Literature Review: From Self-Determination to Implementation…

In Assignment 2, you will define the scope of your literature review. Based on your initial scan of the literature, you will be able to refine your central research question to focus only on literature that is directly relevant to your selected practice problem. A well-written literature review plan will help you clearly outline the focus, flow, and boundaries of your final paper.

In this assignment, you are expected to:

• effectively communicate the ‘big picture’ of your selected practice problem;
• organize and analyze significant themes you see in the literature;
• present logical, well-organized, fair and balanced arguments;
• identify gaps in the professional knowledge base;
• use visual aids, when needed, to clarify and enhance the ideas being presented;
• follow disciplinary literature review methodology;
• apply APA style (6th ed.) correctly;
• write clearly and concisely; and
• edit grammar and typos

Instructions

Organize and analyze significant themes you noted in your initial scan of the literature, e.g. convergences, contradictions and gaps in research perspectives and/or findings. Your literature review outline should be 1500-2000 words or 6-9 pages in length.

Compare the concept map you developed in your Problem Analysis to themes you see emerging in your literature scan:

• How do the research themes inform a response to your selected problem?
• What might be expanded or revised in your concept map to clarify the central idea, key terms and major concepts?
• What important gaps in the knowledge-base do you see?
• How might you refine your research question to set a clear, manageable focus for your paper?
• What body of literature is most relevant to your practice problem?
• Are there any best practices you can highlight?

Revise your concept map to reflect any new perceptions, concept connections and/or questions you have.

In your References section, create two sections: a) references from previous HUMS program/elective courses you plan to draw from; and b) new material you have discovered.

** I have attached the first assignment to understand my problem analysis. * DO NOT ADD on TO ASSIGNMENT 1***

** You will need to revise/ update the concept map from assignment one***

*references from previous HUMS courses have been attached, please include these with the references required in my literature review*

The literature review will adhere to the above instructions with the literature to be found on the following themes below:

Theme 1: Funding Design & Structural Sustainability

• First Nations Inuit Policing Program (FNIPP)
• Cost-sharing inequity
• Essential service debate
• Fiscal instability

Theme 2: Sovereignty, Jurisdiction & Intergovernmental Coordination

• Legislative constraints (alberta focused provincially, and Canada focused federally)
• RCMP relationship
• Police Acts (Alberta based, Canada for federal if needed)
• Authority ambiguity
• tripartite governance tension

Theme 3: Relational Legitimacy and Cultural governance

• Community mandate
• Procedural justice
• Elder involvement
• Distinctions-based approaches
• Trust-building models

Cross theme synthesis: How funding, sovereignty, and legitimacy interact systemically.

All of this work should be alberta based within Canada for provincial governments, but when looking into federal jurisdiction for literature, canada based as well.

** To be included in the HUMS reference section, and attached [ section a of references]:

• Collaborative Governance Regime (chapter 1 & 2)- not to be utilized for Indigenous lens, but to aid in supporting sovereignty, jurisditcion, and intergovernment coordination. Should look at:
• Multi-actor governance systems
• Shared authority structures
• Cross-boundary coordination
• Institutional design in complex policy environments
• Adaptive governance

That directly aligns with:

• Tripartite agreements
• RCMP partnerships
• Provincial/federal/First Nation interaction
• Authority ambiguity
• (click link for reading, to be atttached in section a references as well)
• When analyzing sovereignty, jurisdiction, and intergovernmental coordination, network governance theory helps explain why formal top-down structures often fail in the absence of shared norms, and why informal relationships and boundary-spanning actors are critical to effective collaboration. It also highlights how the structure of interorganizational networks can either enable or constrain coordinated governance.