How Ottawa Spends 2003-2004
How Ottawa Spends 2003-2004

Author: G. Bruce Doern

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780195419177

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The 2003-2004 edition examines these core dynamics of national priority setting and public spending and provides an informed look at many of the key policy issues caught up in the new realities. These include policies on: Kyoto and climate change; health care in the wake of the Kirby and Romanow reports; the new national security agenda; North American integration; higher education; the innovation agenda; government S & T; internet broadband and community connectedness; pensions; and student financial aid.

How Ottawa Spends, 2004-2005
How Ottawa Spends, 2004-2005

Author: G. Bruce Doern

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2004-10-19

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0773572376

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Drawing on the work of academics and other experts from across Canada, Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration's annual book takes a focused and robust look at an era where a political coronation seemed inevitable but high expectations had to be managed downwards almost immediately. A less-than-buoyant fiscal surplus, escalating concerns about liberal ethics and corruption, and a growing volatility in public opinion are examined as are Canadians' increasingly uncertain views about the new Liberal leadership versus the old Liberal Party's ten-year hold on power. A new Conservative Party and a suddenly feisty New Democratic Party are also a central part of the new 2004-2005 Canadian political and policy milieu.

How Ottawa Spends, 2005-2006
How Ottawa Spends, 2005-2006

Author: G. Bruce Doern

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780773530140

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"In the twenty-sixth edition of How Ottawa Spends, leading Canadian academics assess the Martin cabinet and the political dilemmas involved in managing the first minority government since 1979."--BOOK JACKET.

Policy Success in Canada
Policy Success in Canada

Author: Evert Lindquist

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-07-08

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0192651234

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Canada many public projects, programs, and services perform well, and many are very successful. However, these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied in the policy literature which, for various reasons, tends to focus on policy mistakes and learning from failures rather than successes. In fact, studies of public policy successes are rare not just in Canada, but the world over, although this has started to change (McConnell, 2010, 2017; Compton & 't Hart, 2019; Luetjens, Mintrom & 't Hart, 2019). Like those publications, the aims of Policy Success in Canada are to see, describe, acknowledge, and promote learning from past and present instances of highly effective and highly valued public policymaking. This exercise will be done through detailed examination of selected case studies of policy success in different eras, governments, and policy domains in Canada. This book project is embedded in a broader project led by 't Hart and OUP exploring policy successes globally and regionally. It is envisaged as a companion volume to OUP's 2019 offering Great Policy Successes (Compton and 't Hart, 2019) and to Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries (de La Porte et al, 2022). This present volume provides an opportunity to analyze what is similar and distinctive about introducing and implementing successful public policy in one of the world's most politically decentralized and regionally diverse federation and oldest democratic polities.

How Ottawa Spends, 2006-2007
How Ottawa Spends, 2006-2007

Author: Doern G. Bruce

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006-06-15

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0773576266

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In the twenty-seventh edition of How Ottawa Spends, leading Canadian scholars examine the Tory agenda in relation to the changing dynamics of a resurgent Western Canadian power base, Quebec-Canada relations, Canada-U.S. tensions, and key Martin policies. Contributors explore the challenges that have been created by unsustainable promises made by both major parties on expenditures and growth. They also look at the thorny issues of federal procurement policy and ethics, fiscal policy, energy policy, equalization and energy revenues, cancer control, patent policy and access to emergency medicines, the regulation of tobacco, gambling, and alcohol, and efforts to review spending. Contributors include Barbara Allen (Birmingham and Carleton), Malcolm Bird (Carleton), Keith Brownsey (Mount Royal College), Bruce Doern (Carleton and Exeter), Geoffrey Hale (Lethbridge), John Langford (Victoria), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Lisa Mills (Carleton), Tanya Neima (Carleton), Andre Plourde (Alberta), Michael Prince (Victoria), Andrea Rounce (Carleton), Christopher Stoney (Carleton), Allan Tupper (British Columbia), and Ashley Weber (Carleton).

How Ottawa Spends 2003-2004
How Ottawa Spends 2003-2004

Author: G. Bruce Doern

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780195419177

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How Ottawa Spends, 2003-2004: Regime Change and Policy Shift analyses the political in-fighting of the federal Liberal pary and how it has affected public policy development, implementation, and evaluation in Canada.

National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada
National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada

Author: Gerard W. Boychuk

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2008-07-02

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1589013778

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After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insurance—or no insurance—for everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each country—the politics of race in the U.S. and territorial politics in Canada, especially the tensions between the national government and the province of Quebec. In addition to the politics of race and territory, Boychuk sifts through the numerous factors shaping health policy, including national values, political culture and institutions, the power of special interests, and the impact of strategic choices made at critical junctures. Drawing on historical archives, oral histories, and public opinion data, he presents a nuanced and thoughtful analysis of the evolution of the two systems, compares them as they exist today, and reflects on how each is poised to meet the challenges of the future.