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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

Multiple Barriers

The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada

by Alison Smith

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$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

The Capacity to Innovate

Cluster Policy and Management in the Biotechnology Sector

by Sarah Giest

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$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.

The Multilevel Politics of Trade

The Multilevel Politics of Trade

Edited by Jorg Broschek and Patrica Goff

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$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?

Closing the Enforcement Gap

Closing the Enforcement Gap

Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

by Leah Faith Vosko

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$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.

Small Nations, High Ambitions

Small Nations, High Ambitions

Economic Nationalism and Venture Capital in Quebec and Scotland

by X. Hubert Rioux

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$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

Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion

Selective Solidarity in Western Democracies

by Edward A. Koning

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$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

Bureaucratic Manoeuvres

The Contested Administration of the Unemployed

by John Grundy

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$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

Dealing with Peace

The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State

by Simon Granovsky-Larsen

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$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.

Combating Poverty

Combating Poverty

Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State

by Axel van den Berg, Charles Plante, Hicham Raiq, Christine Proulx and Sam Faustmann

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$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.

Democratic Illusion

Democratic Illusion

Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

by Genevieve Fuji Johnson

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$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

Transforming Provincial Politics

The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era

Edited by Bryan M. Evans and Charles W Smith

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$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

Comparing Quebec and Ontario

Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the Millennium

by Rodney Haddow

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$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.

Beyond the Welfare State

Beyond the Welfare State

Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia

by Sirvan Karimi

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$89.00

ISBN: 9781487500412

Pub Date: February 2017

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.

Learning to School

Learning to School

Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada

by Jennifer Wallner

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$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

Municipalities and Multiculturalism

The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver

by Kristin Good

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$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

Three Bio-Realms

Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada

by G.Bruce Doern and Michael J. Prince

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$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.

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