David McGrane
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Biography
University of Saskatchewan - Political Science
NDP Candidate in YXE Churchill-Wildwood
Higher Education
Dave
McGrane
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
I am excited to be the NDP candidate in Saskatoon Churchill-Wildwood for the next provincial election. It is riding where I can make difference by contributing to forming a Saskatchewan NDP government that fights against economic inequality and re-invests in social programs.
Experience
University of Saskatchewan
Professor of Political Science
Dr. David McGrane was born and raised in Moose Jaw and completed his Ph.D. in political science at Carleton University in Ottawa. For the past decade, he has been an Associate Professor of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College and the University of Saskatchewan.
His research interests include social democracy, Canadian political theory, political marketing, elections, and voter behaviour. He has published over 25 academic journal articles and book chapters and has written two books: Remaining Loyal: Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014) and The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing (UBC Press, 2019). A full list of his publications is available at http://www.professordavidmcgrane.ca/publications.html.
Dr. McGrane is active in his community as a member of the City of Saskatoon's Environmental Advisory Committee and Chair of the Political Action Committee of the Saskatoon & District Labour Council. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation and is Fellow of the Broadbent Institute.
Education
York University
Master's degree
Political Science and Government
University of Regina
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Political Science and Government
Carleton University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Political Science and Government
Publications
Underinvesting in Our Future: Revenues and Expenditures of Saskatchewan School Boards from 2004 to 2014
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Despite taking in record amounts of revenue during the economic boom years, Saskatchewan’s government failed to maintain K-12 education funding as a percentage of our provincial GDP. The report, Underinvesting in Our Future by Dr. David McGrane, demonstrates that we are currently spending the lowest amount on K-12 education, measured as a percentage of GDP, in modern Saskatchewan history. Since 2007, K-12 education funding has fallen from an average of 3.08% of GDP to only 2.6% of GDP. Had the government continued to fund K-12 education in Saskatchewan at the same percentage of provincial GDP as the last four years of the Calvert government, there would have been approximately $2.4 billion more spent in the K-12 system from 2008 to 2014. Dr. McGrane further identifies recent changes to Saskatchewan’s education property tax regime as exacerbating the chronic underfunding of K-12 education in the province. Dr. McGrane recommends that recent changes to the education property tax regime should be re-visited and that the Saskatchewan provincial government should set a goal of spending, at a minimum, of 3% of nominal GDP on our province’s K-12 education system each year.
Underinvesting in Our Future: Revenues and Expenditures of Saskatchewan School Boards from 2004 to 2014
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Despite taking in record amounts of revenue during the economic boom years, Saskatchewan’s government failed to maintain K-12 education funding as a percentage of our provincial GDP. The report, Underinvesting in Our Future by Dr. David McGrane, demonstrates that we are currently spending the lowest amount on K-12 education, measured as a percentage of GDP, in modern Saskatchewan history. Since 2007, K-12 education funding has fallen from an average of 3.08% of GDP to only 2.6% of GDP. Had the government continued to fund K-12 education in Saskatchewan at the same percentage of provincial GDP as the last four years of the Calvert government, there would have been approximately $2.4 billion more spent in the K-12 system from 2008 to 2014. Dr. McGrane further identifies recent changes to Saskatchewan’s education property tax regime as exacerbating the chronic underfunding of K-12 education in the province. Dr. McGrane recommends that recent changes to the education property tax regime should be re-visited and that the Saskatchewan provincial government should set a goal of spending, at a minimum, of 3% of nominal GDP on our province’s K-12 education system each year.
The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
University of British Columbia Press
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the Official Opposition under Jack Layton’s leadership. Through interviews with operatives, analyses of platforms, and surveys of NDP members, voters, and MPs, David McGrane argues that the party’s electoral success during the Layton years was a direct result of the moderation of its ideology and modernization of its campaign structures. Those changes brought the party closer to governing than ever before but ultimately not into power. McGrane then poses a difficult question: Was remaking the NDP message and revitalizing its campaign model the right choice after all, considering it fell to its perennial third-party spot in 2015? The New NDP examines Canada’s NDP at a pivotal time in its history and provides lessons for progressive parties on how to win elections in the age of the internet, big data, and social media. Scholars and students of Canadian politics, social democracy, and social democratic parties will find The New NDP a compelling read, as will NDP politicians, activists, and staffers.
