Michael J. Prince Explained

Michael J. Prince
Office:1st Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria
Nationality:Canadian
Profession:Academic, professor, author, policy advisor, community activist

Michael J. Prince is a Canadian political scientist and public policy and administration scholar. Prince is the Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Academic career

Prince received his PhD in Politics from the University of Exeter[1] in 1979. He is also a graduate of Carleton University and Queen's University. Between 1978 and 1987 he was lecturer, assistant professor, and then associate professor in the School of Public Administration at Carleton University. He took up his current position at the University of Victoria in 1987, as the inaugural Lansdowne Chair in Social Policy.[2] Prince is acknowledged nationally and internationally as a leading authority on Canadian social policy and disability issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh and Massey College at the University of Toronto as well as an invited speaker at universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, Kent, London, Oxford, Ulster, Washington, and York. He has spoken at an APEC workshop in Mexico, an International Disability Research Conference in the United States, and presented at the United Nations.[3] Prince has led major Canadian research programs including a six-year (2009-2014) SSHRC community-university research alliance entitled, Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship.[4] In 1994-95, he was the research director to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources Development for a major social security review by the Government of Canada. He has also advised federal and provincial government ministries, departments and agencies in relation to electoral systems, employment programming, social housing, and disability income maintenance.

Activism and community engagement

Prince has been a board member of a community health clinic, legal aid society, hospital society and hospital foundation, provincial association for community living, the advisory committee on children and youth with special needs to the Representative of Children and Youth for British Columbia,[5] and the social policy committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities.

From 2015 to 2018, Prince served on the board of directors of Inclusion BC, a non-profit organization, which promotes the participation of people with developmental disabilities in all areas of community life.[6]

In the policy world, he has made the analytical case for a medium-term sickness or disability income benefit program for Canadians.[7] Prince is a frequent commentator in Canadian media[8] [9] [10] on matters of government, politics, and numerous public policy issues. As well, he has been an in-studio analyst[11] [12] [13] for a number of general elections.

In 2014, Prince authored a report that presented a range of policy reform options to both the federal government and to provincial/territorial governments, the aim of which is to substantively improve the material living conditions of people with disabilities and their families.[14]

In 2015, a 468-page e-book was produced bringing together research produced by the community-university research alliance led by Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the principal researchers.[15]

In 2016, the Institute for Research on Public Policy published a study by Prince that outlines a six-point action plan on inclusive and real employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.[16]

In 2017, the Broadbent Institute published a report by Prince on enhancing the adequacy of disability income assistance.[17]

In 2017, Prince was invited to be an inaugural member of the Scientific Council to The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.[18]

In July 2018, Prince became the Board Chair of Community Living BC, a provincial crown corporation mandated to provide a range of supports and services for adults with developmental disabilities, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and autism spectrum disorder.[19] [20]

In April 2020, Prince was appointed to the COVID-19 Disability Advisory Group, by Minister Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development & Disability Inclusion, Government of Canada. The Group advises the Minister on the real-time lived experiences of persons with disabilities during this crisis on disability-specific issues, challenges and systemic gaps and on strategies, measures and steps to be taken.[21]

In 2021, the BC Government reappointed Prince to a second term as Board Chair of Community Living BC from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2024. In his second term, Dr. Prince helped oversee the development of CLBC’s next strategic plan to support efforts to improve Indigenous relations, enhance access to inclusive housing, and increase employment.[22]

In 2024, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission appointed Prince to serve as the Expert Monitor to undertake monitoring the implementation of a systemic human rights remedy in Nova Scotia. This role is to conduct reviews and make recommendations, over the next five years, to ensure the Province is making substantial progress and eliminating system discrimination in the provision of social services and supports to persons with disabilities in that province.[23]

In April 2024, Prince publicly resigned from the Ministerial Disability Advisory Group to the federal Minister of Disability and Inclusion, over the serious inadequacies in the design of the Canada Disability Benefit, unveiled in the federal budget.[24]

