Contributors

Journal of Canadian Studies • Revue d'etudes canadiennes Contributors Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Her research interests relate to the Canadian and comparative dimensions of gender and ethnic politics, nationalism and globalization , immigration policies and politics and citizenship theory. Her publications include articles in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Politics, Canadian Public Policy and Canadian Ethnic Studies. Cynthia J. Alexander is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director ofResearch and Graduate Studies at Acadia University, Canada's first "laptop" university. Her research focusses on the political and policy implications of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the use of ICTs by Canadian federal political parties, provincial and federal governments, national women's organizations, indigenous communities and their organizations. She is the coeditor of Digital Democracy (Oxford, 1998). Caroline Andrew teaches Political Science at the University of Ottawa. Her areas of particular research interest are municipal politics and urban development and women in local politics. She is currently Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Therese Arseneau is Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. She has published on a varietyoftopics including Senate reform, the Reform Party of Canada, electoral reform in New Zealand and the representation ofwomen and minorities . She is currently on extended leave at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Herman Bakvis is Professor and Director, School of Public Administration, Dalhousie University. He is the author of Regional Ministers: Power and Influence in the Canadian Cabinet (University of Toronto Press, 1991) and co-editor (with PatrickWeller and R.A.W. Rhodes) of The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Exerutives (Macmillan, 1997). From 1990 to 1992 he was research co-ordinator with the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. Kathy L. Brock is Associate Professor and Head of Public Policy and the Third Sector in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, and is cross-appointed to the Political Studies department. She has published on public policy and the voluntary sector, Canadian politics and government, constitutional issues, and Aboriginal selfgovemment . She is currently the documentalist and occasional advisor to the joint co-ordinating committee of the national Voluntary Sector Initiative. Volume 35 • No. 4 • (Hiver 2000 • 2001 Winter) 315 316 Contributors Robert M. Campbell is Dean of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he is a member of the Political Science Department. He has been associated with the Journal of Canadian Studies since 1986, as an Associate Editor, Editor and now Chair of the B.oard. He is the author of Grand Illusions: The Politics ofthe Keynesian Experience in Canada (1987); The Full Employment Ob;ective in Canada (1991); The Politics of the Post: Canada's Postal System from Public Service to Privatization (1994); and (with Leslie Pal) three editions of The Real Worlds ofCanadian Politics: Cases in Process and Policy (1989, 1991, 1994). The Politics of Postal Transfonnation: Modernizing Postal Systems in the Electronic and Global World will be published t>yMcGill-Queen's University Press in fall 2001. R.-Kenneth Carty is a member of the Political Science Department in the University of British Columbia. He has published widely on political parties in western democracies and most recently co-authored Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics (UBC Press, 2000). Andrew F. Cooper is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Assistant Editor of the Canadian Journal ofPolitical Sdence. ln 2000 he was a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar, in the Western Hemisphere Program, School of Advanced lnternational Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. His books include In Between Countries: Australia, Canada and the Search for Orderin Agria1ltural Trade (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998), and Canadian Foreign Policy: Old Habits and New Directions (Prentice-Hall Canada, 1997). William Cross is Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies and a member of the Department of Political Science at Mount Allison University. His research interests lie in the areas of political parties and election campaigns. He is co-author of Rebuilding Canadian PartyPolitics (UBC Press 2000) and is editor of Political Parties, Representation and Electoral Democracy in Canada (Oxfo_rd University...