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Book reviewed in this article: Society and Politics in Alberta: Research Papers Edited by carlo caldarola . Prairie Capitalism: Power and Influence in the New West By john Richards and lahry pratt Cordial but not Cosy: A History of the Office of the Auditor General By sonja sinclair Public Policy in Canada: Organization, Process and Management Edited by g. bruce doern and peter aucoin . The Superbureaucrats: Structure and Behaviour in Central Agencies By colin campbell and george j. szablowski . Communicating at the Top: What you need to know about communicating to run an organization By george de mare . The Professions and Public Policy Edited by philip slayton and michael j. trebil-cock . The New Managerial Grid By robebt r. blake and jane s. mouton. Les grands rouages de la machine administrative québécoise Par alain baccigalupo .     

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Globalisation et pouvoir des entreprises Apocalypse Soon? Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe By STEPHEN F. HALLER Micropolitics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel and the Airlines By PETER CLANCY. La prévision‐prospective en gestion:Tourisme, loisir, culture De JEAN STAFFORD et BRUNO SARRASIN. Canada's Regional Innovation Systems: The Science‐based Industries By JORGE NIOSI. Strategic Planning for Public and Non‐Profit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement (3rd Edition) By JOHN M. BRYSON. Strengthening Canadian Democracy Edited by PAUL HOWE, RICHARD JOHNSTON and ANDRÉ BLAIS. Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structure and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government Edited by LUC BERNIER, KEITH BROWNSEY and MICHAEL HOWLETT.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Les relations intergouvernementales au Canada, 1867–1967, Par gérard VEILLEUX Recovering Canada's Nationhood By D. W. CARR Independence: The Canadian Challenge Edited by ABRAHAM ROTSTEIN and GARY LAX Canadian Federalism: Myth or Reality? Edited by J. PETER MEEKISON Labour Economics in Canada By SYLVIA OSTRY and MAHMOOD A. ZAIDI State Enterprise: Business or Politics? By DAVID COOMBES Politics, Finance and the Role of Economics: An Essay on the Control of Public Enterprise By c. D. FOSTER Economic Analysis and Public Enterprises By RALPH TURVEY International Community Power Structures By DELBERT c. MILLER Papers Relating to the President's Departmental Reorganization Program — A Reference Compilation By the OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Style in Administration: Readings in British Public Administration Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN and A. DUNSIRE     

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Public Schools and Political Ideas: Canadian Educational Policy in Historical Perspective By RONALD MANZER. Educational Choice: Necessary But Not SuffIcient By BRUCE W. WILKINSON. Administrative Law in Canada Dr SARA BLAKE. The Future of Fiscal Federalism Edited by KEITH G. BANTING. Alberta's Local Governments: Politics and Democracy By JACK MASSON with EDWARD C. LESAGE JR. La gestion Publique dans une économie sans frontières Par RODNEY DOBELL et PHILIP STEENKAMP. Radiodiffusion et société distincte: des origines de la radio jusqu'à la Révolution tranquille au Québec De MICHEL FILION. Postmodernism and Organizations Edited by JOHN HASSARD and MARTIN PARKER. Beyond Nimby: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States. By BARRY C. RABE. Handbook of Trainin and Development for the Public Sector De MONTGOMERY VAN WART, N. JOSEPH CAYER et STEVE COOK.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Government and Industry: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S., Canada and the U.K. By WYN Grant . The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations By james m.kouzes andbarry z. posner. Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Busines in America By david vooel Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy By marc raboy Challenges to Federalism: Policy-Making in Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany Edited by william m. chandler and Christian w. zöllner . The Modern North: People, Politics and the Rejection of Colonialism By ken coates andjudith powell . Le marketing gouvernemental au Québec: 1929–1985 De gaëtan morin .     

