Publications & Commentary

Recent Academic Publications

Cotton, C. S., Hickman, B. R., List, J. A., Price, J., & Roy, S. (2026). Why Don’t Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation. Journal of Political Economy.

Brock, K., with Migone, A., McGregor, M., and Howlett, M. (2026). Academics in the Policy Advisory System: Evidence from a Survey of Canadian Universities. In G. Capano, J. Craft, M. Howlett (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems. Routledge. 

Wolfe, R., with Ungphakorn, P. (2026). Emerging Powers and the Shifting Patterns of Influence in the WTO. In J. Daudelin and D. Hornsby (Eds.), Southern Powers and Global Dis/Order: Canada among Nations 2025. Forthcoming. 

Murphy, M., Forrest, T., and Samson, P. (2025). From Peace Dividend to Defence Dividend: Dual-Use, Quantum, and NATO Targets. Centre for International Governance Innovation. 

Biggs, M., and McCarney, R. (2025). The Chrétien Government and International Development: Overlooked and Underestimated? In J. Cunningham and J. Meehan (Eds.), Chrétien and the World Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003. UBC Press. 

Lang, E., and Stein, J. (2025). Chrétien’s Afghanistan Policy: Sound Decisions Do Not Always Produce Good Outcomes. In J. Cunningham and J. Meehan (Eds.), Chrétien and the World Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003. UBC Press. 

Cotton, C., and Nordstrom, A. (2025). The Impact of a Severe Drought on Girls’ Attendance and Learning. American Educational Research Journal. 

Cotton, C., LaBarge, M. and Nordstrom, A. (2025). Canadian Public Health Experiences with COVID-19 and a New Framework for Assessing Evidence. Frontiers in Public Health, 13. 

Cotton, C., Alam, A., Tosta, S., Buchman, T.G., and Maslove, D. (2025). Effect of monetary incentives on peer review acceptance and completion: A quasi-randomized interventional trial. Critical Care Medicine, 53(6), pp. e1181-e1189.

Cotton, C. and Tetter, D. (2025). Breaking Down Canada’s Internal Trade Barriers, JDI Policy Insight, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy. 

Wolfe, R. and Ungphakorn, P. (2025) 'On the Rocks: The WTO’s Member-Driven Consensus Decision-Making. Trade, Law and Development, 16(2), pp. 358-80.

Westlake, D., Banting, K., and Triadafilopoulos, T. (2025). The Puzzling Persistence of Multiculturalism Policies in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(11), pp. 2812-2832.

Harell, A., Banting, K., and Kymlicka, W. (2025). Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Membership: A Cross-National Comparison. Comparative Political Studies, 0(0). 

Banting, K. (2025). Federalism and Redistribution in Canada. In D. Beland, R. Mahon and A. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in Canada. Oxford University Press. 

Banting, K. (2025). The Three Federalisms and Change in Social Policy. In H. Bakvis and G. Skogstad (Eds.), Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy (pp. 246-270). University of Toronto Press.

Basile, L., Banting, K., and Harell, A. (2025). Newcomers in Regions: Exploring the Impact of Regional Dynamics in Support of Inclusive Redistribution across Europe. In O. Jacques and A. Noél (Eds.), Inequality, Redistribution and Federalism: A Territorial Approach (pp. 131-162). McGill-Queen's University Press. 

Lang, E. (2024). AWOL: Canada’s National Security Policy, Governance, and Culture. In N. Hillmer, P. Lagassé, and V. Rigby (Eds.), Canada Among Nations 2023: Twenty-First Century National Security. Palgrave MacMillan.

Banting, K. (2024). Review of Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada, by Alison Smith. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 54(4), pp. e55-e57.

Wolfe, R. Dobhal, A., Mavroidis, P.C., Jimenez-Moreira, L., and Sasmal, S. (2024). Do Private Actors Have Rights under the WTO? The Motivation for and (Inadequate) Implementation of GATT Article X. Journal of World Trade 58(5), pp. 727-59.

Banting, K. (2024). Oaths as Signals and the Perceived Membership of New Citizens. In P. Lenard and R. Bauböck (Eds.), Swearing Loyalty: should new citizens pledge allegiance in a naturalization Oath? Global Citizenship Observatory, European University Institute.