His research and teaching are driven by an interest in the ways particular ideological agendas and approaches to politics and governance shape the quality of democracy in Canada. Most recently, he is co-editor (with Lois Harder) of Patriation and Its Consequences: Constitution Making in Canada (UBC Press, 2015) and author of “The Politics of Alberta’s One-Party State” in B.M. Evans and C.W. Smith, eds., Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada’s Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era (University of Toronto Press, 2015).