University of Toronto, Canada
Participants and Papers


Abrahamson, Peter (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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The end of the Scandinavian model? Welfare Reform in the Nordic countries
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Aidukaite, Jolanta (Baltic and East European Graduate School, Sweden)
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Family support systems in the Baltic countries - policy making and people's expectations
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Armstrong, Pat (York University, Canada)
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Armstrong, Hugh (Carleton University, Canada)
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Keeping the Baby: Reclaiming the Welfare State for These Times
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Banting, Keith (Queen's University, Canada)
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Kymlicka, Will (Queen's University, Canada)
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Do Multiculturalism Policies Erode the Welfare State?
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Béland, Daniel (University of Calgary, Canada)
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Lecours, André (Concordia University, Canada)
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Identities, Institutions and Policies: Sub-State Nationalism and Welfare State Politics in Canada, the United Kingdom and Belgium
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Block, Fred (University of California at Davis, United States)
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One World or Three ? : Globalization and the Future of Welfare Capitalism
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Boling, Pat (Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States)
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Political Explanations for Japanese Family Policies
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Brodie, Janine (University of Alberta, Canada)
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Harder, Lois (University of Alberta, Canada)
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Re-regulating Social Reproduction: New Welfarism and the Paradoxes of Gender

Campbell, Andrea Louise (Harvard University, United States)
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Morgan, Kimberly J. (George Washington University, United States)
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Federalism, Risk-Pooling, and Social Policy: The Politics of Long-Term Care in Germany and the United States
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Campbell, John Creighton (University of Michigan, United States )
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How Policies Differ: Long-Term-Care Insurance in Japan and Germany
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Clement, Wallace (Carleton University, Canada)
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The Matrix of Social Policy, Labour Markets and Households: Revealing the Class-Gender Nexus
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Ezawa, Aya (Swarthmore College, United States)
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Fujiwara, Chisa (Iwate University, Japan)
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Lone Mothers and Welfare-to-Work Policies in Japan and the United States: Towards an Alternative Perspective
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Ferrarini, Tommy (Stockholm University, Sweden)
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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE AND POVERTY - ANALYZING THE POLICY-OUTCOME LINK AMONG FAMILIES WITH INFANTS IN FIFTEEN WESTERN COUNTRIES
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Gelb, Joyce (CUNY Graduate Center, United States)
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Domestic Violence Policy in Japan : A Comparative Perspective
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Gottfried, Heidi (Wayne State University, United States)
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Regulating Difference: Labor De-Regulation and Re-Regulation and the Gender Division of Labor in Japan

Gough, Ian (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
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EAST ASIA: THE LIMITS OF PRODUCTIVIST REGIMES
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Gran, Brian (Case Western Reserve University, United States)
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Aliberti, Dawn (Case Western Reserve University, United States)
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The Office of the Children's Ombudsperson: Children's Rights and Social-Policy Innovation
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Halleröd, Björn (Umeå University, Sweden)
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What I need and what the poor deserves: Analysing the gap between the minimum incomes needed for oneself and the view on an adequate norm for social assistance
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Henderson, Ailsa (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
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White, Linda A. (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Shrinking Welfare States? Comparing Maternity Leave Benefits and Child Care Programs in European Union and North American Welfare States, 1985-2000
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Hicks, Alexander (Emory University, United States)
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Zorn, Christopher (Emory University, United States)
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The Paradox of Self-Limiting Immoderation: Explaining Reversals of Welfare Expansion
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Hinrichs, Karl (University of Bremen, Germany)
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Bounded Solidarity: The Demand for and the Presence of Solidaristic Motivations in the Welfare State
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Hobson, Barbara (Stockholm University, Sweden)
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Olàh, Livia (Stockholm University, Sweden)
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The Postive Turn? Gender, Labor Market Participation and Fertility in European Societies

