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Daniel Béland is Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School in Public Policy (University of Saskatchewan). Holding a PhD in Political Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and The University of Chicago, and a Fulbright Scholar at The George Washington University and the National Academy of Social Insurance. From July 2001 to December 2007, Professor Béland taught sociology at the University of Calgary. While working there, Professor Béland won two major teaching awards.

A political sociologist analyzing politics and public policy from a comparative and historical perspective, he has published six books and more than fifty articles in major scholarly journals. With John Myles, he also co-edited a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology devoted to social policy reform in contemporary societies  His most recent books are Public and Private Social Policy: Health and Pension Policies in a New Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; co-edited with Brian Gran) and Nationalism and Social Policy: The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2008; co-authored with André Lecours).  In November 2010, Oxford University Press (New York Office) will publish his seventh book: Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research (co-edited with Robert H. Cox). Simultaneously, Polity Press will release his eighth book: What is Social Policy? Understanding the Welfare State.

In April 2008, SSHRC awarded him a Standard Research Grant to collaborate with Professor André Lecours on the project Ideas, Interests, and Institutions: Fiscal Redistribution and Territorial Politics in Four Federal Systems. This project focuses on the politics of equalization policy in Canada and in other advanced industrial countries like Australia. Additionally, Professor Béland is currently working on a new book project. Entitled Reshaping American Social Policy?, it explores the role of ideas and institutions in contemporary American social policy. The co-author of this book under contract with Georgetown University Press is Alex Waddan from the University of Leicester.

Professor Béland currently serves as the Editor (French) of the Canadian Journal of Sociology, as International Editorial Advisor to Social Policy and Society (Cambridge University Press) and as a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Review of Social Policy. Since 2006, he has been the Secretary-Treasurer of the Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association. More recently, in 2009, he was appointed to the advisory board of the Australian Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing. Finally, since 2004, he has been a committee member of the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences). Professor Béland is a co-investigator in the SEDAP (Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population) multi-disciplinary research program funded primarily by SSHRC and centered at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada).

In addition to his academic work, Professor Béland has participated in training sessions for civil servants, provided policy advice to federal and provincial officials, and testified in front of the Standing Committee on Finance of the House of Commons (Canada). Moreover, he has been quoted in major newspapers and he is regularly asked to give radio and TV interviews on key policy and political issues. Finally, Professor Béland has published in magazines like Policy Options (Canada), La vie des idées (France), and The Wilson Quarterly (United States).