Subject: JSG School of Public Policy
Credit units: 3
Offered: Either Term 1 or Term 2
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Graduate and Postdoc Studies
Department: JSGS Executive Director Office

Examines the increasing role played by the third sector in Canada. Students will examine alternative allocations of responsibility for solving particular social and public problems – voluntary, not-for-profit, for-profit, joint public/private, public encouraged/subsidized, and publicly coerced – along with examples, reasons, and theories for particular forms of organization, new methods of accountability and tensions between government and its new partners.

Restriction(s): Admission into the Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) program, Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) program, Ph.D. program, or by permission of the instructor.

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