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Canadian Public Policy
The June issue is available in Open Access. o
All our issues are in Open Access
for one month !
The Journal welcomes submissions when at least one author either
- is affiliated with an institution that holds a subscription either directly or through an intermediary such as Project MUSE
- holds a personal subscription or
- is a member of the Canadian Economics Association, which purchases a group subscription. While we welcome a broad range of perspectives and approaches to the analysis of social and economic policy in Canada, we encourage prospective authors to examine past articles in the journal at https://www.utpjournals.press/loi/cpp . In particular, the search engine there may help find articles in the journal related to the topic of their manuscript.
CPP/Adp Referee of the year
CPP/Adp Referee of the year
Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques is pleased to announce that the 2025 Critical Reviewer of the Year is Gillian Petit from the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary.
Gillian’s referee reports have consistently provided thoughtful and constructive feedback to our authors. She has also been consistently available to review manuscripts covering a broad range of topics of interest to the journal.
We thank Gillian, and we also thank all of our outstanding critical reviewers.
Vanderkamp Prize
Vanderkamp Prize
The winners of the Vanderkamp Prize of $2000 for best article in 2025 are :
Kevin P. Mongeon and Janique Dubois for their paper "A Course-Level Analysis of the Grade Gap between Off-Reserve Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Students in British Columbia", vol 51(3) pages 298 - 318, September 2025.
The paper is in open access.
Congratulations !
Impact factor : 1.4
Impact factor : 1.4
The Clarivate two-year impact factor for CPP/Adp in 2024 was 1.4
Along with the Canadian Economics Association, the journal co-sponsors the Mike McCracken Award for Economic Statistics to recognize theoretical and applied contributions to the development or use of economic statistics in Canada. The prize is in part supported by a generous contribution in 2017 by the McCracken family.
Aims and Scope
Aims and Scope
Since 1975, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques has been the foremost peer-reviewed journal examining economic and social public policy issues in Canada. It is directed at a wide readership including policy researchers, decision makers and advisers in governments, businesses, unions, non-government organizations and universities. CPP is available in print and online.
From the beginning the journal was intended to be multidisciplinary. It was founded as a separate charitable organization by the Canadian Economics Association with other sponsoring organizations the Canadian Political Science Association, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, the Canadian Association of Geographers, the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, and the Canadian Association for Business Economics.
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