Donald J Savoie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1077589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donald J Savoie |
| PRENOMES | Donald J |
| SOBRENOME | Savoie |
| ASSINATURA | SAVOIE D J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université de Moncton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2391-9186 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
La démocratie au Canada
Revisiting The Politics of Bureaucracy
Keywords bureaucracy, governance, machinery of government, New Public Management, public administration, relations between politicians and career officials
Democracy in Canada
"Canada's representative democracy is confronting important challenges. At the top of the list is the growing inability of the national government to perform its most important roles: namely mapping out collective actions that resonate in all regions as well as enforcing these measures. Others include Parliament's failure to carry out important responsibilities, an activist judiciary, incessant calls for greater transparency, the media's rapidly …
What Is Government Good At?
Winner: Donner Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Public Policy Writing by Canadians (2016) Winner: New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (2016) Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions "What is government good at?" and "What is government not good at?" are critical ones - and their answ…
La fonction publique canadienne a perdu ses repères
Sommaire Il y a une trentaine d'années, dans les démocraties anglo‐américaines, les politiciens ont adopté une série de mesures conçues pour leur assurer une position dominante dans l'élaboration des politiques publiques et pousser les hauts fonctionnaires à devenir de meilleurs gestionnaires. Le gouvernement du Canada n'y a pas fait exception. Essentiellement, les politiciens ont décidé de se tourner vers le secteur privé pour améliorer la gesti…
Harrison McCain
Harrison Mccain
Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert (2011) Public Management Reform
Power
In this informative critique of contemporary leadership, renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located, and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power, making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to increased disenchantment with Western politicians…
Social Movements and Europeanization
By Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, 215 pp., £40.00, ISBN 978-0-19-955778-3 (hbk) Donatella della Porta and Manuale Caiani have written an interesting
Professionalism and Public Service
Searching for Answers by Retracing the Roots of Public Administration and Looking to Economics
Visiting Grandchildren
Visiting Grandchildren looks to history, accidents of geography, and to the workings of national political and administrative institutions to explain the relative underdevelopment of the Maritime provinces
The Canadian public service has a personality
The notion that the public service has no constitutional personality or persona distinct from the government of the day has been a key part of the bargain guiding the relationship between Parliament, ministers, and public servants in both Britain and Canada. This paper argues that this view no longer reflects reality. It looks to developments in both countries to justify this contention, maintaining that the claim is even more relevant in Canada …
Legislatures
Legislatures, David C. Docherty, The Canadian Democratic Audit Series; Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005, pp. 224.David Docherty's book, Legislatures, is ambitious both in terms of its comparative perspective and the territory it reviews. The book deals with virtually all important aspects of the Canadian Parliament and provincial legislatures. The main focus, however, is on the House of Commons
Breaking the Bargain
Searching for accountability in a government without boundaries
Establishing organizational boundaries to define responsibilities within government, along with clear lines of hierarchy, has shaped our machinery of government. Boundaries have been essential for defining distinct and specific roles for politicians and public servants. However, boundaries are creating a new world that opens up government to outsiders and increasingly calls for shared policy and administrative space within government. The policy‐…
Breaking the Bargain
In Breaking the Bargain , Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged.
Pulling against Gravity
La gouvernance des sociétés d‘État au gouvernement fédéral
Sommaire: Les sociétiés d'État ont pu s'inspirer des efforts entrepris récemment par les entreprises du secteur privé dans le but de renforcer leur gouvernance. Toutefois, ces deux secteurs présentent des différences importantes, qui sont examinées dans le présent article. En comparaison des entreprises priviées, les sociétés d'État doivent appliquer un processus de reddition de comptes plus complexe comportant un nombre beaucoup plus important d…
Governing from the Centre
Governing from the Centre
Agencies and policies instituted to streamline Ottawa’s planning process instead concentrate power in the hands of the Prime Minister, more powerful in Canadian politics than the U.S. President in America. Riveting, startling, and indispensable reading.
