Peter Graefe
Biographic Data
| ID | 301635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Graefe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Graefe |
| SIGNATURE | GRAEFE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1499-2691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Revisiting the Sectoral Cleavage in Canada: Evidence From the Canadian Election Studies
According to the budget‐maximizing bureaucrat model, public sector employees should rationally seek to increase government budgets to increase their own power. In contrast to most advanced democracies, class and sectoral voting has largely been neglected in Canada. The ideological and voting preferences of the public sector has been unexamined since the 1980s. Using the Canadian Election Study (1968–2019), we revisit and expand on this literature…
Explaining Social Policy Expansion: The Curious Case of the Justin Trudeau Era in Canada
Since late 2015, the successive Justin Trudeau Liberal governments have enacted significant social policy expansion, including the adoption of new programs or the expansion of existing social policies in areas such as childcare, dental care, family benefits, old‐age security, and income support for the working poor. This expansion came as a surprise to many political observers and contrasts with the era of “permanent austerity” (Paul Pierson) tha…
Slow‐Moving Welfare State Change in Quebec and “Movements From Below
Recent discussions of policy change in political science have been heavily influenced by historical institutionalist typologies of gradual institutional change and of the ideal‐typical agents producing them. The key agents are those within the state who implement and interpret the rules, while the agency of social movements is treated as largely contextual. One way of enriching these accounts is to consider the offensive and defensive strategies …
Québec’s Housing Nonprofits Experiencing the End of Federal Subsidy Agreements: Adaptability Without Renewal
Nonprofit organizations have become pivotal actors in the delivery of services. Many of them receive public funding to carry out their activities. However, this funding can be interrupted or even stopped for various reasons, political or not. This article examines how 26 housing nonprofit organizations in Québec, Canada, coped with the withdrawal of federal government subsidies to house low-income households. Drawing on structured interviews with…
Subjective economic insecurity and attitudes toward immigration and feminists among voters on the Right in Canada
The recent success of far‐right populism has led to a wave of public attention to its causes. Drawing on novel survey items from the Canadian Election Study, we investigate how economic insecurity, mediated by immigration and feminist attitudes, affects voting behavior. While economic distress has been linked to far‐right voting in Europe, we find support that subjective measures of economic distress are significantly associated with voting for t…
Social Policy Administration in the Canadian Federation
This chapter provides a survey of the institutional context for social policy renewal in Canada. It begins with a brief sketch of how social policy makers identified new social risks in the early 2000s, and the main policy instruments that they developed in response. The chapter then considers how development of these instruments nevertheless had to engage with long-standing constitutional barriers to central government involvement in social poli…
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics
The Changing Nature of Class Voting in Canada, 1965–2019
Much attention has been paid to the changing class cleavage that structured political conflict in the twentieth century. In contrast to most advanced democracies, class voting has traditionally been weak in Canada. Using the entire series of the Canadian Election Study (1965–2019), we find the historic pattern of working-class voting for the New Democratic Party (NDP) held outside of Quebec in recent elections, before suddenly falling off in 2019…
Le patronat et le nationalisme dans un Québec conservateur
Tandis que les vingt dernières années ont été marquées par un déplacement vers la droite des pièces de l’échiquier politique québécois, culminant notamment avec l’élection d’une majorité de députés de la Coalition avenir Québec en 2018, cet article propose d’examiner les changements qu’a pu entrainer une telle trajectoire politique dans les demandes et discours du patronat québécois. À travers une étude des mémoires rédigés par le Conseil du patr…
What Should Be Done with a “House in Order”? An Economic Perspective on Post-Liberal Quebec
The Quebec provincial election of October 2018 marked the end of an era. It saw the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) suffer the worst defeat of its history and the election of agovernment, the first in a half century, not headed by either the Liberals or the Parti Québécois. The election of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) suggests a political realignment. Yet, whether or not the 2018 vote also ended the era of budget austerity remains uncertain. Comb…
State rescaling, institutionalized state-citizen relationships, and Canadian health policy
Work on state rescaling has generally argued that economic restructuring is hollowing out the state at the nation-state level. The ambiguity of this formulation, with the displacement of power potentially being recuperated through governance, is accentuated by a thin political analysis. This paper follows Purcell in emphasizing state-citizen relations and institutionalization in the state rescaling process, which constrains changes in scalar rela…
