Keith Banting
Biographic Data
| ID | 169623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Banting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Banting |
| SIGNATURE | BANTING K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2326-9072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 633 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe
Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, multiculturalism has come under fire from champions of civic integration and far right-wing populists. Despite this, multiculturalism policies persist, in many cases increasing in frequency and strength. How might we make sense of this puzzling outcome? We weigh the merits of explanations based on (i) public attitudes, (ii) political parties and electoral politics, and (iii) institutions. Dr…
Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Membership: A Cross-National Comparison
Immigrants tend to be seen as less deserving of welfare benefits than native-born citizens, but little consensus exists to explain this finding or how to build greater public support for more inclusive policies. Recent work suggests that support for redistribution may be tied to citizens’ perceptions of the “membership commitment” of immigrants. This study provides the first systematic test of this hypothesis in the comparative setting using an o…
Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada , by Alison Smith
Journal Article Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada by Alison Smith Get access Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada, by Alison Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2022. 365 pp. $36.95 paperback. Keith Banting Keith Banting Queen's University, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federa…
Nationalism, Membership and the Politics of Minority Claims-Making
Previous research has shown that the public tends to see some groups as less deserving of social rights. Our focus in this article is whether they are also seen as less entitled to engage in political claims-making. Recent theorists of inclusive nationalism argue that whether minorities are seen as having the right to codetermine the future may depend on whether the majority believes minorities are morally committed to the nation. Drawing on a un…
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Liberal nationalists argue that identification with the nation promotes feelings of mutual obligation, including support for redistribution. Existing attempts to test this hypothesis have focused on whether the higher sense of national identity among the majority increases support redistribution. We argue for a twofold shift in focus. First, beyond the majority’s own national identity, we need to explore their perceptions of whether minorities sh…
The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada
This article examines the failure of Canadian public policy in addressing racial economic inequality directly. Our analysis contends that Canada's key policy regimes were established in the postwar era, when approximately 96 per cent of Canadians were of European descent. As a result, the frameworks, problem definitions and policy tools inherited from that era were never intended to mitigate racial economic inequality. Moreover, this policy inher…
A Distinctive Culture? The Sources of Public Support for Immigration in Canada, 1980–2019
Canada has often been seen as immune from the powerful backlash against globalization and immigration that has driven political shifts elsewhere. This article challenges this belief, at least in part, by tracing the evolution of public attitudes toward immigration and analyzing the factors that have shaped the trajectory for over three decades. Drawing on nearly forty years of Environics Focus Canada surveys, combined with annual data on macro-ec…
A Distinctive Culture? The Sources of Public Support for Immigration in Canada, 1980–2019 - Corrigendum
The Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Building and sustaining solidarity is a compelling challenge, especially in ethnically and religiously diverse societies. Recent research has concentrated on forces that trigger backlash and exclusion. This volume looks at the politics of diversity in the opposite direction, exploring the potential sources of support for an inclusive solidarity, in particular political sources of solidarity. We ask three questions: Is solidarity really necessary …
Ethnoreligious Identity, Immigration, and Redistribution
Do increasing, and increasingly diverse, immigration flows lead to declining support for redistributive policy? This concern is pervasive in the literatures on immigration, multiculturalism and redistribution, and in public debate as well. The literature is nevertheless unable to disentangle the degree to which welfare chauvinism is related to (a) immigrant status or (b) ethnic difference. This paper reports on results from a web-based experiment…
Understanding national identity
Every day, the news headlines testify to importance of national identities. Brexit, the US presidential election, the rise of anti-system populist parties all seem to reflect a volatile mix of econ
Migration and welfare state spending
Is international migration a threat to the redistributive programmes of destination countries? Existing work is divided. This paper examines the manner and extent to which increases in immigration are related to welfare state retrenchment, drawing on data from 1970 to 2007. The paper makes three contributions: (1) it explores the impact of changes in immigration on social welfare policy over both the short and medium term; (2) it examines the pos…
Immigrant integration: Research Implications for Future Policy
This book is a rich compendium of research papers analysing diverse aspects of immigrant integration in Canada. The book contains 19 chapters which are organized in four major sections. Section One
The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Transatlantic convergence? The archaeology of immigrant integration in Canada and Europe
At first glance, Canada and Europe seem to be diverging dramatically in their approach to immigrant integration. While support for a multicultural approach seems to remain strong in Canada, a potent backlash pervades European debates. This paper argues that beneath the image of transatlantic divergence, there are important elements of convergence. First, the retreat from multiculturalism in Europe is more complete at the level of discourse than p…
Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics
