Director Global Governance Teaching Programs (MA and PhD)

Balsillie School, Department of Political Science (UW)

Contact Information

Office Location: HH 365
Phone Number:  519.888.4567 x3900
Email: gboychuk @ uwaterloo.ca
Personal web site:  http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~gboychuk/homepage.htm 

Education

Ph.D. Queen's 1995
MA Alberta 1991
BA, Alberta, 1990

Areas of Specialization

Global social governance
Comparative social policy

Short Bio

Gerry Boychuk is the author of National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference which was awarded the Donald V. Smiley Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association for the best book in 2008 relating to the government and politics of Canada. The book examines the historical development of public health insurance in the United States and Canada in the 20th century and argues that the impact of the politics of race in the US and the politics of territorial integration in Canada provide the most powerful explanation of the divergent trajectories of development of public health care in the two countries. The book has also been nominated for the Donner Prize, and the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers award. The book was launched in Washington at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute.

Prof. Boychuk is also Director, Global Governance Graduate Programs (MA and Ph.D.) in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. His areas of interest include global social governance, comparative public policy and US politics. In the Global Governance Program, Prof. Boychuk teaches global social governance as well as the Ph.D. research methods course. The former, (PSCI 639 Global Social Governance), examines the impact of globalization in generating global social problems as well as conditioning the prospects for addressing these problems through supranational cooperation. In 2009, Dr. Boychuk recieved a University of Waterloo Outstanding Peformance Award.

He is a co-editor (with Karen Mossberger, Kent State University and Mark C. Rom, Georgetown University) of the Georgetown University Press series, American Governance and Public Policy.
Dr. Boychuk is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Policy Research at the University of Calgary and is the author of a major study on the regulation of private funding and private insurance for health services in Canada completed under the auspices of the Institute. Dr. Boychuk has also acted as a consultant to Human Resources Development Canada and Industry Canada on public policy comparisons between Canada and the United States and was a contributing researcher to the joint HRDC/Industry Canada project on North American Linkages.

Most recent scholary publications

National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference. (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2008) Volume in the American Governance and Public Policy Series (Georgetown University Press).

"The Public/Private Divide in Health Care and Pensions in Canada." With Keith G. Banting. In Daniel Béland and Brian Gran, ed., The Public/Private Divide in Health Care and Pensions. London: Palgrave, 2008.

"Race, Territorial Integration and Public Policy in the United States and Canada," 111-34. In David M. Thomas, ed., Canada and the United States: Differences that Matter, 3rd ed. Peterborough: Broadview, 2008.

"The Regulation of Private Health Insurance and Funding under the Canada Health Act: A Comparative Cross-Provincial Perspective." Research Health Series Vol. 1, No. 1 (December 2008): 1-36. Published by the School of Policy Studies, University of Calgary.

Recent academic/professional awards

University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award 2009)
Donald V. Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association (2009)

Courses Taught

PSCI 639 Global Social Governance
GV701/PSCI711 Research Methods in Global Governance