title: Policy change and the politics of ideas: the emergence of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plans.
abstract: Stressing the direct impact of ideas on policy change, this article explores the adoption of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans (C/QPP) in 1965 by addressing two closely related questions: in the mid-1960s: why did the federal government decide to create an earnings-related public pension system on top of the existing Old Age Security program? Second, why did that new system feature a replacement rate higher than initially proposed as well as a separate scheme for the province of Quebec? In order to answer these two questions, the article analyzes the debates leading to the enactment of the C/QPP.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Babich
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Béland
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010415:Pensions / Q000266:history*; D011640:Public Policy / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history*; D011792:Quebec; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history*; D012943:Social Security / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history*