Research Catalog

Title

Changing politics of Canadian social policy / James J. Rice and Michael J. Prince.

Author

Rice, James J.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Prince, Michael J.

Description

xi, 309 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state from its establishment in the 1940s, through its expansion in the mid 1970s, to the period of deficit crisis and restraint that followed in the late 1970s and 1980s." "Taking a historical perspective, the authors grapple with the politics of social policy in the 1990s. Globalization and the concomitant corporate mobility affect government's ability to regulate the distribution of wealth, while the increasing diversity of the population puts increasingly complex demands on an already overstressed system." "Yet in the face of these constraints, the system still endures and is far from irrelevant. Some social programs have been dismantled, but others have been reorganized and maintained. Greater democratization of welfare programs and social policy agencies could make the system thrive again. Changing Politics provides the much-needed groundwork for students and policy makers while also proposing real solutions for the future."--Jacket.

Subject

• Social security > Canada
• Welfare state > Canada
• Welfare state
• Social policy
• Social security
• Politischer Wandel
• Sozialpolitik
• Canada > Social policy
• Canada
• Kanada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and indexes.

Contents

1. Changing Politics: Social Policy in a Globalizing and Pluralizing Context -- 2. Early Developments in Canadian Social Welfare -- 3. Envisaging and Establishing a System of Social Security for Canadians -- 4. The Crisis of the Welfare State: Canadian Perspectives and Critiques -- 5. Response to the Crisis: Retrenching the Welfare State and Changing Responsibilities for Social Provision -- 6. Global Capitalism and the Canadian Welfare State: Impacts of Economic Integration, Fiscal Policy, and Market Liberalism on Social Policy -- 7. Diversity and Equality in a Pluralist Welfare Community -- 8. Gender and Social Policy: His and Her States of Welfare -- 9. Civil Society and Community Capacity: Links between Social Policy and Social Capital -- 10. Creating a New Policy Agenda.

ISBN

• 0802042325
• 9780802042323
• 080208074X
• 9780802080745

LCCN

00699558

OCLC

• ocm43284171
• 43284171
• SCSB-8972473

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library