Evidence-Based Policy-Making in Canada ─ A Multidisciplinary Look at How Evidence and Knowledge Shape Canadian Public Policy

"Considers how governments in Canada have historically interacted with research and what directions these interactions may take in the future."--Publishers website

Shaun P. Young, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Manager, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto

Shaun P. Young is the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Manager for the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto. He is also a Senior Fellow of the York Centre for Public Policy and Law, and an External Associate of the York Centre for Practical Ethics, both at York University. He previously worked as a senior policy adviser and senior research planning adviser in a number of different ministries in the Ontario Public Service, and, more recently, as Senior Policy Associate at the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on issues of justice in contemporary multicultural liberal democracies. He is the author or editor of five books and numerous journal articles and book chapters and has taught political science, public policy, and philosophy at a number of universities in Ontario.