Gerard W Boychuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 4374247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard W Boychuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard W |
| FAMILY NAME | Boychuk |
| SIGNATURE | BOYCHUK G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Studying Public Policy: Historical Institutionalism and the Comparative Method
This article argues that Simeon's insistence on the value of explicit comparison within individual studies of public policy needs to remain central even in historical institutionalist approaches which “take time seriously” and focus on causal mechanisms—a methodological injunction sometimes seen to augur in favour of single-case and single-outcome studies. However, if Simeon's suggested approach is to reflect the major advances that have occurred…
After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual? After ’08 examines how global institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and International Labour Organization, as well as nation states around the world respond…
GSP Editors’ Farewell
Social protection guarantees as legal rights? The International Labour Organization, the United States, and the American ‘national context’
This article examines the development of the global Social Protection Floor proposal inside the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 2009 (when the ILO was designated as a lead agency in the process) through to the adoption of Recommendation 202 in 2012. While there was a considerably more high-profile external process under the auspices of the Advisory Group chaired by former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, the article argues that i…
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…
Federal–Provincial Diplomacy: The Making of Recent Policy in Canada – By Richard Simeon
Asymmetry and Paradox: Social Policy and the U.S—Canada Bilateral Relationship
Important recent events, such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, the election of a second Bush administration, and the advent of a minority Liberal government and uniting of the political right in Canada, have had and will have important effects on both the conduct of bilateral relations and on domestic social policy in each country--not only directly but also as a result of the reciprocal dynamics operating between social policy and bilat…
Economic integration and cross‐border policy convergence: Social and environmental policy in Canadian provinces and American states
Focusing on social and environmental policy, this paper examines the hypothesis that policy convergence generated by continental economic integration will be greater among specific pairs of tightly‐linked American states and Canadian provinces than is evident in national‐level comparisons. First, the paper outlines a number of important reasons to expect that provincial governments in Canada are more susceptible than the federal government to pre…
Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism
nuclear generation. This may be true, but as the last two years have demonstrated in North America, electricity markets can be quite volatile. Changing conditions in fuel markets, changing environmental policies, to name but two issues, have important impacts on the relative economics of different generation technologies. Similarly, decisions on Bruce and Darlington in Ontario will affect investments in other resources. The chapter provides much …
Public health‐care provision in the Canadian provinces and American states
While there are broad differences between the health‐care systems in Canada and the United States, sub‐national variation is significant in both countries (though more notably among American states), both in terms of the role of government in the provision of health‐care as well as outputs of the health‐care system such as access and cost‐control. Although this variation is rarely considered in comparisons of health‐care policy in the two countri…
Differences of degrees: Higher education in the American states and Canadian provinces
Two interesting patterns emerge when the provision of higher education in the Canadian provinces is compared to that in the American states. First, the differences in higher education in Canada and the United States are not as stark as one would expect. Most notably, the role and level of public provision of higher education varies widely among American states and, in many states, is more significant both in terms of funding and enrolment than in…
Resemblance and Relief: National Clustering and Social Assistance Provision—A Subnational Comparison
Social assistance--cash and in-kind benefits provided to those deemed to be without the means for an adequate level of subsistence--has been a point of constant comparison between the United States and Canada. These comparisons have generally tended to point to Canada's generosity in contrast to the meager levels of assistance provided in the United States.(1) Not only is Canada's social safety net widely accepted as more generous than that found…
Bureaucratic politics versus institutional norms: Alberta, Figa, Social Services, 1973–79
In conjunction with the image of Alberta's Department of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs (FIGA) as a strong, interventionist central agency, the argument that federal‐provincial matching cost‐sharing pits provincial line departments against central agencies raises the expectation that Alberta's position regarding reform of cost‐sharing for welfare and social services in the 1970s was likely the result of bureaucratic wrangling. However, rel…
Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism
nuclear generation. This may be true, but as the last two years have demonstrated in North America, electricity markets can be quite volatile. Changing conditions in fuel markets, changing environmental policies, to name but two issues, have important impacts on the relative economics of different generation technologies. Similarly, decisions on Bruce and Darlington in Ontario will affect investments in other resources. The chapter provides much …
Studying Public Policy: Historical Institutionalism and the Comparative Method
This article argues that Simeon's insistence on the value of explicit comparison within individual studies of public policy needs to remain central even in historical institutionalist approaches which “take time seriously” and focus on causal mechanisms—a methodological injunction sometimes seen to augur in favour of single-case and single-outcome studies. However, if Simeon's suggested approach is to reflect the major advances that have occurred…
Economic integration and cross‐border policy convergence: Social and environmental policy in Canadian provinces and American states
