POLI 2P99 Lecture Notes - Unemployment Benefits, Welfare, Egalitarianism
6 Nov 2013
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Poli 2p99 lecture 2 of 2 social policy in canada. Monday october 28th 2013: cooperation, accommodation, collectivism, equality inclusion capitalism, competition, discipline, unequal, exclusion individualism. Nations that manifest tendencies towards pervasive social policy intervention are commonly referred to as welfare states . But the term itself now has negative connotations. Slide 2: canada in a comparative setting social policy is canada as we know today can be traced back to the early. 1960s), canada was swept in the wave of demands for a just or great society. Although the collectivist view of society has largely prevailed in canada, the notion of welfare" still carries negative connotations in north america (while viewed more favorably in europe) Canada"s welfare state ranks just below the average of oecd countries; more generous than the us, but less generous than most western and northern. Canada"s relatively slower rate of social policy expansion (compared to the. Slide 3: explanations for the rise of social policy.
