Wesley, Jared
Jared Wesley is a pracademic – a practicing political scientist and former bureaucrat — whose career path to an Associate Professor role in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta has included senior management positions in the Government of Alberta. He is also Associate Chair (Graduate), Faculty of Arts for the Political Science Department at University of Alberta.
He studies the intersection of political culture and public policy, with a special focus on conservatism and populism. He is leading a team of researchers seeking Common Ground in Western Canada and the Western United States (commongroundpolitics.ca). Follow him on Twitter (@ipracademic).
Research Interests: Canadian politics, Western Canadian politics, Public policy, Elections, Political parties, and Political culture
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Alberta |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Democracy and Political Participation Political Parties and Elections Populism |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | jwesley@ualberta.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Marland, Alex and Jared J. Wesley (equal co-author). Inside Canadian Politics. 2nd Ed. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. 386 pages. (2020) Marland, Alex and Jared J. Wesley (equal co-author). The Public Servant's Guide to Government in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 113 pages. (2019) Marland, Alex and Jared J. Wesley (equal co-author). Inside Canadian Politics. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. 396 pages. (2016) Wesley, Jared J. "Beyond Prohibition: The Legalization of Cannabis in Canada" in Canadian Public Administration 62 (4): 533-548. (2019) Wesley, Jared J. and Geoff Salomons. "Cannabis Legalization and the Machinery of Government" in Canadian Public Administration 62 (4): 573-592. (2019) Marland, Alex and Jared J. Wesley. (equal co-author). "Surveying the Canadian State: The Evolution of Canadian Political Science, Politics, and Governmetn Since 1967." Canadian Journal of Political SCience 50(1): 377-393. (2017) |
