1. How Do Advanced Political Economies Differ? Why Does It Matter? -- 2. Typing Provinces: The Political Economies of Ontario and Quebec -- 3. Budgeting: Why Some Tax and Spend More Than Others, and How -- 4. Social Assistance and Transfers: Redistributing, but Differently -- 5. Childcare and Early Learning: Can the Residual Mould Be Broken? -- 6. Economic Development: Can States Still Intervene? -- 7. Quantitative Evidence (1): Comparing Policy "Effort" -- 8. Quantitative Evidence (2): Comparing Redistributive Outcomes
Summary
In Comparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow analyses how budgeting, economic development, social assistance, and child care policies differ between the two provinces. The cause of the differences, he argues, are underlying differences between their political economic institutions