Julie Simmons, University of Guelph

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Associate Professor Guelph, Ontario simmonsj@uoguelph.ca Office: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53088

Bio/Research

Dr. Simmons’s research interests centre on federalism, public policy and administration in Canada. In particular, she focuses on democracy and accountability issues in federal-provincial relations.

A separate avenue of her current research considers whether the governance framework for ...


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Bio/Research

Dr. Simmons’s research interests centre on federalism, public policy and administration in Canada. In particular, she focuses on democracy and accountability issues in federal-provincial relations.

A separate avenue of her current research considers whether the governance framework for self-regulating health professions in the province of Ontario achieves the legislated goal of defending the public interest. A related project interrogates the nexus of reproductive autonomy, state oversight of the profession of midwifery, maternal empowerment and the public interest.

She is currently completing a book-length manuscript considering the tensions between deliberative and representative democracy evident in the role of non-governmental actors in the negotiation of intergovernmental agreements across a number of social and environmental policy initiatives in the 1990s. She is co-editing a volume entitled “Understanding and Explaining New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes: Canada in Comparative Perspective” based on a recently completed SSHRC and IPAC funded collaborative research project. Prior to her academic career she was briefly at the Ontario Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs.


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