The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector

L Lobao, M Gray, K Cox, M Kitson - Cambridge journal of …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
This article explores the 'shrinking state', the potential erosion of the state from its customary
intervention in regulating economic growth and promoting redistribution and the overall …

Middle class nation building through immigration?

E Winter - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
This special issue examines the increase in scale and intensity of merit-based (im) migration
policies as a means to revive aging populations and boost national economies in countries …

[HTML][HTML] The tattered state: Falling through the social safety net

A Barford, M Gray - Geoforum, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The past decade of austerity in the UK has accelerated changes in the relationship between
citizens and the state. Cuts to welfare spending have resulted in uneven geographical …

The political economy of health: a research agenda for addressing health inequalities in Canada

D Raphael - Canadian Public Policy, 2015‏ - utppublishing.com
Public policy creates health inequalities among Canadians by inequitably distributing the
social determinants of health (SDOH). Political decisions by authorities bring about these …

Unequal impact of COVID-19: emergency Neoliberalism and Welfare policy in Canada: unequal impact of COVID-19

T Bryant, S Aquanno… - Critical Studies: An …, 2020‏ - ojs.scholarsportal.info
This paper examines Canada's liberal welfare state in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. It
argues that contrary to claims that the pandemic is affecting both rich and poor equally, its …

[ספר][B] The Routledge companion to the cultural industries

K Oakley, J O'Connor - 2015‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
scholarship that seeks to re-assert the importance of cultural production and consumption
against the purely economic imperatives of the 'creative industries'. Across 43 chapters …

Beyond policy analysis: the raw politics behind opposition to healthy public policy

D Raphael - Health promotion international, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Despite evidence that public policy that equitably distributes the prerequisites/social
determinants of health (PrH/SDH) is a worthy goal, progress in achieving such healthy …

Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in premature and avoidable mortality in Canada, 1991–2016

FV Shahidi, A Parnia, A Siddiqi - CMAJ, 2020‏ - cmaj.ca
BACKGROUND: Recent epidemiologic findings suggest that socioeconomic inequalities in
health may be widening over time. We examined trends in socioeconomic inequalities in …

A qualitative study of autism policy in Canada: Seeking consensus on children's services

CA Shepherd, C Waddell - Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2015‏ - Springer
Canadian autism policy has been unusually contentious, with parents resorting to litigation
to secure services for their children in several provinces. To ascertain whether consensus …

Rising inequality in Canada: A regional perspective

S Breau - Applied Geography, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In almost three-quarters of OECD countries, income inequality has increased over the past
three decades. Canada is among those countries experiencing the fastest growth in …