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Graefe Peter, Associate Professor

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Peter Graefe

Associate Professor

Faculty
Department of Political Science

Associate Members
School of Labour Studies

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

Research and Supervision

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

Education

  • PhD. Université de Montréal, 2003
  • MA York University, 1996
  • BA (Hons.) McGill University, 1995

Teaching

Recently taught courses (since 2019)
Political Science 2D03: Canadian Democracy
Political Science 2F03: Politics, Power and Influence in Canada
Political Science 3GG3: Federalism
Political Science 3JJ3: Provincial Politics
Political Science 760: Political Institutions of the Canadian State
 
 

Research

Edited Book

  • Peter Graefe, Julie M. Simmons and Linda A. White (eds.) 2013. Overpromising and Underperforming: Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 336 pp.

Refereed Journal Articles (selected)

  • Graefe, P. and X.H. Rioux. 2020. What Should Be Done With a ‘House in Order’? An Economic Perspective on Post-Liberal Quebec.
    American Review of Canadian Studies 50, 3, 293-308
  • Graefe, P. 2018. State rescaling, institutionalized state-citizen relationships, and Canadian health policy. Studies in Political Economy 99, 2, 175-193.
  • Simmons, J. M. and P. Graefe 2013 "Assessing the Collaboration That Was “Collaborative Federalism” 1996-2006".Canadian Political Science Review, 7, 1, 25-36.
  • Hudson, C-A. and P. Graefe 2011 [Fall 2012].  The Toronto Origins of Ontario’s 2008 Poverty Reduction Strategy:  Mobilizing Multiple Channels for Progressive Social Policy Change.  Canadian Review of Social Policy 65-66, 1-15.
  • Graefe, P. and M. Levesque 2010. Accountability and Funding as Impediments to Social Policy Innovation: Lessons from the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities. Canadian Public Policy, 36, 1, 45-62.
  • Graefe, P. and A. Bourns 2009. The gradual defederalization of Canadian health policy.  Publius:  The Journal of Federalism 39, 1, 287-309.
  • 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. Social Economy Policies as Flanking for Neoliberalism: Transnational Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives. Policy and Society, 23, 3, 69-86.
  • Graefe, P. 2005. The contradictory political economy of minority nationalism. Theory and Society, 34, 5-6, 519-549.

Book Chapters and Reports (since 2014)

  • Graefe, P. 2021. Employment Insurance and Regional Dynamics in Canada. In J. Farney & J.M. Simmons (eds.) Open Federalism Revisited: Regional and Federal Dynamics in the Harper Era. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.  248-267

  • Graefe, P. 2021. Is Non-Centralization and Adequate Principle for Fiscal Federalism in a Multinational Context? Reflections from the Canadian Case. In F. Boucher & A. Noël (eds.) Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States: Autonomy, Equality, and Diversity. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.  112-133.

  • Graefe, P. 2021. Labour and Politics in Quebec. In S. Ross & L. Savage (eds.) Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada.  Halifax: Fernwood. 69-87.

  • Ferdosi, M., P. Graefe, W. Lewchuk & S. Ross. 2021.Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Ontario Workers, Workplaces and Families: Fact Sheets. Hamilton: McMaster School of Labour Studies, May

  • Graefe, P. 2020. The Political Economy of Social Policy in Canada. In H. Whiteside (ed.) Canadian Political Economy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

  • Graefe, P. 2019. Political Economy and Quebec Capitalism. In M. Thomas, L. Vosko, C. Fanelli & O. Lyubchenko (eds.) Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium.  Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

  • Graefe, P. 2018. Corporatization and Federal-Provincial Relations. In J. Brownlee, C. Hurl & K. Walby (eds.) Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service.  Toronto: Between the Lines, 141-153.

  • Graefe, P. & C-A. Hudson. 2018. [2019]. Poverty and Policy in Ontario: You Can’t Eat Good Intentions.  In G. Albo & B.M. Evans (eds) Divided Ontario: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 309-333.

  • Graefe, Peter. 2018. [2019] Engaging Communities Around Austerity and Alternatives in Quebec: Lessons from Thirty Years of Consultations. Austerity and Its Alternatives Working Paper. March. https://altausterity.mcmaster.ca/documents/w49-sep-4-2018-graefe-engaging-communities.pdf

  • Graefe, P. & X.H. Rioux Ouimet. 2018. From the Bailiffs at Our Doors to the Greek Peril: Twenty Years of Fiscal 'Urgency' and Quebec Politics. In B. Evans & C. Fanelli (eds.). The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 161-188.

  • Graefe, P. & X-H Rioux. 2017.  Austerity of Imagination: Quebec’s Struggles in Translating Resistance into Alternatives.  In S. McBride & B. Evans (eds), Austerity: The Lived Experience.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 272-292.

  • Graefe, P. 2016. [2017] Austerity in Quebec: Neither Romance nor Despair. Austerity and Its Alternatives Working Paper, December.   http://indigenous.mcmaster.ca/austerity-and-its-alternatives/documents/w5-aug-1-2017-peter-graefe-austerity-in-quebec.pdf

  • Graefe, P.. 2016. Retooling social reproduction for neoliberal times: the example of the social economy. In S. Springer, K. Birch & J. MacLeavy (eds.) The Handbook of Neoliberalism. New York: Routledge.  284-293.

  • Graefe, P. 2015. Social Assistance in Ontario. In D. Béland & P-M. Daigneault (eds.) Welfare Reform in Canada: Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 111-126.

    Graefe, P. 2015. Quebec Nationalism and Quebec Politics, from Left to Right.  In C. Smith & B. Evans (eds.) Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada’s Provinces and Territories in the Era of Neoliberalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.