Kyle Hanniman
Associate Professor | Research Associate, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
He/Him
PhD (Wisconsin-Madison); BA (St. Thomas)
Political Studies
Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Kyle鈥檚 research interests include comparative federalism, political economy, public debt, and Canadian politics. He is writing a book on fiscal federalism and government default risk. His commentary has appeared in the Globe and Mail and National Post.
Kyle Hanniman would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of 鈥嬧嬧嬧婥anadian, comparative, and fiscal federalism, and comparative political economy (especially in the areas of government bond markets, government debt, and fiscal and monetary policy).
Brief Biography
Kyle Hanniman is an associate professor of political studies. He completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his BA at St. Thomas University. Before coming to Queen鈥檚, he was a policy associate at the University of Toronto鈥檚 Mowat Centre; a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto鈥檚 Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance; and a visiting researcher at the European University Institute.
Teaching
For detailed information about political studies courses and instructors, please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate pages.
Service (2024/2025)
On sabbatical
Selected Publications
2020. . British Journal of Political Science, 50(4), 1381-1403.
2019. 鈥,鈥 in New Frontiers in Public Policy: Federalism and the Welfare State in a Multicultural World, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Richard Johnston, Will Kymlicka and John Myles (editors). McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press
2019. 2017 State of the Federation: Federalism and Democratic Renewal, McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, co-editor with Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
2018. 鈥淚n Defense of Borrowing,鈥 in 2015 State of the Federation: Canadian Federalism and Infrastructure, ed. John R. Allen, David L.A. Gordon and Andr茅 Juneau (editors). McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press.
2018. 2015 State of the Federation: Canadian Federalism and Infrastructure, McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, co-editor with John R. Allen, David L.A. Gordon and Andr茅 Juneau
2016. Restoring Water Levels on Lake Michigan-Huron: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, Mowat Centre, with Rob Dorling
2015. A Good Crisis: Canadian Municipal Credit Conditions After the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, IMFG Papers on Municipal Finance and Governance
2015. Can Credit Markets Promote Municipal Fiscal Health? in E. Slack and R. Bird (editors), Measuring Urban Fiscal Health, The Institute of Public Administration of Canada and Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
2015. Calm counsel: Fiscal federalism and provincial credit risk, The Mowat Centre,
2013. Provinces in the Credit Markets: Market Discipline and the New Classic Federalism, in B. Doern and C. Stoney (editors), How Ottawa Spends, Queens-McGill University Press
Commentary, Blog Posts and Book Reviews
2019. Improving decision-making and debate around Canada鈥檚 intergovernmental transfer system: The potential of an independent council, available here: /iigr/conferences/stabilizing-provincial-revenues-...
2018. Review of Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada by Daniel B茅land, Andr茅 Lecours, Gregory P. Marchildon, Haizhen Mou and M. Rose Olfert, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017, pp. 114.
2015. Why municipal borrowing is no crisis in waiting. The Globe and Mail, available here:
2015. What if a province goes the way of Greece? National Post, available here:
2015. Where are the hardest places to live in Canada? TLDR Blog, Mowat Centre, with Nevena Dragicevic, Mark Jarvis, Rob Dorling and Emma Tarswell