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Federalism and the "New Politics" of Welfare Development: Childcare and Parental Leave in Australia and Canada

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  • Rianne Mahon
  • Deborah Brennan

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How does federal state architecture affect the design of welfare? We explore the development of childcare and parental leave in Canada and Australia to address this question. Both countries are considered liberal welfare regimes, but their federal institutions operate in quite different ways, providing an opportunity for comparative analysis. We consider the ways in which federal institutions have affected mobilization around childcare and parental leave and have helped to shape policy outcomes. There is a plausible connection between the institutional configuration of each federation and policy design. It is not definitive, but interacts with variables such as the nature and scale of federal fiscal and policy capacity, the gendered assumptions embedded in the structures of the welfare state, political party strategies, and feminist mobilization. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.

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  • Rianne Mahon & Deborah Brennan, 2013. "Federalism and the "New Politics" of Welfare Development: Childcare and Parental Leave in Australia and Canada," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 43(1), pages 90-108, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:43:y:2013:i:1:p:90-108
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    1. Paul Chaney, 2015. "“Post-Feminist†Era of Social Investment and Territorial Welfare? Exploring the Issue Salience and Policy Framing of Child Care in U.K. Elections 1983-2011," SAGE Open, , vol. 5(1), pages 21582440155, February.

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