Governing
Essays in Honour of Donald J. Savoie
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2013
336 pages
978-0-7735-8872-1 (ISBN)
Description
A provocative discussion of the key debates, themes, and issues related to political governance, public administration, and regional development.
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08/2013
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Persons
James Bickerton is professor of political science at St Francis Xavier University. B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh.
Content
- Cover
- GOVERNING
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Looking Back
- PART ONE EXECUTIVE POWER AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- 2 Power, Responsibility, and Agency in Canadian Government
- 3 Constraining Executive Power in the Era of New Political Governance
- 4 Communications and Prime Ministerial Power
- 5 Establishing the Boundaries of the Public Service: Toward a New Moral Contract
- 6 Categorizing Senior Officials: Toward a Classification of Typologies
- 7 Thirty Years of Public Management Reforms: Has There Been a Pattern?
- 8 The Future of Public Administration
- PART TWO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- 9 Why Regional Development Policies Are (Mostly) Ineffective and Why It Does Not Matter
- 10 Revisiting Grandchildren: Building Regions in the Maritimes
- 11 Democratizing Regional Economic Development in Sweden: Why? Did It Make a Difference?
- 12 The Economic Integration Continuum and the Canadian Securities Industry: In Praise of the Status Quo
- Contributors
- Index
