Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy is designed to showcase innovative approaches to political economy and public policy from a comparative perspective. While originating in Canada, the series will provide attractive offerings to a wide international audience, featuring studies with local, subnational, cross-national, and international empirical bases and theoretical frameworks.
Editors: Michael Howlett, David Laycock, and Stephen McBride
Editorial Advisory Board: Jeffrey Ayres, Neil Bradford, Janine Brodie, William Carroll, William Coleman, Rodney Haddow, Jane Jenson, Laura Macdonald, Riane Mahon, Michael Mintrom, Grace Skogstad, Leah Vosko, Kent Weaver, and Linda White
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Multiple Barriers
The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada
Price:
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487542436
Pub Date: June 2022
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.
The Capacity to Innovate
Cluster Policy and Management in the Biotechnology Sector
Price:
$68.00
ISBN: 9781442650060
Pub Date: April 2021
The book develops a capacity framework for policymakers and researchers alike in order to address elements that limit the development of local innovation clusters.
Closing the Enforcement Gap
Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs
Price:
$53.00
ISBN: 9781487524319
Pub Date: March 2020
The sole source of protection for many workers in precarious jobs, this book reveals gaps in the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario, Canada, and offers a bold vision for change drawing on innovative initiatives emerging elsewhere.
The Multilevel Politics of Trade
Price:
$55.00
ISBN: 9781487524524
Pub Date: April 2020
Sub-federal units within federal states are taking on new roles in trade policy and trade agreement negotiations. What is motivating this development and how do unique federal contexts impact the way that it unfolds?
Small Nations, High Ambitions
Economic Nationalism and Venture Capital in Quebec and Scotland
Price:
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487505820
Pub Date: March 2020
This book offers an in-depth account of the evolution of Quebec’s and Scotland’s policy strategies in the entrepreneurial finance sector and venture capital more specifically.
Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion
Selective Solidarity in Western Democracies
Price:
$47.95
ISBN: 9781487523428
Pub Date: March 2019
Why do some governments try to limit immigrants’ access to social benefits and entitlements? This book reveals that such efforts have little to do with economic pressures but rather result from a political climate that rewards a punitive approach to immigration and multiculturalism.
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres
The Contested Administration of the Unemployed
Price:
$63.00
ISBN: 9781487504472
Pub Date: March 2019
This book traces the dramatic transformation of public employment services for the unemployed in Canada in the final decades of the twentieth century.
Dealing with Peace
The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State
Price:
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487501433
Pub Date: April 2019
Dealing with Peace explores the relationship between the Guatemalan campesino social movement and state agrarian institutions in the period since the end of armed conflict in 1996.
Fracking Uncertainty
Hydraulic Fracturing and the Provincial Politics of Risk
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487552695
Pub Date: August 2024
Fracking Uncertainty investigates the politics of hydraulic fracturing regulation in and among Canada’s provinces.
Democratic Illusion
Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy
Price:
$37.95
ISBN: 9781442611245
Pub Date: April 2015
Illuminating a critical gap between deliberative democratic theory and its applications, this timely and important study shows what needs to be done to ensure deliberative processes offer more than the illusion of democracy.
Transforming Provincial Politics
The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
Price:
$50.00
ISBN: 9781442611795
Pub Date: March 2015
Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by-province analysis of politics and political economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial level.
Comparing Quebec and Ontario
Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the Millennium
Price:
$53.00
ISBN: 9781442627017
Pub Date: March 2015
In Comparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow analyses how budgeting, economic development, social assistance, and child care policies differ between the two provinces. The cause of the differences, he argues, are underlying differences between their political economic institutions.
Combating Poverty
Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
Price:
$61.00
ISBN: 9781487501563
Pub Date: August 2017
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.
Learning to School
Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada
Price:
$51.00
ISBN: 9781442615892
Pub Date: May 2014
Beginning with the earliest provincial education policies and taking readers right up to contemporary policy debates, Learning to School chronicles how, through learning and cooperation, the provinces gradually established a country-wide system of public schooling.
