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Prime Ministerial Power in Canada - Patrice Dutil

Prime Ministerial Power in Canada

Its Origins Under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden

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Buch | Hardcover
384 Seiten
2017
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3473-5 (ISBN)
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Using innovative methods, this book shows how prime ministerial power was centralized from the very beginning of Confederation by Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden.
Many Canadians lament that prime ministerial power has become too concentrated since the 1970s. This book contradicts this view by demonstrating how prime ministerial power was centralized from the very beginning of Confederation and that the first three important prime ministers – Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden – channelled that centralizing impulse to adapt to the circumstances they faced.

Using a variety of innovative approaches, Patrice Dutil focuses on the managerial philosophies of each of the prime ministers as well as their rapport with senior public servants, resistance to genuine public sector reform, and use of orders-in-council to further their aims. He then compares their managerial habits during times of crisis to those during ordinary times.

This is the first book to examine the administrative habits of these three prime ministers. In it Dutil offers revealing insights into the evolution of prime ministerial power. He also shows how this centralizing grip of these early first ministers inevitably shaped the administrations they headed, as well as those that followed.

Patrice Dutil is a professor of politics and public administration at Ryerson University. He is the founder of the Literary Review of Canada and the president of the Champlain Society. He is the author and editor of several books on diverse aspects of Canadian politics and governance.

Foreword by Robert Bothwell and John English

Introduction

1 How the Prime Ministership Was "Made": Readings, Theories, Models

Part 1: Structure

2 Macdonald's First Mandate: Consolidating Prime Ministerial Power

3 Macdonald Returns: Strengthening the Executive Machinery

4 Wilfrid Laurier: The Quick Apprentice

5 Robert Borden: The Inept Reformer

Part 2: Substance

6 The Public Service and the Slow Death of Patronage

7 Priority Setting and the Budget

8 The Management of Crisis

Part 3: Style

9 The Order-in-Council: A Tool of Administrative Control

10 Managing Routine: Everyday Prime Ministerial Style

Conclusion

Appendices; Notes; Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
Zusatzinfo 3 photos, 10 graphs, 31 tables
Verlagsort Vancouver
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 740 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-7748-3473-0 / 0774834730
ISBN-13 978-0-7748-3473-5 / 9780774834735
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