Awards and recognition

In 2007, Dr. Prince received a President’s Award from the Canadian Association for Community Living,[25] in recognition of "exceptional contribution to Canadians’ understanding of public policy that builds an inclusive and accessible Canada." In 2011, he received the University of Victoria Community Leadership Award. In 2012, Professor Prince was presented a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal[26] for his public services. Dr. Prince was named Academic of the Year in 2014 by the Confederation of Faculty Associations of British Columbia.[27] [28] Awarded, with his co-authors, the 2014 Donald Smiley Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, for Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises: Canada’s Shifting Budgetary Domains and Temporal Budgeting, as the best book published in English or French in the field relating to the study of government and politics in Canada in the previous year.[29] [30]

In the 2022 book by acclaimed journalist Mark Bulgutch, Inspiring Canadians, Prince was featured as one of forty Canadians and their visions to make the country a better place for all. The chapter on Prince focused on ensuring dignity for people living with disabilities.[31]

Notable ideas

Often in collaborations, Prince has made substantive contributions to understanding, in the Canadian context, expenditure and revenue budgeting by governments; disability politics and policy; instruments of governing, including regulation and the regulatory state; and the history and contemporary state of social policy.[32] [33] He has elaborated on the concept of stealth as a reform process [34] and articulated a political theory of universality in relation to income security, health care and social services.[35] [36]

Among the concepts he has developed are Aristotle’s benchmarks,[37] blue rinse politics,[38] civic regulation,[39] [40] déjà vu discourse,[41] directed incrementalism,[42] fiscalization of social policy,[43] gently coercive governing,[44] the Hobbesian prime minister,[45] regulatory welfarism,[46] and supply side social policy.[47] With respect to intergovernmental relations or multi-level governance, Prince has theorized notions of actuarial federalism,[48] deliberative federalism,[49] provincial spending power and sociopolitical province building[50] and, for Aboriginal peoples and their political organizations, the hide-and-seek politics of federalism.[51]

With respect to critical disability studies, Prince has elaborated the concepts of disability governance and normalcy/disability relations.[52]

