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Donald J. Savoie avance que le Canada continue à prospérer parce que les Canadien.ne.s et leurs leaders politiques ont su contourner les défauts des institutions politiques du pays. Ces défauts ont poussé les leaders politiques à trouver des solutions à l'extérieur des institutions pour répondre aux exigences politiques et économiques du Canada.

Donald J. Savoie asserts that Canada continues to thrive because Canadians and their political leaders have been able to work around shortcomings in the country's political institutions. These shortcomings have pushed political leaders to find solutions outside institutions to meet Canada s political and economic requirements.

Understanding the declining trust in Western governments is one thing, coming up with the right diagnosis another. Savoie suggests the political accountability and public nature of government operations shape the behaviour of civil servants, and policy makers have failed to see that efficacy in government is tied to well-performing institutions.

Arguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to embrace regional identities, Democracy in Canada explains how Canada's national institutions were shaped by British historical experiences, and why there was little effort to bring Canadian realities into the mix.

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This work considers the war of bureaucratic reform waged by the leaders of Great Britain, the US and Canada. It questions whether government is now better in these countries and whether the leadership was right in focusing on management of bureaucracy as the villain.

Une analyse détaillée des échecs et de l'avenir de la démocratie représentative du Canada.

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Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in public administration and governance at the Universit¿e Moncton and is the author of numerous books including Power: Where Is It?

What implications does the GDA approach have for federal-provincial relations? How does it relate to the constitutional division of responsibility? What advantages and drawbacks does it hold for Canada's political system? More generally, what can we conclude about the GDA approach?

In Pulling Against Gravity Donald Savoie, one of Canada's foremost authorities on regional public policy, offers a sweeping overview of the policy challenges faced by Frank McKenna as New Brunswick premier in the 1980s and 1990s. He documents McKenna's attempts at affecting changes that went to the very core of the province's economic and social life. Set against this backdrop, Pulling Against Gravity assesses the successes and failures of the...

Donald Savoie tackles government's increased spending and our inability to cut back existing programs. He argues that they are rooted in the regional nature of Canada and in the fear that unless we eat the best at the public banquet we will lose our shares of public largesse.

The story of the man, his roots, his business genius, and how his company "went global" before globalization.

An insightful account of the forces that shape Ottawa's expenditure budget and the relations between politicians and public servants.

Equity and Efficiency in Economic Development celebrates the long and illustrious career of Benjamin Higgins, Canada's most eminent development economist. In his honour, a group of world-renowned scholars tackles the most pervasive and baffling of today's economic, social, and political problems: how to design, construct, and administer an economic system that will function efficiently and assure improved living standards while respecting basi...

Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in public administration and governance at the Universit¿e Moncton and is the author of numerous books including Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher?

Visiting Grandchildren looks to history, accidents of geography, and to the workings of national political and administrative institutions to explain the relative underdevelopment of the Maritime provinces.

Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in public administration and governance at the Universit¿e Moncton and is the author of numerous books including Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher?

Issued also in French under title: Moi, je suis de Bouctouche.