All advanced democracies have faced the pressures of globalization, technological change, and new family forms, which have generated higher levels of inequality in market incomes. But countries have responded differently, reflecting differences in their domestic politics. The politics of who gets what and why is at the core of this volume, the first to examine this question in an explicitly Canadian context. In Inequality and the Fading of Redist…
Is there really a retreat from multiculturalism policies? New evidence from the multiculturalism policy index
Inequality below the Surface: Reviewing Immigrants’ Access to and Utilization of Five Canadian Welfare Programs
Since the 1990s, many Western countries have implemented restrictions on immigrants’ access to welfare programs, thereby creating new lines of exclusion between immigrants and the native-born. Canada is commonly seen to have resisted this trend. This view overlooks, however, that exclusion can come in different forms. In addition to direct formal exclusion from welfare programs, immigrants can also have more limited access because of indirect or …
Minority nationalism and immigrant integration in Canada
Immigrant integration is currently a prominent issue in virtually all contemporary democracies, but countries in which the historic population itself is deeply divided – particularly those with substate nations and multiple political identities – present some interesting questions where integration is concerned. The existence of multiple and potentially competing political identities may complicate the integration process, particularly if the cen…
Canadian Multiculturalism: Global Anxieties and Local Debates
In much of the world, and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception that multiculturalism has failed, and Canada has not been immune to these rising global anxieties. A number of commentators have argued that smug complacency is blinding Canadians to growing evidence of stresses and failures in ethnic relations in their country. In this article, we explore this evolving debate. We briefly review the global backlash against multicul…
Accommodating cultural diversity
Accommodating cultural diversity, edited by Stephen Tierney, Farnham and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2007, x + 240 pp., £55.00/US$99.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7546-2603-9 Accommodating cultural divers
National Identity and Support for the Welfare State
This paper examines the role of national identity in sustaining public support for the welfare state. Liberal nationalist theorists argue that social justice will always be easier to achieve in states with strong national identities, which, they contend, can both mitigate opposition to redistribution among high-income earners and reduce any corroding effects of ethnic diversity resulting from immigration. We test these propositions with Canadian …
Is There a Progressive's Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June 2, 2010
There is a widespread fear in many western nations that ethnic diversity is eroding support for the welfare state. This article examines such fears in the Canadian context. In-depth analysis of public attitudes finds remarkably little tension between ethnic diversity and public support for social programs in Canada. At first glance, then, the country seems to demonstrate the political viability of a multicultural welfare state. But this pattern r…
The Canada Paradox: The Public-Private Divide in Health Insurance and Pensions
In recent years, academic attention has returned to an issue highlighted by Richard Titmuss half a century ago: the intersection of public and private social benefits (Titmuss 1958). This renewed interest in the public-private divide reflects an understanding that the structure of private benefits can have a significant impact on the development of public programs. It also reflects a growing realization that the balance between public and private…
Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies
Is there really a retreat from multiculturalism policies? New evidence from the multiculturalism policy index
Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Welfare State
Popular opposition to immigration is rooted in many factors. In this essay, we focus on one specific issue that has become prominent in recent debates—namely, the fear that the welfare state is being undermined by the impact of increasing ethnic and racial diversity. There are actually two concerns here: first, that ethnic and racial diversity as such makes it more difficult to sustain redistributive social policies because it is difficult to gen…
National Identity and Support for the Welfare State
This paper examines the role of national identity in sustaining public support for the welfare state. Liberal nationalist theorists argue that social justice will always be easier to achieve in states with strong national identities, which, they contend, can both mitigate opposition to redistribution among high-income earners and reduce any corroding effects of ethnic diversity resulting from immigration. We test these propositions with Canadian …
Is There a Progressive's Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June 2, 2010
There is a widespread fear in many western nations that ethnic diversity is eroding support for the welfare state. This article examines such fears in the Canadian context. In-depth analysis of public attitudes finds remarkably little tension between ethnic diversity and public support for social programs in Canada. At first glance, then, the country seems to demonstrate the political viability of a multicultural welfare state. But this pattern r…
Minority nationalism and immigrant integration in Canada
Immigrant integration is currently a prominent issue in virtually all contemporary democracies, but countries in which the historic population itself is deeply divided – particularly those with substate nations and multiple political identities – present some interesting questions where integration is concerned. The existence of multiple and potentially competing political identities may complicate the integration process, particularly if the cen…
Migration and welfare state spending
Is international migration a threat to the redistributive programmes of destination countries? Existing work is divided. This paper examines the manner and extent to which increases in immigration are related to welfare state retrenchment, drawing on data from 1970 to 2007. The paper makes three contributions: (1) it explores the impact of changes in immigration on social welfare policy over both the short and medium term; (2) it examines the pos…