Accountability and Funding as Impediments to Social Policy Innovation: Lessons from the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities
Social policy innovation in Canada remains stunted despite recent attempts at social policy renewal via intergovernmental agreements. The fusion of accountability and policy learning is typically blamed, yet this ignores other potential factors. This article examines the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities to highlight impediments to social program expansion and reform within governments as well as between governments, and how …
Renouveau d’intérêt pour l’étude du fédéralisme au Québec et chantiers à ouvrir. Réjean Pelletier, Le Québec et le fédéralisme canadien: Un regard critique, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, …
Renouveau d’intérêt pour l’étude du fédéralisme au Québec et chantiers à ouvrir / Réjean Pelletier, Le Québec et le fédéralisme canadien : Un regard critique, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008, 236 p. (Prismes.) / Alain-G. Gagnon, La raison du plus fort : Plaidoyer pour le fédéralisme multinational, Montréal, Québec/Amérique, 2008, 236 p. (Débats.). Un article de la revue Recherches sociographiques (Volume 50, numéro 3, septembre–dé…
The Gradual Defederalization of Canadian Health Policy
Health policy is an important facet of territorial politics, drawing the contours of the sharing community. Changes in the management of the division of powers in health policy point to shifting understandings of the federal political community. This article adopts this approach in the Canadian case, where observers disagree about whether values of federal diversity remain robust or are eroding. It considers three Commissions (Rowell-Sirois, Hall…
The Social Economy and the American Model Relating New Social Policy Directions to the Old
This article seeks to untangle how the new vocabulary of the ‘social’ relates to the ‘American model’ of neoliberalization that was taken up by national elites across the West and many parts of the South in the 1980s and 1990s. It does so by focusing on one new field of policy (the social economy) in one jurisdiction (Québec) in order to uncover the different social economy projects being put forward, and to emphasize how these projects each had …
Social Economy Policies as Flanking for Neoliberalism: Transnational Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives
While early assessments of neoliberalism stressed its destructiveness, more recent analyses have begun to consider and assess how its consolidation has involved the creation of new institutions and governmentalities to stabilise emergent contradictions and instabilities. This article traces how the social economy has been positioned in the OECD's public policy discourse as a flanking mechanism, and especially the friction in these policy proposal…
State Restructuring, Social Assistance, and Canadian Intergovernmental Relations: Same Scales, New Tune
Peter Graefe also considers the issue of social assistance, but from the perspective of the politics of scale literature. This literature analyzes how social relations play out across spatial scales and brings another dimension to political science literature examining relations across space, such as the literature on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Using this lens, Graefe examines the rescaling of social assistance that occurred with…
The contradictory political economy of minority nationalism
The Quebec Patronat: Proposing a Neo‐liberal Political Economy after All
Les études récentes portant sur le patronat québécois avancent que ce dernier a modernisé son discours, passant du néolibéralisme à une concertation et à une coopération positive avec les syndicats et l'État. Ces études suggèrent que le patronat québécois est en train de développer une économie politique distincte du modèle libéral en vigueur ailleurs au Canada. Cet article analyse le discours du Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ) depuis sa créa…
The New Federal Tool Belt: Attempts to Rebuild Social Policy Leadership
Recent assessments of the federal government's social policy leadership fail to provide a satisfactory linkage between its unilateral actions and its ongoing involvement in intergovernmental bargaining. This paper argues that the federal government is honing old and new tools to shape the direction of provincial policy development. Indeed, many unilateral initiatives appear tied to a broader strategy of assuring the federal government an importan…
Personal Services in the Post‐industrial Economy: Adding Nonprofits to the Welfare Mix
This article develops linkages between two separate fields of research, namely work on post‐industrial welfare states, and work on nonprofit organizations. It pays particular attention to the emphasis on personal services and the “cost disease” hypothesis found in the former, which places strong constraints on improving pay and job quality in the nonprofit sector. At the same time, it argues that the post‐industrial welfare states literature, des…
Anciens et nouveaux outils de gouvernance dans l'union sociale canadienne
Les recompositions des relations entre territoires politiques observables dans la période récente se sont accompagnées de changements dans la sphère des idées, avec notamment l’apparition des notions de gouvernance et de nouvelle gestion publique ( new public management ). Ces notions ont eu une influence significative au Canada comme en Europe où elles ont participé à une modification des processus d'élaboration des politiques et à l’adoption de…