Municipalities and Multiculturalism
The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781442609938
Pub Date: October 2009
Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants and managing the ethno-cultural relations of the city.
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442611542
Pub Date: June 2012
Three Bio-Realms provides the first integrated examination of the thirty-year story of the democratic governance of biotechnology in Canada.
Multiple Barriers
The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487542436
Pub Date: June 2022
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.
The Capacity to Innovate
Cluster Policy and Management in the Biotechnology Sector
$68.00
ISBN: 9781442650060
Pub Date: April 2021
The book develops a capacity framework for policymakers and researchers alike in order to address elements that limit the development of local innovation clusters.
Closing the Enforcement Gap
Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs
$53.00
ISBN: 9781487524319
Pub Date: March 2020
The sole source of protection for many workers in precarious jobs, this book reveals gaps in the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario, Canada, and offers a bold vision for change drawing on innovative initiatives emerging elsewhere.
The Multilevel Politics of Trade
$55.00
ISBN: 9781487524524
Pub Date: April 2020
Sub-federal units within federal states are taking on new roles in trade policy and trade agreement negotiations. What is motivating this development and how do unique federal contexts impact the way that it unfolds?
Small Nations, High Ambitions
Economic Nationalism and Venture Capital in Quebec and Scotland
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487505820
Pub Date: March 2020
This book offers an in-depth account of the evolution of Quebec’s and Scotland’s policy strategies in the entrepreneurial finance sector and venture capital more specifically.
Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion
Selective Solidarity in Western Democracies
$47.95
ISBN: 9781487523428
Pub Date: March 2019
Why do some governments try to limit immigrants’ access to social benefits and entitlements? This book reveals that such efforts have little to do with economic pressures but rather result from a political climate that rewards a punitive approach to immigration and multiculturalism.
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres
The Contested Administration of the Unemployed
$63.00
ISBN: 9781487504472
Pub Date: March 2019
This book traces the dramatic transformation of public employment services for the unemployed in Canada in the final decades of the twentieth century.
Dealing with Peace
The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487501433
Pub Date: April 2019
Dealing with Peace explores the relationship between the Guatemalan campesino social movement and state agrarian institutions in the period since the end of armed conflict in 1996.
Fracking Uncertainty
Hydraulic Fracturing and the Provincial Politics of Risk
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487552695
Pub Date: August 2024
Fracking Uncertainty investigates the politics of hydraulic fracturing regulation in and among Canada’s provinces.
Democratic Illusion
Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy
$37.95
ISBN: 9781442611245
Pub Date: April 2015
Illuminating a critical gap between deliberative democratic theory and its applications, this timely and important study shows what needs to be done to ensure deliberative processes offer more than the illusion of democracy.
Transforming Provincial Politics
The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
$50.00
ISBN: 9781442611795
Pub Date: March 2015
Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by-province analysis of politics and political economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial level.
Comparing Quebec and Ontario
Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the Millennium
$53.00
ISBN: 9781442627017
Pub Date: March 2015
In Comparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow analyses how budgeting, economic development, social assistance, and child care policies differ between the two provinces. The cause of the differences, he argues, are underlying differences between their political economic institutions.
Combating Poverty
Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
$61.00
ISBN: 9781487501563
Pub Date: August 2017
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.
Learning to School
Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada
$51.00
ISBN: 9781442615892
Pub Date: May 2014
Beginning with the earliest provincial education policies and taking readers right up to contemporary policy debates, Learning to School chronicles how, through learning and cooperation, the provinces gradually established a country-wide system of public schooling.
Municipalities and Multiculturalism
The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
$49.95
ISBN: 9781442609938
Pub Date: October 2009
Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants and managing the ethno-cultural relations of the city.
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442611542
Pub Date: June 2012
Three Bio-Realms provides the first integrated examination of the thirty-year story of the democratic governance of biotechnology in Canada.