Jonathan Rose

Associate Professor

Department of Political Studies

Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7K 1C6


Publications

Books

When Citizens’ Decide: Lessons From Citizens' Assemblies, co-written with André Blais, R. Kenneth Carty, Patrick Fournier and Henk van der Kolk (expected publication 2009)

The Art of Negotiation:  A Simulation for Resolving Conflict in Federal States, (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001) with John McLean and Alexis Conrad. Translated into French as L'Art de la Négociation Une simulation de règlement des conflits dans les pays fédérés (Toronto: Broadview Press: 2002). Translated into Spanish as El Arte de la Negociación: Ua simulación sobre la resolución de confictos en los países federales (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2003).

Making "Pictures in Our Heads" Government Advertising in Canada, (Westport: CT, Praeger, 2000) , Praeger Series on Political Communication.

Canada: The State of the Federation, 1995 (Kingston: Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, 1996) edited with Douglas Brown.

Articles in Journals and Chapters in Books

"The Media” (with Paul Nesbitt-Larking) in John Courtney and David Smith (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics (Oxford Press, forthcoming)

“Political Advertising and the rise of Infotainment” (with Hugh Mellon) in Linda Trimble & Shannon Sampert (eds.), Mediating Canadian Politics (Pearson, forthcoming)

“Institutionalizing Participation Through Citizen Assemblies” in Bill Cross and Jon Pammett (eds.) Activating the Citizen: Dilemmas of Citizen Participation in Europe and Canada (forthcoming)

"The Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform", Canadian Parliamentary Review, 30:3, Autumn 2007

The Liberals Reap What they Sow: Why Their Negative Ads Failed", Policy Options, March 2006.

"The Branding of States: The Uneasy Marriage of Marketing to Politics" Journal of Political Marketing, forthcoming.

Boundaries Blurred: Mass Media and Politics in a Hyper-Media Age” (with Simon Kiss) in Leslie Regan Shade and Paul Attallah [eds.], Mediascape: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Toronto: Thompson, 2005)

"Television Attack Ads: Planting the Seeds of Doubt," Policy Options, September 2004.

Paul Nesbitt-Larking & Jonathan Rose, "Political Advertising in Canada," in David Schultz (ed.), Lights, Camera, Action: Media Politics and Political Advertising (New York: Peter Lang, 2004)

"Government Advertising and the Creation of National Mythologies: The Canadian Case," International Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 8:2 (2003)

"Selling the GST: Government Advertising and Public Discourse" (with A. Roberts), Canadian Journal of Political Science, June 1995, (28:2).

"Government Advertising During a Political Crisis: The Case of The Quebec Referendum", Canadian Journal of Communication, Spring 1993.

"The Changing Metaphors of Canadian Federalism", in Rehka Saxena (ed.), Mapping Canadian Federalism for India (New Delhi: Konark Publications, 2002) [1.2 M pdf file]


"The Advertising of Politics and the Politics of Advertising" in Benjamin Singer and Craig McKie (eds.), Communication in Canadian Society (Toronto: Nelson, 2001). [Mac users: do not open with "preview" or "Safari". Use Adobe Acrobat]

"Federalism and the Development of National Politics in Broadcasting and Communications", in M. W. Westmacott and H. Mellon [eds.], Challenges to Canadian Federalism (Prentice Hall, 1998).

"Fibre Optics or Optical Illusion: The Selling of New Brunswick as A High Tech Home" in Jonathan Rose and Douglas Brown [eds.], Canada: The State of the Federation, 1995 (Kingston: Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, 1996).

"Exercising Self-Government: The Intergovernmental Transition" (with D. Brown), in Douglas Brown [ed.], Issues of Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, forthcoming. (Research volume for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples)

Book Reviews

Robin Andersen and Lance Strate [eds.], Critical Studies in Media Commercialism (New York: Oxford Univesity Press, 2000) in Canadian Journal of Communications, 28:1 (2003).

Robert Babe, Canadian Communication Thought:  Foundational Thinkers (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2000) in American Review of Canadian Studies, Autumn, 2002.

J.E. Hodgetts, From Arm‚s Length to Hands On: The Formative Years of the Public Service, 1867-1940 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995) in Canadian Public Policy, March 1996.

Ted Magder, Canada's Hollywood: The Canadian State and Feature Films (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) in Journal of Communication 46:2 (May 1996).

National Media Archive, On Balance, in American Review of Canadian Studies, Winter 1993.

T. Kue Young, Health Care and Cultural Change in Canadian Public Administration, Winter, 1990.

Donald Savoie, Politics of Public Budgeting in Canada in Kingston Whig Standard, September 1990.

Conference Papers & Invited Lectures

“The Canadian Experience of Citizens’ Assemblies: Lessons for New Zealand” Australasian Study of Parliament, Wellington, New Zealand, May 14 2008

"Citizens' Assemblies and Citizen Engagement: Government as Active Listeners", Australia-New Zealand School of Government, Melbourne, Australia, May 9, 2008. A PDF of my speaking notes is here.

“Three Citizens’ Assemblies: Differences and Similarities” to When Citizens’ Decide: the Challenge of Large-Scale Public Engagement, University of British Columbia, April 2008.

