Political Science / Canadian Politics / Social Policy

Containing Diversity presents a novel approach to understanding the politics of immigration in Canada in the twenty-first century.

Comparing multilevel governance models for homelessness in four large Canadian cities, Multiple Barriers looks at the production of social protection for some of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in the country.

Policy justice requires engagement of diverse people, knowledges, and forms of evidence at all stages of the policy-making process, from problem definition through to dissemination.

This collection moves the discussion to pension funds in which union representatives are also trustees, a relatively new approach that will be of great interest to institutional investors, the labour movement, and instructors in labour studies programs.

Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare.

Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada’s sesquicentennial, contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution examines the impact of courts and various constitutional provisions on a wide range of policy issues, including health care, immigration and refugee policy, citizenship, the rights of Indigenous peoples, and criminal justice policy.

New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program highlights the experiences and observations of some of the earliest social workers in New Brunswick.

Turning a critical eye to the health care system in Nova Scotia, Katherine Fierlbeck outlines the frameworks structuring provincial health care, while providing a detailed assessment of Nova Scotia’s health financing, physical infrastructure, and service provision.

Looking at Canada, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and Switzerland, Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care examines the overall organization of the health system.

Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience.

The Austerity State provides a critical examination of the accepted discourse around austerity measures and explores the reasons behind its continued prevalence in the world.

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades.

Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990.

In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power resources model to provide an analytical foundation for the divergent pattern of public pension systems in Canada and Australia.

Policy Work in Canada is an in-depth study into the levels of analytical capacity found within the federal and provincial governments as well as the non-governmental sector.