Daniel B Land

Welfare Reform in Canada: Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective - The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy Daniel B Land

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Issued also in electronic format. Table of Contents: List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Understanding Welfare Reform in the Canadian Provinces Pierre-Marc Daigneault and Daniel B?land 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. Qu?bec: The Ambivalent Politics of Social Solidarity Alain No?l 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 Th?riault and H?l?ne 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 S?guin 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 B?land and Pierre-Marc Daigneault Postface: From Welfare Reform to Welfare Reformulation Sherri Torjman and Ken Battle Index "Commendation Quotes: . 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.. - Keith G. Banting, Queen's UniversityPublisher Marketing: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Beland, Daniel Daniel Beland is the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. He is coeditor of "The Oxford Handbook of US Social Policy". Contributor Bio:  Daigneault, Pierre-Marc Pierre-Marc Daigneault is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Universit? Laval, and specializes in social policy, policy theories, program evaluation, and research methods. Contributor Bio:  B?land, Daniel Daniel B?land holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and specializes in fiscal and social policy.