Linda White

Linda White is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Prof. White’s areas of research include comparative welfare states; comparative social and family policies, particularly early years, primary and secondary education; gender and public policy; ideas, norms, and public policy development; and federalism, law and public policy. She has published extensively on comparative public policy in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, Publius, and Social Politics. She is the author, most recently, of Constructing Policy Change: Early Childhood Education and Care in Liberal Welfare States (UTP, 2017), among other co-authored and co-edited books. Her current collaborative research projects include a multi-disciplinary project that examines how policies contribute to inequities in early childhood education and care (ECEC), formal education, and youth training in Canada (https://equityeducation.ca/about-us/) and another that examines the comparative politics of education policy making in an era of school choice (https://www.comparativeeducationpolicy.ca/).