Daniel Drache

He is recognized as having made important contributions to comparative and interdisciplinary debates on policy, globalization, border security, and the impact of new information and communication technologies on political mobilization and citizenship.

[2][3] Drache is a professor emeritus political science and senior research scholar of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Drache previously directed the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, a York University research center from 1994 to 2003.

Following work as a social movement activist, he was appointed to York University as an assistant professor of political science in 1974.

[5] Prof. Drache's diverse research constitutes a critical body of interdisciplinary work reflecting his expertise in international political economy.

[10] It challenges the assumption that globalization was equally beneficial to all countries, a position that was used by some economists to reduce the role of the nation-state as a regulator of markets from what it had been under Keynesianism.

[11] In 1995, Drache co-authored (with Harry Glasbeek) The Changing Workplace,[12] an interdisciplinary analysis of the impact of new technology on work and employment.

He focuses especially on the prospect of an international order requiring governance in the post-Washington Consensus environment, which values institution building rather than the self-regulating market.

[18] Recently, Drache and Jacobs have co-edited a follow up volume entitled Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance Crises and Resilience, from the University of British Columbia Press, 2018.

[20] Grounded primarily in the work of Habermas and Innis, this text challenges the deterministic assumption of the Frankfurt School that information-based technologies are captured by powerful elites for their own corporate uses.

[21] Instead, Drache argues from the Innisian perspective that "Web 2.0" and the Internet have transferred power downwards, enabling discursive social networking across the globe to a greater degree.

As a specific case study, Drache offers a theoretical framework to understand Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 US Presidential Election by leveraging social media networks.

[26] Drache’s volume presents Innis’ scholarship on political economy, economic geography, communications theory to the public as an integrated whole, and re-introduces his work to a new generation of scholars within the emerging context of globalization.

Drache, D. and Lesley A. Jacobs, Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New Policy Space in Hard Economic Times.

Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure, Daniel Drache and Terry Sullivan, eds.

Warm Heart, Cold Country: Fiscal and Social Policy Reform in Canada, Daniel Drache and Andrew Ranachan, eds.

Staples, Markets and Cultural Change: The Centenary Edition of Harold Innis’ Collected Essays, Daniel Drache, ed.

The New Era of Global Competition: State Policy and Market Power, Daniel Drache and Meric Gertler, eds.