How Ottawa spends, 2012-2013 : the Harper majority, budget cuts, and the new opposition / edited by G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doern, G. Bruce, Author.

Contributor:

Doern, G. Bruce.

Stoney, Christopher.

Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration.

Series:

How Ottawa Spends Series

How Ottawa Spends Series ; v.33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deficit financing--Canada.

Deficit financing.

Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

[33rd ed.].

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with emphasis on federal economic and social spending.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 - The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition""; ""PART ONE - Politics and the Changing Macro Realities""; ""2 - The Harper Election Victory, the Liberals, and Debate Over Corporate Tax Reform""; ""3 - A Hobbesian Prime Minister and the Night Watchman State: Social Policy under the Harper Conservatives""; ""4 - Playing Against Type? Regional Economic Development Policy in the Harper Era""; ""5 - Science and Technology in Canada: Government Investment at a Crossroad?""

""6 - Toward a Perimeter: Incremental Adaptation or a New Paradigm for Canada-US Security and Trade Relations?""""PART TWO - Selected Issues and Departmental Realms""; ""7 - The Rise and Fall of Regulatory Regimes: Extending the Life-cycle Approach""; ""8 - Public Private Partnership Canada and the P3 Fund: Shedding Light on a New Meso Institutional Arrangement""; ""9 - Pharmacare and Federal Drug Expenditures: A Prescription for Change""; ""10 - Public Policy as an Inquiring System: The Case of Canadian Health Care""

""11 - Federal Infrastructure Program Impacts: Perceptions at the Community Level""""12 - How Ontario Was Won: The Harper Economic Action Plan in Ontario, 2009�2011""; ""13 - Community Colleges and Applied Research in the Federal National Innovation Agenda""; ""14 - Doing the North American Two-step on a Global Stage: Canada, its G8 Muskoka Initiative, and Safe Abortion Funding""; ""APPENDIX A - Canadian Political Facts and Trends""; ""APPENDIX B - Fiscal Facts and Trends""; ""Contributors""

Notes:

ISSN 0822-6482.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773587793

0773587799

OCLC:

821296981