Searching for the globalized village: Industry Canada, innovation systems policy, and the attempt to embed globalization under the Liberal mandate, 1993--2003
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
York University (Canada): Canada
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2009
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
403 pages
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جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
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, York University (Canada): Canada
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متن يادداشت
This dissertation argues that during the federal Liberal government of Jean Chretien, from 1993 to 2003, Industry Canada attempted an ambitious, and partially successful, policy framework project. The project intended to reassert the role of Industry in economic policy, and to reclaim control of the globalization process. It tried to do so by embedding key factors such as competitiveness, trade liberalization, and innovation within a policy regime coordinated by government. As a discursive response to the neo-liberal project, the succession of documents produced by Industry Canada, referred to in the project as the "Industry Canada National Innovation System" (ICNIS), was at least partially successful. Although articulated within a political climate that acknowledged the fiscal, regulatory, and spending restrictions established by neo-liberal proponents, the ICNIS was able to offer a counter-discourse that was realized in policy. This counter-discourse resolved a long-standing conflict in Canadian politics between supporters of liberal continental markets and nationalist protectionist measures.The policy supported by this discourse was, ironically, developed and implemented within an institutional context shaped by traditional interventionist practices. While the discourse included claims to novelty, and some of the policy instruments associated with traditional practices of policy formation in Canada were limited by the larger neo-liberal context, the traditional culture associated with these practices was remarkably durable; they remained a clear influence on the policy that was implemented. A comparative examination of two policy sectors closely associated with the ICNIS, Biotechnology and Telecommunications/Information and Communications Technology, illustrates this break between discursive novelty and traditional patterns of development and implementation.As a discursive counter to neo-liberalism in Canada, and as a project of policy coordination, the ICNIS was successful. It reasserted a role for Industry Canada in economic policy at a time when the prevailing discourse suggested that the economy was increasingly outside the purview of the state. As a transformative project, however, the ICNIS was a failure. The success of the project was based on its origins in, and use of, traditional policy expertise developed in Industry under conditions of structural dependency and reliance on resource exploitation in the Canadian economy. The project did not recreate the Canadian economy; rather it merely provided a successful defense of the existing pattern of economic development.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Political science
موضوع مستند نشده
Public administration
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Industry Canada
اصطلاح موضوعی
Innovation systems policy
اصطلاح موضوعی
Globalization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Liberal mandate
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