Comparing Quebec and Ontario : : Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the Millennium /

Comparing Quebec and Ontario : : Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the Millennium / / Rodney Haddow.

Can sub-units within a capitalist democracy, even a relatively decentralized one like Canada, pursue fundamentally different social and economic policies? Is their ability to do so less now than it was before the advent of globalization? In Comparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow brings these qu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Haddow, Rodney,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2015
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 26 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • COMPARING QUEBEC AND ONTARIO. Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the Millennium
  • 1. How Do Advanced Political Economies Differ? Why Does It Matter?
  • 2. Typing Provinces: The Political Economies of Ontario and Quebec
  • 3. Budgeting: Why Some Tax and Spend More Than Others, and How
  • 4. Social Assistance and Transfers: Redistributing, but Differently
  • 5. Childcare and Early Learning: Can the Residual Mould Be Broken?
  • 6. Economic Development: Can States Still Intervene?
  • 7. Quantitative Evidence (1): Comparing Policy “Effort”
  • 8. Quantitative Evidence (2): Comparing Redistributive Outcomes
  • Conclusion: How Large and Durable Are These Differences?
  • Notes
  • Index

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