AV俱乐部

Kristin R. Good is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at AV俱乐部 with a cross-appointment to the Law, Justice and Society program. 聽聽

Her research focuses on local (municipal) immigration policymaking - with a current interest in the potential of such processes to contribute to decolonization and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples - as well as critically interrogates municipalities鈥� constitutional significance and status in Canada.聽聽Among her most significant works are two books:聽Municipalities and Multiculturalism:聽聽The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver聽(2009), which won the Canadian Political Science Association鈥檚 2010 Donald Smiley Prize for the best English-language book published on Canadian politics in 2009 and has been quoted by the Supreme Court of Canada (in 2021); and her co-edited (with Drs.聽Luc Turgeon and Triadafilos Triadafilopolis)聽Segmented Cities?聽聽How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics聽(UBC Press, 2014).聽聽Her more recent work has appeared not only in standard academic fora but also as papers in variety of more public-facing venues such as the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto) and the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal).聽聽Dr. Good has also written for the聽Toronto Star, Policy Options聽and contributed to SLoGLaw (State and Local Government Law) blog. She is a founding co-editor (with Dr. Martin Horak) of the McGill-Queen鈥檚 Studies in Urban Governance book series.

Selected Publications
Good, Kristin R., 2021.聽Reconsidering the Constitutional Status of Municipalities: From Creatures of the Provinces to Provincial Constitutionalism, Essay no. 8, Montreal, Institute for Research on Public Policy. Available online:

Good, Kristin R. 2019.聽 "The Fallacy of the 'Creatures of the Provinces' Doctrine:聽 Recognizing and Protecting Municipalities' Constitutional Status,"聽IMFG Papers on Municipal Finance and Governance, No. 46, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.聽 Available at:

Good, Kristin R.聽 2019.聽 "Municipal Immigration Policymaking in Canadian Cities:聽 The State of the Art," in Caponio, T., Scholten, P. and Zapata-Barrero, R. Eds.聽The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities. Abington, UK: Routledge, pp. 216-227.

Good, Kristin R.聽 2016.聽 "Municipal Political Parties:聽 An Answer to Urbanization or an Affront to Traditions of Local Democracy?," in Gagnon, Alain-G. and Brian Tanguay. Eds.聽 Canadian Political Parties in Transition.聽 Toronto:聽 UTP, pp. 432-464.

Good, Kristin R., Luc Turgeon and Triadafilos Triadafilopolis. Eds.聽 2014.聽 Segmented Cities?聽 How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics.聽 Vancouver:聽 UBC Press.

Good, Kristin R.聽Ed. 2014.鈥澛燫eopening the 鈥楳yth of the North American City Debate鈥欌赌�[Special issue]聽International Journal of Canadian Studies,聽49, 7-249.

Good, Kristin R.聽 2014. 鈥淕overning Immigrant Attraction and Retention in Halifax and Moncton:聽 Do Linguistic Divisions Impede Cooperation?,鈥澛� (Chapter 13) In Luc Turgeon, Martin Papillon, Jenn Walner and Steve White eds.聽 Canada Compared:聽 Citizens, Government and Policy.聽 Vancouver: UBC Press.

Good, Kristin R.聽 2009.聽 Municipalities and Multiculturalism:聽 The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver.聽 Toronto:聽 University of Toronto Press, pp. 349.