Kristen Pue, a former Ph.D. candidate within the Environmental Governance Lab and current postdoctoral fellow at the Carleton University School of Public Policy and Administration, presented work-in-progress on the determinants of root causes advocacy by nonprofit service providers. The presentation explored variation in root causes advocacy by two nonprofit social welfare providers in Canada: emergency management nonprofits (EMNPOs) and homeless-serving nonprofits (HSNPOs). EMNPOs and HSNPOs share commonalities in the determinants of nonprofit advocacy identified by the literature. As providers of social welfare services of last resort, they serve a similar function in the welfare state. Yet Canadian HSNPOs carry out root causes advocacy while EMNPOs do not. The presentation explains this variation by introducing the concept of policy network (in)compatibility.

To learn more about Kristen’s work:

Pue, Kristen. (2020). Selling Out? A Cross-national Exploration of Nonprofit Retail Operations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 49(3): 653-669.

Trebilcock, Michael and Pue, Kristen. (2015). The Puzzle of Agricultural Exceptionalism in International Trade Policy. Journal of International Economic Law 18(2): 233-260.