Underinvesting in Our Future: Revenues and Expenditures of Saskatchewan School Boards from 2004 to 2014
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Despite taking in record amounts of revenue during the economic boom years, Saskatchewan’s government failed to maintain K-12 education funding as a percentage of our provincial GDP. The report, Underinvesting in Our Future by Dr. David McGrane, demonstrates that we are currently spending the lowest amount on K-12 education, measured as a percentage of GDP, in modern Saskatchewan history. Since 2007, K-12 education funding has fallen from an average of 3.08% of GDP to only 2.6% of GDP. Had the government continued to fund K-12 education in Saskatchewan at the same percentage of provincial GDP as the last four years of the Calvert government, there would have been approximately $2.4 billion more spent in the K-12 system from 2008 to 2014. Dr. McGrane further identifies recent changes to Saskatchewan’s education property tax regime as exacerbating the chronic underfunding of K-12 education in the province. Dr. McGrane recommends that recent changes to the education property tax regime should be re-visited and that the Saskatchewan provincial government should set a goal of spending, at a minimum, of 3% of nominal GDP on our province’s K-12 education system each year.
The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
University of British Columbia Press
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the Official Opposition under Jack Layton’s leadership. Through interviews with operatives, analyses of platforms, and surveys of NDP members, voters, and MPs, David McGrane argues that the party’s electoral success during the Layton years was a direct result of the moderation of its ideology and modernization of its campaign structures. Those changes brought the party closer to governing than ever before but ultimately not into power. McGrane then poses a difficult question: Was remaking the NDP message and revitalizing its campaign model the right choice after all, considering it fell to its perennial third-party spot in 2015? The New NDP examines Canada’s NDP at a pivotal time in its history and provides lessons for progressive parties on how to win elections in the age of the internet, big data, and social media. Scholars and students of Canadian politics, social democracy, and social democratic parties will find The New NDP a compelling read, as will NDP politicians, activists, and staffers.
Remaining Loyal: Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan
McGill-Queen's University Press
When social democratic politicians in the 1990s moderated their ideas and policies as part of a turn towards the "third way," they were assailed as traitors to the cause. Remaining Loyal demonstrates that while third way social democrats in Quebec and Saskatchewan supplemented certain social democratic ideas with more right-wing economic programs, their public policies remained true to the original spirit of social democracy. Drawing on a range of archival resources, David McGrane traces the evolution of social democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan from their respective origins in social Catholic thought and agrarian protest movements at the turn of the twentieth century to the most recent Parti Québécois and New Democratic Party governments. In doing so, he reconstructs the public policies of traditional social democracy from the postwar era and the third way in the 1990s and early 2000s and finds both differences and continuities. McGrane contends that remaining loyal to core social democratic values is exactly what differentiates the third way from neo-liberalism in Saskatchewan and Quebec. The first historical comparison of social democracy in Saskatchewan and Quebec, Remaining Loyal challenges how we think about the recent ideological evolution of left-wing parties in Canada and the rest of the world.
Underinvesting in Our Future: Revenues and Expenditures of Saskatchewan School Boards from 2004 to 2014
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Despite taking in record amounts of revenue during the economic boom years, Saskatchewan’s government failed to maintain K-12 education funding as a percentage of our provincial GDP. The report, Underinvesting in Our Future by Dr. David McGrane, demonstrates that we are currently spending the lowest amount on K-12 education, measured as a percentage of GDP, in modern Saskatchewan history. Since 2007, K-12 education funding has fallen from an average of 3.08% of GDP to only 2.6% of GDP. Had the government continued to fund K-12 education in Saskatchewan at the same percentage of provincial GDP as the last four years of the Calvert government, there would have been approximately $2.4 billion more spent in the K-12 system from 2008 to 2014. Dr. McGrane further identifies recent changes to Saskatchewan’s education property tax regime as exacerbating the chronic underfunding of K-12 education in the province. Dr. McGrane recommends that recent changes to the education property tax regime should be re-visited and that the Saskatchewan provincial government should set a goal of spending, at a minimum, of 3% of nominal GDP on our province’s K-12 education system each year.