Selected published works

Books

Edited books

Journal articles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: People, Studies in Policy and Practice Program . University of Victoria > Studies in Policy and Practice Program > People . 2014-06-26.
  2. Web site: Michael J. Prince . University of Victoria . 2014-06-26.
  3. Web site: 6th session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD - Draft List of side-events for COSP6 website . United Nations . 2014-06-26.
  4. Web site: Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship (CURA) | Council of Canadians with Disabilities . Council of Canadians with Disabilities . 2014-06-26.
  5. Web site: BC Representative for Children and Youth . Representative for Children and Youth . 2014-06-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140618183123/http://www.rcybc.ca/content/home.asp . 18 June 2014 . dmy-all .
  6. Web site: Michael Prince - Victoria. 2015-02-11.
  7. Web site: Canadians Need a Medium-Term Sickness/Disability Income Benefit . Caledon Institute . 2014-06-26.
  8. Web site: UVic Professor Michael Prince (politely) challenges Vancouver's reputation as a great city for people with disabilities . Irked Magazine . 2009-10-24 . 2014-06-26 . dead . https://archive.today/20140626185503/http://irkedmagazine.com/8667/uvic-professor-michael-prince-politely-challenges-vancouvers-reputation-as-a-great-city-for-people-with-disabilities/ . 26 June 2014 . dmy-all .
  9. Web site: Comment: Child tax credit a small diamond in the rough . Times Colonist . 2013-02-21 . 2014-06-26.
  10. Web site: Canada has a large pool of eager and available workers: The disabled . The Globe and Mail . 2014-05-07 . 2014-06-26.
  11. Web site: Morning Zone pipeline chat w/ Dr. Prince . The Zone . 2014-06-20 . 2014-06-26 . dead . https://archive.today/20140626185505/http://www.thezone.fm/now/morning-zone-pipeline-chat-w-dr-prince/ . 26 June 2014 . dmy-all .
  12. Web site: UVic's Michael Prince speaks live with anchors Reaon Ford and Dianne Newman . 680 News . 2014-06-26.
  13. Web site: Election Coverage: Canada's Democratic Situation . B Channel News . 2014-06-26.
  14. Web site: Prince. Michael. Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, A Project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Recommendations for Positive Change.. University of Victoria. Council of Canadians with Disabilities. 4 December 2014.
  15. Book: Disabling Poverty and Enabling Citizenship. Prince. Michael J.. Peters. Yvonne. Council of Canadians with Disabilities. 2015. 978-0-9940638-0-9. Winnipeg.
  16. Web site: Prince. M.J.. Inclusive Employment for Canadians with Disabilities: Toward a New Policy Framework and Agenda, IRPP Study 60. Institute for Research on Public Policy. 15 August 2016.
  17. Web site: Prince. Michael. Toward Adequate Income Assistance for People with Disabilities in British Columbia. Broadbent Institute. 15 March 2017. February 2017.
  18. News: School of Public Policy welcomes inaugural Scientific Council. 2018-06-21. UToday University of Calgary. 2018-07-08. en.
  19. News: Michael Prince appointed as next CLBC chair. Reduction. Social Development and Poverty. 2018-07-08.
  20. News: Board Members - Community Living BC. Community Living BC. 2018-07-08. en-US.
  21. Web site: Backgrounder : COVID-19 Disability Advisory Group. Canada. Employment and Social Development. 2020-04-10. gcnws. 2020-05-31.
  22. Web site: 2021-07-22. CLBC Board Chair re-appointed to second term. 2021-07-29. Community Living BC. en.
  23. Web site: Remedy in Disability Rights Coalition v Province of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission . 2024-07-26 . humanrights.novascotia.ca.
  24. Web site: Press . The Canadian . 2024-04-19 . Disability expert resigns from federal advisory group over benefit program . 2024-07-26 . Toronto Star . en.
  25. Web site: Past Events . University of Victoria . 2014-06-26.
  26. Web site: The Governor General of Canada > Honours > Find a Recipient . The Governor General of Canada . 2014-06-26.
  27. Web site: 2014 CUFA-BC Academic of the Year awarded to Michael J. Prince . The Ring, University of Victoria . 2014-04-25 . 2014-06-26.
  28. Web site: On the Street: University of Victoria professor gets academic honour . Times Colonist . Wilson . Carla . 2014-04-24 . 2014-06-26.
  29. Web site: Donald Smiley Prize - 2014 . Canadian Political Science Association . 2013-12-10 . 2014-06-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140809200446/http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/ds-prize.shtml . 9 August 2014 .
  30. Web site: Carleton Professors Win 2014 Donald Smiley Book Prize - Carleton Newsroom . Newsroom, Carleton University . 2014-05-30 . 2014-06-26.
  31. Web site: Inspiring Canadians : Forty Brilliant Canadians and Their Visions for the Nation . 2022-04-30 . Douglas & McIntyre . en.
  32. Book: Prince, M. J.. 2009. Absent Citizens: Disability Politics and Policy in Canada. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9780802096302.
  33. Book: Doern . G. B. . Prince . M. J.. 2012. Three Bio-Realms: Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9781442611542 .
