Patrice Dutil
Phone: 2704
Office: JOR728
E-mail: pdutilpolitics.ryerson.ca

 

Patrice Dutil is Professor in, and Interim Chair of, the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, 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).

In addition to a PhD from York University, Patrice Dutil received a BA (Hon.) from York University, an M es Arts from the Université de Montréal.  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.  In 1991, he founded and edited for five years the monthly Literary Review of Canada.  He is the President of the Champlain Society and is the director of the "Parliament-to-Campus" program of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians.

Patrice Dutil’s main research interests are political and public sector leadership, institutionalism 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.  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 du Québec.

Publications include:

Books:

  • Canada 1911: The Decisive Election that Shaped the Country (with David MacKenzie).  Toronto:  Dundurn Press, 2011.
    • reviewed by Arthur Milne, "Borden finally gets his due," The Kingston Whig-Standard, 27 July 2011.
  • The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ontario Ministry of Finance, ed.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2011.
    • reviewed by Nelson Wiseman in the Canadian Journal of Political Science 44:4 (December 2011): 962-963.
    • reviewed by Alan Maslove in Canadian Public Administration 55:1 (March 2012): 151-153.
      • “Introduction.”  In The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario, ed. Patrice Dutil, 3-12.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
      • “From ‘Treasury’ to ‘Finance’: The Anatomy of a Guardian,1961 to 2001” (with Devyn Leonard).  In The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario, ed. Patrice Dutil, 37-73.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
      • “Thoughts into Words:  The Budget Speech, 1968 – 2003” (with Peter Ryan, and André Gossignac).  In The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario, ed. Patrice Dutil, 162-205.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
      • “Guardians in check: The Impact of health Care on the Ontario Budget, 1960 – 2004.”  In The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario, ed. Patrice Dutil, 320-350.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
      • “Conclusion.”  In The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario, ed. Patrice Dutil, 350-354.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise (with Cosmo Howard, John Langford and Jeffrey Roy).  Ottawa:  University of Ottawa Press, 2010.
  • Searching for Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada, ed.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008; reprint 2010.
  • Dreaming of the Regulatory Village; Speaking of the Regulatory State (edited with Michael McConkey).  New Directions #18.  Toronto:  Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2006.
  • L’Avocat du diable: Godfroy Langlois et le liberalisme progressiste dans le Québec de Wilfrid Laurier.  Montréal:  Robert Davies, 1995.
  • Devil's Advocate: Godfroy Langlois and the Politics of Liberal Progressivism in Laurier's Quebec.  Montréal:  Robert Davies, 1994.  

Articles:

  • “The Bonds of Institutional Language: A Discursive Institutionalism Approach to the Clerk of the Privy Council’s Annual Report” (with Peter Ryan). Canadian Public Administration 56:1 (March 2013): 26-46.
  • “The Office of Premier of Ontario, 1945-2010: Who Really Advises?” (with Peter Constantinou) Canadian Parliamentary Review 36:1 (Spring 2013): 43-50.
  • “Social Learning, Feedback Loops, and Public Spheres: Implementing a Values-based Management Model in Heritage Conservation” (with Scott Barrett).   Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada: 37:1 (2012): 17-26.
  • “Prime ministers and Public Administration.”  Canadian Public Administration 51:2 (June 2008): 335-354
  • “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.
  • “The Six Skills of Secretaries to Cabinet.”  Public Sector Management 10:2 (June 2008): 19-22.
  • “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 to view online)

Chapters:

  • "How Ontario Was Won: The Harper Economic Action Plan in Ontario, 2009-2011” (with Byoungjun Park). Chapter 12 in How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013: The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition, ed. G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney, 207-226. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.
  • “Cimenter la nordicité : les politiques culturelles des territoires du Nord.”  In Les politiques culturelles provinciales et territoriales du Canada : origines, évolutions et mises en œuvre, ed. Monica Gattinger and Diane Saint-Pierre, 499-537.  Québec : Presses de l’université Laval, 2011.
  • “Pour cimenter la nordicité: L’administration publique des politiques culturelles dans les territoires du nord." In La politique culturelle et l'Administration "culturelle" des gouvernements provinciaux et territoriaux du Canada, ed. Diane Saint-Pierre et Monica Gattinger. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2012.
  • “The Institutionalization of Foreign Affairs (1909-2009).”  In Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas, ed. Duane Bratt and Christopher Kukucha, 239-258.  Toronto:  Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • “Searching for Leadership.”  In Approaching Public Administration:  Core Debates and Emerging Issues, ed. Roberto P. Leone and Frank L.K. Ohemeng, 333-339.  Toronto:  Emond Montgomery Publications, 2011.
  • “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.
  • “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.
  • “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.
  • “Foreword.” In  Cities, Culture and Granite, Edmund P. Fowler, 9-12.  Toronto: Guernica Editions, Inc., 2004.

Reviews:

  • Review of Changement ou continuité ? Les processus participatifs au gouvernement du Canada, 1975-2005, Francis Garon. (Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, coll. «Gouvernance et gestion publique», 2009, 172 pp).  Politique et Sociétés 29:2 (2010):  164-65.
  • “The Private Option: Who Should Own our Hospitals, Roads and Schools?” Review of Public Service, Private Profits: The Political Economy of Public-Private Partnerships in Canada by John Loxley. Literary Review of Canada 18:7 (September 2010): 6-7.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Op-eds:

  • "When Brûlé dipped his paddle into history," Toronto Star, 17 July 2011, A13.
  • "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, 06 April 2006, A10.
  • “Not Much Cheer on Labour Day” (with Ron Saunders).  Toronto Star, 05 September 2005, A13.

Studies

  • “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.
  • “New Approaches in Achieving Compliance with Statutory Employment Standards” (with Ron Saunders).  New Directions #15.  Toronto:  Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2005.
  • “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.