About the Authors

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About the Authors

Dr. Greg Inwood is a professor in the Department of Politics and

Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly

Ryerson University). He completed a PhD in political science at the

University of Toronto, and he holds an MA in political science and

an Honours BA in history, both from the University of Western

Ontario. His teaching and research interests include the political

economy of Canadian-American relations, Canadian federalism

and intergovernmental relations, and public administration. He is a

past winner of the Canadian Political Science Association Donald

Smiley Prize for Continentalizing Canada: e Politics and Legacy of the

Macdonald Royal Commission (University of Toronto Press, 2005), for

“the best book published in English or in French in a f‌ield relating to

the study of government and politics in Canada.” He has published

books and articles on commission of inquiry, Canadian federalism,

and Canadian public administration. He is also the author of one of

the leading textbooks in the f‌ield of Canadian public administration,

Understanding Canadian Public Administration: An Introduction to eory

and Practice, 5th ed (University of Toronto Press, 2025).

Dr. Robert Speel is an associate professor of political science at Penn

State Erie, e Behrend College, and has been an adjunct professor