Research Catalog

Title

Federalism and the welfare state in a multicultural world / edited by Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Richard Johnston, Will Kymlicka, and John Myles.

Publication

• Kingston, ON : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University ; Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth, 1976-
• Johnston, Richard, 1948-
• Kymlicka, Will
• Myles, John, 1943-

Description

xiv, 348 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Social policy is integral to mitigating divisions of class, region, language, race and ethnicity, and its underlying values of solidarity and risk-sharing also make it a critical mechanism for nation-building. Whether social policy actually accomplishes these goals is variable and contested, however. The mere fact of pooling risk poses the question of who "we" are, with exclusionary implications as much as inclusionary ones. Despite various challenges, until the 1990s there was some evidence that Canadian social policy played an integrative role, providing a counter-narrative to pessimistic claims that federalism and diversity undermine the integrative potential of social policy. Today, however, the Canadian model is under strain, reflecting changes in both the welfare state and the immigration-citizenship-multiculturalism regime. As the volume illustrates, there are clear trends that, if unchecked, may exacerbate rather than overcome important social cleavages. We are therefore at a crucial moment to re-evaluate the role of social policy in a federal state and multicultural society, the central task of this volume. If federalism and diversity challenge traditional models of the nation-building function of social policy, they also open up new pathways for social policy to overcome social divisions. Complacency about, or naive celebration of, the Canadian model is unwarranted, but it is premature to conclude that the model is irredeemably broken, or that all the developments are centrifugal rather than centripetal."--

Series Statement

Queen's policy studies series

Uniform Title

Queen's policy studies.

Subject

• Welfare state > Canada
• Multiculturalism > Canada
• Federal government > Canada
• Federal government
• Multiculturalism
• Social policy
• Welfare state
• Canada > Social policy
• Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Progressive's Dilemma -- The Multiple Pathways to Social Policy: Complex Diversity and Redistribution in Canada -- Is Canadian Federalism Market-Preserving? The View from the Bond Markets -- Quebec's New Politics of Redistribution Meets Austerity -- Designing a Basic Income Guarantee for Canada -- Federalism, Race, and the American Welfare State -- Political Institutions and the Welfare State in Canada and the United States -- Canada's Changing Citizenship Regime Through the Lens of Immigration and Integration -- Three Hypotheses on the Relevance of Federalism for the Politics of Immigration and -- Is There a Tradeoff Between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada -- Multiculturalism Policy and Support for the Welfare State -- Does Everyone Cheer? The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada -- Life and Death of Multiculturalism.

Call Number

JFE 19-8679

ISBN

• 9781553395386
• 1553395387

OCLC

1031342887

Title

Federalism and the welfare state in a multicultural world / edited by Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Richard Johnston, Will Kymlicka, and John Myles.

Publisher

Kingston, ON : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University ; Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Queen's policy studies series

Queen's policy studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth, 1976- editor.

Johnston, Richard, 1948- editor.

Kymlicka, Will, editor.

Myles, John, 1943- editor.

Other Form:

Federalism and the welfare state in a multicultural world./ Kingston, Ontario : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University ; Montréal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. Queen's policy studies Queen's policy studies series (CaOONL)20189060204

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8679