One of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policymakers in Canada, this book makes an important contribution to the study of political communications and policymaking well beyond the Canadian context.

In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.

This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada’s response to environmental challenges.

A superb analysis of how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.

Offers a broad theoretical understanding of local government boundary reform and informs the wider scholarly discussion and debate regarding institutional change, state structures, and the areal jurisdiction of local governments.

Social science researchers from both within and outside of government collaborate to examine how research can and should be used as a foundation for the development of public policy.

From UI to EI examines the history of Canada’s unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed.

Insiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period.

In Carefair, Paul Kershaw urges us to resist this private/public distinction, and makes a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers everyone in society.

Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged?