Email: jack.lucas@ucalgary.ca
Phone: 403-210-7610
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Thanks for visiting this site. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. I am also currently Assistant Editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science. My teaching and research is in the areas of urban politics and Canadian political development, with a particular focus on Canadian urban institutions, elections, and urban political development. My CV is available here.
Project Links and Affiliations
Book
Lucas, Jack. 2016. Fields of Authority: Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [book | data and replication files]
Refereed Articles
McGregor, R. Michael and Jack Lucas. Forthcoming. "Who Has School Spirit? Explaining Voter Participation in Calgary School Board Elections." Canadian Journal of Political Science. [paper | data and replication files]
Peterson, Jacqueline, Jack Lucas, and Andrew Klain. Forthcoming. "Cities, Places, and Provincial Policy Agendas." Canadian Public Administration. [paper, data, and replication files coming soon]
Lucas, Jack and Alison Smith. Forthcoming. "Multilevel Governance from the Municipal Point of View." Canadian Public Administration. [paper | data and replication files]
Weijs, Cynthia, Sara Gobrail, Jack Lucas, Jennifer Zwicker, and Lindsay McLaren. 2019. "Identifying and critically examining government legislation relevant to children's dental caries in Calgary, Alberta, Canada: a health inequities lens." Journal of Public Health Dentistry. [paper]
Lucas, Jack. 2018. "Toward Delegation: Social Policy Centralization in Toronto, 1870-1929." Journal of Policy History 30(2): 272-300. [paper]
Lucas, Jack. 2017. "Urban Governance and the American Political Development Approach." Urban Affairs Review 53(2): 338-361. [paper]
Lucas, Jack and Robert Vipond. 2017. "Back to the Future: Historical Political Science and the Promise of Canadian Political Development." Canadian Journal of Political Science 50(1): 219-241. [paper]
Lucas, Jack. 2017. "Patterns of Urban Governance: A Sequence Analysis of Long-Term Institutional Change in Six Canadian Cities." Journal of Urban Affairs 39(1): 68-90. [paper | data and replication files]
Goodman, Nicole and Jack Lucas. 2016. "The Policy Priorities of Municipal Candidates in the 2014 Ontario Elections." Canadian Journal of Urban Research 25(2): 35-47. [paper]
Lucas, Jack. 2015. "Local Governance and the Local Political Career: A Sample Dataset." Canadian Public Administration 58(4): 605-617. [paper | data and replication files]
Lucas, Jack. 2015. "How Ontario Hydro Went Local: The Creation of Rural Power Districts and the Central Ontario System." Scientia Canadensis 37(1-2): 59-76. [paper]
Lucas, Jack. 2013. "A Century of Political Science in Canada." Journal of Canadian Studies 47(2): 89-118. [paper]
Lucas, Jack. 2013. "Berlin, Ontario in the Age of the ABC." Urban History Review 41(2): 19-42. [paper]
Book Chapters and Refereed Reports
Lucas, Jack and Alison Smith. Forthcoming. "Which Policy Issues Matter in Canadian Municipalities? A Survey of Municipal Politicians". School of Public Policy Research Papers. (Refereed report). [paper, data, and replication files coming soon]
Lucas, Jack and Anthony Sayers. 2018. "Accountability, Responsiveness, and the Local Political Career in Calgary and Edmonton." In Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level: Views from Canada, edited by Sandra Breux and Jerome Couture. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. [book]
Sayers, Anthony and Jack Lucas. 2017. "Policy Responsiveness and Political Accountability in City Politics". School of Public Policy Research Papers 10(4): 1-23. (Refereed report). [paper]
Other Published Material
Lucas, Jack. 2015. "Did Mayor Allen Huber Punch Louis Breithaupt in the Nose?" Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 102: 77-84.
Lucas, Jack. 2015. "How Things Change: Adventures in Unreconstructed Institutionalism." Public Sector Management 26(1): 24-25.
Lucas, Jack. 2013. "Hidden in Plain View: Local Agencies, Boards, and Commissions in Canada." IMFG Perspectives Series 4: 1-7. [paper]