This volume probes Ottawa's evolving agenda with chapters on a variety of
economic and social policy topics: the government's fiscal and management
framework, natural resources, regional development, air transportation, the
social union, disability, gender equality, the voluntary sector, and the
courts.
Table of Contents:
- How Ottawa Spends 2001-2: Power in Transition - Leslie A. Pal
- Priming the Electoral Pump: Framing Budgets for a Renewed Mandate -
Geoffrey E. Hale, Lethbridge University
- How Ottawa Plans: The Evolution of Strategic Planning - Evert A. Lindquist,
University of Victoria
- Managing In the New Public Service: Some Implications for How We Are
Governed - Anne Perkins, independent scholar and Robert P. Shepherd, University
of Ottawa
- Aiming for the Middle: Challenges to Federal Income Policy - Gerard W.
Boychuk, University of Waterloo
- From Charity to Clarity: Reinventing Federal Government-Voluntary Sector
Relationships - Susan D. Phillips, Carleton University
- Citizenship by Instalments: Federal Policies for Canadians with
Disabilities - Michael J. Prince, University of Victoria
- The Case of the Disappearing Targets: The Liberals and Gender Equality -
Sandra Burt, University of Waterloo and Sonya Lynn Hardman
- New Economy/Old Economy? Transforming Natural Resources Canada - G. Bruce
Doern and Monica Gattinger, both at Carleton University
- Regional Development Policy: A Nexus of Policy and Politics - Rodney
Haddow, St. Francis Xavier University
- A Delicate Dance: The Courts and the Chretien Government - Rainer Knopff,
University of Calgary
- Appendix A: Political Facts and Trends
- Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends
- Abstracts/Resumes
- Contributors
Edited by Leslie A. Pal. Published by Oxford University Press, 2001. |
