Patrice Dutil
Phone: 2704
Office: JOR725
E-mail: pdutilpolitics.ryerson.ca

 

Patrice Dutil is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. Before joining the department in August 2006, he was the Acting Executive Director and Director of Research at the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).
 
Patrice Dutil received a BA (Hon.)  from York University, an M es Arts from the Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. from York University. He started his career in the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs in 1987 as a policy advisor, and then joined TVOntario where he worked in corporate policy and then in programming. He became Director of Research at IPAC in 1999.

Dr. Dutil is the author of Devil's Advocate: Godfroy Langlois and the Politics of Liberal Progressivism in Laurier's Quebec (Robert Davies, 1994) and the editor of Searching for Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2008). In 1991, he founded and edited for five years the monthly Literary Review of Canada. He is Vice-President of the Champlain Society and sits on the Preservation Board of the City of Toronto. He also directs the "Parliament to Campus" program of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians.

Patrice Dutil’s main research interests are political and public sector leadership, e-government, government partnerships, and the policy development process.   Dutil is a frequent commentator on public affairs on radio and television, and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press and La Presse. He is currently working on an edited volume exploring the evolution of the Ontario Ministry of Finance as well as a project on integrated service delivery units. Dr. Dutil sits on the editorial committee of the International Review of Administrative Sciences and is the Editor of the IPAC Series in Public Administration and Governance published with the University of Toronto Press and of the Collection Administration et gouvernance published with the Presses de l'Université Laval.

Publications include:

  • Review of L’approche systémique de la gestion des ressources humaines. Le contrat psychologique des relations d’emploi dans les administration publiques du XXIe siècle, Louise Lemire and Gaétan Martel.  Canadian Public Administration 51:3 (September 2008): 538-540.
  • “The Road to NGO: the Transformation of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (1985-1995)” (with Michael McConkey).  In Professionalism and Public Service: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan, ed. David Siegel and Ken Rasmussen, 266-287.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • Searching for Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada (as contributing editor).  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2008.
    • “Introduction.”  In Searching for Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada, ed. Patrice Dutil, 3-10.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2008.
    • “Searching for Leadership.”  In Searching for Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada, ed. Patrice Dutil, 13-40.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2008.
    • “Conclusion: The Options and Futures of Secretaries to Cabinet.”  In Searching for Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada, ed. Patrice Dutil, 237-242.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2008
  • “Prime Ministers and Public Administration.”  Canadian Public Administration 51:2 (June 2008): 335-354.  A review of:
    • Brian Mulroney. Memoirs 1939-1993. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2007;
    • Jean Chrétien.  My Years as Prime Minister.  Toronto:  Albert Knopf Canada, 2007;
    • Janice Stein and Eugene Lang.  The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar.  Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007;
    • Eddie Goldenberg.  The Way it Works: Inside Ottawa.  Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2007.
    • Allan Gotlieb.  Washington Diaries 1981-1989.  Toronto: McClelland and Steward, 2007.
  • "The Six Skills of Secretaries to Cabinet,” Public Sector Management 10:2 (June 2008):  19-22.
  • “Rethinking Government-Public Relationships in a Digital World: Customers, Clients or Citizens?” (with Cosmo Howard, John Langford, and Jeffrey Roy ), Journal of Information Technology and Politics 4:1 (2007): 77-90.
  • "Time for a new, networked public service” (with Tim Reid), Policy Options 28:10 (November 2007): 80-84.
  • Review of Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules: Multilevel Regulatory Governance ed. by Bruce Doern and Robert Johnson. Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada 50: 1 (Spring 2007): 127-130.
  • "The great fiscal imbalance debate ... of 1906." Globe and Mail, 07 October 2006, A15.
  • "No Strings: Political meddling can harm the civil service.”  Winnipeg Free Press, 6 April 2006, A10.
  • “Dreaming of the Regulatory Village; Speaking of the Regulatory State.” New Directions #18 (edited with Michael McConkey).  Toronto:  Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2006.
  • “L’Écho des Deux-Montagnes” and “Le Pays” in Dictionnaire de la censure au Québec-Littérature et cinéma, ed. Pierre Hébert et al, 224-225 and 529-531.  Sherbrooke:  Presses de l’Université de Sherbrooke, 2006.
  • “Public-Private Partnerships in E-Government: Best Practices in  Service Transformation” (with John Langford and Jeffrey Roy).  New Directions #17.  Toronto:  Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2005.
  • “Against Isolationism: Napoléon Belcourt, French Canada and ‘La grande guerre’.”  In Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown, ed. David MacKenzie, 96-138.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2005.
  • “New Approaches in Achieving Compliance with Statutory Employment Standards” (with Ron Saunders).  New Directions #15.  Toronto:  Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2005.
  • “Towards a new Accountability: “Governance Dialogue” (with Michael McConkey).  Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Association 25th Anniversary Journal (2005):  85-95.
  • “Twenty Steps to Sustainable Public-Private Collaboration” (with John Langford and Jeffrey Roy).  Public Sector Management 16:2 (December 2005): 4-7.
  • “What Next? Ontario’s IT Task Force Begs Some Questions” (with John Langford and Jeffrey Roy).  CIO Magazine (October 2005):  20-21.
  • “IT Governance: A Review of Ontario’s Special Task Force” (with John Langford and Jeffrey Roy).  Optimum Online 35:3 (September 2005):  43-48. http://optimumonline.ca/print.phtml?id=233 (free subscription required)
  • “Not Much Cheer on Labour Day” (with Ron Saunders).  Toronto Star, 5 September 2005, A13.
  • “The Prospects and Promise of Alternative Service Delivery in Municipalities” (with Toby Fyfe and Michael McConkey).  New Directions #14.  Toronto:  Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2004.
  • “Foreword.”  In Cities, Culture and Granite, Edmund P. Fowler, 9-12.  Toronto:  Guernica Editions, Inc., 2004.