Political Science Public Affairs & Administration
Thinking Government
Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fifth Edition
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- Public Affairs & Administration, Canadian
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487506193
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $195.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487524166
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $94.95
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Description
Thinking Government examines the key roles and duties of the Canadian federal government and its public service, and the policy and program debates that revolve around these roles and duties.
The fifth edition of this textbook provides students with a core awareness of major issues shaping federal policies and programs – socio-economic policy options, French-English relations, regionalism and regional policy, Canadian-American relations, immigration, environmental policy, and Indigenous relations. This book takes a close look at how prime ministers and cabinet ministers interact and discusses issues in federal, financial, and human resources management, ethics and accountability, and leadership. The new edition is revised and updated throughout and addresses the 2021 federal election and the resulting Trudeau minority government as well as the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thinking Government helps its readers to be smart citizens and knowledgeable critics of what governments do well, what they could be doing better, and why they, at times, fail to deliver effective policies and programs.
About the author
David Johnson, a professor of political science at Cape Breton University, has studied and taught Canadian politics, government, and the constitution for over thirty years. He is the author of Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, 4th ed, a leading university textbook. His columns appear regularly in the Cape Breton Post. He lives in Sydney, Nova Scotia.