Daniel Béland

Daniel Béland is Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (University of Saskatchewan campus). A political sociologist studying public policy from an historical and comparative perspective, he has published 8 books and more than 60 peer-reviewed articles. Professor Béland has held visiting fellowships at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, George Washington University, the University of Helsinki, the University of Southern Denmark, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He currently serves as the Editor (French) of the Canadian Journal of Sociology and as Secretary-Treasurer of the Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association. 

Thaddeus Hwong

Thaddeus Hwong is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University (School of Public Policy and Administration and School of Administrative Studies). Thaddeus Hwong models interactions between tax law and social policy that affect the financing of the welfare state. His current empirical research projects explore costs and benefits of progressive income taxation and tax expenditures amidst globalization as well as attitudes towards taxpaying and welfare state. 

Grace Skogstad

Grace Skogstad is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her areas of speciality include Canadian politics, including Canadian federalism, and comparative public policy. Her most recent books are Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism and Domestic Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2011) and Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture: Policy and Governing Paradigms (University of Toronto Press, 2008). The third edition of her co-edited book, Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy (Oxford University Press) will be published in early 2012. Her recent publications address the impact on domestic policy-making of developments associated with economic globalization and political internationalization. This research explores the distinct and interactive role of domestic and international factors in influencing the policy ideas integral to Canadian agricultural policy, Canadian and EU policies to regulate the risks of genetically modified organisms, and biofuels policies in North America and the EU. 

Phil Triadafilopoulos

Phil Triadafilopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany (UBC Press, 2012) and has published in the Review of International Studies, The Journal of Politics, the Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Citizenship Studies, and the Journal of Historical Sociology. More information regarding his teaching and research interests is available at: http://triadafilopoulos.wordpress.com