Lecours - Fiscal federalism and equalization policy in canada - political and economi

Daniel Bland is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy (Tier 1) at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. A student of comparative social and fiscal policy, he has published 14 books and more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Written with Andr Lecours, his articles on equalization policy have appeared in Publius, Journal of Public Policy, and Canadian Journal of Political Science. Recent books include Obamacare Wars (University Press of Kansas, 2016; with Philip Rocco and Alex Waddan) and Welfare Reform in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2015; co-edited with Pierre-Marc Daigneault).

Andr Lecours is a professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is a specialist of Canadian and comparative federalism, and he has taught and published extensively in that field. He is the editor of New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005; the author of Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State (University of Nevada Press, 2007); and the co-author (with Daniel Bland) of Nationalism and Social Policy: The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2008). He has also published numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Gregory P. Marchildon is Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and Professor in the school of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto. As a former Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and cabinet secretary in the Saskatchewan government and as the executive director of the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission), he has considerable federal-provincial relations experience with equalization and other federal transfers. Trained as an economist and historian, he has published over a hundred articles and book chapters on federalism and health care. His most recent books include Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care (University of Toronto Press, 2014), Health Systems in Transition: Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2013), and Nunavut: A Health System Profile (McGill-Queens University Press, 2013).

Haizhen Mou is an associate professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. An economist by training, her primary research interests include health care financing and expenditure, cost and efficiency of public sectors, and government budget management, often from a political economy perspective. She has published in Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Public Finance Review, and Health Policy.

M. Rose Olfert is a professor emerita at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. A regional economist by training and practice, she has published widely on the determinants of differences in regional economic outcomes, focusing on the rural regions of North America. She has published more than 70 papers in refereed journals and book chapters. Her empirical work has appeared in