Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar

PhD, Northwestern University

antonia.maioni@mcgill.ca

Director
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
3463, rue Peel
Montréal, Québec H3A 1W7
514-398-8346

For a complete CV, please click here: Antonia Maioni's CV [.pdf]
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Research interests

• Health Care Reform in Canada and the United States
• Social Policy and the Welfare State in Canada
• Comparative Politics
• Provincial Politics, Quebec Politics
• Political Parties
• Canadian Political Process

Current research grants:

• 2004-2007 Research grant, McGill-Max Bell Strategic Initiatives Programme, “Innovation and Implementation in Public Policy” (PI with Nathalie Cooke, Chris Manfredi, Richard Schultz, Stuart Soroka, Will Straw)
• 2003-2006 Operating Grant, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, “Rights Litigation and Health Care” (co-PI with Christopher P. Manfredi)
• 2001-2006 Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “The Politics of Health Care Reform”
• 2001-2007 William Dawson Award, McGill University

Publications

Recent refereed articles and book chapters:
“Health care reform in the 2008 US presidential election” International Journal, Volume LXIV, No. 1 (Winter 2008-09), pp. 135-144.

(with Theodore R. Marmor) “Health Care in Crisis: What’s Driving Health Reform in Canada and the United States?”, One Issue, Two Voices, Issue 9 (April 2008), (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars).

(with C. Manfredi) « L’arrêt Chaoulli et la judiciarisation des politiques de santé » dans François Béland, Le privé dans la santé : Les discours et les faits (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2008), pp. 264-280.

“Health Care in Canada” in Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, eds, Canadian Federalism, 2nd edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 161-181.

(with A. Quesnel-Vallée and M. Bourque) “In the aftermath of Chaoulli v. Quebec: Whose opinion prevailed?” Canadian Medical Association Journal, Oct. 24, 2006, vol. 175 (9).

(with C. Manfredi) "The Last Line of Defence for Citizens: Litigating Private Health Insurance in Chaoulli v. Québec." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 44.2. 249-71 (Fall 2006)

(with C. Manfredi) "Les litiges fondés sur les droits et l'émergence du rôle des tribunaux dans l'élaboration des politiques en matière de santé." Ruptures: Revue transdisciplinarie en santé, 11.1 (2006): 32-55 (Automne 2006).

(with Roger Gibbins and Janice Gross Stein) Canada by Picasso: The Faces of Federalism (Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada, September 2006), 158p.

(with C. Manfredi) “Reversal of Fortune: Litigating Health Care Reform inAuton v. British Columbia,” Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 29 (2005, pp. 111-136).

“From Cinderella to Belle of the Ball : The Politics of Primary Care Reform in Canada” in Ruth Wilson, S. E. D. Shortt and John Dorland, eds., Implementing Primary Care Reform: Barriers and Facilitators (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2004), pp. 97-109.

“Roles and Responsibilities in Health Care Policy” in Tom McIntosh, Pierre-Gerlier Forest, Gregory P. Marchildon, eds.,The Governance of Health Care in Canada: The Romanow Papers, Volume 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 169-198.

“Tobacco Control in Canada” (co-author with Christopher P. Manfredi), Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Control and Public Health, edited by Ron Bayer and Eric Feldman (Harvard University Press, 2004), pp. 68-88.

Recent policy papers:
“Charest – The Teflon Man Closes the Deal” in Policy Options/Options politiques (February 2009), pp. 71-74.

“Health Care: The Constant Refrain” in Policy Options/Options politiques (October 2008), pp. 72-78.

"The Castonguay Report: Quebec's quiet revolutionary strikes again" in Policy Options/Options politiques (April 2008) pp. 31-35.

“What I saw at the Liberal Party” in Policy Options/Options politiques (February 2007) pp. 46-49.

"Just when you thought it was out, policy is pulled back in" (with Blake Andrew and Stuart Soroka), in Policy Options/Options politiques pp. 74-79.

“When the Charter trumps health care - a collision of Canadian icons" (with Christopher Manfredi), in Policy Options/Options politiques (September 2005) pp. 52-56.

“Showing the flag – the origins and consequences of the sponsorship scandal” in Policy Options/Options politiques (June 2005) pp. 22-25.

“The Role of the Media: A campaign saved by a horserace” (with Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Stuart Soroka) in Policy Options/Options politiques , September 2004, pp. 86-91.

“New century, new risks: the Marsh Report and the post-war welfare state in Canada" in Policy Options/Options politiques (August 2005), pp. 20-23.

“From Paul Martin père to fils - Kicking around the political football of health care” in Policy Options/Options politiques (December 2003-January 2004) pp. 35-38.