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Address & Phone Professor Sandford Borins Division of Management and Economics, University of Toronto at Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON M1C 1A4 Canada Phone: 416-287-7341 Email: borins@scar.utoronto.ca
Education Ph.D. Harvard University (Economics) M.P.P. Harvard Univrsity B.A. Harvard University
Biography Sandford Borins is Professor of Public Management and Director of the Centre for Public Management in the Faculty of Management at the University of Toronto. He is also Chair of the Division of Management and Economics at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He received his BA degree in social studies at Harvard (1971), his MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government (1974), and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard (1976). Professor Borins is the author of numerous articles on public management, as well as three books, the most recent being Political Management in Canada, co-authored with the Hon. Allan Blakeney, former premier of the province of Saskatchewan, and published in 1992. His two earlier books are Investments in Failure: Five Government Corporations that Cost the Canadian Taxpayer Billions, published in 1986, andThe Language of the Skies: The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada, published in 1983. The latter was recognized as one of the twenty best books in English supported by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada in the last 50 years. Professor Borins's current research deals with public management innovation and reform. He has also written articles arguing that the set of reforms known as the "new public management" (e.g. service quality initiatives, performance standards, increased managerial autonomy, market testing) constitute a new paradigm in public administration. His articles about the new public management have been published in The International Review of Administrative Sciences, Canadian Public Administration, the Fachzeitschrift fur Offentliche Verwaltung, and several edited volumes, including Peters and Savoie, eds., Governance in a Changing Environment and Hill and Klages, eds., Trends in Public Sector Renewal. He has served as rapporteur at the 1994 and 1996 conferences of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management; his 1994 report, entitled Government in Transition: A New Paradigm in Public Administration, has been widely cited as a comprehensive statement of the new paradigm. He is currently working on a book about state and local government innovation in the US, using a data base compiled from successful applications to the Ford Foundation-Kennedy School of Government State and Local Government innovation awards program. Professor Borins has had a wide range of experience in professional activities. He was a member of the selection panel for the first Institute of Public Administration of Canada Innovative Public Management Award in 1990 and for the Amethyst Award for Excellence in the Ontario Public Service in 1994 and 1995, and he chaired the selection panel for the Amethyst Award in 1996. He is a member of the board of directors of the Ontario Transportation Capital Corporation, which will soon be opening the world's most advanced electronic toll highway. In 1989 he was the first Adjunct Professor at the Canadian Centre for Management Development and, in that capacity, designed the Centre's Advanced Management Program for senior federal public servants. He has been a consultant to a number of Canadian federal government agencies, Ontario government agencies, and the United States National Academy of Sciences. |
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