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Daniel Béland
Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

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Journal article
Published: 30 July 2021 in Canadian Journal of Political Science
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While much has been written about the politics of retrenchment, in a number of advanced industrial societies social policy expansion does occur today, which raises issues about how to study it in a post-retrenchment era. The present article explores the new politics of social policy expansion in Canada. Drawing on the work of Paul Pierson, we use an integrated framework that highlights the interaction of five factors: the availability of fiscal resources; the emergence of new social risks; the intensity and nature of partisan competition; the policy preferences of the main political parties; and the role of political institutions, especially federalism. Empirically, the article studies the politics of federal social policy expansion during the Harper (2006–2015) and Justin Trudeau (2015–) years, with a focus on three policy areas: child benefits (Universal Child Care Benefit and Canada Child Benefit), pensions (Old Age Security and Canada/Quebec Pension Plan) and Employment Insurance.

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Daniel Béland; Michael J. Prince; R. Kent Weaver. From Retrenchment to Selective Social Policy Expansion: The Politics of Federal Cash Benefits in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science 2021, 1 -21.

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Daniel Béland, Michael J. Prince, R. Kent Weaver. From Retrenchment to Selective Social Policy Expansion: The Politics of Federal Cash Benefits in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 2021; ():1-21.

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Daniel Béland; Michael J. Prince; R. Kent Weaver. 2021. "From Retrenchment to Selective Social Policy Expansion: The Politics of Federal Cash Benefits in Canada." Canadian Journal of Political Science , no. : 1-21.

Research article
Published: 19 March 2021 in Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines
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This article applies the concept of policy paradigm and the work of Peter Hall to the analysis of policy change in Sub-Saharan Africa by analysing the implementation process of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV), adopted by the Heads of State of the African Union in 2009. To this end, it draws on the experiences of several West African countries. It suggests that we need to pay close attention to three factors that are too often neglected in the literature on paradigm shifts and policy change: (1) relationships between transnational and national actors, (2) asymmetrical power relations and (3) policy implementation.

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Daniel Béland; Bonnie Campbell; Mylène Coderre; Privilege Haang’Andu. Policy change and paradigm shifts in Sub-Saharan Africa: implementing the Africa Mining Vision. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 2021, 1 -19.

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Daniel Béland, Bonnie Campbell, Mylène Coderre, Privilege Haang’Andu. Policy change and paradigm shifts in Sub-Saharan Africa: implementing the Africa Mining Vision. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 2021; ():1-19.

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Daniel Béland; Bonnie Campbell; Mylène Coderre; Privilege Haang’Andu. 2021. "Policy change and paradigm shifts in Sub-Saharan Africa: implementing the Africa Mining Vision." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines , no. : 1-19.

Special issue article
Published: 16 March 2021 in Social Policy & Administration
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How have welfare states responded to the coronavirus pandemic? In this introductory article, we provide a synopsis of papers that comprise this special issue on social policy responses to COVID‐19, an overview of some of the key questions they raise, and some provisional answers to these questions. Our conclusions are threefold: first, these social policy responses, while entailing new developments in many countries, nonetheless reflect, at least in part, existing national policy legacies. Second, these responses can be understood as a form of “emergency Keynesianism,” which is characterized by the massive use of deficit spending during economic crises, with the aim of to supporting rather than challenging core capitalist institutions. Third, there are clear differences in terms of the nature of the reforms enacted during the initial phase of the COVID‐19 crisis as compared to reforms enacted as a response to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Daniel Béland; Bea Cantillon; Rod Hick; Amílcar Moreira. Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to theCOVID‐19 crisis. Social Policy & Administration 2021, 55, 249 -260.

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Daniel Béland, Bea Cantillon, Rod Hick, Amílcar Moreira. Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to theCOVID‐19 crisis. Social Policy & Administration. 2021; 55 (2):249-260.

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Daniel Béland; Bea Cantillon; Rod Hick; Amílcar Moreira. 2021. "Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to theCOVID‐19 crisis." Social Policy & Administration 55, no. 2: 249-260.

