Political Science Public Affairs & Administration
How Ottawa Spends, 2013-2014
The Harper Government: Mid-Term Blues and Long-Term Plans
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2013
- Category
- Public Affairs & Administration
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773542716
- Publish Date
- Nov 2013
- List Price
- $40.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773590007
- Publish Date
- Sep 2013
- List Price
- $40.95
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Description
The 2013-14 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with a close lens on Stephen Harper's Conservative party during the middle of their first term as a majority. Contributors from across Canada examine the federal government and its not uncommon mid-term problems but also its considerable agenda of long term plans, both set in the midst of national economic fragility and a global fiscal and debt crisis. Individual chapters examine several related political, policy, and spending realms including the Budget Action Plan, the ten year Canada Health Transfer Plan, the Canada Pension Plan, and Old Age Security reforms. The contributors also consider austerity related public sector downsizing and strategic spending reviews, national energy, and related environmental strategies, and the growing Harper practice of "one-off" federalism.
About the authors
Christopher Stoney is associate professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Centre for Urban Research and Education at Carleton University.
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G. Bruce Doern is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. He is the author and co-author of numerous books on Canadian politics and policy, including Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story, with Brian Tomlin, and Canadian Public Policy: Ideas, Structure, Process, with Richard Phidd.