Byron Sheldrick
SN-2043
Department of Political Science, Science Building
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1B 3X9 Canada
Phone: (709) 864-7413
Email: bsheldrick[at]mun[dot]ca
Academics
BA(Hon) Carleton University, JD (Toronto), MA (York), PhD (York)
Teaching Interests
Canadian Politics, Public Administration and Public Policy, Comparative Politics
Research Interests
Canadian Political Economy, Social movement politics, Law and Politics
Bio
Dr. Sheldrick is the Chair of the Political Science department at the University of Guelph. He previously taught in the Law department at Keele University in the U.K., and the Department of Politics at the University of Winnipeg. His research straddles the intersection of law and political science. His overall approach is informed by political economy and the conceptualization of political phenomena in terms of their relationship to economic factors. He is interested in social movements, particularly anti-poverty groups, and their mobilization around issues of welfare state restructuring and community economic development initiatives. He has a deep interest in issues related to human rights and social justice, and the incorporation of law into the organization of states. He has also written on the politics of social democracy, both in Canada and Britain. He is currently working on a project examining strategic litigation against public participation in Canada.
Selected Publications
The Evolving Physiology of Government: Canadian Public Administration in Transition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2009) (co-edited with O.P. Dwivedi and Tim Mau)
Perils and Possibilities: Social Activism and the Law (Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2004)
Canadian Politics: Democracy and Dissent (Toronto: Pearson Education, 2006) (co-edited with Joan Grace)
“The Manitoba Community Economic Development Lens: Local Participation and Democratic State Restructuring” in John Loxley, Jim Silver, and Kathleen Sexmith (eds) Doing Community Economic Development (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2007) pp. 209-219.
“Community Economic Development: Governance and State-Civil Society Relations” In John Loxley (ed) Transforming or Reforming Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Community Economic Development (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing). 2007, pp. 87-108.
“Welfare in Winnipeg’s Inner City: Exploring the Myths” Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 15(1) (2006) 54-85.
“Judicial Review and the Allocation of Health Care Resources in Canada and the United Kingdom” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 5(2003) 147-164
“New Labour and The Third Way: Democracy, Accountability and Social Democratic Politics” Studies in Political Economy 67 (2002), 133-144.
Welfare Reform Under Ontario’s NDP: Social Democracy and Social Group Representation”, Studies in Political Economy. 55(1998), 37-63.
"Law, Representation, and Political Activism: Community Based Practice and the Mobilization of Legal Resources" (1995) 10 Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 155-184.
