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Antonia Maioni

Academic title(s): 

Professor of political science and public policy

Antonia Maioni
Contact Information
Email address: 
antonia.maioni [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

2001 鶹ýվ College,
11th floor, Room 1149

Degree(s): 

B.A. from Université Laval,
M.A. from Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,
Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University

Department: 
Equity, Ethics and Policy
Biography: 

Professor Maioni’s research interests include public policy and health care reform, comparative politics, and Canadian and Quebec politics. She is author and co-author of numerous articles, book chapters and articles. Her research has been funded by SSHRC, CIHR, Fulbright, Universities Canada, and the Max Bell Foundation.

Professor Maioni is an Associate Member in the Department of Family Medicine, the Department of Political Science and in the Desautels Faculty of Management. During the Fall of 2022, she was an Associate Fellow in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy. She is currently the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Harvard University for the academic year 2023-24, where she is a member of the Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and is appointed to teach in the Department of Government.

Previously, Professor Maioni served as Dean of Arts at 鶹ýվ from 2016 to 2021, and as Associate Vice President for Research and International Relations from 2014 to 2016. She has contributed to the Canadian political conversation as a columnist for the Globe and Mail and a political analyst for CTV News, She has served as President of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, as a member of the Board of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, as well as contributing to numerous other organizations dedicated to education, mentoring, and research. From 2023 to 2026, she will be participating as a Fellow in the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s Canadian Foreign Policy Research Cycle.

Research areas: 
Comparative Health Policy
Ethics and Social Policy
Health Inequalities
Population and Public Health
Selected publications: 

Selected Publications :

Maino, Franca and Antonia Maioni “Federalism and Health Care: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Canada and Italy,” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 26, No. 5, 385–406 (May 2024).

Maioni, Antonia and Pierre Martin, “Health Care in Canada and the United States,” Chapter 10 in David M. Thomas and Christopher Sands (eds.), Canada and the United States: Differences that Count, Fifth Edition (University of Toronto Press, 2023).

Theodore R. Marmor and Antonia Maioni, “Healthcare in Canada and the United States,” in Paul Quirk, ed., The United States and Canada: How Two Democracies Differ and Why it Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Mondal, S., S. Van Belle, U. Bhojani, S. Law, A. Maioni, “Policy Processes in Multi-Sectoral Tobacco Control in India: The Role of Institutional Architecture, Political Engagement and Legal Interventions” International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 66, July 2021, pp. 1-12.

Shinjini Mondal, Sara Van Belle, Antonia Maioni, “Learning from intersectoral action beyond health: a meta-narrative review” Health Policy and Planning, 36:4, May 2021:552–571.

J. Zeidan, K. Shikako-Thomas, A. Ehsan, A. Maioni and M. Elsabbagh, “Progress and gaps in Quebec's autism policy: a comprehensive review and thematic analysis” Canadian Journal of Public Health, Aug;110(4):485-496.

Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni, Health Care and the Charter: Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018)

Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada (Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, François Pétry, Stuart Soroka, Antonia Maioni) (New York: Routledge, 2014)

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Health Care in Canada






Antonia Maioni, Health Care in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2014)

Stuart Soroka, Antonia Maion and Pierre Martin, “What Moves Public Opinion on Health Care? Individual Experiences, System Performance and Media Framing”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 38, No. 5 (Mar. 2013), pp. 893-920

Antonia Maioni “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.

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

Antonia Maioni, Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. xiv, 205.

Antonia Maioni, “Parting at the Crossroads: The Development of Health Insurance in Canada and the United States, 1940-1965” Comparative Politics, 29:4 (1997), pp. 411-431.

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