Peter Graefe

Research and Supervision
Courses
Refereed Journal Articles
Book Chapters and Reports

Research and Supervision

Peter Graefe research interests, flow from a broad interest in Canadian political economy and public policy, which include: Quebec's social and economic development policies; provincial social assistance policies; federal and provincial intergovernmental relations strategies; and policies dealing with the social economy or nonprofit sector.

His current primary research project involves studying recent federal-provincial social policy agreements to assess the extent that they promote interprovincial policy convergence or diversity.  Other ongoing research projects include the analysis of public policy discourses related to the social economy/third sector, and the study of the interplay of class politics and nationalism in the making of social and economic policy in Quebec.

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Courses

Undergraduate
2F3 - Politics, Power and Influence in Canada
4T6 (Half I) - Topics in Canadian Politics

Graduate
783 - Comparative Public Policy

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Refereed Journal Articles

• Graefe, P. and A. Bourns 2009. The gradual defederalization of Canadian health policy.  Publius:  The Journal of Federalism 39, 1, 287-309.
• Graefe, P. 2009.  Renouveau d’intérêt pour l’étude du fédéralisme au Québec et chantiers à ouvrir. Recherches Sociographiques, 50, 3, 604-613. [Review article]
• Graefe, P. 2007 [Nov. 2009].  Quelle décentralisation?  L’État fédéral canadien et les régimes provinciaux d’aide sociale.  Économie et solidarités,  38, 2, 27-42.
• Graefe, P. 2006. The Social Economy and the American Model. Global Social Policy, 6, 2. 197-219.
• Graefe, P. 2006. State Restructuring, Social Assistance and Canadian Intergovernmental Relations: Same Scales, New Tune. Studies in Political Economy, 78, 93-117.
• Graefe, P. 2006. Federalism and Social Policy: Evaluating Recent Federal-Provincial Agreements. Canadian Review of Social Policy 57, 1-15.
• Graefe, P. 2006. Social Economy Policies as Flanking for Neoliberalism: Transnational Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives. Policy and Society, 23, 3, 69-86.
• Graefe, Peter and M. Levesque 2006. La nouvelle gouvernance fédérale et les politiques sociales au Canada : Leçons des ententes en matière de l’intégration en emploi des personnes ayant des handicaps. Lien social et politiques, 56, 73-86
• Graefe, P. 2005. The contradictory political economy of minority nationalism. Theory and Society, 34, 5-6, 519-549.
• Graefe, P. 2004. Personal Services in the Post-industrial Economy: Adding Nonprofits to the Welfare Mix. Social Policy & Administration, 38, 5, 456-469.
• Graefe, P. 2004. The Quebec Patronat: Proposing a Neoliberal Political Economy After All. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 41, 2, 171-193.
• Graefe, P. 2004. La topographie des think tank patronaux québécois. La construction d’un paysage néolibéral. Globe. Revue internationale d’études québécoises, 7, 1, 181-202.
• Boismenu, G. and P. Graefe 2004. The New Federal Tool Belt: Attempts to Rebuild Social Policy Leadership. Canadian Public Policy, 30, 1, 71-89.
• Boismenu, G., P. Graefe and J. Jenson 2004. Conflictos y acuerdos: la transformación de las políticas sociales en Canadá. Foro Internacional, 44, 2.

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Book Chapters and Reports

• Graefe, P. 2009. Les stratégies de relance et le projet de démocratiser l’économie.  In É. Montpetit (ed.) La Crise et la gauche.  Montréal :  Boréal. 121-133.
• Graefe, P. 2008.  The Spending Power and Federal Social Policy Leadership: A Prospective View, IRPP Policy Matters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 53-106.
• Graefe, P. 2008.  L’asymétrie banale et l’asymétrie politique dans les accords récents en politiques sociales au Canada.  In L. Cardinal (ed.) Le fédéralisme asymétrique et les minorités linguistiques et nationales.  Sudbury:  Prise de parole.  135-155.
• Graefe, P. and A. Orasch 2008.  Globalization Through the Eyes of Business, Labour and the Women’s Movement:  Three Visions for Quebec’s Modernity.  In M-C. Weidmann Koop (ed.) Le Québec à l’aube du nouveau millénaire:  Entre tradition et modernité.  Québec:  Presses de l’Université du Québec.  57-64.
• Graefe, P. 2007. Political Economy and Canadian Public Policy. In M. Orsini and M. Smith (eds) Critical Policy Studies: Contemporary Canadian Approaches. Vancouver: UBC Press. 19-40.
• Graefe, P. 2007.  State Restructuring and the Failure of Competitive Nationalism:  Trying Times for Quebec Labour.  In M. Murphy (ed.) Canada:  The State of the Federation 2005.  Quebec and Canada in the New Century – New Dynamics, New Opportunities.  Kingston:  Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.  153-176.
• Graefe, P. and R. Laforest 2007.  La Grande Séduction:  Wooing Quebec.  In G.B. Doern (ed.) How Ottawa Spends 2007-2008:  The Harper Conservatives – Climate of Change.  Montreal:  McGill-Queen’s University Press.  46-62.
• Graefe, P. 2005. The Dynamics of the Parti Québécois in Power: Social Democracy and Competitive Nationalism. In W. Carroll and R.S. Ratner (eds) Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 46-66.
• Graefe, P. 2005. The Scope and Limits of Asymmetry in Recent Social Policy Agreements, Asymmetry Series no. 10. Kingston: Institute for Intergovernmental Relations.
• Graefe, P. 2004. L’économie sociale renforce-t-elle le néolibéralisme ou la démocratie? In R. Canet and J. Duchastel (eds) La régulation néolibérale. Crise ou ajustement? Montréal: Athéna Éditions. 201-222.
• Graefe, P. 2004. Nationalism and Competitiveness: Can Québec Win if Quebecers Lose? In A-G. Gagnon (ed.) Quebec: State and Society, 3rd Ed. Peterborough: Broadview Press. 427-446.

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