Disability And Social Policy In Canada

Author : Daniel Béland,Gregory P. Marchildon,Michael J. Prince
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781442636491

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Universality and Social Policy in Canada by Daniel Béland,Gregory P. Marchildon,Michael J. Prince Pdf

Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare. The contributors survey the many contested meanings of universality in relation to specific social programs, the field of social policy, and the modern welfare state. The book argues that while universality is a core value undergirding certain areas of state intervention--most notably health care and education--the contributory principle of social insurance and the selectivity principle of income assistance are also highly significant precepts in practice.

Author : Anne Crichton,Lyn Jongbloed
Publisher : North York, Ont. : Captus Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000032630978

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Disability and Social Policy in Canada by Anne Crichton,Lyn Jongbloed Pdf

Author : Mary Ann McColl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : OCLC:1011725277

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Disability and Social Policy in Canada by Mary Ann McColl Pdf

Disability and Social Policy in Canada, 2e is the most comprehensive source of information on the present state of the disability policy in Canada. This new edition, edited by Dr. Mary Ann McColl and Dr. Lyn Jongbloed, moves beyond existing programs and history and focuses more on issues affecting policy and policy analysis. It analyzes the current state and future prospects of disability policy at the beginning of the 21st century, and attempts to identify directions for development and investment to ensure the best possible policy environment for disabled Canadians.

Author : Jeanette Robertson
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633862

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Disability and Social Change by Jeanette Robertson Pdf

This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family members, researchers, academics and practitioners. This book is an ideal text for students of social work, human services, child and youth care and disability studies. Chapters include first-person accounts from persons with disabilities, perspectives of families and historical perspectives, as well as a critical exploration of demographics, human rights issues, disability legislation and policy in Canada, theoretical approaches to disability, intersectionality and disability, Aboriginal people and disability, mental health disability, principles of anti-ableist practice, advocacy and strategies for change. This book offers as a fresh Canadian perspective on disability from a critical lens, challenging and inspiring students and practitioners alike to think outside the box and to examine their own attitudes and values toward disability, ensuring that they do not inadvertently impose ableist and oppressive practices on one of Canada’s most marginalized populations.

Author : Michael J. Prince
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773598829

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Struggling for Social Citizenship by Michael J. Prince Pdf

The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation of this program, Struggling for Social Citizenship is the first detailed examination of the single largest public contributory disability plan in the country. Focusing on broad policy trends and program developments and highlighting the role of cabinet ministers, members of Parliament, public servants, policy advisors, and other political actors, Michael Prince examines the pension reform agendas and records of the Pearson, Trudeau, Mulroney, Chrétien, Martin, and Harper prime ministerial eras. Shedding light on the immediate world of applicants and clients of the CPP disability benefit, this study reviews academic literature and government documents, features interviews with officials, and provides an analysis of administrative data regarding trends in expenditures, caseloads, decisions, and appeals related to CPP disability benefits. Struggling for Social Citizenship looks into the ways in which disability has been defined in programs and distinguished from ability in given periods, how these distinctions have operated, been administered, contested and regulated, as well as how, through income programs, disability is a social construct and administrative category. Weaving together literature on social policy, political science, and disability studies, Struggling for Social Citizenship produces an innovative evaluation of Canadian citizenship and social rights.

Author : Anne Westhues
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780889205604

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Canadian Social Policy by Anne Westhues Pdf

What are the major issues confronting social policy-makers today? What theoretical perspectives shape our thinking about the causes of social problems and how we should respond? What can we do to influence decision makers about which policy choice to make? In this completely revised and updated edition of "Canadian Social Policy," a new generation of social policy analysts discusses these important questions. Readers who are interested in discovering the current policy debates, and who want to understand the policy-making process at various levels of government as well as how they can influence the process and assess whether policies are working, will find this book invaluable.