Canadian Multiculturalism: Global Anxieties and Local Debates
In much of the world, and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception that multiculturalism has failed, and Canada has not been immune to these rising global anxieties. A number of commentators have argued that smug complacency is blinding Canadians to growing evidence of stresses and failures in ethnic relations in their country. In this article, we explore this evolving debate. We briefly review the global backlash against multicul…
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Liberal nationalists argue that identification with the nation promotes feelings of mutual obligation, including support for redistribution. Existing attempts to test this hypothesis have focused on whether the higher sense of national identity among the majority increases support redistribution. We argue for a twofold shift in focus. First, beyond the majority’s own national identity, we need to explore their perceptions of whether minorities sh…
The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism
The first edition of The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism focused on the impact of federalism on social policy during a period of economic growth and expanding social expenditures. The revised edition extends the analysis by asking how the federal syatem has shaped the social policy response to neo-conservatism, recession, and restraint. It analyses policy trends in detail; examines the implications of constitutional changes, including the C…
A Distinctive Culture? The Sources of Public Support for Immigration in Canada, 1980–2019
Canada has often been seen as immune from the powerful backlash against globalization and immigration that has driven political shifts elsewhere. This article challenges this belief, at least in part, by tracing the evolution of public attitudes toward immigration and analyzing the factors that have shaped the trajectory for over three decades. Drawing on nearly forty years of Environics Focus Canada surveys, combined with annual data on macro-ec…
The Multicultural Welfare State: International Experience and North American Narratives
Contemporary debates are increasingly pessimistic about the impact of ethnic diversity on support for the welfare state. A growing number of analysts argue that greater ethnic diversity in Western democracies is weakening public support for redistribution, and that this underlying tension is exacerbated by the adoption of robust multiculturalism policies. The purpose of this essay is to summarize early findings from several studies that bear on t…
The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada
This article examines the failure of Canadian public policy in addressing racial economic inequality directly. Our analysis contends that Canada's key policy regimes were established in the postwar era, when approximately 96 per cent of Canadians were of European descent. As a result, the frameworks, problem definitions and policy tools inherited from that era were never intended to mitigate racial economic inequality. Moreover, this policy inher…
Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World
A comparative study of Canadian and American responses to the changing international economy and to changing patterns of social diversity in domestic society, Degrees of Freedom traces the impact of these pressures on the economic and social structure, culture, political institutions, and policy regimes of the two countries.
The Nonprofit Sector in Canada: Roles and Relationships
The size and complexity of the not-for-profit sector, the role of religious organizations in the delivery of social services, the distinctive roles of not-for-profits in caring for the elderly in Ontario and Quebec, the advocacy role of ethno-cultural organizations at the national level, and accountability dilemmas facing not-for-profit organizations are just some of the topics tackled in this book, illustrating the rich diversity of the not-for-…
Nationalism, Membership and the Politics of Minority Claims-Making
Previous research has shown that the public tends to see some groups as less deserving of social rights. Our focus in this article is whether they are also seen as less entitled to engage in political claims-making. Recent theorists of inclusive nationalism argue that whether minorities are seen as having the right to codetermine the future may depend on whether the majority believes minorities are morally committed to the nation. Drawing on a un…
Do We Know Where We Are Going? The New Social Policy in Canada
A new paradigm has come to dominate social policy in Canada.1 As in many western nations, the understandings that underpinned the postwar welfare state have given way to new ideas about the social problems facing us in a global era and the appropriate responses to them. At its heart, this new paradigm represents a different conception of the sources of security in an insecure world. The fundamental purpose of the postwar social contract was secur…
Transatlantic convergence? The archaeology of immigrant integration in Canada and Europe
At first glance, Canada and Europe seem to be diverging dramatically in their approach to immigrant integration. While support for a multicultural approach seems to remain strong in Canada, a potent backlash pervades European debates. This paper argues that beneath the image of transatlantic divergence, there are important elements of convergence. First, the retreat from multiculturalism in Europe is more complete at the level of discourse than p…
Inequality below the Surface: Reviewing Immigrants’ Access to and Utilization of Five Canadian Welfare Programs
Since the 1990s, many Western countries have implemented restrictions on immigrants’ access to welfare programs, thereby creating new lines of exclusion between immigrants and the native-born. Canada is commonly seen to have resisted this trend. This view overlooks, however, that exclusion can come in different forms. In addition to direct formal exclusion from welfare programs, immigrants can also have more limited access because of indirect or …
Ethnoreligious Identity, Immigration, and Redistribution