  34. Book: Prince . M.J. . 1999. From Heath and Welfare to Stealth and Farewell: Federal Social Policy, 1980 to 2000 . How Ottawa Spends 1999-2000, Shape Shifting: Canadian Governance Toward the 21st Century . Pal . Leslie A.. Toronto. Oxford University Press . 151–196 . 978-0195414578 .
  35. Book: Prince . M.J. . Teghtsoonian . K. . 2007. The Harper Government’s Universal Child Care Plan: Paradoxical or Purposeful Social Policy? . How Ottawa Spends 2007-2008, The Harper Conservatives – Climate of Change . Doern . G. B.. Montreal and Kingston. McGill-Queen’s University Press . 180–199 . 978-0773532830 .
  36. Book: Rice . J. J. . Prince . M. J. . 2000. Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy . registration . Toronto. University of Toronto Press . 978-0802080745.
  37. Book: Prince . M. J. . 1999. Aristotle’s Benchmarks: Institutions and Accountabilities of the Canadian Regulatory State . Changing the Rules: Canadian Regulatory Regimes and Institutions . Doern . G. B. . Hill . M. . Prince . M. J. . 3 . Schultz . R. . Toronto. University of Toronto Press . 228–256. 978-0802080257 .
  38. Book: Prince . M. J. . 2013. Blue Rinse: Harper’s treatment of Old Age Security and other elderly benefits . How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013: The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition. Doern . G. B. . Stoney . C.. Montreal and Kingston. McGill-Queen’s University Press . 64–75. 978-0773540941.
  39. Book: Prince . M. J. . 1999. Civic Regulation: Regulating Citizenship, Morality, Social Order and the Welfare State . Changing the Rules: Canadian Regulatory Regimes and Institutions . Doern . G. B. . Hill . M. . Prince . M. J. . 3 . Schultz . R. . Toronto. University of Toronto Press . 201–227. 978-0802080257.
  40. Book: Doern . G. B. . Prince . M. J. . Schultz . R. J. . 2014. Rules and Unruliness: Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism . Montreal and Kingston. McGill-Queen’s University Press . 978-0773543331.
  41. Prince . M. J. . 2004 . Canadian Disability Policy: Still a Hit-and-Miss Affair . Canadian Journal of Sociology . 29 . 1 . 59–82 .
  42. Book: Prince . M. J.. 2002. The Return of Directed Incrementalism: Innovating Social Policy in Canada . How Ottawa Spends 2002-2003: The Security Aftermath and National Priorities . Doern . G. B. . Toronto. Oxford University Press . 176–195. 978-0195417562 .
  43. Prince . M. J. . 2001 . How Social is Social Policy? Fiscal and Market Discourse in North American Welfare States . Social Policy and Administration . 35 . 1 . 2–13 . 10.1111/1467-9515.00216.
  44. Book: Prince . M. J.. 2010. Self-Regulation, Exhortation, and Symbolic Politics: Gently Coercive Governing . Policy: From Ideas to Implementation . Toner . G. . Pal . L. A. . Prince . M. J. . Montreal and Kingston. McGill-Queen’s University Press . 77–108. 978-0773537125 .
  45. Book: Prince . M. J.. 2012. A Hobbesian Prime Minister and the Night Watchman State: Social Policy under the Harper Conservatives . How Ottawa Spends, 2011-2012: Trimming Fat or Slicing Pork?. Doern . G. B. . Stoney . C. . Montreal and Kingston. McGill-Queen’s University Press . 53–70. 978-0773539181.
  46. Book: Doern . G. B. . Prince . M. J. . Schultz . R. J. . 2014. Rules and Unruliness: Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism . Montreal and Kingston. McGill-Queen’s University Press . 978-0773543331.
  47. Book: Prince . M. J. . Rice . J. J. . 1989. The Canadian Jobs Strategy: Supply Side Social Policy . How Ottawa Spends, 1989-90: The Bucks Stops Where? . Graham . K. . Ottawa. Carleton University Press . 247–287. 9780886290856 .
  48. Book: Prince . M. J. . 2014. Courchene and Social Policy Analysis: Retirement income reform and actuarial federalism in Canada . Thinking Outside Policy Boxes: Essays in Honour of Thomas J. Courchene . Banting . K. . Chaykowski . R. . Lehrer . S. . Kingston and Montreal. School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University and McGill-Queen’s University Press .
  49. Prince . M. J. . 2006 . A Cancer Control Strategy and Deliberative Federalism: Modernizing Health Care and Democratizing Intergovernmental Relations . Canadian Public Administration . 49 . 4, Winter . 468–485 . 10.1111/j.1754-7121.2006.tb01994.x.
  50. Book: 2016. Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, Third Edition. http://www.utppublishing.com/Provinces-Canadian-Provincial-Politics-Third-Edition.html. Dunn. Christopher. 16. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9781442633995. 2015-11-22.
  51. Book: Prince . M. J. . 2002 . Ready or Not? Hide and Seek Politics of Canadian Federalism, the Social Union Framework Agreement, and the Role of National Aboriginal Political Organizations . The Social Union Framework Agreement: Perspectives and Directions . McIntosh . Tom . Regina . Canadian Plains Research Centre . 99–111 . 9780889771338 . registration . https://archive.org/details/buildingsocialun0000unse .
  52. Book: Prince, Michael J.. Struggling for Social Citizenship: Income Security, Disabled Canadians and Prime Ministerial Eras. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2016. 9780773547049.

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