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• Policy from ideas to implementation : essays in honour of Professor G. Bruce Doern / Leslie A. Pal, Michael J. Prince, and Glen Toner
• Bruce the builder / John A. Chenier
• The accidental theorist : key themes in G. Bruce Doern's approach to the policy process / Leslie A. Pal -- The policy roles of central agencies : Bruce Doern's original ideas / Peter Aucoin
• Self-regulation, exhortation, and symbolic politics : gently coercive governing? / Michael J. Prince
• New directions and old dilemmas : taxation as an instrument of public policy / Allan M. Maslove
• Science advisory mechanisms in Canada : an institutional analysis / Jeffrey S. Kinder
• Policies of culturing science and technology in Canada / Markus Sharaput
• Digital state 2.0 / Sanford Borins
• Canada-United states energy relations : from domestic to North American energy policies / Monica Gattinger
• Policy making in the indeterminate world of energy transitions : carbon capture and storage as technological transition or enhanced carbon lock in / James Meadowcraft and Matthew Hellin
• Growing the children of Brundtland : the creation and evolution of the NRTEE, IISD, CESD, and SDTC / Serena Boutros, Lillian Hayward, Anique Montambault, Laura Smallwood, and Glen Toner.

Assembling an informed group of scholars, this volume focuses on the study and practice of central agencies, regulation, budgeting, energy and science policy, and governing instruments. A overview that looks beyond Doern's tremendous body of work, Policy: From Ideas to Implementation is also a survey of the methods and central issues of the Canadian and international public policy disciplines.
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This controversial analysis of economic nationalism will interest economists and those concerned with nationalism and the competitive position of Canadian manufacturing. It is the first attempt to test empirically an economic model of nationalism, a model which implies than an emphasis on nationalism ultimately reduces economic efficiency - with low-income groups bearing most of the resultant cost - and redistributes income from lower - to upper-income individuals. Applying the model to federal commercial and science policies, the authors argue that these policies have contributed to the high costs and low productivity of Canadian manufacturing and retarded the adoption of new processes and improved techniques. They find that the costs of these are borne by the urban workers and the consumer, while the major beneficiaries are Canadian managers, scientists, and engineers. The efficiency and competitive position of Canadian industry are reduced and income redistributed from lower- to upper-income groups. Science policies designed to increase, at high cost, a broad range of Canadian research and development capabilities are related to the slower adoption of new manufacturing processes in Canada than in the United States and Europe. The authors conclude that greater trade liberalization and increased industrial specialization would benefit Canada and Ontario, that more emphasis should be placed on rapid diffusion of innovation, and that research should be concentrated in fields where Canada has a potential competitive advantage.
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A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on science In this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner contends that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations, and the environmental NGO community is the most vicious assault ever waged by a Canadian government on the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment. From the closure of Arctic research stations as oil drilling begins in the High Arctic to slashed research budgets in agriculture, dramatic changes to the nation's fisheries policy, and the muzzling of government scientists, Harper's government has effectively dismantled Canada's long-standing scientific tradition. Drawing on interviews with scientists whose work has been halted by budget cuts and their colleagues in an NGO community increasingly treated as an enemy of the state, The War on Science paints a vivid and damning portrait of a government that has abandoned environmental stewardship and severed a nation.
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