Please, save the date for the kick-off of the IPRE/PPPM seminar series 2022!
Speaker: Burke Hendrix, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon
Transparency, Experimentation, and Deliberation: Comparing Indigenous Policy in the United States and Canada
Given their common history of colonization, Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada share similar patterns of social, political, and economic disadvantage. At the same time, they face substantially different public policy environments, which incentivize different patterns of experimentation, transparency, and public discussion. Broadly speaking, Indigenous policy in the United States is made by Congress, and strongly shaped by relationships between Indian tribes and specific Congressional members. While not strictly “under the radar”, such politics and resultant policy do not have high visibility in American politics more broadly. In Canada, by contrast, the constitutionalization of Indigenous rights in 1982 and subsequent Supreme Court rulings have made Indigenous policy making highly public, with extensive social deliberation about Indigenous culture, nationhood, and territorial ownership. Both the US and Canadian models have their strengths, but this talk will argue for the general superiority of the American policy making environment over that of Canada.
Date: Thursday, February 10th at 12:00
Location: TBD
Zoom link: TBD