Poverty reform in Canada, 1958-1978 : state and class influences on policy making / Rodney S. Haddow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haddow, Rodney S.

Series:

Critical perspectives on public affairs.

Critical perspectives on public affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Canada--History.

Public welfare.

Poverty--Government policy--Canada--History.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

247 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poverty Reform in Canada addresses a central theoretical concern in the contemporary study of public policy - the dichotomy between society-centred and state-centred perspectives on the modern state. Haddow makes the case that poverty reform during the 1960s and 1970s can be explained by combining insights from these seemingly mutually exclusive theoretical perspectives, arguing that the societal perspective explains the important preconditions of policy making, such as the impact of policy legacies, ideological beliefs, and accumulation strategies that reflect the historic weakness of working-class politics, while the statist perspective accounts for the impact of federalism and evolving structures of cabinet decision making.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Canadian Poverty Policy and State Theory

The Origins of Comprehensive Assistance Reform, 1958–63

Assistance Reform Triumphant, 1964–66

Parties, Interest Groups, and Poverty, 1958–68

Genesis of a New Poverty Reform, 1968–73

From Promise to Crisis, 1973–75

Demise of the Social Security Review, 1975–78

Parties, Interest Groups, and Poverty, 1968–78

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [227]-235 and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85633-2

9786612856334

0-7735-6387-3

OCLC:

732601052