Prime Ministerial Power in Canada
Its Origins Under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden
Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of British Columbia Press
- Date of Publication 28 May 2017
- ISBN 9780774834735
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 740 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 photos, 10 graphs, 31 tables 0
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Long description:
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.
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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
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