Journal article
Published: 10 March 2021 in Social Policy and Society
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Rana Jawad; Daniel Béland; Emmanuele Pavolini. Introduction: Populism, Religion and Social Policy. Social Policy and Society 2021, 20, 264 -266.

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Rana Jawad, Daniel Béland, Emmanuele Pavolini. Introduction: Populism, Religion and Social Policy. Social Policy and Society. 2021; 20 (2):264-266.

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Rana Jawad; Daniel Béland; Emmanuele Pavolini. 2021. "Introduction: Populism, Religion and Social Policy." Social Policy and Society 20, no. 2: 264-266.

Journal article
Published: 10 March 2021 in Social Policy and Society
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Rana Jawad; Daniel Béland; Emmanuele Pavolini. Some Useful Sources. Social Policy and Society 2021, 20, 356 -356.

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Rana Jawad, Daniel Béland, Emmanuele Pavolini. Some Useful Sources. Social Policy and Society. 2021; 20 (2):356-356.

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Rana Jawad; Daniel Béland; Emmanuele Pavolini. 2021. "Some Useful Sources." Social Policy and Society 20, no. 2: 356-356.

State of the art
Published: 11 January 2021 in Social Policy and Society
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The aims of this review article are two-fold: (1) to set out the key theoretical trends in the study of religion, populism and social policy as antithetical concepts that also share common concerns; (2) to re-assert the relevance of social policy to the social and political sciences by making the case for studying outlier or indeed rival topics together – in this case populism and religion. Social policy scholars do not necessarily associate these two topics with modern social policy, yet they have a long history of influence on societies all over the world; populism is also especially timely in our current era. The article contributes to the literature by: (a) helping social policy better understand its diverse and at times contradictory constituencies; (b) contributing to a more complex and inclusive understanding of social policy and, therefore, social welfare. In setting out the state-of-the-art, the article also draws upon research on social policy which spans various continents (North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and Latin America) and a preceding paper collaboration by the authors on religion and social policy (Pavolini et al., 2017).

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Rana Jawad; Daniel Béland; Emmanuele Pavolini. State of the Art: ‘The People’ and Their Social Rights: What Is Distinctive About the Populism-Religion-Social Policy Nexus? Social Policy and Society 2021, 20, 267 -281.

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Rana Jawad, Daniel Béland, Emmanuele Pavolini. State of the Art: ‘The People’ and Their Social Rights: What Is Distinctive About the Populism-Religion-Social Policy Nexus? Social Policy and Society. 2021; 20 (2):267-281.

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Rana Jawad; Daniel Béland; Emmanuele Pavolini. 2021. "State of the Art: ‘The People’ and Their Social Rights: What Is Distinctive About the Populism-Religion-Social Policy Nexus?" Social Policy and Society 20, no. 2: 267-281.

Research article
Published: 07 January 2021 in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
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National responses to COVID-19 depend in part on national health care financing arrangements. Yet the pandemic itself has not only strained system capacity, it has – through subsequent economic shocks – strained revenue sources that prop up these arrangements. In federal countries, fiscal pressures are particularly pronounced. As this paper argues, however, federal health financing regimes differ in ways that are shaping the agenda for post-pandemic reforms. The analysis, which focuses on health care financing in three federal countries (Canada, the United States, and Mexico), explores the current and potential future impact of COVID-19 on existing policy legacies.

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Daniel Béland; Gregory P. Marchildon; Anahely Medrano; Philip Rocco. COVID-19, Federalism, and Health Care Financing in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 2021, 23, 143 -156.

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Daniel Béland, Gregory P. Marchildon, Anahely Medrano, Philip Rocco. COVID-19, Federalism, and Health Care Financing in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. 2021; 23 (2):143-156.

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Daniel Béland; Gregory P. Marchildon; Anahely Medrano; Philip Rocco. 2021. "COVID-19, Federalism, and Health Care Financing in Canada, the United States, and Mexico." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 23, no. 2: 143-156.

