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Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822955191
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney written by Donald J. Savoie and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savoie considers the war of reform waged by the leaders of these major industrial countries. Reagan declared that he had come to Washington to “drain the swamp” of bureaucracy, and set up the Grace Commission to investigate the operation of the U.S. government. Thatcher and Mulroney were equally committed to reform and initiated wide-ranging changes. By the end of the 1990s, the changes were dramatic. Many governments operations had been privatized in all three countries, and new management techniques had been introduced. In Great Britain, one observer judged that the changes were historically as important as the collapse of Keynesian economics. Is government now better in these countries, and was political leadership right in focusing on management of the bureaucracy as the villain? Savoie suggests that the reforms overlooked problems now urgently requiring attention and, at the same time, attempted to address non-existent problems. He combines theory and research based on sixty-two interviews, nearly all with members of the executive branch of the governments of Britain, Canada and the United States.

Master of Persuasion

Author : Fen Osler Hampson
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771039085
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Master of Persuasion written by Fen Osler Hampson and published by Signal. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unprecedented access--interviews with key players, diaries, memos, etc.--the first book to document Brian Mulroney's impressive foreign policy record, from NAFTA to the collapse of the Soviet Union, climate change to the release of Nelson Mandela. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney led and lifted Canada's voice and influence in world affairs to unprecedented heights. He understood better than many of his predecessors that Canada's power and influence derived from a solid grasp of our vital national interests, and a purposeful commitment to pursing those interests and values on the world stage. With full access to key players and new documentation, Fen Osler Hampson brilliantly tells how Canada succeeded in advancing its national interests on trade, the environment, national security, and the elevation of democracy and human rights under Mulroney's leadership. Through negotiation and the deliberate cultivation of close personal links with other world leaders and figures, including Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, François Mitterrand, Nelson Mandela and many others, there were significant achievements that serve Canadian interests to this day. Efforts to combat acid rain, repair the ozone layers, and to champion climate change, long before it became fashionable, surprised and satisfied many ardent advocates on the environment. Perhaps most important of all, Brian Mulroney put to bed the long-standing myth that Canada could not be a respected international player if it was seen as being too close to the United States. In sharp contrast to his predecessor, he argued that the path for global influence for the country began with a principled and trusted dialogue with Washington, one that other world leaders noticed. As Canada's present government navigates its own course in choppy international waters, there is much to be learned from our finest hour on the international stage some three decades ago under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822974614
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney written by Donald J. Savoie and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savoie considers the war of reform waged by the leaders of these major industrial countries. Reagan declared that he had come to Washington to "drain the swamp" of bureaucracy, and set up the Grace Commission to investigate the operation of the U.S. government. Thatcher and Mulroney were equally committed to reform and initiated wide-ranging changes. By the end of the 1990s, the changes were dramatic. Many governments operations had been privatized in all three countries, and new management techniques had been introduced. In Great Britain, one observer judged that the changes were historically as important as the collapse of Keynesian economics. Is government now better in these countries, and was political leadership right in focusing on management of the bureaucracy as the villain? Savoie suggests that the reforms overlooked problems now urgently requiring attention and, at the same time, attempted to address non-existent problems. He combines theory and research based on sixty-two interviews, nearly all with members of the executive branch of the governments of Britain, Canada and the United States.

Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Manfred B. Steger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609765
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction written by Manfred B. Steger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, 'neoliberalism' has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the developing regions of the global South. At the dawn of the new century, however, neoliberalism has been discredited as the global economy, built on its principles, has been shaken to its core by a financial calamity not seen since the dark years of the 1930s. So is neoliberalism doomed or will it regain its former glory? Will reform-minded G-20 leaders embark on a genuine new course or try to claw their way back to the neoliberal glory days of the Roaring Nineties? Is there a viable alternative to neoliberalism? Exploring the origins, core claims, and considerable variations of neoliberalism, this Very Short Introduction offers a concise and accessible introduction to one of the most debated 'isms' of our time. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Women on the Defensive

Author : Sylvia B. Bashevkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226038858
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Women on the Defensive written by Sylvia B. Bashevkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bashevkin combines individual voices with policy initiatives to provide the first complete picture of the recent past and uncertain future of contemporary feminism."--BOOK JACKET.