The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
University of British Columbia Press
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the Official Opposition under Jack Layton’s leadership. Through interviews with operatives, analyses of platforms, and surveys of NDP members, voters, and MPs, David McGrane argues that the party’s electoral success during the Layton years was a direct result of the moderation of its ideology and modernization of its campaign structures. Those changes brought the party closer to governing than ever before but ultimately not into power. McGrane then poses a difficult question: Was remaking the NDP message and revitalizing its campaign model the right choice after all, considering it fell to its perennial third-party spot in 2015? The New NDP examines Canada’s NDP at a pivotal time in its history and provides lessons for progressive parties on how to win elections in the age of the internet, big data, and social media. Scholars and students of Canadian politics, social democracy, and social democratic parties will find The New NDP a compelling read, as will NDP politicians, activists, and staffers.
Remaining Loyal: Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan
McGill-Queen's University Press
When social democratic politicians in the 1990s moderated their ideas and policies as part of a turn towards the "third way," they were assailed as traitors to the cause. Remaining Loyal demonstrates that while third way social democrats in Quebec and Saskatchewan supplemented certain social democratic ideas with more right-wing economic programs, their public policies remained true to the original spirit of social democracy. Drawing on a range of archival resources, David McGrane traces the evolution of social democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan from their respective origins in social Catholic thought and agrarian protest movements at the turn of the twentieth century to the most recent Parti Québécois and New Democratic Party governments. In doing so, he reconstructs the public policies of traditional social democracy from the postwar era and the third way in the 1990s and early 2000s and finds both differences and continuities. McGrane contends that remaining loyal to core social democratic values is exactly what differentiates the third way from neo-liberalism in Saskatchewan and Quebec. The first historical comparison of social democracy in Saskatchewan and Quebec, Remaining Loyal challenges how we think about the recent ideological evolution of left-wing parties in Canada and the rest of the world.
New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy
University of Regina Press
In this new scholarly compilation by David P. McGrane, established and emerging trends in Saskatchewan public policy are the foundation for setting new directions for the province in the 21st century. In what direction should Saskatchewan be headed in the 21st century? To answer this question, academics from various disciplines at the University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan have come together to produce New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy, the first edited book exclusively devoted to public policy in the province, with chapters discussing taxation, immigration, agriculture, urban affairs, poverty reduction, the social economy, labour, aging, Aboriginal public administration, and climate change. The authors provide an analysis and description of the current policies of the Wall government, and also look back to explore what the Romanow and Calvert governments did in these areas. The overarching theme of the book is that, despite the province's robust economic growth, significant public policy challenges remina for the Saskatchewan provincial government. The lesson is that economic growth does not magically solve entrenched societal problems and that economic prosperity will dissipate if worrisome social trends are left unchecked. While many scholarly books shy away from prescription, the authors of this book include sections in their chapters that set out new directions for policy development. As such, the book not only contains solid analysis of the present policy situation, but also offers concrete ideas for future policy makers.
Underinvesting in Our Future: Revenues and Expenditures of Saskatchewan School Boards from 2004 to 2014
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Despite taking in record amounts of revenue during the economic boom years, Saskatchewan’s government failed to maintain K-12 education funding as a percentage of our provincial GDP. The report, Underinvesting in Our Future by Dr. David McGrane, demonstrates that we are currently spending the lowest amount on K-12 education, measured as a percentage of GDP, in modern Saskatchewan history. Since 2007, K-12 education funding has fallen from an average of 3.08% of GDP to only 2.6% of GDP. Had the government continued to fund K-12 education in Saskatchewan at the same percentage of provincial GDP as the last four years of the Calvert government, there would have been approximately $2.4 billion more spent in the K-12 system from 2008 to 2014. Dr. McGrane further identifies recent changes to Saskatchewan’s education property tax regime as exacerbating the chronic underfunding of K-12 education in the province. Dr. McGrane recommends that recent changes to the education property tax regime should be re-visited and that the Saskatchewan provincial government should set a goal of spending, at a minimum, of 3% of nominal GDP on our province’s K-12 education system each year.