Research article
Published: 13 November 2020 in Territory, Politics, Governance
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Federalism and policy feedback are central issues within the institutionalist tradition, but scholars who study the role of ideas within that tradition have paid surprisingly limited attention to these two issues. More specifically, within the public policy literature, little has been published about the relationship between federalism and the ideational dimension of policy feedback. The objective of this article is to explore this relationship at the theoretical level before illustrating basic analytical claims about it through empirical work. The empirical sections draw on two case studies from Canada to illustrate the interaction between federalism and ideational policy feedback over time: provincial social policy, with a focus on Quebec, and the federal National Energy Program, with a focus on its impact on Alberta. The analysis stresses the role of identity formation in mediating the connection between ideational and institutional processes in federal political systems.

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Daniel Béland; André Lecours. Ideas, federalism and policy feedback: an institutionalist approach. Territory, Politics, Governance 2020, 1 -17.

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Daniel Béland, André Lecours. Ideas, federalism and policy feedback: an institutionalist approach. Territory, Politics, Governance. 2020; ():1-17.

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Daniel Béland; André Lecours. 2020. "Ideas, federalism and policy feedback: an institutionalist approach." Territory, Politics, Governance , no. : 1-17.

Special issue
Published: 01 November 2020 in Social Policy & Administration
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Canada and the United States are often grouped together as liberal welfare‐state regimes, with broadly similar levels of social spending. Yet, as the COVID‐19 pandemic reveals, the two countries engage in highly divergent approaches to social policymaking during a massive public health emergency. Drawing on evidence from the first 5 months of the pandemic, this article compares social policy measures taken by the United States and Canadian governments in response to COVID‐19. In general, we show that Canadian responses were both more rapid and comprehensive than those of the United States. This variation, we argue, can be explained by analysing the divergent political institutions, pre‐existing policy legacies, and variations in cross‐partisan consensus, which have all shaped national decision‐making in the middle of the crisis.

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Daniel Béland; Shannon Dinan; Philip Rocco; Alex Waddan. Social policy responses to COVID ‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes. Social Policy & Administration 2020, 55, 280 -294.

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Daniel Béland, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan. Social policy responses to COVID ‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes. Social Policy & Administration. 2020; 55 (2):280-294.

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Daniel Béland; Shannon Dinan; Philip Rocco; Alex Waddan. 2020. "Social policy responses to COVID ‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes." Social Policy & Administration 55, no. 2: 280-294.

Articles
Published: 01 October 2020 in American Review of Canadian Studies
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Alberta is the only Canadian province without a provincial sales tax (PST). Despite repeated calls from prominent economists and other policy experts, Alberta politicians have long rejected the idea of creating a PST in the province. This is not only the case of previous Progressive Conservative governments but also of the New Democratic (NDP) government of Rachel Notley. Partisanship alone cannot explain why politicians in the province have been so reluctant to consider the creation of a PST, which has become the “third rail of Alberta politics” (touch it and die). Using the concept of ideational policy feedback, this article argues that, in addition to structural factors such as the availability of resource revenues to create massive fiscal downfalls in good times, the ways in which politicians have framed comparatively low taxes as an “Alberta Advantage” makes the creation of a PST particularly risky from an electoral standpoint.

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Geoff Salomons; Daniel Béland. The Presence of an Absence: The Politics of Provincial Sales Tax in Alberta. American Review of Canadian Studies 2020, 50, 418 -435.

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Geoff Salomons, Daniel Béland. The Presence of an Absence: The Politics of Provincial Sales Tax in Alberta. American Review of Canadian Studies. 2020; 50 (4):418-435.

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Geoff Salomons; Daniel Béland. 2020. "The Presence of an Absence: The Politics of Provincial Sales Tax in Alberta." American Review of Canadian Studies 50, no. 4: 418-435.

Chapter
Published: 30 June 2020 in One Hundred Years of Social Protection
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Political scientists have established compelling scholarly evidence that transnational actors (TNAs) can have a significant effect on state policies, on the creation of international norms and on the subsequent diffusion of these norms into domestic practices. In this chapter, we develop an approach to transnational mobilization built on ideational factors (e.g. cultural contexts, identities, norms, symbols and language) to explain variations of TNA success in policy diffusion. The contribution our ideational approach makes to transnational policy diffusion is threefold. First, using the illustration of disability and gender policies, our framework strives for determining the circumstances under which TNAs succeed and/or fail with diffusing transnational norms in an ideationally charged socio-political environment. Second, the framework abstracts the implications of underlying power factors in policy diffusion. Third, our framework bridges public policy concepts to devise an explanatory framework for social policy diffusion that could be applied to many policy situations.