La capacité de choisir: Le Canada dans une nouvelle Amérique du Nord, sous la direction de George Hoberg, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2002, 379 p
La capacité de choisir : Le Canada dans une nouvelle Amérique du Nord, sous la direction de George Hoberg, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2002, 379 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (L’approche néo-institutionnaliste en science politique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The social economy and the state: Linking ambitions with institutions in Québec, Canada
English In rapidly developing policy fields such as that of the social economy, institutions play a central role in delimiting the range of the possible. This article suggests that social democratic policy analysts have given too much attention to the financial and operational autonomy of social economy organisations from the state, and have avoided specifying what sort of new state institutions might allow these organisations to reach their prog…
Whose social economy? Debating new state practices in Qu¥ebec
Despite the pressures of globalization, states remain relevant and maintain significant social policy capacities. Fulfilling these capacities has required innovation, with states increasingly acting on a local scale and seeking to leverage other actors’ resources to meet their ends. The study of the state–community interface in the construction of the social economy in QuÈbec highlights that the renewed state remains as much an object of social s…
The New Federal Tool Belt: Attempts to Rebuild Social Policy Leadership
Recent assessments of the federal government's social policy leadership fail to provide a satisfactory linkage between its unilateral actions and its ongoing involvement in intergovernmental bargaining. This paper argues that the federal government is honing old and new tools to shape the direction of provincial policy development. Indeed, many unilateral initiatives appear tied to a broader strategy of assuring the federal government an importan…
The Changing Nature of Class Voting in Canada, 1965–2019
Much attention has been paid to the changing class cleavage that structured political conflict in the twentieth century. In contrast to most advanced democracies, class voting has traditionally been weak in Canada. Using the entire series of the Canadian Election Study (1965–2019), we find the historic pattern of working-class voting for the New Democratic Party (NDP) held outside of Quebec in recent elections, before suddenly falling off in 2019…
Social Economy Policies as Flanking for Neoliberalism: Transnational Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives
While early assessments of neoliberalism stressed its destructiveness, more recent analyses have begun to consider and assess how its consolidation has involved the creation of new institutions and governmentalities to stabilise emergent contradictions and instabilities. This article traces how the social economy has been positioned in the OECD's public policy discourse as a flanking mechanism, and especially the friction in these policy proposal…
The social economy and the state: Linking ambitions with institutions in Québec, Canada
English In rapidly developing policy fields such as that of the social economy, institutions play a central role in delimiting the range of the possible. This article suggests that social democratic policy analysts have given too much attention to the financial and operational autonomy of social economy organisations from the state, and have avoided specifying what sort of new state institutions might allow these organisations to reach their prog…
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics
Subjective economic insecurity and attitudes toward immigration and feminists among voters on the Right in Canada
The recent success of far‐right populism has led to a wave of public attention to its causes. Drawing on novel survey items from the Canadian Election Study, we investigate how economic insecurity, mediated by immigration and feminist attitudes, affects voting behavior. While economic distress has been linked to far‐right voting in Europe, we find support that subjective measures of economic distress are significantly associated with voting for t…
The Social Economy and the American Model Relating New Social Policy Directions to the Old
This article seeks to untangle how the new vocabulary of the ‘social’ relates to the ‘American model’ of neoliberalization that was taken up by national elites across the West and many parts of the South in the 1980s and 1990s. It does so by focusing on one new field of policy (the social economy) in one jurisdiction (Québec) in order to uncover the different social economy projects being put forward, and to emphasize how these projects each had …
State Restructuring, Social Assistance, and Canadian Intergovernmental Relations: Same Scales, New Tune
Peter Graefe also considers the issue of social assistance, but from the perspective of the politics of scale literature. This literature analyzes how social relations play out across spatial scales and brings another dimension to political science literature examining relations across space, such as the literature on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Using this lens, Graefe examines the rescaling of social assistance that occurred with…
The Gradual Defederalization of Canadian Health Policy