Do increasing, and increasingly diverse, immigration flows lead to declining support for redistributive policy? This concern is pervasive in the literatures on immigration, multiculturalism and redistribution, and in public debate as well. The literature is nevertheless unable to disentangle the degree to which welfare chauvinism is related to (a) immigrant status or (b) ethnic difference. This paper reports on results from a web-based experiment…
State and Society: Canada in Comparative Perspective
The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism
Immigrant integration: Research Implications for Future Policy
This book is a rich compendium of research papers analysing diverse aspects of immigrant integration in Canada. The book contains 19 chapters which are organized in four major sections. Section One
The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s
The Welfare State and inequality in the 1980s
A travers une etude surtout du systeme de transferts fiscaux, nous tentons de comprendre le r6le redistributeur de 1'Etat canadien dans les annees contemporaines. Nous faisons l'inventaire des facteurs qui ont module la structure des politiques sociales diveloppee disle debut des annees soixante‐dix. Nous evaluons les modes de pression majeurs au cows des dix dernikres annCes en vue d'un changement dans les outils de redistribution, pourensuite m…
Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy: The Seven Decisions That Created the Canadian Health Insurance System
The Radical Interpretation of Social Security: A Critique
Explaining Social Policy
More than ever before, the lives of citizens depend on the social policies of government. Western nations have constructed a vast edifice of programmes designed to alter existing patterns of social life. What men can achieve, both as individuals and as groups, is shaped by the responsiveness of government to their needs and desires. Their health, education, housing and general life chances lie heavily in the hands of the state. For many of the po…
Poverty, Politics and Policy: Britain in The 1960s
Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy: The Seven Decisions That Created the Canadian Health Insurance System
Poverty, Politics and Public Policy: Britain in the 1960s
The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism
The first edition of The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism focused on the impact of federalism on social policy during a period of economic growth and expanding social expenditures. The revised edition extends the analysis by asking how the federal syatem has shaped the social policy response to neo-conservatism, recession, and restraint. It analyses policy trends in detail; examines the implications of constitutional changes, including the C…
The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism
And No One Cheered: Federalism, Democracy and the Constitution Act
Journal Article Keith Banting and Richard Simeon: And No One Cheered: Federalism, Democracy and the Constitution Act Get access And No One Cheered: Federalism, Democracy and the Constitution Act. Edited by KeithBanting and RichardSimeon. Toronto: Methuen Publications, 1983. Pp. xii. 376. Patrick J. Monahan Patrick J. Monahan *Assistant Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Redesigning the State: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Industrial Nations
Redesigning the State: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Industrial Nations
The Welfare State and inequality in the 1980s
A travers une etude surtout du systeme de transferts fiscaux, nous tentons de comprendre le r6le redistributeur de 1'Etat canadien dans les annees contemporaines. Nous faisons l'inventaire des facteurs qui ont module la structure des politiques sociales diveloppee disle debut des annees soixante‐dix. Nous evaluons les modes de pression majeurs au cows des dix dernikres annCes en vue d'un changement dans les outils de redistribution, pourensuite m…
State and Society: Canada in Comparative Perspective
State and Society: Canada in Comparative Perspective
The Social Policy Process in Canada
Federalism and the Role of the State
Federalism, Social Reform and the Spending Power
Keith G. Banting, Federalism, Social Reform and the Spending Power, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 14, Supplement: The Meech Lake Accord / L'Accord du lac Meech (Sep., 1988), pp. S81-S92
Social Science and Social Policy
The Politics of Wealth Taxes
While nineteenth-century conservatives feared that the advent of democratic government would lead to a major redistribution of wealth, democracy has proven relatively gentle with the wealthy. This paper analyzes the politics of wealth taxes, drawing on the rights of both the public choice tradition and comparative studies of the politics of redistribution. Net wealth taxes, which exist in approximately half of the OECD nations, are found to be hi…
Neoconservatism in an Open Economy: The Social Role of the Canadian State
The impact of neoconservative ideas has varied considerably among Western nations. This paper examines some of the factors at work by exploring Canadian experience. Despite the election of conservative governments at the federal level and in several provinces, the conse quences for social policy have been more limited than elsewhere. The reasons for this pattern are embedded in distinctive features of the polit ical economy of the Canadian welfar…
Managing a Multiauthor Research Project in Comparative Politics
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The social policy review: Policy making in a semi‐sovereign society
A New Social Vision for Canada? Perspectives on the Federal Discussion Paper on Social Security Reform
Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World
A comparative study of Canadian and American responses to the changing international economy and to changing patterns of social diversity in domestic society, Degrees of Freedom traces the impact of these pressures on the economic and social structure, culture, political institutions, and policy regimes of the two countries.
The Social Policy Divide: The Welfare State in Canada and the United States
Reform of Retirement Income Policy: International and Canadian Perspectives
Canada is hardly unique in this respect. Countries around the world are engaged in similar debates, and their experience holds important lessons. Through the perspectives of international and Canadian researchers, Reform of Retirement Income Policy focuses on many key reform issues: future income prospects for the elderly, roles of the public and private sectors, fairness and intergenerational equity, affordability and economic impacts, public ex…
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