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Department of Social Science

York University

4700 Keele St.

Toronto ON M3J1P3



Miriam Smith 
B.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Yale)

Professor, Law & Society Program

Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

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Research Interests

  • Canadian, U.S. & comparative politics
  • public policy, political institutions & institutionalism
  • public law & federalism
  • social movements, gender & sexuality
  • health social movements

Courses, 2011-12

  • AP/SOSC 4360A 6.00, Fall-Winter 2011-12, Law and Society Honours Seminar: Legal Consciousness and Social Movements
  • AP/SOSC 3375 3.00  Winter 2012 Socio-legal Theories

Publications

Books

2008. Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (New York and London: Routledge).

2008. Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada (Peterborough: Broadview Press). Edited.

2007. Critical Policy Studies  (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press). Edited with Michael Orsini.

2005. A Civil Society?: Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life (Peterborough: Broadview Press).

2003. New Trends in Canadian Federalism. 2nd edition. (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press). Edited with François Rocher.

1999. Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

Articles/Chapters

2011. “Evidence and Equity: Struggles over Federal Employment Equity Policy in Canada, 1984-1995," Canadian Public Administration  54 (3): 335-357. With John Grundy.

2011. "Canada: The Power of Institutions," in Manon Tremblay, Carol Johnson and David Paternotte (eds.) The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate). 

2010. “Federalism and LGBT Rights in the U.S. and Canada: A Comparative Policy Analysis” in Melissa Haussman, Marion Sawer and Jill Vickers (eds.) Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010): 97-110.

2010. "Social Movements, Knowledge and Public Policy: The Case of Autism Activism in Canada and the U.S." Critical Policy Studies 4: 1 (April): 38-57. With Michael Orsini.

2010. ““Gender Politics and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the U.S.Social Politics 17: 1 (March): 1-28.

2009. “Diversity and Canadian Political Development: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, May 27, 2009.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 42: 4 (December): 831-854.

2009. “Social Movements and Media,” in Shannon Sampert and Linda Trimble (eds.) Mediating Canadian Politics (Toronto: Pearson).

2008. “Legal Struggles and Political Resistance: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada and the U.S.” Sexualities  11: 6 (December): 667-687. With Nancy Nicol.

2007. “The Impact of the Charter: Untangling the Effects of Institutional Change,” International Journal of Canadian Studies 36 (Fall): 17-40.

2007. "Activist Knowledges in Queer Politics,” Economy and Society 36: 2 (May): 295- 318. With John Grundy.

2007. "Framing Same-Sex Marriage in Canada and the United States: Goodridge, Halpern and the National Boundaries of Political Discourse,” Social and Legal Studies. 16: 1 (March 2007): 5-26.

2005 “Diversity and Identity in the Nonprofit Sector: Lessons from LGBT Organizing in Toronto, Canada,” Social Policy & Administration 39: 5 (October): 463-480.

2005 “The Politics of Multiscalar Citizenship: The Case of Lesbian and Gay Organizing in Canada,” Citizenship Studies 9: 4 (September): 389-404. With John Grundy.

2005 “Identités queer : Diaspora et organisation ethnoculturelle et transnationale des lesbiennes et des gais à Toronto,” Lien social et Politiques (Spring).
Translated.

2005. “Social Movements and Judicial Empowerment: Courts, Public Policy and Lesbian and Gay Organizing in Canada,” Politics & Society 33: 2 (June): 327-353.

2005. “The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in Canada and the United States,” PS: Political Science and Politics XXXVIII: 2 (April): 225-28.

2005. “Resisting and Reinforcing Neoliberalism: Lesbian and Gay Organizing at the Federal and Local Levels in Canada,” Policy & Politics 33: 1 (January): 75-93.

2004. “Questioning Heteronormativity: Lesbian and Gay Challenges to Educational Practice in British Columbia, Canada,” Social Movement Studies 3: 2 (October): 131-145.

2004. “Segmented Networks: Linguistic Practices in Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Organizing,” Ethnicities 4: 1 (March): 99-124.

2002. “Héritage institutionnaliste de la science politique au Canada anglais,” Politique et Sociétés 21 : 3 (December) : 113-138. Translated. (Expanded and revised as “Institutionalist Legacies in English Canadian Political Science,” in André Lecours (ed.) New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

2002. “Recognizing Same Sex Relationships: The Evolution of Recent Federal and Provincial Policies,” Canadian Public Administration 45: 1 (Spring): 1-23.

2002. “Ghosts of the JCPC: Group Politics and Charter Litigation in Canadian Political Science,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 35: 1 (March): 3-29.

2002. “Civil Society: Interests Groups and Social Movements,” in Rand Dyck (ed.) Studying Politics: An Introduction to Political Science (Scarborough: Nelson): 290-310. Updated 2004, 2007.

 

 


Last updated:  January 6, 2012