Patrick Smith

patrick_smith -at- sfu.ca

Patrick is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Governance Studies. His research interests include public policy and administration, local and metropolitan governance, global cities, political parties and elections, electoral reform, local democracy, Canadian and BC Government/Politics, federalism and constitutional reform. He is currently engaged in research on comparative urban and regional/metropolitan governance, subnational (city/province-state) global policy making, Cascadia, aboriginal policy, political parties, voters and recent Canadian elections: federal, provincial, and local.

He is the co-author of The Vision and The Game: Making the Canadian Constitution (Detselig 1987); The Almanac of Canadian Politics (Broadview 1991) on the 1988 Canadian General Election; The Almanac of Canadian Politics (Oxford 1995, 2nd edition) on the 1993 Canadian General Election; L’Almanach Politique du Quebec (Editiones Americaines1997); Ties that Bind: Voters and Parties in Canada (Oxford 1999), Partis politiques et comportement electioral au Canada: Filations et affiliations with James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon (Boreal 2002); and Law, Politics and the Administration of Justice: Canadian Cases, Comparative Perspective (Pacific Policy Press 2000).