The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
University of British Columbia Press
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the Official Opposition under Jack Layton’s leadership. Through interviews with operatives, analyses of platforms, and surveys of NDP members, voters, and MPs, David McGrane argues that the party’s electoral success during the Layton years was a direct result of the moderation of its ideology and modernization of its campaign structures. Those changes brought the party closer to governing than ever before but ultimately not into power. McGrane then poses a difficult question: Was remaking the NDP message and revitalizing its campaign model the right choice after all, considering it fell to its perennial third-party spot in 2015? The New NDP examines Canada’s NDP at a pivotal time in its history and provides lessons for progressive parties on how to win elections in the age of the internet, big data, and social media. Scholars and students of Canadian politics, social democracy, and social democratic parties will find The New NDP a compelling read, as will NDP politicians, activists, and staffers.
Remaining Loyal: Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan
McGill-Queen's University Press
When social democratic politicians in the 1990s moderated their ideas and policies as part of a turn towards the "third way," they were assailed as traitors to the cause. Remaining Loyal demonstrates that while third way social democrats in Quebec and Saskatchewan supplemented certain social democratic ideas with more right-wing economic programs, their public policies remained true to the original spirit of social democracy. Drawing on a range of archival resources, David McGrane traces the evolution of social democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan from their respective origins in social Catholic thought and agrarian protest movements at the turn of the twentieth century to the most recent Parti Québécois and New Democratic Party governments. In doing so, he reconstructs the public policies of traditional social democracy from the postwar era and the third way in the 1990s and early 2000s and finds both differences and continuities. McGrane contends that remaining loyal to core social democratic values is exactly what differentiates the third way from neo-liberalism in Saskatchewan and Quebec. The first historical comparison of social democracy in Saskatchewan and Quebec, Remaining Loyal challenges how we think about the recent ideological evolution of left-wing parties in Canada and the rest of the world.
New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy
University of Regina Press
In this new scholarly compilation by David P. McGrane, established and emerging trends in Saskatchewan public policy are the foundation for setting new directions for the province in the 21st century. In what direction should Saskatchewan be headed in the 21st century? To answer this question, academics from various disciplines at the University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan have come together to produce New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy, the first edited book exclusively devoted to public policy in the province, with chapters discussing taxation, immigration, agriculture, urban affairs, poverty reduction, the social economy, labour, aging, Aboriginal public administration, and climate change. The authors provide an analysis and description of the current policies of the Wall government, and also look back to explore what the Romanow and Calvert governments did in these areas. The overarching theme of the book is that, despite the province's robust economic growth, significant public policy challenges remina for the Saskatchewan provincial government. The lesson is that economic growth does not magically solve entrenched societal problems and that economic prosperity will dissipate if worrisome social trends are left unchecked. While many scholarly books shy away from prescription, the authors of this book include sections in their chapters that set out new directions for policy development. As such, the book not only contains solid analysis of the present policy situation, but also offers concrete ideas for future policy makers.
Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics
University of Toronto Press
Bringing together political theorists and specialists in Canadian politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics combines conceptual frameworks from political theory and empirical evidence to offer fresh perspectives on political events in contemporary Canada. Examining complex and timely subjects such as equality, social justice, democracy, citizenship, and ethnic diversity, contributors present current and archival research supplemented with insights drawn from political theory to give readers a deep and nuanced understanding of increasingly pressing issues in Canadian society. For scholars and students seeking a work of political theory that is tangible, focused, and connected to the real world of everyday politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics will be an important resource, combining philosophical insights and empirical evidence to enhance our understanding of contemporary Canadian politics.
