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Author : Yves Engler
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1552669467

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A Propaganda System by Yves Engler Pdf

"The book details the vast sums Global Affairs Canada, Veterans Affairs and the Department of National Defence spend articulating a one-sided version of Canada's foreign policy. A Propaganda System traces the long history of government information control during war, including formal censorship, as well as extreme media bias on topics ranging from Haiti to Palestine, investment agreements to the mining industry. The book also details the corporate elite's funding for university programs and think tanks"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Alex Marland,Jared J. Wesley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487594763

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The Public Servant's Guide to Government in Canada by Alex Marland,Jared J. Wesley Pdf

The Public Servant's Guide to Government in Canada is a concise primer on the inner workings of government in Canada. This is a go-to resource for students, for early career public servants, and for anyone who wants to know more about how government works. Grounded in experience, the book connects core concepts in political science and public administration to the real-world practice of working in the public service. The authors provide valuable insights into the messy realities of governing and the art of diplomacy, as well as best practices for climbing the career ladder.

Author : Robert J. Jackson,Doreen Jackson,Royce Koop
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770487406

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Canadian Government and Politics - Seventh Edition by Robert J. Jackson,Doreen Jackson,Royce Koop Pdf

Canadian Government and Politics delivers an up-to-date and concise introduction to Canada’s political institutions, processes, and issues. The text integrates theory, history, Census data, and current affairs to give students an orderly picture of the wide-ranging landscape of Canadian government and politics. This seventh edition includes coverage and analysis of the 2019 general election, as well as a preview of the new Canadian government. It also adds exciting material on Canada’s cultural landscape, institutions, and policies, along with a new chapter on Indigenous Peoples. Other chapters examine the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, the electoral system, bureaucracy, Québec nationalism, foreign policy, and much more. The authors provide trenchant coverage of many key issues of concern to Canadians, including regionalism, nationalism, climate change, defense policy, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, minority rights, pipelines, and the USMCA trade deal. These topics are addressed by way of fair-minded impartial discussions, aimed to foster a vital and optimistic perspective on Canadian politics that will encourage critical thinking and active citizenship.

Author : Canadian Government Publishing Centre
Publisher : Supply and Services Canada, Canadian Government Publishing Centre
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Depository libraries
ISBN : 0662530586

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Service Du Programme Des Dépôts by Canadian Government Publishing Centre Pdf

Author : Patrick Malcolmson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442600478

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The Canadian Regime by Patrick Malcolmson Pdf

"Lucid and comprehensive, this fourth edition of The Canadian Regime includes analysis of the 2008 federal election, as well as updated discussions of coalition government, the single transferable vote, and the role of the Governor General, The authors also explore new developments in Senate reform and Supreme Court appointments. Like its predecessors, this edition provides a unique analysis of Canada's political regime by challenging readers to think of the political system as an organic entity where change in one area inevitably ripples through the rest of the system."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773597952

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What Is Government Good At? by Donald J. Savoie Pdf

Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions, "What is government good at?" and "What is government not good at?" are critical ones - and their answers should be the basis for good public policy and public administration. In What Is Government Good At?, Donald Savoie argues that politicians and public servants are good at generating and avoiding blame, playing to a segment of the population to win the next election, embracing and defending the status quo, adding management layers and staff, keeping ministers out of trouble, responding to demands from the prime minister and his office, and managing a complex, prime minister-centred organization. Conversely, they are not as good at defining the broader public interest, providing and recognizing evidence-based policy advice, managing human and financial resources with efficiency and frugality, innovating and reforming itself, being accountable to Parliament and to citizens, dealing with non-performers, paying sufficient attention to service delivery, and implementing and evaluating the impact of policies and programs. With wide implications for representative democracy, What Is Government Good At? is a persuasive analysis of an approach to government that has opened the door to those with the resources to influence policy and decision-making while leaving average citizens on the outside looking in.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248265417

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A Consolidation of the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Malcolmson,Richard Myers,Gerald Baier,Tom Bateman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442635982

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The Canadian Regime by Patrick Malcolmson,Richard Myers,Gerald Baier,Tom Bateman Pdf

Now in its sixth edition, The Canadian Regime continues to provide the most accessible introduction to the institutions, processes, and principles of the Canadian political system. The book's focus on the inner logic of parliamentary government explains the rationale for Canada's relatively complex political system, which the authors encourage readers to think of as an organic entity, where change in one area inevitably ripples through the rest of the system. The new edition includes the results of Canada’s 2015 federal election and looks ahead to consider changes resulting from the Liberal victory. It has been thoroughly updated and revised and introduces several new topics, such as the impact of the previous Conservative government on the conventions and practices of parliamentary government and the important influence of social media on politics. Two new co-authors, Gerald Baier and Thomas M.J. Bateman, join Patrick Malcolmson and Richard Myers to bring new expertise in the areas of federalism, judicial politics, Charter jurisprudence, political parties, and the ongoing health care debate.