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Searching for Certainty ‐ Inside the New Canadian Mindset By DARRELL BRICKER and EDWARD CREENSPON. Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State By STEPHEN MCBRIDE. The Internationalization of Public Management: Reinventing the Third World State Edited by WILLY MCCOURT and MARTIN MINOGUE. The 2000 Federal Budget: Retrospect and Prospect Edited by PAUL A. R. HOBSON and THOMAS A. WILSON. La gestion des ressources humaines dans les organisations publiques: collection Parametres De LOUISE LEMIRE et YVBS‐CHANTAL GAGNON. Making Results‐Based State Government Work By BLAINE LINER, HARRY P. HATRY, ELISA VINSON, RYAN ALLEN, PAT DUSENBURY, SCOTT BRYANT and RON SNELL. Canadian Environmental Policy: Context and Cases Edited by DEBORAL. VANNIJNATTEN and ROBERT BOARDMAN. Planning Canadian Regions By GERALD HODGE and IRA M. ROBINSON.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Reports of the Task Force on Hydro in Ontario Report No. I, A Future Role and Place A Look to the North: Canadian Regional Experience By the ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS Economic Principles and Urban Problems By ROBERT L. BISH and ROBERT J. KIRK Institution communale et pouvoir politique Par s. BLAREZ, c. BOUCHET, G. DU BOISBERRANGER, C. MINGASSON, M.C. MONZIES The Managing of Police Organizations By PAUL M. WHISENAND and R. FRED FERGUSON Public Assistance in France Par CMMY STEVENS New Questions and Answers on Public Employee Negotiation By W.D. HEISEL Resolving Internal Management Conflicts for Labour Negotiations By THOMAS A. KOCHAN A Conceptual Basis for an Industrial Strategy By ALBERT BRETON Nationalism and the Multinational Enterprise: Legal, Economic and Managerial Aspects Edited by H.R. MMO, J. GRAHAM SMITH and RICHARD w. WRIGHT     

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Book reviewed in this article: Industry and Education: A Century of Canadian Development. By O. J. Firestone. Bureaucracy in Canadian Government: Selected Readings. Edited by W. D. K. Kernaghan. Intergovernmental Finance in Ontario: A Provincial-Local Perspective. By J. Stefan Dupre Congress and Urban Problems. A Casebook on the Legislative Process. By Frederic N. Cleaveland and Associates. Administration of Government Industries. By R, S. Arora. Political and Administrative Development. Edited by Ralph Braibanti. Public Finance in Canada: Selected Readings. By A. J. Robinson and James Cut.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Traité de droit administratif, par RENÉ DUSSAULT Beyond the Bottom Line - Management in Government By timothy W. plumptre. The Politics of Public Spending in Canada By donald J. savoie. Managing Change: A Guide to Producing Innovation from Within Edited by sandraj. Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style Edited by alberT' k. karnig and paula d. mcclain.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The History of City Planning: a survey By Michael Huco-Brunt. Old Age Pensions and Policy-Making in Canada By KENNETH BRYDEN. Front-Bench Opposition: The role of the leader of the Opposition, the Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Government in British Politics By R.M. punnett. Land: private property, public control By R.W.G. BRYANT. Elites in the Policy Process By Robert presthus. Public Involvement in Local Government in the 1970's By the MANAGEMENT INFORMATION service. Policy Analysis in Local Government: a systems approach to decision-making By kenneth l. kraemer. Patterns of Australian Federalism By J.E. Richardson. Revenue-Sharing in the Federal Republic of Germany By J.S.H. hunter. Power in Britain Edited by JOHN URRY. Economic Analysis and Canadian Policy By DAVID STAGER. Administrative Theories and Politics By PETER SELF.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Public Management in a Borderless Economy; By Rodney Dobell and Philip Steenkamp Memoirs; By Pierre Elliot Trudeau . The Downing Street Years; By MARGARET THATCHER. The Legal Framework of Government; Dr Gregory Tardi . Taking Power: Managing Transitions/Prendre le Pouvoir: La gestion des transitions gouvernementales; Edited by Donald J. Savoie . Getting It Right: Regional Development in Canada; By R. Harley Mcgee . Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State; By Camilla Stivers .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Administrative Reform. By Gerald E. Caiden. Chicago: Aldine Anatomy of a Coordinating Council - Implications for Planning. By Basil J. Mott. Pittsburgh Problems and Techniques of Administrative Training in Africa. Edited by Adebayo Adedeji. Ibadan The Politics of Canadian Broadcasting, 1920–1951. By Frank W. Peers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press Les agents du système administratif. Cahiers du centre de sociologie européenne. Par A. Darbel et D. Schnapper Besonderes Venmltungsrecht. Edited by I. von Munch. Bad Homburg: Gehlen     