The Rise of Court Government in Canada
The article challenges long-established conventions about how Canada's federal government works. It argues that Cabinet has joined Parliament as an institution being bypassed. In the late 1990s, political power is in the hands of the prime minister and a small group of carefully selected courtiers rather than with the prime minister acting in concert with his elected cabinet colleagues. The article reviews the forces that have led to the rise of …
Canada
In Canada the majority of the government’s political advisers are grouped within the office of the Prime Minister and the Privy Council. The role of these structures has evolved notably since the end of the second world war when the office of the Prime minister became situated at the summit of political power while the Privy council came to represent the head of the administration. This redefinition of roles allows the Prime Minister to conduct g…
Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney
Journal Article Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy. By Donald J. Savoie. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. x, 414 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8229-3775-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8229-5519-9.) Get access John A. Rohr John A. Rohr Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 19…
What is wrong with the new public management
The Rise of Court Government in Canada
The article challenges long-established conventions about how Canada's federal government works. It argues that Cabinet has joined Parliament as an institution being bypassed. In the late 1990s, political power is in the hands of the prime minister and a small group of carefully selected courtiers rather than with the prime minister acting in concert with his elected cabinet colleagues. The article reviews the forces that have led to the rise of …
Breaking the Bargain
Searching for accountability in a government without boundaries
Establishing organizational boundaries to define responsibilities within government, along with clear lines of hierarchy, has shaped our machinery of government. Boundaries have been essential for defining distinct and specific roles for politicians and public servants. However, boundaries are creating a new world that opens up government to outsiders and increasingly calls for shared policy and administrative space within government. The policy‐…
Kafka's Castle
In the early 1970s, A.W. Johnston likened the Treasury Board to Kafka's Castle. Widespread misconceptions existed, he wrote, about the workings of the Treasury Board and its Secretariat. Since then, the scope of Treasury Board activities has broadened substantially. Both the Board and the Secretariat have assumed new responsibilities in the area of personnel policy, in establishing new administrative policies for government operations and in mana…
The Canadian public service has a personality
The notion that the public service has no constitutional personality or persona distinct from the government of the day has been a key part of the bargain guiding the relationship between Parliament, ministers, and public servants in both Britain and Canada. This paper argues that this view no longer reflects reality. It looks to developments in both countries to justify this contention, maintaining that the claim is even more relevant in Canada …
The minister's staff
A number of observers have of late commented on the growing influence of permanent public servants on the policy process in government at the expense of ministers and have suggested measures to rectify the situation. This paper looks at ministers' staff as a means to give ministers the capacity to provide policy directions to their departments and to assess policy advice coming from permanent public servants. The paper describes the kind of resou…
Regional Economic Development
Social Movements and Europeanization
By Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, 215 pp., £40.00, ISBN 978-0-19-955778-3 (hbk) Donatella della Porta and Manuale Caiani have written an interesting
Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney
The Politics of Public Spending in Canada
The Toppling of Dree and Prospects for Regional Economic Development
Revisiting The Politics of Bureaucracy
Keywords bureaucracy, governance, machinery of government, New Public Management, public administration, relations between politicians and career officials
La fonction publique canadienne a perdu ses repères
Sommaire Il y a une trentaine d'années, dans les démocraties anglo‐américaines, les politiciens ont adopté une série de mesures conçues pour leur assurer une position dominante dans l'élaboration des politiques publiques et pousser les hauts fonctionnaires à devenir de meilleurs gestionnaires. Le gouvernement du Canada n'y a pas fait exception. Essentiellement, les politiciens ont décidé de se tourner vers le secteur privé pour améliorer la gesti…
Pulling against Gravity
Governing from the Centre
Just another voice from the pulpit
Equity and Efficiency in Economic Development
The ideological foundations of the contributors range from personalized neo-Marxism, through extreme centre neo-Keynesianism, to hard-line neoclassical mathematical economics. Despite this diversity there is a surprising degree of consensus. No contributor advocates centralized planning and none expects a free market to cure all economic ills. Opinions vary as to how well the market actually works, but all agree that equity and efficiency are ess…
