Join the School of Policy Studies for the next Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief lecture with Dr. Keith Banting. 

Cycles of Change in Social Policy: Does the Past Point to the Present?

Keith Banting is the Stauffer-Dunning Fellow in the School of Policy Studies and professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies. His research focuses on the politics of social policy and the politics of multiculturalism. In the field of social policy, recent contributions include Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics (UBC Press). In the field of multiculturalism, early contributions include Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada (IRPP) and Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies (OUP). More recently, he is co-editor with Will Kymlicka of The Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies (OUP). Professor Banting is a member of the Order of Canada and the Royal Society of Canada.

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