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Community Beseiged: The Anglophone Minority and the Politics of Quebec By GARTH STEVENSON. Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform By SUSAN ROSE‐ACKERMAN. Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair Edited by W. WESLEY PUE. Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World Edited by SAMUEL PATTERSON. Disparition ou réorganisation du travail? de MICHEL LECLERC.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The City: Canada's Prospects, Canada's Problems Edited by LLOYD AXWORTHY and JAMES M. GILLIES External Affairs and Canadian Federalism Edited by HOWARD A. LEESON and WILFRIED VAN-DERELST Developing Policies for Public Security and Criminal Justice By ROBERT EVANS, JR. The Form of Cities in Central Canada: Selected Papers Edited by L.S. BOURNE, R.D. MACKINNON, and J.W. SIMMONS The Politics of Progress By RAYMOND E. WOLFINGER Administrative Tribunals By R.E. WRAITH and P.G. HUTCHESSON Current Practice in Program Budgeting (PPBS) Analysis and Case Studies Covering Government and Business By DAVID NOVICK Mobility Behaviour in the Canadian Labour Force By JOHN VANDERKAMP Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered By E.F. SCHUMACHER Oil Pollution as an International Problem: A Study of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia By WILLIAM M. ROSS An End to Hierarchy! An End to Competition!: Organizing the Politics and Economics of Survival By FREDERICK C. THAYER     

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Book reviewed in this article: ProFile Index: Canadian Provincial and Municipal Publications 1974 / Index ProFile: Publications provinciales et municipales canadiennes 1974 Une économie à libérer By Par maurice saint-germain. Police, culture et société Pressure Group Behaviour in Canadian Politics Edited by A. PAUL PROSS. Ethical Conduct: Guidelines for Government Employees / Comportement Professionnel: Directives à l'Intention des Fonctionnaires By Kenneth kernaghan. How to Manage by Objectives By JOHN W. HUMBLE. Report of the Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations By James D. McNiven. Governing Greater Stockholm: a Study of Policy Development and System Change By THOMAS J. ANTON. Public Sector Employment Selection: A Manual for The Personnel Generalist Edited by GRACE H. WRIGHT. The New Zealand Bureaucrat By THOMAS B. SMITH. Accounting Income Models: an application and evaluation By JOHN R. HANNA. Incomes Policy and Inflation Edited by Michael parkin and MICHAEL T. SUMNER. Man vs the Welfare State By HENRY HAZLITT. Understanding Public Policy By THOMAS R. DYE. Canadian Public Land Use in Perspective Edited by J.G. NELSON, R.C. SCACE, and R. KOURI. Les Systèmes d'information aux fins de gestion PAR ROLLAND HURTUBISE.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Canada and Immigration: Public Policy and Public Concern Canadian Public Administration Series. By FREDA HAWKINS Collective Bargaining in the Public Service THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF CANADA Staff Relations in the Civil Service: Fifty Years of Whitleyism By HENRY PARRIS Conseil des premiers ministres des Maritimes: premier rapport annuel. Par LE CONSEIL Rebels and Colleagues: Advertising and Social Change in French Canada By FREDERICK ELKIN People in the Way: The Human Aspects of the Columbia River Project By J. W. WILSON The Ombudsman Plan: Essays on the Worldwide Spread of an Idea By DONALD C. ROWAT Armstrong's Fight for FM Broadcasting: One Man vs Big Business and Bureaucracy By D. H. V. ERICKSON The Nationalized Industries Since 1960: A Book of Readings Edited by LEONARD TIVEY The Role of Commissions in Pol icy-Making Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN. Cost Benefit Analysis in Administration By TREVOR NEWTON Political Bureaucracy By LEWIS C. MAINZER Prelude to Administrative Theory: Essays in Social Structure and Social Process By HENRY ZENTNER     