Author : Alan H. Puttee,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical policy
ISBN : 9780889118553

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Federalism, Democracy and Disability Policy in Canada by Alan H. Puttee,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

The 1999 signing of the Social Union Framework Agreement, the elimination of government deficits, and an apparent trend to decentralisation have increased the focus on Canada's social policy and the manner of its formulation. While disability policy, a key element of social policy that is seldom high on the country's policy agenda, is sharing in the renewed interest, no significant disability policy changes have yet emerged.The Social Union and Disability Policy examines the development of Canadian disability policy and the current political landscape that will influence new policy. It offers an agenda for reform of the disability insurance system and for the provision of supports and services for people with disabilities. The focus is on the impact of governance structures, those now in place and those that might be expected to yield improved policy outcomes while promoting the principles of federalism and democratic oversight.Contributors to the volume are academics Michael Prince (University of Victoria), Roy Hanes (Carleton University) and Allan Moscovitch (Carleton University), NGO representative Michael Bach (Roeher Institute) and social policy analysts Marcia Rioux (York University) and Alan Puttee.

Author : Michael J. Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132203675

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Absent Citizens by Michael J. Prince Pdf

of the Canadian population." --Book Jacket.

Author : Rosalie Chappell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 017604857X

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Social Welfare in Canadian Society by Rosalie Chappell Pdf

Author : Deborah Stienstra
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552665688

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About Canada: Disability Rights by Deborah Stienstra Pdf

Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with disabilities, Deborah Stienstra argues that disability is not about “faulty” bodies that need to be fixed, but about the institutional, cultural and attitudinal reactions to certain kinds of bodies, and that neoliberal ideas of independence and individualism are at the heart of the continuing discrimination against “disabled” people. Stienstra contends that achieving disability rights is possible, but not through efforts to “fix” certain kinds of bodies. Rather it can be achieved through universal design, disability supports, social and economic supports and belonging — in short, through foundational social transformation of Canadian society.

Author : Anne Westhues,Brian Wharf
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554584109

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Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition by Anne Westhues,Brian Wharf Pdf

Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian Social Policy, Westhues and Wharf argue that service deliverers have discretion in how policies are implemented, and the exercise of this discretion is how citizens experience policy—whether or not it is fair and reasonable. They show the reader how social policy is made and they encourage active citizenship to produce policies that are more socially just. New material includes an examination of the reproduction of systemic racism through the implementation of human rights policy and a comparative analysis of the policy-making process in Quebec and English Canada. The second part of the book discusses policy issues currently under debate in Canada. Included are new chapters that explore parental leave policies and housing as a determinant of health. All chapters contain newly updated statistical data and research and policy analysis. A reworked section on the process of policy-making and the addition of questions for critical reflection enhance the suitability of the book as a core resource in social policy courses. The final chapter explores how front-line workers in the human services can advocate for change in organizational policies that will benefit the people supported.

Author : Dennis Guest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : UCAL:B4915729

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The Emergence of Social Security in Canada by Dennis Guest Pdf

Author : Daniel Béland,Pierre-Marc Daigneault
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442609716

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Welfare Reform in Canada by Daniel Béland,Pierre-Marc Daigneault Pdf

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy. This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.

Author : Michael J. Prince
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773598812

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Struggling for Social Citizenship by Michael J. Prince Pdf

The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation of this program, Struggling for Social Citizenship is the first detailed examination of the single largest public contributory disability plan in the country. Focusing on broad policy trends and program developments and highlighting the role of cabinet ministers, members of Parliament, public servants, policy advisors, and other political actors, Michael Prince examines the pension reform agendas and records of the Pearson, Trudeau, Mulroney, Chrétien, Martin, and Harper prime ministerial eras. Shedding light on the immediate world of applicants and clients of the CPP disability benefit, this study reviews academic literature and government documents, features interviews with officials, and provides an analysis of administrative data regarding trends in expenditures, caseloads, decisions, and appeals related to CPP disability benefits. Struggling for Social Citizenship looks into the ways in which disability has been defined in programs and distinguished from ability in given periods, how these distinctions have operated, been administered, contested and regulated, as well as how, through income programs, disability is a social construct and administrative category. Weaving together literature on social policy, political science, and disability studies, Struggling for Social Citizenship produces an innovative evaluation of Canadian citizenship and social rights.

Author : Jerome Edmund Bickenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015029970079

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Physical Disability and Social Policy by Jerome Edmund Bickenbach Pdf

In Canada, as elsewhere, social policy addressing the needs of people with physical disabilities is at an impasse. Bickenbach begins the task of creating a distinct, integrated, and coherent social policy for people with disabilities. His focus is exclusively on the policy- analytic endeavors of goal clarification and formulation of objectives, exploring the conceptual and normative foundations of social policy for, and on behalf of, people with disabilities. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR