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Keith G. Banting

Keith G. Banting

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Political Science

D-Index
38
Citations
7125
World Ranking
584
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Keith G. Banting is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and specializes in social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, and related interdisciplinary fields.

Their research spans multiple subfields of study, including:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Health Professions
  • Public Administration
  • Social Psychology

Main topics covered in their work include:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Canadian Policy and Governance
  • Labor Movements and Unions

Their publication record features papers in leading journals, with recent key publications including:

  • "Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies" (2021, Political Studies)
  • "A Distinctive Culture? The Sources of Public Support for Immigration in Canada, 1980-2019" (2020, Canadian Journal of Political Science)
  • "The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada" (2021, Canadian Journal of Political Science)
  • "Nationalism, Membership and the Politics of Minority Claims-Making" (2022, Canadian Journal of Political Science)
  • "The need for a federal Basic Income feature within any coherent post-COVID-19 economic recovery plan" (2021, FACETS)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • Political Studies
  • FACETS
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Publius The Journal of Federalism

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Allison Harell
  • Will Kymlicka
  • Stuart Soroka
  • Daniel Westlake
  • Rebecca Wallace

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012, acknowledged by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies

    Keith G. Banting;Will Kymlicka

  • Do Multiculturalism policies erode the welfare state? An empirical analysis

    Keith Banting;Richard Johnston;Will Kymlicka;Stuart Soroka

  • Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Welfare State

    Will Kymlicka;Keith Banting

  • Multiculturalism and the Welfare State

    Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka

  • Is there really a retreat from multiculturalism policies? New evidence from the multiculturalism policy index

    Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka

  • Canadian Multiculturalism: Global Anxieties and Local Debates

    Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka

  • National Identity and Support for the Welfare State

    Richard Johnston;Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka;Stuart Soroka

  • The Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies

    Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka

  • Canada: National-building in a federal welfare state

    Keith G. Banting

  • Immigration and Redistribution in a Global Era

    Stuart Soroka;Keith Banting;Richard Johnston

  • Ethnicity, Trust, and the Welfare State

    Stuart Soroka;Keith Banting;Richard Johnston

  • Poverty, Politics and Policy: Britain in the 1960s

    Keith G. Banting

  • Introduction Multiculturalism and the welfare state: Setting the context

    Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka

  • Belonging? : diversity, recognition and shared citizenship in Canada

    Keith G. Banting;Thomas J. Courchene;F. Leslie Seidle

  • Is There a Progressive's Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June 2, 2010

    Keith G. Banting

  • Inequality and the fading of redistributive politics

    Keith G. Banting;John Myles

  • Do Multiculturalism Policies Erode the Welfare State

    Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka

  • The welfare state and Canadian federalism

    Keith G. Banting

  • Minority nationalism and immigrant integration in Canada

    Keith Banting;Stuart Soroka

  • Degrees of freedom : Canada and the United States in a changing world

    Keith G. Banting;George Hoberg;Richard Simeon

  • Looking in three directions: migration and the European welfare state in comparative perspective

    Keith Banting

  • The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism

    Henry Veltmeyer;Keith G. Banting

  • Federalism and the Role of the State

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  • Assessing Performance: National Versus Regional Patterns

    Keith Banting;Jack Nagel;Chelsea Schafer;Daniel Westlake

Frequent Co-Authors

Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka Queen's University
Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Johnston
Richard Johnston University of British Columbia
Robin Boadway
Robin Boadway Queen's University
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba Harvard University
John C. Campbell
John C. Campbell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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