Memoirs

Author : Brian Mulroney
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Brian Mulroney and published by Douglas Gibson Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book about a unique Canadian life - about a boy, born and raised in a working-class family in remote Baie-Comeau, who rose to the highest office in the land. How he got there, an outsider fighting his way to the top, is a compelling story. What he did when he got there is just as enthralling. Year by year in this detailed book, he takes us through his time as prime minister (1984-1993), when he mingled with the world's leaders, tackled tough and controversial problems, and left Canada a changed country. The boy from Baie-Comeau changed your life - now his life, frankly recounted in this extraordinary book, deserves a place in your home.

The Secret Mulroney Tapes

Author : Peter C. Newman
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370747
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Mulroney Tapes written by Peter C. Newman and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Mulroney Tapes is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another. Peter C. Newman, the author of books about John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, as well as 2004’s number-one bestselling memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power, has done it again. He has written twenty-two books that have sold two million copies, and earned him the title of Canada’s “most cussed and discussed” political commentator. Here, his no-holds-barred profile of Canada’s most controversial – and most reviled – prime minister breaks new ground. Compiled from years of candid, taped conversations with Mulroney and the people closest to him while he was in power, the sometimes uproarious and often disturbing interviews – 7,400 pages of transcripts totalling 1.8 million words – have been sealed until now. Stunningly indiscreet and savagely frank, Mulroney is the first prime minister to be so nakedly outspoken. Yet he is also revealed as a witty Irish charmer, ready with a quick line to raise a laugh, no matter how impudent or profane, a man as warm in private as he was defensive in the public eye. Mulroney names the names and spills the beans about what really goes on in Ottawa, which he describes as a “sick” city that runs on “goddamned incest”: “They’re all married to one another. They’re shacked up with one another. Their wives are on the payroll of the CBC. It’s just awful.” Lucien Bouchard, his one-time soulmate, he calls “bitter and profane” and “extraordinarily vain.” He writes off his constitutional foe, former Newfoundland premier Clyde Wells, as an “unprincipled son of a bitch.” His disgust for the press is as monumental as his sense of being misunderstood, and in his eyes the Ottawa press corps are “a phony bunch of bastards” who don’t give him credit even when the world applauds him for being “one of the three men who played the most important role in the collapse of the Berlin Wall.” Out of The Secret Mulroney Tapes emerges a startling picture of the politician whose reign shocked and appalled and yet also revolutionized this country. No other prime minister in Canadian history aroused a stronger emotional response than Brian Mulroney. This book provides Canadians with a unique insight into the bold politician who changed their country like no other.

The Politics of Abortion in the United States and Canada: A Comparative Study

Author : Raymond Tatalovich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131745538X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Abortion in the United States and Canada: A Comparative Study written by Raymond Tatalovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-cultural analysis of the abortion issue in the United States and Canada. The book focuses on: the judicial, legislative and executive branches; public opinion and interest groups; federal agencies; and the roles of subnational authorities and the health care sectors.

Women on the Defensive

Author : Sylvia B. Bashevkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226038834
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)

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Book Synopsis Women on the Defensive by : Sylvia B. Bashevkin

Download or read book Women on the Defensive written by Sylvia B. Bashevkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bashevkin combines individual voices with policy initiatives to provide the first complete picture of the recent past and uncertain future of contemporary feminism."--BOOK JACKET.

In the Long Run We're All Dead

Author : Timothy Lewis
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774845260
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book In the Long Run We're All Dead written by Timothy Lewis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian politics in the 1990s were characterized by an unwavering focus on the deficit. At the beginning of the decade, it seemed that fiscal deficits were intractable – a fait accompli of Canadian politics – yet by the end of the decade, Ottawa had taken remarkable actions to eliminate its budgetary shortfalls and had successfully eradicated its deficits. How such a radical change of political course came to pass is still not well understood. In The Long Run We’re All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint offers the first comprehensive scholarly account of this vital public policy issue. Lewis deftly analyzes the history of deficit finance from before Confederation through Canada’s postwar Keynesianism to the retrenchment of the Mulroney and Chrétien years. In doing so, he illuminates how the political conditions for Ottawa’s deficit elimination in the 1990s materialized after over 20 consecutive years in the red, and how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets. This important book provides scholars and students of Canadian politics with a new framework by which to understand the adoption of government policy, the economic and fiscal legacy of the Mulroney administrations, and the emergence of the new “politics of the surplus.” It will be of great interest to those engaged with Canadian politics, political economy, and public policy, as well as to participants in policy processes and the informed public.