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Privilege Haang’Andu; Daniel Béland. Transnational Actors and the Diffusion of Social Policies: An Ideational Approach. One Hundred Years of Social Protection 2020, 305 -332.

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Privilege Haang’Andu, Daniel Béland. Transnational Actors and the Diffusion of Social Policies: An Ideational Approach. One Hundred Years of Social Protection. 2020; ():305-332.

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Privilege Haang’Andu; Daniel Béland. 2020. "Transnational Actors and the Diffusion of Social Policies: An Ideational Approach." One Hundred Years of Social Protection , no. : 305-332.

Research article
Published: 26 May 2020 in Policy Sciences
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Policy feedback research faces a potential pivot point owing to recent theoretical and substantive advances. Concerted attention now spans new scientific communities, such as climate focused socio-technical transitions literature, as well as reinvigorated attention to environmental politics or policy. Rather than being interested in abstractly explaining policy stability and change, this latest turn turns feedback theory in order to help find practical answers to long-term policy challenges. This introduction to our special issue of Policy Sciences aims to take stock of recent developments in policy feedback research and highlight some areas that could be addressed to move the field forward. We argue for taking seriously the original dictum of policy feedback as a loop in which policy is treated as both the start and end point of analysis. This requires integrating advances in policy design scholarship through shared conceptualizations of ‘policy,’ ‘actors’ and ‘agency’. Doing so, we posit, will champion more comprehensive understandings of the effectiveness of policy design choices in general, and long-term oriented policy change in particular.

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Sebastian Sewerin; Daniel Béland; Benjamin Cashore. Designing policy for the long term: agency, policy feedback and policy change. Policy Sciences 2020, 53, 243 -252.

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Sebastian Sewerin, Daniel Béland, Benjamin Cashore. Designing policy for the long term: agency, policy feedback and policy change. Policy Sciences. 2020; 53 (2):243-252.

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Sebastian Sewerin; Daniel Béland; Benjamin Cashore. 2020. "Designing policy for the long term: agency, policy feedback and policy change." Policy Sciences 53, no. 2: 243-252.

Perspectives
Published: 18 May 2020 in Journal of Aging & Social Policy
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Older people are especially vulnerable to COVID-19, including and especially people living in long-term care facilities. In this Perspective, we discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term care policy in Canada. More specifically, we use the example of recent developments in Quebec, where a tragedy in a specific facility is acting as a dramatic “focusing event”. It draws attention to the problems facing long-term care facilities, considering existing policy legacies and the opening of a “policy window” that may facilitate comprehensive reforms in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Daniel Béland; Patrik Marier. COVID-19 and Long-Term Care Policy for Older People in Canada. Journal of Aging & Social Policy 2020, 32, 358 -364.

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Daniel Béland, Patrik Marier. COVID-19 and Long-Term Care Policy for Older People in Canada. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. 2020; 32 (4-5):358-364.

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Daniel Béland; Patrik Marier. 2020. "COVID-19 and Long-Term Care Policy for Older People in Canada." Journal of Aging & Social Policy 32, no. 4-5: 358-364.

Journal article
Published: 20 April 2020 in Canadian Journal of Political Science
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The COVID-19 crisis could trigger a critical juncture for several institutional arrangements in Canada, potentially leading to notable changes in fiscal federalism. This research note combines insights from historical institutionalism with recent economic and fiscal projections to explore avenues for reform in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Given the magnitude of the crisis, provincial governments may be unable to absorb the fiscal costs on their own. But vast differences in fiscal and economic circumstances across provinces make federal arrangements difficult to design. We argue that intergovernmental power dynamics and the principle of provincial autonomy are particularly important considerations in thinking about fiscal federalism post–COVID-19.

