Most quantitative, comparative welfare state research assumes that subnational welfare regimes are irrelevant or identical to their national counterparts. Many qualitative case studies, on the other hand, have underlined the differences between subnational and national regimes. In this article, we attempt to build bridges between these two strands of literature by examining the case for a Quebec model, that is, a subnational welfare state regime that is distinct from its Canadian counterpart(s). We reviewed seven publications from which we extracted 188 quantitative results relevant to the distinct subnational regime hypothesis. Although not all these results are independent nor based on conclusive evidence, they generally agree that a distinct welfare regime exists in Quebec. We conclude this article by discussing the implications of the Quebec case for the study of welfare regimes at the subnational and regional levels.

大多数定量的，比较福利国家的研究都假设地方福利制度与国家福利制度无关或相同。另一方面，许多定性案例研究都强调了地方政府与国家政府之间的差异。在本文中，我们通过研究魁北克模式的案例，即与加拿大同行不同的次国家福利国家体制，试图在这两大文学之间建立桥梁。我们审查了七个出版物，从中我们提取了与不同的次国家政权假设相关的188个定量结果。尽管并非所有这些结果都是独立的，也不基于确凿的证据，但他们通常都认为魁北克存在独特的福利制度。