Grace Skogstad

Biography

Grace Skogstad holds a BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. She served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association in 2002-03 and as President of the International Public Policy Association for 2019-2022. She specializes in Canadian Politics, especially Canadian federalism, and comparative public policy.

Research Interests

My areas of interest are the political economy of Canadian agricultural and food policy, and of European and North American regulatory policies with respect to biofuels and genetically modified products. These substantive interests are addressed via theories of institutional transformation and resilience; the internationalization of domestic politics; and the role of ideas and discourse in policy making.

Awards and Grants

2022 Distinguished Fellow, Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, Ottawa, Canada. 

January 1, 2021- December 31, 2022: SSHRC, Connections Grant, Political Map of Canada. Principal Investigator.

2020-2021:  JJ Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto,

2019: Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award, American Political Science Association.

April 1, 2015- March 30, 2018: BioFuelNet Canada (National Centres of Excellence) Grant for Research Project, `Pathways to Reducing Policy Uncertainty in Sustainable Biofuels Governance’.

Publications

Selected publications in the last 5 years

2022 Evert Lindquist, Michael Howlett, Grace Skogstad, Geneviève Tellier, and Paul ‘t Hart, eds. Policy Success in Canada: Cases, Lessons, Challenges, Oxford University Press, 2022.

2022 Grace Skogstad, ‘Supply Management in Canada’s Dairy & Poultry Sectors’, Chapter 13, pp. 267-285 in Evert Lindquist, Michael Howlett, Grace Skogstad, Geneviève Tellier, and Paul ‘t Hart, eds. Public Policy Success: Lessons from Canadian Experiences, Oxford University Press.

2022 Grace Skogstad, Geneviève Tellier, Paul ‘t Hart, Michael Howlett, and Evert Lindquist, `Conclusion,’ Chapter 24, pp. 478-491 in Evert Lindquist, Michael Howlett, Grace Skogstad, Geneviève Tellier, and Paul ‘t Hart, eds. Public Policy Success: Lessons from Canadian Experiences, Oxford University Press.

2021 Grace Skogstad, `Political Parties and Policy Change in Canadian Agricultural Marketing Institutions.’ Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 23(5-6),  561-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1749519

2020 Julia M. Bognar, Grace Skogstad, and Matthieu Mondou, ‘Media Coverage and Public Policy: Reinforcing and Undermining Media Images and Advanced Biofuels Policies in Canada and the United States, Environmental Communication. 14(8), 1127-1144.

2020 Grace Skogstad, `Mixed Feedback Dynamics and the USA Renewable Fuel Standard’, Policy Sciences, 53(2),  349-69.

2020 Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, eds. Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy, 4th edition.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2020 Grace Skogstad and Matt Wilder, `Federalism and Canada’s Economic Union,’ pp. 195-221 in Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, eds. Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy, 4th edition.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2019 Grace Skogstad and Matt Wilder, `Strangers at the gate: the role of multidimensional ideas, policy anomalies and institutional gatekeepers in biofuel policy developments in the USA and European Union,’ Policy Sciences, 52(3), 343-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-019-09351-5.

2019 Grace Skogstad, `Global Public Policy and the Constitution of Political Authority’, Chapter 2 (pp.24-40) in Kim Moloney and Diane Stone, eds. The Oxford Handbook on Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press.

2018 Matthieu Mondou, Grace Skogstad, and Julia Bognar, `What are the Prospects for Deploying Advanced Biofuels in Canada?’, Biomass and Bioenergy, 116 (September), 171-179.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2018.06.014.

2018 Robert Schertzer, Andrew McDougall, and Grace Skogstad. `Multilateral Collaboration in Canadian Intergovernmental Relations: The Role of Procedural and Reciprocal Norms’, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 48(4), 636-663.  https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjx066 

2017 Stefan Renckens, Grace Skogstad, and Matthieu Mondou, `When Normative and Market Power Interact: The European Union and Global Biofuels,’ Journal of Common Market Studies, 55, 6, 1432-1448.

2017 Grace Skogstad, `Policy Feedback and Self-Reinforcing and Self-Undermining Processes in EU Biofuels Policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, 24 (1), 21-41.

Teaching Interests

• Topics in Canadian and Comparative Politics
• Canadian Politics
• Canadian Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
• Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy