Amanda Clarke ( She/Her )
Associate Professor — public administration, digital government, data governance, civic technology
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Teaching Concentrations: Public Management, Digital Government, Data Science Courses Taught: Public Management: Principles and Approaches, and Digital Government: Modernising policy, services, and administration for the digital age
Professor Amanda Clarke鈥檚 research examines public administration reform, public service delivery and the relationship between state and non-state actors, focusing in particular on the impact of digital technologies in these domains. She is author of Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age and a research fellow with the Canada School of Public Service. In 2021 she was awarded a Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award, and included in Apolitical鈥榮 list of the Top 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.
Publications
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- Auld, Graeme*, Ashley Casovan*, Amanda Clarke* & Benjamin Faveri*. 2022. 鈥淕overning AI Through Ethical Standards: Learning From the Experiences of Other Private Governance Initiatives.鈥 Journal of European Public Policy. 19 pages. In press.
- Wright, Julia M.*, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun*, Amanda Clarke*, Matthew Herder* & Howard Ramos*. 2022. 鈥淧rotecting Expert Advice for the Public: Promoting Safety and Improved Communications.鈥 FACETS. 7(1).
- Clarke, Amanda. (2020). 鈥淒igital government units: what are they, and what do they mean for digital era public management renewal?鈥 International Public Management Journal. 23(3): 358-379.
- Clarke, Amanda & Elizabeth Dubois. (2020). 鈥溾 Canadian Public Administration.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2019). 鈥淒ata Governance: The Next Frontier of Digital Government Research and Practice鈥 in Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda for Digital Citizenship. Elizabeth Dubois and Florian Martin-Bariteau, eds. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, pp. 97-117.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2019). 鈥淭he Civil Service鈥 in Canadian Politics, 7th ed., James Bickert & Alain G. Gagnon, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Accepted for publication October 2018. 28 pages.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2019). Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. Vancouver: UBC Press.
- Clarke, Amanda & Benjamin Piper. 2018. “.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 21(1): 1-50.
- Clarke, Amanda & Jonathan Craft. 2018. 鈥溾. Governance. 32(1): 5-21.
- Craft, Jonathan & Amanda Clarke (Eds). (2018). . Toronto: Emond Montgomery.
- Clarke, Amanda, Evert Lindquist & Jeffrey Roy. (2017). “.” Canadian Public Administration, 60(4): 457-475.
- Clarke, Amanda & Jonathan Craft. (2017). ““. Canadian Public Administration, 60(4): 476-497.
- Clarke, Amanda & Francoli, Mary. (2017). “Digital Government and Permanent Campaigning” in Permanent Campaigning in Canada. Eds. Alex Marland, Anna Esselment & Thierry Giasson, pp. 241-258.
- Clarke, Amanda & Margetts, Helen. (2014). 鈥淕overnments and Citizens Getting to Know Each Other? Open, Closed and Big Data in Public Management Reform鈥. Policy & Internet, 16(4), 393-417.
- Clarke. Amanda. (2014). 鈥淏usiness as Usual? An Evaluation of British and Canadian Digital Diplomacy as Institutional Adaptation鈥 in Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice. Corneliu Bjola & Marcus Holmes, eds. London: Routledge.
- Clarke, A., & Francoli, M. (2014). 鈥溾. eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 6(3).
- Clarke, Amanda. 2014. “One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Bottom-up Reform, Open Information, Collaboration and…the Harper Government.” in How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015. G. Bruce Doern & Christopher Stoney, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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- Clarke, Amanda. (2021). 鈥溾. Policy Options, 8 March.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2019). 鈥.鈥 Three part blog series.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2019). 鈥.鈥 Policy Options. 30 January.
- Clarke, Amanda & Jonathan Craft. (2019). 鈥.鈥 Policy Options. 8 February.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2017). “Why We Need Code for Canada.” The Hill Times. 10 April.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2016) . Policy Options. Institute for Research on Public Policy.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2016). . Policy Options. Institute for Research on Public Policy.
- Clarke, Amanda. (2015). “” in Canadian Election Analysis: Communication, Strategy, and Democracy. Eds. Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson. UBC Press and Samara Canada.
- Clarke, Amanda & Dubois, Elizabeth. (2015). “Forced to tweet in both languages ministers lose their impact.” The Globe and Mail. 19 February.
Videos & Media Coverage
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- 鈥溾 (The National Post, June 2020)
- 鈥溾 (The Mandarin, July 2019)
- Interview on the Code for Canada fellowship and government tech talent needs. (All in a Day | CBC Radio, July 2019)
- (The House | CBC Radio, June 2019)
- 鈥溾 (Policy Options, Feb 2019)
- (The Current | CBC Radio, Dec 2017)