How Ottawa Spends, 2005-2006
Managing the Minority
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2005
284 pages
978-0-7735-7330-7 (ISBN)
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Leading Canadian academics assess the Martin cabinet and the political dilemmas of managing the first minority government since 1979.
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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Doern G. Bruce:
G. Bruce Doern is distinguished research professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and professor emeritus in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter.G. Bruce Doern is professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, and Politics Department, University of Exeter.
G. Bruce Doern is distinguished research professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and professor emeritus in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter.G. Bruce Doern is professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, and Politics Department, University of Exeter.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Martin Liberals (and the Harper Conservatives): The Politics of Governing Precariously
- PART 1 MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES
- 2 Health and Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements: Lost Opportunity
- 3 How Ottawa Gambles: Rolling the Dice in Health Care Reform
- 4 Like a Sub Adrift: Defence Policy as a Litmus Test for the Martin Government
- 5 Made in Canada? The New Public Safety Paradigm
- PART 2 SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS
- 6 Symbolism, Surfacing, Succession, and Substance: Martin's Aboriginal Policy Style
- 7 Cross-Border Relations: Moving Beyond the Politics of Uncertainty?
- 8 Canada-United States Electricity Relations: Policy Coordination and Multi-level Associative Governance
- 9 Executive Federalism, the Democratic Deficit, and Parliamentary Reform
- 10 Into the Long Grass? Evaluating the Role of Commissions of Inquiry In the New Mandate
- 11 Does Parliament Care? Parliamentary Committees and the Estimates
- Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends
- Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends
- Abstracts/Resumes
- Contributors
