Gregory J. Inwood
Phone: 6166
Office: JOR708
E-mail: ginwoodpolitics.ryerson.ca
 

Dr. Greg Inwood is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Toronto. He also holds an M.A. in Political Science and an Honours B.A. in History, both from the University of Western Ontario.

Greg was appointed to a full-time faculty position in 1998 and achieved the rank of full Professor in 2007. He teaches courses on Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations, Ontario politics, Canadian-American relations, technology and politics, and public administration.

Greg's research interests include Canadian federalism, the Canadian political economy, public administration and trade policy. Currently, Greg is working with Dr. Patricia O'Reilly and Dr. Carolyn Johns on a major research project entitled “A Comparative Analysis of Intergovernmental Policy Capacity in Trade, Environment and Health” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

On 02 June 2006, the Canadian Political Science Association awarded his book, Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission (University of Toronto Press, 2005) its prestigious Donald Smiley Prize, which is awarded annually for "the best book published in English or in French in a field relating to the study of government and politics in Canada."

In addition, Greg has been a frequent media commentator on Ontario and Canadian politics. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Political Science Association, and is a past Director of the Ontario Legislature Internship Programme.

Publications include:

  • “Teaching Accountability and Ethics to Public Servants.” Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 1:1 (Fall 2008): 379-406.
  • Understanding Canadian Public Administration, 3rd ed. Toronto: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2009.
  • “Formal and Informal Dimensions of Intergovernmental Administrative Relations in Canada” (with Carolyn M. Johns and Patricia L. O'Reilly). Canadian Public Administration 50:1 (Spring 2007): 21-41.
  • “Intergovernmental Innovation and the Administrative State in Canada” (with Carolyn M. Johns and Patricia L. O'Reilly). Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions 19:4 (October 2006): 627-49.
  • Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
  • “Intergovernmental Officials in Canada” (with Patricia L. O'Reilly and Carolyn M. Johns). 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.
  • “Federalism, Globalization and the (Anti-) Social Union.” In Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism, ed. Mike Burke, Colin Mooers and John Shields, 124-144. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2000.