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Social Policy
The department offers a cluster of expertise in the Social Policy Field:
Stephen McBride is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Public Policy and Globalization.
Michelle Dion works on social policy in Latin America,
Katherine Boothe focuses upon Health Policy in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.
Peter Graefe - Intergovernmental Relations in Social Policy, Social Economy, Social Assistance
Charlotte Yates’ work on Labour Market Policy
Julia Abelson and John Lavis in the Health Policy field
Scott Davies in the Education Policy field.
Some members of the research cluster in Social Policy are involved in McMaster’s Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) and the research program on Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population (SEDAP) which is centered at McMaster University.
PhD students coming to work on social policy can therefore draw on expertise in a range of policy fields, in addition to McMaster’s recognized strength in Comparative Policy studies more generally. They will also find faculty embracing a range of theoretical approaches, including Historical Institutionalism, Political Economy Approaches, Ideational perspectives, and Feminism, and open to discussion across approaches and policy fields. McMaster also hosts the Global Social Policy journal and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition offers a graduate course in this field.