Holliday, Ian (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
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East Asian Social Policy in the Wake of the Financial Crisis Farewell to Productivism?
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Huber, Evelyne (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States)
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Stephens, John D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States)
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Determinants of Welfare State Approaches to Old and New Social Risks
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Jenson, Jane (University of Montreal, Canada)
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St-Martin, Denis (University of Montreal, Canada)
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Building Blocks for a New Welfare Architecture: Is LEGO the model for an active society?
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Johnson, Karl E (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
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Sizing Up the Welfare State: How Do Measurement Concepts Impact Perceived Performance?
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Ka-ho Mok, Joshua (City University of Hong Kong , China)
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The Challenges of Global Capitalism: Changing Social Policy Paradigms in Post Mao China
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Kenworthy, Lane (Emory University, United States)
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The Welfare State and Absolute Poverty
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Kjeldstad, Randi (Statistics Norway, Norway)
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Rønsen, Marit (Statistics Norway, Norway)
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Welfare Rules, Business Cycles and Employment Dynamics among Lone Parents
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Kohl, Jürgen (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
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Principles of Distributive Justice in Pension Policies. Cross-National Variations in Public Opinion
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Korpi, Walter (Stockholm University, Sweden)
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Welfare State Expansion and Distributive Conflict: Partisan Politics and Institutions in the Golden Age
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Korteweg, Anna C. (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
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The Construction of the Masculine Citizen-Worker: An Ethnographic Comparison of Welfare-to-Work Workshops in the Netherlands and the United States
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Krishnan, Jayanth K. (William Mitchell College of Law, United States)
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Social Policy Advocacy and the Role of the Courts in India
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Kvist, Jon (The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark)
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Ploug, Niels (The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark)
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Active labour market policies when do they work - and where do they fail?
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Kwon, Huck-ju (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Switzerland)
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Transforming the developmental welfare states in East Asia
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Lampis, Andrea (University Externado of Colombia, Colombia)
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The challenge of vulnerability for the Colombian welfare system: the case of Bogotá
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Mahon, Rianne (Carleton University, Canada)
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“Yet Another ‘R’?” The Redesign and Rescaling of Welfare Regimes”
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Marier, Patrik (SUNY Brockport, United States)
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Policy-Making and Pension Reform in Five Industrialized Countries
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Mathieu, Sophie (University of Montreal, Canada)
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Bernard, Paul (University of Montreal, Canada)
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Droits, marchandisation et défamilialisation : une typologie des régimes de genre dans les sociétés post-industrielles
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Montanari, Ingalill (Stockholm University, Sweden)
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GENDERED WORK AND GENDERED CITIZENSHIP: JAPAN IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
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Morel, Nathalie (Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
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Care policies and welfare state transformation. A framework for analysing changes in care policies in France and Sweden.
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Mudge, Stephanie L. (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
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Are Education and Training the New Welfare State? The Content and Consequences of Changing Social Morality in the European Union and the United States
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Nelson, Kenneth (Stockholm University, Sweden)
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Mechanisms of poverty alleviation in the Welfare state A comparative study of anti-poverty effects of non means-tested and means-tested benefits in five countries in the 1990s
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Noël, Alain (University of Montreal, Canada)
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The New Politics of Poverty
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O'Connor, J.S (University of Ulster, United Kingdom)
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Measuring Progress in Welfare States: Social Indicators and Social Policy Agendas in the European Union
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Orloff, Ann Shola (Northwestern University, United States)
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Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of the States, Social Policies and Modernity
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Oorschot, Wim van (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
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WELFARE STATE EFFECTS ON SOCIAL CAPITAL AND INFORMAL SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE, EVIDENCE FROM THE 1999/2000 EUROPEAN VALUES STUDY
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Ozer, Bugra (Carleton University, Canada)
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Restructuring the Turkish Welfare State: The Healthcare Reform
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Palier, Bruno (MSH-CEVIPOF, France)
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The Europeanisation of Welfare Reforms
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Palme, Joakim (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Sweden)
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Montanari, Ingalill (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Sweden)
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Convergence or divergence in the era of retrenchment: social insurance in eighteen countries

Peng, Ito (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Explaining the 1990s Social Care Expansion in Japan: The New Politics of Welfare State?
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Shalev, Michael (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
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Mandel, Hadas (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
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Class Conditioning of Welfare State Effects on Gender Inequality: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis
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Shaver, Sheila (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
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Burke, Sharon (University of New South Wales, Australia)
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Welfare States and Women’s Autonomy: A Thought Experiment
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Shinkawa, Toshimitsu (Kyoto University, Japan)
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The New Politics of the Welfare State in Japan: From Credit-claiming to Blame Avoidance
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Song, Jesook (University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign, United States)
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Making Homeless Women Invisible: Moral Governance in the Eye of the South Korean National Debt Crisis, 1997-2001
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St-Arnaud, Sébastien (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Bernard, Paul (University of Montreal, Canada)
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More of the Same? A Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of the Welfare Regimes in Advanced Countries
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Stryker, Robin (University of Minnesota, United States)
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Eliason, Scott (University of Minnesota, United States)
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The Welfare State, Gendered Labor Markets and Political Orientations in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Britain 1977-1994
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Taylor-Gooby, Peter (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
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The Genuinely Liberal Genuine Welfare State
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Teplova, Tatyana (Carleton University, Canada)
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RUSSIAN WELFARE STATE: Towards a Neofamilialist Type
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Tuohy, Carolyn (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Big Bangs, Blueprints and Incrementalism: A Cross-national Perspective on Patterns of Policy Change in Health Care
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White, Deena (University of Montreal, Canada)
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The Rising Profile of Services and Partnerships: What Implications for Welfare State Dynamics?
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Wong, Joseph (University of Toronto, Canada)
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MAINSTREAMING THE IDEA OF WELFARE: Democratization and Ideational Change in Taiwan and Korea
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