Old age pensions and policy-making in Canada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryden, Kenneth.

Series:

Canadian public administration series.

Canadian public administration series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old age pensions--Canada--History.

Old age pensions.

Pensions--Canada--History.

Pensions.

Physical Description:

264 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Old age pensions have been a recurring issue in Canadian politics since the beginning of the twentieth century and now have more government resources devoted to them than to any other single public program. For these reasons the author has selected old age pensions as a case study on the politics of income redistribution.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

PREFACE

1. Framework of the Study

1. The Historical Dimension

2. Political and Socioeconomic Policy Determinants

3. The Policy Spiral

2. Market Ethos versus Environmental Want

1. The Market Ethos

2. Urbanization and Its Concomitants

3. Alternatives to Public Pensions

4. Economic Hardship in Old Age

3. Early Pressures for Public Pensions and the Government Annuities Plan

1. Awakening Interest in Canada

2. The Nova Scotia Act of 1908

3. Government Annuities, 1908

4. Means-Test Pensions, 1927

1. The 1927 Plan

2. World War I and Its Aftermath

3. The Precipitants

4. Choice of Design

5. Related Pension Plans

5. Implementation of the 1927 Plan

1. Complementary Provincial Action

2. Revision of the Plan

3. Administration of the Plan

6. Universal Pensions, 1951

1. The 1951 Program

2. Early Discussions of Alternative Designs

3. Reemergence of Pensions as a Priority Issue

5. Implementation and Revision of the Program

7. Contributory Pensions, 1965

1. The Restructured Two-Level Program

2. Emergence of Earnings-Related Pensions as a Political Issue

8. Shaping the 1965 Design

1. Restructuring the Universal Plan

2. Evolution of the Earnings-Related Plan

3. The Ottawa-Quebec Compromise

4. Revision of the 1965 Program

9. Public Pensions and the Policy Spiral

1. Interest Articulation and Aggregation

2. Subsidiary Actors in the Policy Process

3. Conversion to Policy

4. Public Pensions and Income Redistribution

NOTES

INDEX

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Tables.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-6066-1