Focusing on social and environmental policy, this paper examines the hypothesis that policy convergence generated by continental economic integration will be greater among specific pairs of tightly‐linked American states and Canadian provinces than is evident in national‐level comparisons. First, the paper outlines a number of important reasons to expect that provincial governments in Canada are more susceptible than the federal government to pre…
Public health‐care provision in the Canadian provinces and American states
While there are broad differences between the health‐care systems in Canada and the United States, sub‐national variation is significant in both countries (though more notably among American states), both in terms of the role of government in the provision of health‐care as well as outputs of the health‐care system such as access and cost‐control. Although this variation is rarely considered in comparisons of health‐care policy in the two countri…
Differences of degrees: Higher education in the American states and Canadian provinces
Two interesting patterns emerge when the provision of higher education in the Canadian provinces is compared to that in the American states. First, the differences in higher education in Canada and the United States are not as stark as one would expect. Most notably, the role and level of public provision of higher education varies widely among American states and, in many states, is more significant both in terms of funding and enrolment than in…
Bureaucratic politics versus institutional norms: Alberta, Figa, Social Services, 1973–79
In conjunction with the image of Alberta's Department of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs (FIGA) as a strong, interventionist central agency, the argument that federal‐provincial matching cost‐sharing pits provincial line departments against central agencies raises the expectation that Alberta's position regarding reform of cost‐sharing for welfare and social services in the 1970s was likely the result of bureaucratic wrangling. However, rel…
Resemblance and Relief: National Clustering and Social Assistance Provision—A Subnational Comparison
Social assistance--cash and in-kind benefits provided to those deemed to be without the means for an adequate level of subsistence--has been a point of constant comparison between the United States and Canada. These comparisons have generally tended to point to Canada's generosity in contrast to the meager levels of assistance provided in the United States.(1) Not only is Canada's social safety net widely accepted as more generous than that found…
Differences of degrees: Higher education in the American states and Canadian provinces
Two interesting patterns emerge when the provision of higher education in the Canadian provinces is compared to that in the American states. First, the differences in higher education in Canada and the United States are not as stark as one would expect. Most notably, the role and level of public provision of higher education varies widely among American states and, in many states, is more significant both in terms of funding and enrolment than in…
Public health‐care provision in the Canadian provinces and American states
While there are broad differences between the health‐care systems in Canada and the United States, sub‐national variation is significant in both countries (though more notably among American states), both in terms of the role of government in the provision of health‐care as well as outputs of the health‐care system such as access and cost‐control. Although this variation is rarely considered in comparisons of health‐care policy in the two countri…
Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism
nuclear generation. This may be true, but as the last two years have demonstrated in North America, electricity markets can be quite volatile. Changing conditions in fuel markets, changing environmental policies, to name but two issues, have important impacts on the relative economics of different generation technologies. Similarly, decisions on Bruce and Darlington in Ontario will affect investments in other resources. The chapter provides much …
Asymmetry and Paradox: Social Policy and the U.S—Canada Bilateral Relationship
Important recent events, such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, the election of a second Bush administration, and the advent of a minority Liberal government and uniting of the political right in Canada, have had and will have important effects on both the conduct of bilateral relations and on domestic social policy in each country--not only directly but also as a result of the reciprocal dynamics operating between social policy and bilat…
Economic integration and cross‐border policy convergence: Social and environmental policy in Canadian provinces and American states
Focusing on social and environmental policy, this paper examines the hypothesis that policy convergence generated by continental economic integration will be greater among specific pairs of tightly‐linked American states and Canadian provinces than is evident in national‐level comparisons. First, the paper outlines a number of important reasons to expect that provincial governments in Canada are more susceptible than the federal government to pre…
Federal–Provincial Diplomacy: The Making of Recent Policy in Canada – By Richard Simeon
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…
Social protection guarantees as legal rights? The International Labour Organization, the United States, and the American ‘national context’
This article examines the development of the global Social Protection Floor proposal inside the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 2009 (when the ILO was designated as a lead agency in the process) through to the adoption of Recommendation 202 in 2012. While there was a considerably more high-profile external process under the auspices of the Advisory Group chaired by former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, the article argues that i…
After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual? After ’08 examines how global institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and International Labour Organization, as well as nation states around the world respond…
GSP Editors’ Farewell
Studying Public Policy: Historical Institutionalism and the Comparative Method
This article argues that Simeon's insistence on the value of explicit comparison within individual studies of public policy needs to remain central even in historical institutionalist approaches which “take time seriously” and focus on causal mechanisms—a methodological injunction sometimes seen to augur in favour of single-case and single-outcome studies. However, if Simeon's suggested approach is to reflect the major advances that have occurred…
Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)