is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (Canada). Her research interests center on the political economy of privatization, financialization, and fiscal austerity. She has published on these themes in journals such as Studies in Political Economy and Health Sociology Review, in her latest book, Purchase for profit: public-private partnerships and Canada’s public health care system (2015, University of Toronto Press), and in her 2011 co-authored book, Private affluence, public austerity: economic crisis and democratic malaise in Canada (with Stephen McBride, Fernwood Publishing). Email: h2whiteside@uwaterloo.ca