Author : David Zussman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442615274

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Off and Running by David Zussman Pdf

One of the most pivotal events in the electoral cycle is the transition of a newly elected political party from opposition to government. The incoming prime minister or premier must assemble a team of ministers, advisors, and staff that is competent and ready to govern, without disrupting the day-to-day functioning of their country or province. Off and Running sets the stage for successful transitions by describing the best practices from Canadian federal government transitions from 1984 to the present day. It draws on a number of sources: the author's own career in public affairs, including his significant role in the transitions of both Chrétien governments in 1993 and 1997; extensive interviews with more than forty key individuals in the last eleven federal government transitions; and the international literature on government transitions, public administration, and management. Zussman goes step-by-step through the transition process from the pre-election stage to transition planning all the way to implementation and consolidation of the new government. This book is ideally suited to those seeking an understanding of how government works during one of the most crucial points in its life cycle.

Author : Amanda Clarke
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774836951

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Opening the Government of Canada by Amanda Clarke Pdf

Opening the Government of Canada presents a compelling case for a more open model of governance in the digital age – but a model that also continues to uphold democratic principles at the heart of the Westminster system. Amanda Clarke details the untold story of the federal bureaucracy’s efforts to adapt to digital-age pressures from the mid-2000s onward. This book reveals the mismatch between the bureaucracy’s closed government traditions and evolving citizen expectations and digital tools. Striking a balance between reform and tradition, lays out a roadmap for building a democratically robust, digital-era federal government.

Author : E.A. Heaman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773549630

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Tax, Order, and Good Government by E.A. Heaman Pdf

Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere been born of tax revolts, and Canada was no exception. Heaman shows that the competing claims of the propertied versus the people are hardwired constituents of Canadian political history. Tax debates in early Canada were philosophically charged, politically consequential dialogues about the relationship between wealth and poverty. Extensive archival research, from private papers, commissions, the press, and all levels of government, serves to identify a rising popular challenge to the patrician politics that were entrenched in the Constitutional Act of 1867 under the credo “Peace, Order, and good Government.” Canadians wrote themselves a new constitution in 1867 because they needed a new tax deal, one that reflected the changing balance of regional, racial, and religious political accommodations. In the fifty years that followed, politics became social politics and a liberal state became a modern administrative one. But emerging conceptions of fiscal fairness met with intense resistance from conservative statesmen, culminating in 1917 in a progressive income tax and the bitterest election in Canadian history. Tax, Order, and Good Government tells the story of Confederation without exceptionalism or misplaced sentimentality and, in so doing, reads Canadian history as a lesson in how the state works. Tax, Order, and Good Government follows the money and returns taxation to where it belongs: at the heart of Canada’s political, economic, and social history.

Author : Joanne Stanbridge
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781443142991

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Who Runs This Country, Anyway? by Joanne Stanbridge Pdf

This fun- and fact-filled guide to Canada's government gets an update just in time for the Federal Election! In this easy-to-read, information-packed book, a comical duo (a keener student and her offbeat sidekick) guide readers through Canada's electoral and governing process. Nine chapters take the reader through topics like Confederation, federalism, monarchy, elections and voting, minority and majority governments, a day in the House of Commons -- plus updated items on Senate Reform and new legislation like the Fair Election act. Jam-packed with interesting photos and zany sections (like the ones that tell kids how to stump an adult!), Who Runs This Country, Anyway? takes a unique approach to this curriculum subject. It's perfect for teachers and students, future politicians, and anyone studying for the citizenship test!

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228000419

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Democracy in Canada by Donald J. Savoie Pdf

Canada's representative democracy is confronting important challenges. At the top of the list is the growing inability of the national government to perform its most important roles: namely mapping out collective actions that resonate in all regions as well as enforcing these measures. Others include Parliament's failure to carry out important responsibilities, an activist judiciary, incessant calls for greater transparency, the media's rapidly changing role, and a federal government bureaucracy that has lost both its way and its standing. 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. As a result, the scope and size of government and Canadian federalism have taken on new forms largely outside the Constitution. Parliament and now even Cabinet have been pushed aside so that policy makers can design and manage the modern state. This also accounts for the average citizen's belief that national institutions cater to economic elites, to these institutions' own members, and to interest groups at citizens' own expense. A masterwork analysis, Democracy in Canada investigates the forces shaping the workings of Canadian federalism and the country's national political and bureaucratic institutions.

Author : Brooke Jeffrey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773544819

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Dismantling Canada by Brooke Jeffrey Pdf

A Liberal insider analyzes Stephen Harper's drive to create a new Conservative Canada.

Author : Peter Aucoin,Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X006037028

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The New Public Management by Peter Aucoin,Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

In the face of the need to make choices between programs that governments consider essential to administer themselves and programs that may be discontinued or transferred to other organizations, a new vision of government functioning has emerged, notably with greater emphasis on performance and results. This book analyzes the impact of an increasingly influential paradigm called new public management on the public services of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Major challenges common to these countries include powerful bureaucracies, restrictive organizational designs, and rigid rules and procedures blocking change. The book reviews various reform initiatives launched in response to those challenges in the areas of career public service, statecraft, administrative fragmentation and centralization, consolidation and devolution of authority, moving beyond bureaucracy, enhancing performance, and securing accountability. The book concludes with an agenda for public management.