Health policy is an important facet of territorial politics, drawing the contours of the sharing community. Changes in the management of the division of powers in health policy point to shifting understandings of the federal political community. This article adopts this approach in the Canadian case, where observers disagree about whether values of federal diversity remain robust or are eroding. It considers three Commissions (Rowell-Sirois, Hall…
The High Value-Added, Low-Wage Model: Progressive Competitiveness in Québec from Bourassa to Bouchard
In the face of global economic restructuring, progressive competitiveness has been sold as a means of maintaining and enhancing the welfare of citizens. Economic success is argued to flow from a space-specific institutional context of learning and innovation, wherein the State's key role involves linking firms, hard and soft infrastructure and organized interests. To be overly schematic, creating the right institutional context nurtures industrie…
Accountability and Funding as Impediments to Social Policy Innovation: Lessons from the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities
Social policy innovation in Canada remains stunted despite recent attempts at social policy renewal via intergovernmental agreements. The fusion of accountability and policy learning is typically blamed, yet this ignores other potential factors. This article examines the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities to highlight impediments to social program expansion and reform within governments as well as between governments, and how …
Whose social economy? Debating new state practices in Qu¥ebec
Despite the pressures of globalization, states remain relevant and maintain significant social policy capacities. Fulfilling these capacities has required innovation, with states increasingly acting on a local scale and seeking to leverage other actors’ resources to meet their ends. The study of the state–community interface in the construction of the social economy in QuÈbec highlights that the renewed state remains as much an object of social s…
State rescaling, institutionalized state-citizen relationships, and Canadian health policy
Work on state rescaling has generally argued that economic restructuring is hollowing out the state at the nation-state level. The ambiguity of this formulation, with the displacement of power potentially being recuperated through governance, is accentuated by a thin political analysis. This paper follows Purcell in emphasizing state-citizen relations and institutionalization in the state rescaling process, which constrains changes in scalar rela…
The contradictory political economy of minority nationalism
The Quebec Patronat: Proposing a Neo‐liberal Political Economy after All
Les études récentes portant sur le patronat québécois avancent que ce dernier a modernisé son discours, passant du néolibéralisme à une concertation et à une coopération positive avec les syndicats et l'État. Ces études suggèrent que le patronat québécois est en train de développer une économie politique distincte du modèle libéral en vigueur ailleurs au Canada. Cet article analyse le discours du Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ) depuis sa créa…
Personal Services in the Post‐industrial Economy: Adding Nonprofits to the Welfare Mix
This article develops linkages between two separate fields of research, namely work on post‐industrial welfare states, and work on nonprofit organizations. It pays particular attention to the emphasis on personal services and the “cost disease” hypothesis found in the former, which places strong constraints on improving pay and job quality in the nonprofit sector. At the same time, it argues that the post‐industrial welfare states literature, des…
Anciens et nouveaux outils de gouvernance dans l'union sociale canadienne
Les recompositions des relations entre territoires politiques observables dans la période récente se sont accompagnées de changements dans la sphère des idées, avec notamment l’apparition des notions de gouvernance et de nouvelle gestion publique ( new public management ). Ces notions ont eu une influence significative au Canada comme en Europe où elles ont participé à une modification des processus d'élaboration des politiques et à l’adoption de…
The High Value-Added, Low-Wage Model: Progressive Competitiveness in Québec from Bourassa to Bouchard
In the face of global economic restructuring, progressive competitiveness has been sold as a means of maintaining and enhancing the welfare of citizens. Economic success is argued to flow from a space-specific institutional context of learning and innovation, wherein the State's key role involves linking firms, hard and soft infrastructure and organized interests. To be overly schematic, creating the right institutional context nurtures industrie…
Whose social economy? Debating new state practices in Qu¥ebec
Despite the pressures of globalization, states remain relevant and maintain significant social policy capacities. Fulfilling these capacities has required innovation, with states increasingly acting on a local scale and seeking to leverage other actors’ resources to meet their ends. The study of the state–community interface in the construction of the social economy in QuÈbec highlights that the renewed state remains as much an object of social s…
La capacité de choisir: Le Canada dans une nouvelle Amérique du Nord, sous la direction de George Hoberg, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2002, 379 p
