Malcolm Bird
Associate Professor
Department of Political Sciences
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Malcolm Bird is a great pleasure to be joining the Politics Department at the University of Winnipeg this July as an assistant professor. I am fascinated by the evolution of Canadian public institutions; in particular, Crown corporations such as The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), VIA Rail, Canada Post Corporation (CPC) and ATB Financial, a government-owned bank in Alberta. In addition, I have done some work on the evolution of Canada’s public universities. Not only have most of these public institutions managed to avoid the privatization wave of the last twenty or so years, but they have also reformed both their internal operations as well as their relationships with their respective political masters to continue to be relevant in an ever changing political and ideological environment. These public enterprises must find a delicate balance between a series of competing needs and interests arising from their political superiors, relevant stakeholders in their sectors (who are often very influential), their day-to-day commercial operations and, of course, the public interest.
Research Interest
Malcolm Bird research interest includes politica sciences.
