Carolyn Johns
Phone: 6146
Office: JOR706
E-mail: cjohnspolitics.ryerson.ca
 

Dr. Carolyn Johns is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and was the first Director of the interdisciplinary PhD program in Policy Studies. She holds a PhD. in Comparative Public Policy from McMaster University, as well as a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Public Policy and Administration from McMaster University, an Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.-Hons) in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) from the University of Toronto.

Carolyn Johns teaches public policy and public administration in our undergraduate and graduate programs. She also teaches environmental politics and policy at the undergraduate level.  In addition, she has taught in the department’s Fire Services partnership program and the First Nations partnership program.

Carolyn’s research interests include intergovernmental administrative relations, comparative environmental policy, water policy, public sector reform and policy capacity issues in the public sector.  She has co-edited a book Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions (with Mark Sproule-Jones and B. Timothy Heinmiller) and has a book, Intergovernmental Policy Capacity in Canada:  A Comparative Analysis of Finance, Trade, Environment and Health, forthcoming (co-authored with Gregory J. Inwood and Patricia L. O’Reilly, also of the Dept. of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson).  She is also working on an edited book on commissions of inquiry and policy change and a book on the Walkerton Inquiry and water policy in Canada.

Publications include:

  • Intergovernmental Policy Capacity in Canada:  Inside the Worlds of Finance, Environment, Trade, and Health (with Gregory J. Inwood and Patricia L. O’Reilly).  Montréal and Kingston:  McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. 
  • “Transboundary Water Pollution Efforts in the Great Lakes: The Significance of National and Sub-national Policy Capacity.”  In Environmental Governance on the 49th Parallel: New Century, New Approaches,  ed. Barry Rabe and Stephen Brooks, 63-82.   Washington, DC:  Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Canada Institute, 2010.
  • “Water Pollution Policy in Canada” (with Mark Sproule-Jones).  In Canadian Environmental Policy and Politics: Prospects for Leadership and Innovation, 3rd ed., ed. Debora Vannijnatten and Robert Boardman, 216-35.  Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • “Water Pollution in the Great Lakes Basin: The Global-Local Dynamic.”  In Environmental Challenges and Opportunities: Local-Global Perspectives on Canadian Issues, ed. Christopher Gore and Peter Stoett,  95-129.  Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009.
  • Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions, ed. (with Mark Sproule-Jones and B. Timothy Heinmiller).  Montréal and Kingston:  McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
    • “Introduction.”  In Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions, ed. Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, 3-15.  Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
    • “Water as a Multiple-Use Resource and Source of Political Conflict” (with Mark Sproule-Jones, and B. Timothy Heinmiller).  In Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions, ed. Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, 19-55.  Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
    • “Institutions for Water Resource Management in Canada” (with Ken Rasmussen).  In Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions, ed. Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, 59-89.  Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
    • “Non-point Source Water Pollution Institutions in Ontario before and after Walkerton.”  In Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions, ed. Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, 203-239.  Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
    •  “Conclusion: Institutions and Water Governance” (with B. Timothy Heinmiller and Mark Sproule-Jones).    In Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions, ed. Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, 308-331.  Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
  • "Case Studies and the Case Study Method in Canadian Public Administration."  In Professionalism and Public Service: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan, ed. David Siegel and Ken Rasmussen, 304-327.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • “Formal and Informal Dimensions of Intergovernmental Administrative Relations in Canada” (with Gregory J. Inwood and Patricia L. O'Reilly). Canadian Public Administration 50:1 (Spring 2007): 21-41.
  • “Intergovernmental Innovation and the Administrative State in Canada” (with Gregory J. Inwood and Patricia L. O'Reilly). Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions 19:4 (October 2006): 627-49.
  • "Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations." In Canadian Politics: Democracy and Dissent, ed. Joan Grace and Byron Sheldrick, 85-116. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc., 2006.
  • "Looking Back, Looking Forward: the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management 1994-2004," (with Gordon Draper). Toronto: Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management, 2004.
  • “Intergovernmental Officials in Canada” (with Gregory J. Inwood and Patricia L. O'Reilly). In Canada: the State of the Federation 2002: Reconsidering the Institutions of Canadian Federalism, ed. J. Peter Meekison, Hamish Telford and Harvey Lazar, 249-284. Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
  • Reflections on the Second Four Years: The Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management 1998-2002. Toronto: Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management, August 2003.
  • Current Good Practices and New Developments in Public Sector Management: A Portfolio (co-edited with S. Agere and A. Stevenson). London: Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management and the Commonwealth Secretariat, September 2002.
  • Policy Instruments to Manage Non-point Source Water Pollution: Comparing the United States and Ontario. Paper Commissioned for Part II of the Walkerton Inquiry 2001. Toronto: Queen's Printer Ontario, 2002.