Exorcizing the ghost of spending past
La lutte pour le développement
La bureaucratie représentative
L'importance du régionalisme dans la politique canadienne a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Nous avons aujourd'hui de nombreux écrits sur la culture politique régionale et de nombreuses suggestions pour rendre nos institutions politiques nationales plus sensibles aux régions. Mais il est une institution dont on n'a pratiquement pas tenu compte dans ce contexte: la fonction publique fédérale. Et pourtant, bon nombre de gens reconnaissent aujourd'hui…
Federal-Provincial Collaboration
The General Development Agreement approach and the bureaucratization of provincial governments in the Atlantic provinces
In an attempt to promote joint planning in the field of economic development, the federal government signed General Development Agreements with the provinces. Under the agreements, the two bureaucracies are linked together and are charged with jointly developing and implementing programs. Decision‐making authority is delegated to a series of federal‐provincial committees. To make these committees work and to carry out joint planning and decision‐…
Federal-Provincial Collaboration
The minister's staff
A number of observers have of late commented on the growing influence of permanent public servants on the policy process in government at the expense of ministers and have suggested measures to rectify the situation. This paper looks at ministers' staff as a means to give ministers the capacity to provide policy directions to their departments and to assess policy advice coming from permanent public servants. The paper describes the kind of resou…
The Toppling of Dree and Prospects for Regional Economic Development
Note
Implantation d'une nouvelle organisation en matière de développement économique
Le programme federal de decentralisation
Canadian Regional Development at Home and Abroad A Comparative Perspective
Canada launched new and ambitious regional development policies both domestically and internationally in the late 1960s. At home, the federal government established a new department with a specific mandate to promote regional development programming. At the same time, it invested a major shift in its approach to development in Third World countries. A more generous budget was struck for foreign aid and Canada declared that it would now concentrat…
La bureaucratie représentative
L'importance du régionalisme dans la politique canadienne a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Nous avons aujourd'hui de nombreux écrits sur la culture politique régionale et de nombreuses suggestions pour rendre nos institutions politiques nationales plus sensibles aux régions. Mais il est une institution dont on n'a pratiquement pas tenu compte dans ce contexte: la fonction publique fédérale. Et pourtant, bon nombre de gens reconnaissent aujourd'hui…
Kafka's Castle
In the early 1970s, A.W. Johnston likened the Treasury Board to Kafka's Castle. Widespread misconceptions existed, he wrote, about the workings of the Treasury Board and its Secretariat. Since then, the scope of Treasury Board activities has broadened substantially. Both the Board and the Secretariat have assumed new responsibilities in the area of personnel policy, in establishing new administrative policies for government operations and in mana…
Rural redevelopment in Canada
Regional Economic Development
La lutte pour le développement
Regional Economic Development
The Politics of Public Spending in Canada
Toward 2000
Exorcizing the ghost of spending past
Developing leaders for the public sector
Studying public administration
This paper argues that the study of public administration needs to be reoriented to assist governments, in particular our public services, to meet new challenges. The paper suggests that our public services are facing nothing short of a crisis situation. Public bureaucracies are under attack everywhere, even at times by the political masters they seek to serve and by those who in the past urged governments to intervene in the economy. The Westmin…
Former des chefs pour le secteur public
Equity and Efficiency in Economic Development
The ideological foundations of the contributors range from personalized neo-Marxism, through extreme centre neo-Keynesianism, to hard-line neoclassical mathematical economics. Despite this diversity there is a surprising degree of consensus. No contributor advocates centralized planning and none expects a free market to cure all economic ills. Opinions vary as to how well the market actually works, but all agree that equity and efficiency are ess…
The Smiley Prize
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Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney
All the Difference
Civil Service Reform
The political leadership that came into office in the 1980s in many Anglo-American style democracies sought to perform radical surgery on the civil service. Indeed, some argue that the decade was a watershed period in the development of Western bureaucracies (Levine, 1986, p. 195). Margaret Thatcher was first off the mark having been elected in 1979, and she was to play a leadership role not only at home but abroad where she pushed heads of other…
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