Poverty Reform in Canada, 1958-1978

by Haddow, Rodney S.

• ISBN13: 9780773516380
• ISBN10: 0773516387
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Rodney Haddow explains and compares the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) and the Social Security Review, the two most extensive attempts by the federal government to reform Canadian poverty policy during the postwar era. Using previously confidential government documents and interviews with many of the important players, he examines the forces that stimulated the emergence and subsequent development of these two policy initiatives and the circumstances that determined their quite different fates.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 Canadian Poverty Policy and State Theory	3	(17)
2 The Origins of Comprehensive Assistance Reform, 1958-63	20	(26)
3 Assistance Reform Triumphant, 1964-66	46	(22)
4 Parties, Interest Groups, and Poverty, 1958-68	68	(16)
5 Genesis of a New Poverty Reform, 1968-73	84	(36)
6 From Promise to Crisis, 1973-75	120	(23)
7 Demise of the Social Security Review, 1975-78	143	(22)
8 Parties, Interest Groups, and Poverty, 1968-78	165	(21)
9 Conclusion	186	(11)
Notes	197	(30)
Bibliography	227	(10)
Index	237