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Social Policy in the Global Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Social Policy in the Global Economy

Examining the forces of globalization and debt and their impact on social policy in a number of countries, Social Policy in the Global Economy focuses on the fiscal dimension of social policy and offers important policy lessons for complex and rapidly changing times.

SARS in Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

SARS in Context

Former Ontario Chief Coroner James Young and infectious disease expert Dick Zoutman recount their efforts to contain the mysterious new disease. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," several distinguished historians of epidemics examine how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS. They also reflect on how the advent of SARS alters their views of the past. Finally, policy experts comment on possible changes to health care that the SARS experience suggests should be made.

Precarious Values
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Precarious Values

Precarious Values highlights the pressures and constraints under which politicians, bureaucrats, and stakeholders make decisions. The lessons and conclusions of the book apply not only to labour market policy in Ontario but also to other jurisdictions and organizations.

Women and Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Women and Work

Women and Work is based on the joint John Deutsch Institute and Canadian Workplace Research Network conference held at Queen's University in April 1998. This conference brought together leading academic researchers and policymakers who presented new empirical research on policy issues related to women and the work force.

Making Multilevel Public Management Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Making Multilevel Public Management Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-23
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings, since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and most problems transcend and cut across administrative and geographical borders. A collaboration of scholars in the Transnational Initiative on Governance Research and Education (TIGRE Net), Making Multilevel Public

The Case for Centralized Federalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

The Case for Centralized Federalism

The Case for Centralized Federalism and its sister volume The Case for Decentralized Federalism are the outcome of the Federalism Redux Project, created to stimulate a serious and useful conversation on federalism in Canada. They provide the vocabulary and arguments needed to articulate the case for a centralized or a decentralized Canadian federalism. In The Case for Centralized Federalism, an array of experts condemns the federal government’s submissiveness in its dealings with the provinces and calls for a renewed federal assertiveness. They argue that the federal government is best placed to create effective policy, support democracy and respond to issues of national importance.