“Citizens’ Juries and Citizens’ Assemblies: Lessons from the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly”, Ministry of Justice/University College London Seminar Series, London, UK, January 18, 2008

“Information Technology and Democratic Engagement: Evidence from Citizens” to Parliament, Technology and Citizen Engagement Conference, Canadian Study of Parliament Group, Ottawa, December 7, 2007


“How do Citizens Engage on Complex Issues?” to Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation Conference, Vancouver, November 12-13, 2007


“From Citizens to Citizen Experts: Citizen Capacity about Electoral Reform” for to “Images of National, Ethnic and Individual Identity in Canada” Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 25-27 October 2007


“Electoral Reform in Ontario: What is the Citizens’ Assembly and What did they Recommend?”, Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, University of Regina, September 26, 2007

“The Ontario Citizens’ Assembly: An Innovation in Public Policy?” to Principal’s Breakfast, Queen’s University, September 19, 2007

“Citizens’ Assembly and the Implications for Electoral Reform in Ontario”, to Privy Council Office, Focus on Federalism Series, Ottawa, September 14, 2007

“Citizens’ Criteria for Choosing an Electoral System: Evidence from the Electoral Reform Assemblies in British Columbia, the Netherlands and Ontario” (by R. Kenneth Carty & Jonathan Rose) to 2007 American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2007. (presented by R. K.Carty)

“Institutionalizing Public Participation: The Case of the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform” for Participation in the EU and Canada: Challenges and Change, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 24-25, 2007

“Teaching, Touring, Talking: The Ontario Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform” for Canadian Political Science Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 30, 2007


“How do Citizens Deliberate? Progress Notes from the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly”, University of Toronto Department of Political Science Political Science Colloquium, March 2, 2007

"Advertising in the 2006 Canadian Election" Indian Association of Canadian Studies, Chennai, India, January 2006

Engaging Citizens or Engaging the Press? An examination of the 2004 Conservative Leadership Campaign On-line" (with Tamara Small), Technology & Citizen Engagement Conference, University of New Brunswick, August, 2004

"Enhancing Learning in Large Classes Using Out-of-the-Classroom Technology" Merlot Conference, California, August 2004. Co-written with Jeff Hanlon, Michelle Villenueve and Andy Leger. Paper presented by Hanlon & Villeneuve.

"The Marketing of Nations: Old Wine in New Bottles?," Political Marketing Conference 2003, Middlesex University, UK, September 2003.

"Marketing Nations Like Nike," British Association of Canadian Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, April 2003.

"Government Advertising and the Creation of National Mythology," Political Marketing Conference 2002, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, September 2002.

“Pierre Trudeau and Canada: The Legacy of the 20th Century,”  Japanese Association of Canadian Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, September 2001.

“Politics and the Mass Media in Canada” Canadian Studies Seminar, Kwansei Gakuin University and Canadian Embassy, October 17, 2001

“Mass Media and Government:  Partners or Antagonists?” Tokyo chapter of Japanese Association of Canadian Studies, Meiji University, Tokyo, November 24, 2001.

“The Mass Media after September 11” Kansai chapter of Japanese Association of Canadian Studies, Osaka Gakuin University, December 1, 2001

“Recent Developments in Canadian Politics” faculty talk to School of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya Japan, December 5, 2001.

"Re-imagining the Metaphors of Canadian Federalism", for presentation to the British Association of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh, April 2000.

"The State and the Role of Symbols in Canadian Nation Building", presented to Indian Association of Canadian Studies, Pondicherry, India, January 1998.

"Mass Media as a Factor of International Integration: The Canadian Case", presented to Integration and Disintegration in the Modern World: Russia and the West, Moscow, Russia, October 1996.

"Selling New Brunswick as A High Tech Home", presented to the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States, Seattle, WA, November 1995.

"The Intergovernmental Transition to Aboriginal Self Government", presented to New England Political Science Association, Salem, MA, May 1995.

"State Communication in Periods of Crisis: The Canadian Case", presented to Culture, Technology and Change in the Americas, Tampa, FLA, April 1995.

"Federal Government Advertising: The Case of the 1982 Constitutional Initiative", presented to Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Calgary, AB, June 1994.

"The Rhetorical Problems of A First Time Teacher", paper presented for a panel on teaching political science, Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS, October 1992.

"Defining the Limitations of Government Advertising", Paper presented to Annual Meeting of the Canadian Communications Association, May 1991, Kingston, Ontario.

"Selling the GST: How Much is Too Much?" Paper presented to Studies in Communication and Information Technology, Queen's University, March 1991.

"Information or Propaganda: The Case of Government Advertising and the GST" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Victoria BC, May 1990.

"The Imperatives of Native Health Care", Paper presented to Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies, Ottawa, 1988.

Non-Academic Publications/Editorials

"Citizens' assembly a chance to take posturing out of politics" for New Zealand Herald, June 16, 2008. A9. (one page version here

A Space with Greater Opportunities to Interact, Queen's Journal special supplement, "How Can Queen's be Better", March 30, 2007

"A Referendum Primer" Kingston Whig Standard, September 21, 2007

Reprint of “The Liberals Reap what they Sow: Why Their Negative Ads Failed”, for Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2007 as “No we did not make that up”. p. B9.

"'Why So Negative?" Op-Ed piece for The Toronto Star, January 16, 2006.

"The Perils of Powerpoint" for Queen's Gazette, April 2004

"The Mass Media: Issues and Controversies," in Daizo Sakurada and Jonathan Rose [eds.], Politics and the Mass Media in Canada and Japan (Osaka: Canadian Embassy and Kwansei Gakuin University, 2001)

"How to Avoid those Partisan Ads" Op.Ed. piece for the Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 21, 2000. Reproduced with minor changes in the Toronto Star on October 25, 2000 as "Reducing Citizenship to Slogans".

"The Importance of Talk" in Direction (Ottawa: Council for Canadian Unity), May 1998.

"Business as Usual? An Election Post-Mortem" in Opinion Canada, A Newsletter Published by the Council for Canadian Unity 1:2, edited by the Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University. Reprinted in the Napanee Beaver, January 26, and February 2, 1994.

 

 

Last updated:  18-Sep-2008