How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013
The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2012
344 pages
978-0-7735-8778-6 (ISBN)
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A critical examination of the federal government policy agenda in the context of Canada's opposition power structure and the global debt crisis.
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The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition
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Persons
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.Stoney Christopher:
Christopher Stoney is associate professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Centre for Urban Research and Education at Carleton University.G. Bruce Doern is professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter. Christopher Stoney is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.
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.Stoney Christopher:
Christopher Stoney is associate professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Centre for Urban Research and Education at Carleton University.G. Bruce Doern is professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter. Christopher Stoney is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 - The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition
- PART ONE - Politics and the Changing Macro Realities
- 2 - The Harper Election Victory, the Liberals, and Debate Over Corporate Tax Reform
- 3 - A Hobbesian Prime Minister and the Night Watchman State: Social Policy under the Harper Conservatives
- 4 - Playing Against Type? Regional Economic Development Policy in the Harper Era
- 5 - Science and Technology in Canada: Government Investment at a Crossroad?
- 6 - Toward a Perimeter: Incremental Adaptation or a New Paradigm for Canada-US Security and Trade Relations?
- PART TWO - Selected Issues and Departmental Realms
- 7 - The Rise and Fall of Regulatory Regimes: Extending the Life-cycle Approach
- 8 - Public Private Partnership Canada and the P3 Fund: Shedding Light on a New Meso Institutional Arrangement
- 9 - Pharmacare and Federal Drug Expenditures: A Prescription for Change
- 10 - Public Policy as an Inquiring System: The Case of Canadian Health Care
- 11 - Federal Infrastructure Program Impacts: Perceptions at the Community Level
- 12 - How Ontario Was Won: The Harper Economic Action Plan in Ontario, 2009-2011
- 13 - Community Colleges and Applied Research in the Federal National Innovation Agenda
- 14 - Doing the North American Two-step on a Global Stage: Canada, its G8 Muskoka Initiative, and Safe Abortion Funding
- APPENDIX A - Canadian Political Facts and Trends
- APPENDIX B - Fiscal Facts and Trends
- Contributors