La capacité de choisir : Le Canada dans une nouvelle Amérique du Nord, sous la direction de George Hoberg, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2002, 379 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (L’approche néo-institutionnaliste en science politique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The social economy and the state: Linking ambitions with institutions in Québec, Canada
English In rapidly developing policy fields such as that of the social economy, institutions play a central role in delimiting the range of the possible. This article suggests that social democratic policy analysts have given too much attention to the financial and operational autonomy of social economy organisations from the state, and have avoided specifying what sort of new state institutions might allow these organisations to reach their prog…
Anciens et nouveaux outils de gouvernance dans l'union sociale canadienne
Les recompositions des relations entre territoires politiques observables dans la période récente se sont accompagnées de changements dans la sphère des idées, avec notamment l’apparition des notions de gouvernance et de nouvelle gestion publique ( new public management ). Ces notions ont eu une influence significative au Canada comme en Europe où elles ont participé à une modification des processus d'élaboration des politiques et à l’adoption de…
The Quebec Patronat: Proposing a Neo‐liberal Political Economy after All
Les études récentes portant sur le patronat québécois avancent que ce dernier a modernisé son discours, passant du néolibéralisme à une concertation et à une coopération positive avec les syndicats et l'État. Ces études suggèrent que le patronat québécois est en train de développer une économie politique distincte du modèle libéral en vigueur ailleurs au Canada. Cet article analyse le discours du Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ) depuis sa créa…
The New Federal Tool Belt: Attempts to Rebuild Social Policy Leadership
Recent assessments of the federal government's social policy leadership fail to provide a satisfactory linkage between its unilateral actions and its ongoing involvement in intergovernmental bargaining. This paper argues that the federal government is honing old and new tools to shape the direction of provincial policy development. Indeed, many unilateral initiatives appear tied to a broader strategy of assuring the federal government an importan…
Personal Services in the Post‐industrial Economy: Adding Nonprofits to the Welfare Mix
This article develops linkages between two separate fields of research, namely work on post‐industrial welfare states, and work on nonprofit organizations. It pays particular attention to the emphasis on personal services and the “cost disease” hypothesis found in the former, which places strong constraints on improving pay and job quality in the nonprofit sector. At the same time, it argues that the post‐industrial welfare states literature, des…
The contradictory political economy of minority nationalism
The Social Economy and the American Model Relating New Social Policy Directions to the Old
This article seeks to untangle how the new vocabulary of the ‘social’ relates to the ‘American model’ of neoliberalization that was taken up by national elites across the West and many parts of the South in the 1980s and 1990s. It does so by focusing on one new field of policy (the social economy) in one jurisdiction (Québec) in order to uncover the different social economy projects being put forward, and to emphasize how these projects each had …
Social Economy Policies as Flanking for Neoliberalism: Transnational Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives
While early assessments of neoliberalism stressed its destructiveness, more recent analyses have begun to consider and assess how its consolidation has involved the creation of new institutions and governmentalities to stabilise emergent contradictions and instabilities. This article traces how the social economy has been positioned in the OECD's public policy discourse as a flanking mechanism, and especially the friction in these policy proposal…
State Restructuring, Social Assistance, and Canadian Intergovernmental Relations: Same Scales, New Tune
Peter Graefe also considers the issue of social assistance, but from the perspective of the politics of scale literature. This literature analyzes how social relations play out across spatial scales and brings another dimension to political science literature examining relations across space, such as the literature on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Using this lens, Graefe examines the rescaling of social assistance that occurred with…
The Gradual Defederalization of Canadian Health Policy
Health policy is an important facet of territorial politics, drawing the contours of the sharing community. Changes in the management of the division of powers in health policy point to shifting understandings of the federal political community. This article adopts this approach in the Canadian case, where observers disagree about whether values of federal diversity remain robust or are eroding. It considers three Commissions (Rowell-Sirois, Hall…
Renouveau d’intérêt pour l’étude du fédéralisme au Québec et chantiers à ouvrir. Réjean Pelletier, Le Québec et le fédéralisme canadien: Un regard critique, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, …
Renouveau d’intérêt pour l’étude du fédéralisme au Québec et chantiers à ouvrir / Réjean Pelletier, Le Québec et le fédéralisme canadien : Un regard critique, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008, 236 p. (Prismes.) / Alain-G. Gagnon, La raison du plus fort : Plaidoyer pour le fédéralisme multinational, Montréal, Québec/Amérique, 2008, 236 p. (Débats.). Un article de la revue Recherches sociographiques (Volume 50, numéro 3, septembre–dé…
