"Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous 'liberal market' regime,...

In this paper, we analyze if and how different levels of government offload clients onto other welfare state programmes that are not under their financial responsibility, focusing particularly on municipally-led social assistance schemes, the safety net of last resort. We start from the...

Welfare state futures / Stephan Leibfried and Herbert Obinger -- Towards a theory of the welfare state / Franz-Xaver Kaufmann -- The dog that didn't bark: economic development and the postwar welfare state / Francis G. Castles -- How do welfare states change? Institutions and their impact on the...