Combating Poverty : Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State / Axel van den Berg, Charles Plante, Sam Faustmann, Christine Proulx, Hicham Raiq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van den Berg, Axel, author.

Faustmann, Sam, author.

Plante, Charles, author.

Raiq, Hicham, author.

Series:

Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.

Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Canada.

Poverty.

Canada--Provinces--Social policy.

Canada.

Canada--Provinces--Economic policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous 'liberal market' regime, social and labour market policy falls within provincial jurisdiction resulting in a considerable divergence in policy mixes and outcomes between provinces. This volume offers a detailed survey of social and labour market policies since the early 2000s in Canada's four largest provinces--Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta--showing the full extent to which Canada's major provinces have chosen diverging policy paths. Quebec has succeeded in emulating European and even Nordic social democratic levels of poverty for some groups, while poverty rates and patterns in the other provinces remain close to the high levels characteristic of the North American liberal, market-oriented regime. Combating Poverty provides a unique and timely reflection on the political implications and sustainability of Canada's fragmented welfare state."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Quebec's Exceptionalism in Context; Chapter One Social and Employment Policies at the Provincial Level: A Survey of Four Provinces; Chapter Two Poverty: Measures and Trends; Chapter Three Poverty and the Changing Family; Chapter Four Chronic Poverty; Chapter Five Activation and Poverty; Chapter Six How Exceptional Is Quebec?; Conclusion: Towards the Provincialization of the Social Union?; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1350-X

1-4875-1349-6

OCLC:

1054880643