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Political Science Economic Policy

How Ottawa Decides

Planning and Industrial Policy-Making 1968-1984

by (author) Richard French

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1984
Category
Economic Policy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888623683
    Publish Date
    Jan 1984
    List Price
    $14.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552773581
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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Published in 1984, How Ottawa Decides is an insider's view of how Ottawa tried throughout the 1970s to establish priorities and act on them.
The book anatomizes the politics of the bureaucracy and the Cabinet, showing how power really operated in Ottawa during this period. It tracks the failure of many ambitious efforts to impose political control over government departments long used to operating without undue interference from elected officials.
How Ottawa Decides is startling first-hand account of the forces that really ran the federal government in the 1970s.

About the author

RICHARD FRENCH has worked as an associated professor in the Faculty of Management at McGill Universi. In 1981 he was elected to the Quebec legislature as MNA for Westmount.

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