Welfare Reform in Canada: Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy.

This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.

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Welfare Reform in Canada: Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy.

This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.

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Welfare Reform in Canada: Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective

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Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy.

This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442609716
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Publication date: 09/18/2015
Series: Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy Series
Pages: 419
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Daniel Béland is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy.

Pierre-Marc Daigneault is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Université Laval, and specializes in social policy, policy theories, program evaluation, and research methods.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction: Understanding Welfare Reform in the Canadian Provinces

Pierre-Marc Daigneault and Daniel Béland

Part I: International, Comparative, and Multilevel Perspectives

1. International Trends in Social Assistance

Robert Henry Cox

2. Federal Policies, National Trends, and Provincial Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Developments in Social Assistance in Canada, 1990-2013

Gerard W. Boychuk

3. An Overview of Social Assistance Trends in Canada

Ronald Kneebone and Katherine White

4. Poverty and Inequality Trends in Canada

Brian Murphy, Andrew Heisz, and Xuelin Zhang

Part II: The State of Social Assistance in the Provinces

5. Social Assistance in Ontario

Peter Graefe

6. Québec: The Ambivalent Politics of Social Solidarity

Alain Noël

7. Social Assistance in British Columbia

Jane Pulkingham

8. The State of Social Assistance in Alberta

Donna E. Wood

9. Social Assistance in Saskatchewan: Development, Reform, and Retrenchment

Rick August

10. Social Assistance in Manitoba

Wayne Simpson

11. Social Assistance in New Brunswick: Origins, Developments, and Current Situation

Luc Thériault and Hélène Lebreton

12. Welfare Reform in Canada: Nova Scotia

Stella Lord

13. The State of Social Assistance in Newfoundland and Labrador

Matthieu Mondou

14. The State of Social Assistance in Prince Edward Island

Kathleen Flanagan

Part III: Contemporary Issues and Challenges

15. Gendering Social Assistance Reform

Amber Gazso

16. Entrenched Residualism: Social Assistance and People with Disabilities

Michael J. Prince

17. Immigrants on Social Assistance in Canada: Who Are They and Why Are They There?

Tracy Smith-Carrier and Jennifer Mitchell

18. Playing Catch-up with Ghosts: Income Assistance for First Nations on Reserve

Martin Papillon

19. Aging and Social Assistance in the Provinces

Patrik Marier and Anne-Marie Séguin

20. Shelter and the Street: Housing, Homelessness, and Social Assistance in the Canadian Provinces

Michael J. Prince

21. Do Active Programs Work? A Review of Canadian Welfare-to-Work Experiments

Kelly Foley

Conclusion: A Brief Survey of Welfare Reform in the Canadian Provinces

Daniel Béland and Pierre-Marc Daigneault

Postface: From Welfare Reform—to Welfare Reformulation

Sherri Torjman and Ken Battle

Index

What People are Saying About This

Keith G. Banting

Few, if any, planks in our social policy architecture have been restructured as much as social assistance, and Welfare Reform in Canada provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of these changes. Bringing together an exceptional team of scholars and drawing on insights from comparative analysis, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the new social risks and stresses in contemporary Canada and the country's halting response to them.

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