Accountability and Funding as Impediments to Social Policy Innovation: Lessons from the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities
Social policy innovation in Canada remains stunted despite recent attempts at social policy renewal via intergovernmental agreements. The fusion of accountability and policy learning is typically blamed, yet this ignores other potential factors. This article examines the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities to highlight impediments to social program expansion and reform within governments as well as between governments, and how …
State rescaling, institutionalized state-citizen relationships, and Canadian health policy
Work on state rescaling has generally argued that economic restructuring is hollowing out the state at the nation-state level. The ambiguity of this formulation, with the displacement of power potentially being recuperated through governance, is accentuated by a thin political analysis. This paper follows Purcell in emphasizing state-citizen relations and institutionalization in the state rescaling process, which constrains changes in scalar rela…
What Should Be Done with a “House in Order”? An Economic Perspective on Post-Liberal Quebec
The Quebec provincial election of October 2018 marked the end of an era. It saw the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) suffer the worst defeat of its history and the election of agovernment, the first in a half century, not headed by either the Liberals or the Parti Québécois. The election of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) suggests a political realignment. Yet, whether or not the 2018 vote also ended the era of budget austerity remains uncertain. Comb…
The Changing Nature of Class Voting in Canada, 1965–2019
Much attention has been paid to the changing class cleavage that structured political conflict in the twentieth century. In contrast to most advanced democracies, class voting has traditionally been weak in Canada. Using the entire series of the Canadian Election Study (1965–2019), we find the historic pattern of working-class voting for the New Democratic Party (NDP) held outside of Quebec in recent elections, before suddenly falling off in 2019…
Le patronat et le nationalisme dans un Québec conservateur
Tandis que les vingt dernières années ont été marquées par un déplacement vers la droite des pièces de l’échiquier politique québécois, culminant notamment avec l’élection d’une majorité de députés de la Coalition avenir Québec en 2018, cet article propose d’examiner les changements qu’a pu entrainer une telle trajectoire politique dans les demandes et discours du patronat québécois. À travers une étude des mémoires rédigés par le Conseil du patr…
Social Policy Administration in the Canadian Federation
This chapter provides a survey of the institutional context for social policy renewal in Canada. It begins with a brief sketch of how social policy makers identified new social risks in the early 2000s, and the main policy instruments that they developed in response. The chapter then considers how development of these instruments nevertheless had to engage with long-standing constitutional barriers to central government involvement in social poli…
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics
Québec’s Housing Nonprofits Experiencing the End of Federal Subsidy Agreements: Adaptability Without Renewal
Nonprofit organizations have become pivotal actors in the delivery of services. Many of them receive public funding to carry out their activities. However, this funding can be interrupted or even stopped for various reasons, political or not. This article examines how 26 housing nonprofit organizations in Québec, Canada, coped with the withdrawal of federal government subsidies to house low-income households. Drawing on structured interviews with…
Subjective economic insecurity and attitudes toward immigration and feminists among voters on the Right in Canada
The recent success of far‐right populism has led to a wave of public attention to its causes. Drawing on novel survey items from the Canadian Election Study, we investigate how economic insecurity, mediated by immigration and feminist attitudes, affects voting behavior. While economic distress has been linked to far‐right voting in Europe, we find support that subjective measures of economic distress are significantly associated with voting for t…
Explaining Social Policy Expansion: The Curious Case of the Justin Trudeau Era in Canada
Since late 2015, the successive Justin Trudeau Liberal governments have enacted significant social policy expansion, including the adoption of new programs or the expansion of existing social policies in areas such as childcare, dental care, family benefits, old‐age security, and income support for the working poor. This expansion came as a surprise to many political observers and contrasts with the era of “permanent austerity” (Paul Pierson) tha…
Slow‐Moving Welfare State Change in Quebec and “Movements From Below
Recent discussions of policy change in political science have been heavily influenced by historical institutionalist typologies of gradual institutional change and of the ideal‐typical agents producing them. The key agents are those within the state who implement and interpret the rules, while the agency of social movements is treated as largely contextual. One way of enriching these accounts is to consider the offensive and defensive strategies …
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