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.