How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015
The Harper Government - Good to Go?
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2014
217 pages
978-0-7735-8498-3 (ISBN)
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A critical examination of the Harper Government in its eighth year in power as it faces the first serious electoral challenge by a reenergized Liberal Party.
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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 emeritus 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 emeritus 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 Government -Good to Go?
- Part One Economic and Social Policy Agenda and Challenges
- 2 Government Retrenchment and Public Service Cuts: A Tale of Two Processes
- 3 The Parliamentary Budget Officer: The First Five Years
- 4 Crime or Punishment: What Is the Harper Justice Agenda?
- 5 Justin Trudeau and Leadership Idolization: The Centralization of Power in Canadian Politics and Political Parties
- 6 Coming Full Circle? Ottawa's Search for Parsimonious Cost and Efficiency Reporting
- 7 Tax Expenditures and Government Program Spending: Reforming theTwo "Spending" Worlds for Better Expenditure Management
- 8 Harper's Partisan Wedge Politics: Bad Environmental Policy and Bad Energy Policy
- Part Two Selected Policy and Departmental Issues and Realms
- 9 One of These Things Is Not Likethe Other? Bottom-Up Reform, Open Information, Collaboration, and the Harper Government
- 10 How Foundations Spend: Is the Current 3.5% Asset Disbursement the Right Public Policy?
- 11 Managing Canada's Water: The Harper Era
- 12 The National Shipbuilding Model for Government Procurement: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
- 13 How Accurate Is the Harper Government's Misinformation?Scientific Evidence and Scientists in Federal Policy Making
- 14 CIDA, the Mining Sector, and the Orthodoxy of Economic Conservatism in Harper Decision Making
- Contributors
