ministers, Justin Trudeau (2015–2021) and David Cameron (2010–2016), who both made explicit gender-equity pledges. Informed…
Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (7 works) · Cabinet (room (6 works) · Sociology (5 works)