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The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) is one of Canada's oldest nonpartisan public policy think tanks. It is an independent, national, bilingual, not-for-profit organization. The IRPP’s inception was sparked by a proposal by prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1968 for the establishment of an “independent and autonomous” institute for public policy research, whose work would be “available to all governments.”〔Peter, Dobell. IRPP: The First 30 Years. National Library of Canada Cataloguing. Print.〕 The Institute was founded in 1972 and is based in Montreal. Graham Fox is the current President and CEO, and Graham W.S. Scott is the current Chair of the Board of Directors. The IRPP publishes Policy Options magazine, currently edited by Dan Gardner; IRPP Studies; IRPP Insights; and Policy Horizons. In addition, the IRPP initiates and publishes peer-reviewed research, and organizes policy-focused conferences, roundtables, and events. The IRPP has been described as an “information broker.”〔Leonard, Jeremy. "Institute for Research on Public Policy." McGill Careers Day. University Affairs. 11 July 2012. Lecture.〕 The IRPP attempts to broker pertinent policy research between expert researchers, and policy makers and the “educated lay public.” The Institute does not have a large in-house research force, due in part to budget limitations but also because the IRPP is not an issue-specific think tank: it shifts its research foci based on perceived contemporary policy gaps. Although the IRPP actively sought research commissions in its early days, the Board of Directors decided in 1991 that such external commissions compromised research independence and took a stance against them.〔Peter, Dobell. IRPP: The First 30 Years. National Library of Canada Cataloguing. Print.〕 The IRPP’s current research agenda is focused on three central issues, according to the Institute’s website: the aging of Canada’s population, its growing diversity and pluralism, and the impact on the Canadian economy of rapidly changing patterns of global trade and production.〔"Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)." Web. 4 June 2015. The IRPP is financed by an endowment fund, to which federal and provincial governments and the private sector contributed in the early 1970s. The IRPP is a registered charity under the Income Tax Act, and is incorporated under Part II of the Canada Corporations Act.〔"Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)." Web. 4 June 2015. ==Purpose and Mission== IRPP’s stated mission is to “improve public policy in Canada by generating research, providing insight and informing debate on current and emerging policy issues facing Canadians and their governments.”〔"Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)." Web. 4 June 2015. Although Prime Minister Trudeau’s original idea for the Institute was as an independent tool for governments, Ron Ritchie broadened this scope in a commissioned report published in 1969. Ritchie argued the IRPP should provide research and analysis “designed to improve the basis for informed choice and decisions by the public of Canada and its leaders on questions of public policy,” and specified that “its intended audience should rather be opinion leaders, public servants and political leaders,” and not “academics.”〔Peter, Dobell. IRPP: The First 30 Years. National Library of Canada Cataloguing. Print.〕 The IRPP aims to focus its research on timely and immediate policy issues. The research agenda defined by second president Michael Kirby aimed to conduct research “where existing policies were inadequate, where the need for change was recognized and where other institutions could not satisfy the need”.〔Peter, Dobell. IRPP: The First 30 Years. National Library of Canada Cataloguing. Print.〕 IRPP research has on occasion been released with a direct aim of influencing policy makers. For example, a September 2000 report titled Recommendations to First Ministers was issued a few days before the First Ministers’ Meeting. This report was the product of an eight-person task force of expert practitioners and academics convened by the IRPP to advise on health care policy.〔Peter, Dobell. IRPP: The First 30 Years. National Library of Canada Cataloguing. Print.〕 IRPP president Rod Dobell (1984-1991), and presidents preceding him, actively sought research contracts for the Institute from both federal and provincial governments. However, Peter Dobell notes that “since 1991, the IRPP Board of Directors has taken the position that commissioned research threatens to compromise the Institute’s independence and has for that reason discouraged the pursuit of external contracts.”〔Peter, Dobell. IRPP: The First 30 Years. National Library of Canada Cataloguing. Print.〕 According to its website, the IRPP aims to be nonpartisan, and serves both French and English Canadian language groups. According to former acting secretary Peter Dobell, the IRPP’s non-partisan position does not aim to discourage strongly stated research conclusions that may be critical of existing policies. The Board of Directors “lets the research speak for itself.”〔Peter, Dobell. IRPP: The First 30 Years. National Library of Canada Cataloguing. Print.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Institute for Research on Public Policy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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