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Daniel Béland; André Lecours; Mireille Paquet; Trevor Tombe. A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to COVID-19. Canadian Journal of Political Science 2020, 53, 239 -243.

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Daniel Béland, André Lecours, Mireille Paquet, Trevor Tombe. A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to COVID-19. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 2020; 53 (2):239-243.

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Daniel Béland; André Lecours; Mireille Paquet; Trevor Tombe. 2020. "A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to COVID-19." Canadian Journal of Political Science 53, no. 2: 239-243.

Journal article
Published: 11 March 2020 in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
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Many argue that the frustrated implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) stems from the unprecedented level of political polarization that has surrounded the legislation. This article draws attention to the law's “institutional DNA” as a source of political struggle in the 50 states. As designed, in the context of US federalism, the law fractured authority in ways that has opened up the possibility of contestation and confusion. The successful implementation of the ACA varies not only across state lines but also across the various components of the law. In particular, opponents of the ACA have experienced their greatest successes when they could take advantage of weak preexisting policy legacies, high levels of institutional fragmentation, and negative public sentiments. As argued in this article, the fragmented patterns of health care politics in the 50 states identified in previous research have largely persisted during the Trump administration. Moreover, while Republicans were unsuccessful at repealing the legislation, the administration has taken advantage of its structural deficiencies to further weaken the legislation's capacity to expand access to affordable, quality health insurance.

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Daniel Béland; Philip Rocco; Alex Waddan. The Affordable Care Act in the States: Fragmented Politics, Unstable Policy. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2020, 45, 647 -660.

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Daniel Béland, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan. The Affordable Care Act in the States: Fragmented Politics, Unstable Policy. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 2020; 45 (4):647-660.

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Daniel Béland; Philip Rocco; Alex Waddan. 2020. "The Affordable Care Act in the States: Fragmented Politics, Unstable Policy." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45, no. 4: 647-660.

Research article
Published: 02 January 2020 in Policy Sciences
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Public policies are the products of political conflict, constituted by mixes of diverse tools and instruments intended to achieve multiple goals that may change over time and not always be internally consistent or coherent. Recent studies dealing with policy robustness and resilience have theorized about the temporal development of mixes of policy instruments and the need to ensure consistency and coherence over time, yet they have generally failed to develop these insights into lessons for policymakers and practitioners. Drawing on evidence from the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the USA, this paper examines the relationship between policy mixes and policy resilience or the ability of a policy to withstand challenges to its elements and to remain effective over time, even when deliberate efforts are made to alter, adapt, or repeal all or part of its original content or intention. Although the ACA is at an early stage in its history, it provides many lessons about how, and how not, to design complex policy mixes that can survive determined political opposition.

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Daniel Béland; Michael Howlett; Philip Rocco; Alex Waddan. Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act. Policy Sciences 2020, 53, 269 -289.

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Daniel Béland, Michael Howlett, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan. Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act. Policy Sciences. 2020; 53 (2):269-289.

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Daniel Béland; Michael Howlett; Philip Rocco; Alex Waddan. 2020. "Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act." Policy Sciences 53, no. 2: 269-289.

Articles
Published: 17 December 2019 in National Identities
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This article examines the impact of austerity on the politics of nationalism in Catalonia, Scotland, and Québec. In Catalonia, the recession and subsequent politics of austerity aided a secessionist turn triggered by an important judgement of the Spanish Constitutional Court. In Scotland, the Conservative austerity policies gave powerful arguments to the Scottish National Party in the context of the 2014 referendum on independence. In contrast, in Québec, austerity had no visible impact on nationalism. Our analysis of the impact of austerity on nationalism stresses the role of blame assignation as it intersects with political institutions and fiscal pressures.

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Daniel Béland; André Lecours. Nationalism and the politics of austerity: comparing Catalonia, Scotland, and Québec. National Identities 2019, 23, 41 -57.

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Daniel Béland, André Lecours. Nationalism and the politics of austerity: comparing Catalonia, Scotland, and Québec. National Identities. 2019; 23 (1):41-57.

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Daniel Béland; André Lecours. 2019. "Nationalism and the politics of austerity: comparing Catalonia, Scotland, and Québec." National Identities 23, no. 1: 41-57.