Partisan Odysseys

Author : Nelson Wiseman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487525397
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Partisan Odysseys written by Nelson Wiseman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motifs or recurring elements in Canadian party politics speak to dominant ideas of the era. Partisan Odysseys looks at how political parties have adjusted, adapted, and sometimes reinvented themselves in response to these cultural cues.

Democracy in Canada

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228000416
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Canada written by Donald J. Savoie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Breaking the Bargain

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085917
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Bargain written by Donald J. Savoie and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged.

Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom

Author : Donald Savoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692987
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom written by Donald Savoie and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-05-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair. This study seeks to understand why this is so by comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom. It looks to changes in values both in society and inside government, and to the relationships between politicians and civil servants at the top and between civil servants and citizens at the bottom. Donald J. Savoie argues that both Canada and the UK now operate under court government rather than cabinet government. By court government, he means that effective power now rests with their respective prime ministers and a small group of carefully selected courtiers. For things that matter to prime ministers and their courts, the decision-making process shifts from formal to informal, involving only a handful of actors. For things that matter less to them, the decision-making process is horizontal, cumbersome, and consultative, and involves a multitude of actors from different government departments and agencies as well as a variety of individuals operating outside government. Court governments undermine both the traditionally bureaucratic model and basic principles that have guided the development of our Westminster-Whitehall parliamentary system. Nonetheless, Canada and the United Kingdom still cling to accountability requirements better suited to the past and the traditional bureaucratic model. Savoie concludes with a call for new accountability requirements that correspond with court government as well as the new relationships between politicians and civil servants, and civil servants and citizens.

Government

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013437
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Government written by Donald J. Savoie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-05-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens have lost trust in their institutions of public governance. In trying to fix the problem, presidents and prime ministers have misdiagnosed the patient, failing to recognize that government bureaucracies are inseparable from political institutions. As a result, career officials have become adroit at managing the blame game but much less so at embracing change. Donald Savoie looks to the United States, Great Britain, France, and Canada to assess two of the most important challenges confronting governments throughout the Western world: the concentration of political power and the changing role of government bureaucracy. The four countries have distinct institutions shaped by distinct histories, but what they have in common is a professional non-partisan civil service. When presidents and prime ministers decide to expand their personal authority, national institutions must adjust while bureaucracies grow to fill the gap, paradoxically further constricting government efficacy. The side effects are universal – political power is increasingly centralized; Parliament, Congress, and the National Assembly have been weakened; Cabinet has lost standing; political parties have been debased; and civil services have been knocked off their moorings. Reduced responsibility and increased transparency make civil servants slow to take risks and politicians quick to point fingers. Government astutely diagnoses the problem of declining trust in government: presidents and prime ministers have failed to see that efficacy in government is tied to well-performing institutions.

Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher?

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773541101
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? written by Donald J. Savoie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful account of the forces that shape Ottawa's expenditure budget and the relations between politicians and public servants.

History Has Made Us Friends

Author : Donald E. Abelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228021553
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis History Has Made Us Friends by : Donald E. Abelson

Download or read book History Has Made Us Friends written by Donald E. Abelson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated by the world’s longest land border and engaging in over three billion dollars in trade daily, Canada and the United States share security concerns, cultural interests, and a history spanning more than 250 years. Alan Rock, former Canadian ambassador to the United States, has said that this special relationship represents “a bond that is beyond practical. It borders on mystical.” The rise of nativist sentiment, however, has raised concerns over preserving this relationship. History Has Made Us Friends illuminates the nature and dynamics of Canada-US relations, examining their history, attributed meaning, and conceptualization. Contributors consider many angles and perspectives, including the impact of geopolitical change, to determine whether the relationship warrants the moniker “special.” They explore whether shared values and demographic similarities continue to cement the relationship, and if it still matters whether presidents and prime ministers get along. While things look different today from when President Kennedy declared, “What unites us is far greater than what divides us,” History Has Made Us Friends argues that the Canada-US relationship – often narrowly understood or dismissed as a relic of the past – continues to be unique and resilient.