published work
- Wilder, M. (2024) Power to the stakeholders: how co-production turned around a green energy blunder in
Ontario, Canada. In P. t’Hart et al. (Eds.) Positive public administration: new directions in theory and practice. (pp. 339-60). Edward Elgar. Supplementary files
- Wilder, M., Rosalle, R., & Bishop, A. (2024). Eco-welfare states and just transitions: a multi-method analysis and research agenda. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 4(1), 2241-65.
- Wilder, M. (2022) From R&D to export: canola development as a “resilient success”. In E. Lindquist et al. (Eds.) Policy success in Canada: cases, lessons, challenges (pp. 286-306). Oxford.
- Wilder, M. (2021) Industrial policy. In A. Kellow, T. Porter & K. Ronit (Eds.), The handbook of business and public policy (pp. 309-24). Edward Elgar.
- Skogstad, G., & Wilder, M. (2020) Federalism and Canada’s economic union. In H. Bakvis & G. Skogstad (Eds.), Canadian federalism: performance, effectiveness and legitimacy, 4th ed. (pp. 195-221). University of Toronto Press.
- Skogstad, G., & Wilder, M. (2019) Strangers at the gate: the role of multidimensional ideas, policy anomalies and institutional gatekeepers in biofuel policy developments in the United States and European Union. Policy Sciences, 52(3), 343-66.
- Wilder, M. (2018) Debating basic income: distributive justice and the normative-technical nexus. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 51(2), 279-303.
- Wilder, M. (2017) Comparative public policy: origins, themes, new directions. Policy Studies Journal, 45(S1), 47-66.
- Craft, J., & Wilder, M. (2017) Catching a second wave: context and compatibility in advisory system dynamics and management. Policy Studies Journal, 45(1), 215-39.
- Wilder, M. (2017) Policy paradigms and the formulation process. In M. Howlett & I. Mukherjee (Eds.), The handbook of policy formulation (pp. 433-48). Edward Elgar.
- Wilder, M. (2016) Whither the funnel of causality? Canadian Journal of Political Science, 49(4), 721-41.
- Wilder, M., & Howlett, M. (2016) Province-building and Canadian political science. In C. Dunn (Ed.), Provinces, 3rd ed. (pp. 89-108). University of Toronto Press.
- Wilder, M. (2015) Ideas beyond paradigms: relative commensurability and the case of Canadian trade-industrial policy, 1975-1995. Journal of European Public Policy, 22(7), 1004-21.
- Wilder, M., & Howlett, M. (2015) Bringing the provinces back in: re-evaluating the relevance of province-building to theories of Canadian federalism and multi-level governance. Canadian Political Science Review, 9(3), 1-34.
- Wilder, M. (2015) What is a policy paradigm? In J. Hogan & M. Howlett (Eds.), Policy paradigms in theory and practice: discourses, ideas and anomalies in public policy dynamics (pp. 19-42). Palgrave.
- Wilder, M., & Howlett, M. (2015) Paradigm construction and the politics of policy anomalies. In J. Hogan & M. Howlett (Eds.), Policy paradigms in theory and practice (pp. 101-16). Palgrave.
- Wilder, M., & Howlett, M. (2014) The politics of policy anomalies: bricolage and the hermeneutics of paradigms. Critical Policy Studies, 8(2), 183-202
- Wilder, M., & Hira, A. (2013) Institutional stickiness and coordination issues in an idiosyncratic environment: the grape and wine industry in Ontario Canada. Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, 31(4), 345-67.
book reviews
- Wilder, M. (2019) Review of Bruno Wueest, The politics of economic liberalization (2018). Swiss Political Science Review, 25(2), 193-5.
- Wilder, M. (2017) Review of Michael Atkinson et al., Governance and public policy in Canada: a view from the provinces (2013) Canadian Journal of Political Science, 50(2), 658-60.
- Wilder, M. (2016) Review of Charles Conteh, Policy governance in multi-level subsystems: economic development policy and implementation in Canada (2013) Canadian Journal of Political Science, 49(4), 805-6.
working papers
- Wilder, M., & McGowan, S. (2023, Aug 26) The green growth paradigm in the liberal 'hidden developmental state': a longitudinal anaysis of industrial policy agendas in the US and Canada. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.
- Wilder, M., & McGowan, S. (2023, May 28) Measuring the 'developmental state' in liberal countries: industrial polcy agendas in Canada and the United States. Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto
- Wilder, M. (2021, Jun 9) Public entrepreneurs in Canada: theory and evidence. Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting (virtual).
- Wilder, M., & McDougall, A. (2021, Jun 7) Does ease of product litigation affect innovation? Evidence from the agrochemical industry. Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting (virtual).
- Wilder, M. (2021, Mar 22) Can we afford to be more like Scandinavians? Institutions, incentives and innovation in the global political economy. Paper presented at the Political Economy Workshop, Harvard University.
- Wilder, M. (2019, Oct 4) The determinants of public spending in Canada: meta-analysis and data challenges. Paper presented at the Canadian Public Policy Network inaugural meeting, Ottawa.
- Wilder, M. (2017, Oct 20) Policy regimes and niche advantage in the varieties of capitalism: theoretical synthesis and case studies. Paper presented at the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Biennial Conference, Las Vegas.
- Wilder, M. (2016, Sep 3) How big problems are solved (or not): runaway bandwagons and the construction of rationality in the face of ‘wicked’ ambiguity. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
- Wilder, M. (2015, Oct 17) Why do governments defect? Institutional weakness, cognitive bias and the rise of Canadian industrial subsidies. Paper presented at the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Biennial Conference, Las Vegas.
*papers under peer-review not listed
projects
theses
reports and studies
- Clasadonte, C. Craft, J. & Wilder M. (2021) Applying digital ways of working: redesigning Ontario’s environmental registry. Policy Ready.
- Clasadonte, C., Wilder M., & Craft, J. (2020) Pulling back the curtain on digital transformation (Part I): The Public Service Commission Application Rationalization Project. Policy Ready.