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Book reviewed in this article: Conducting the People's Business: The Framework and Functions of Public Administration Edited by WILLIAM G. HILLS, VOYLE C. SCURLOCK, HAROLD D. VIAILLE, and JAMES A. WEST APL et les cadres Par ROLLAND A. HURTUBISE et YVES POULIN The Developing System of Public Expenditure Management and Control By SIR SAMUEL GOLDMAN, KCB La fonction publique:canadienne et québécoise, Par PATRICE GARANT Bureaucratic Careers: Anglophones and Francophobes in the Canadian Public Service By CHRISTOPHER BEATTIE, JACQUES DÉSY, and STEPHEN LONGSTAFF Federalism & Policy Development: the case of adult occupational training in Ontario By J. STETAN DUPRÉ, DAVID M. CAMERON, GRAEME H. MCKECHNIE, and THEODORE B. ROTENBERG Models in Urban and Regional Planning By BENJAMIN REIF Gestion et comptabilité:à la rescousse des systèmes d'information, Par J. E. COOKE et D. H. DRURY The Diplomacy of Constraint: Canada, The Korean War, and The United States By DENIS STAIRS Environment and society: a book of readings on environmental policy, attitudes and values Edited by ROBERT T. ROELOFS, JOSEPH N. CROWLEY, and DONALD L. HARDESTY     

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L'administration publique De CAROLLE SIMARD et LUC BERNIER. Le management public: comprendre et gérer les institutions de I'État Québec Résumé de I'ouvrage Whose North? Political Change, Political Development, and Self-Government in the Northwest Territories By MARK O. DICKERSON. Breaking the Shackles: Deregulating Canadian Industry By WALTER BLOCK and GEORGE LERMER, eds. L'éthique et la politique au Canada¹ De JANET HIEBERT Les relations de pouvoir dans les lois. Comparaison entre les gouvernements du Québec de 1944 à 1985 De VINCENT LEMIEUX. Public Employee Compensation and its Role in Public Sector Strategic Management By GILBERT B. SIEGAL. City Management in Canada: The Role of the Chief Administrative Officer By T. J. PLUNKETT. Managing Local Government: Public Administration in Practice By RICHARD D. BINGHAM. Why Meech Failed: Lessons for Canadian Constitution-Making By RAYMOND BRETON Exemplary Public Administrators: Character and Leadership in Government Edited by TERRY L. COOPER and N. DALE WRIGHT.     

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The Responsible Public Servant By KENNETH KERNAGHAN and JOHN W. LANGFORD. Getting the Pink Slip: Severances and Firings in the Senior Public Service Toronto. Privatisation and Deregulation in Canada and Britain De J. RICHARDSON. Public Enterprise Performance Evaluation: Seven Country Studies De R. WETTENHALL et C. O'NUALLAIN, éditeurs. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It By JAMES Q. WILSON. Two Nations, One Money? By DAVID E. W. LAIDLER and WILLIAM P. ROBSON.     

Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World Edited by Leslie a. pal and cynthia j. Alexander Toronto.

Book reviewed in this article: Governing from the Centre: the Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics By donald savoie. Public Policy Instruments: Evaluating the Tools of Public Administration Edited by B. guy peters and frans k.m. van nispen. Recension:«éevaluation collaborative du rendement: guide méthodologique » Par paul laurin.