Journal article
Published: 26 July 2019 in Political Studies Review
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Despite the recent multiplication of publications on populism, an area that remains underexplored is the relationship between populism and the politics of insecurity, which refers to how perceived collective threats are framed and acted upon. The main objective of this article is to formulate an ideational framework for the analysis of populism as it intersects with the politics of insecurity. More specifically, the article focuses on right-wing populism, turning to the framing of migrants in the United States during the Trump presidency to illustrate specific claims about the relationship between populism and the politics of insecurity. As argued, the political framing of collective threats is a central aspect of populism. The role of framing points to the ideational side of populism, which is not a coherent ideology but a type of discourse through which perceived threats are strategically framed to both exacerbate collective insecurity and gather popular support by promising to shield citizens against these threats.

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Daniel Béland. Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Insecurity: How President Trump Frames Migrants as Collective Threats. Political Studies Review 2019, 18, 162 -177.

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Daniel Béland. Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Insecurity: How President Trump Frames Migrants as Collective Threats. Political Studies Review. 2019; 18 (2):162-177.

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Daniel Béland. 2019. "Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Insecurity: How President Trump Frames Migrants as Collective Threats." Political Studies Review 18, no. 2: 162-177.

Articles
Published: 25 June 2019 in Policy Studies
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Existing scholarship on federalism seeks to gauge the extent of centralization and decentralization by examining the role of federal and subnational governments in policymaking in a range of federal countries. Most of these studies are focused on debates about self-rule and subnational representation in the legislative branch. This paper explores the role of subnational governments in health care decisions made at the national level in Brazil. Some researchers argue that health care policymaking in Brazil is heavily centralized. This article aims to deepen our understanding of how subnational governments influence decisions in the health care equalization system. The existing scholarship shows that the effective power of states and municipalities in national decision making remains limited, yet this paper argues that other players, who support changes towards increased centralization, influence health policy decisions.

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Catarina Ianni Segatto; Daniel Béland. Federalism and decision making in health care: the influence of subnational governments in Brazil. Policy Studies 2019, 42, 308 -326.

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Catarina Ianni Segatto, Daniel Béland. Federalism and decision making in health care: the influence of subnational governments in Brazil. Policy Studies. 2019; 42 (3):308-326.

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Catarina Ianni Segatto; Daniel Béland. 2019. "Federalism and decision making in health care: the influence of subnational governments in Brazil." Policy Studies 42, no. 3: 308-326.

Articles
Published: 09 May 2019 in Territory, Politics, Governance
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This paper explores the fiscal politics of oil revenue in Brazil and Canada, two oil-rich federal countries that have different constitutional arrangements for revenue allocation and where constituent unit governments have different powers in the energy sector. More specifically, it offers a comparative analysis of the intergovernmental relations around oil revenue distribution in both countries over the last 30 years. The argument is that constitutional provisions on natural resources in federations (federal ownership or constituent unit ownership) produce distinct federal dynamics as it pertains to intergovernmental relations. Federal government ownership of natural resources produces conflicts between constituent units as they vie for their share of the proceeds. In contrast, provincial ownership eliminates the direct competition between constituent units for natural resource revenues. Nevertheless, intergovernmental tensions over natural resources can still appear as constituent units pressure the federal government to adopt horizontal fiscal equalization formulas friendly to their oil-producing, or non-oil-producing economies.

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Daniel Béland; Catarina Ianni Segatto; André Lecours. The fiscal politics of resource revenue: federalism, oil ownership and territorial conflict in Brazil and Canada. Territory, Politics, Governance 2019, 8, 676 -689.

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Daniel Béland, Catarina Ianni Segatto, André Lecours. The fiscal politics of resource revenue: federalism, oil ownership and territorial conflict in Brazil and Canada. Territory, Politics, Governance. 2019; 8 (5):676-689.

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Daniel Béland; Catarina Ianni Segatto; André Lecours. 2019. "The fiscal politics of resource revenue: federalism, oil ownership and territorial conflict in Brazil and Canada." Territory, Politics, Governance 8, no. 5: 676-689.