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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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Book reviewed in this article: Accountability and Control: The Government Expenditure Process : Byh.v. kroeker The Business of Government: An Introduction to Canadian Public Administration : Byt.j. stevens The Regulatory Process in Canada : Edited byg. bruce doern The Management of Canadian Urban Government: A Basic Text for a Course in Urban Management : Byt.j. plunkett andg.m. betts Modern Political Economy : Bynorman frohlich andjoe a. oppenheimer     

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Value for Many: The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1947–1997/ D'une grande valeur pour beaucoup: L'lnstitut d'administration publique du Canada, 1947–1997. Monographs in Canadian Public Administration -No. 21. By Don Seymour Wilson T he Federal Court of Canada: A History, 1875–1992 Byian bushnell . Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe Edited by Walter J. M. kickert . Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees: Canada, United States, Britain, and France By ANDRE BLAIS, DONALD E. BLAKE and ST#EABPHANE DION. Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development: Issues in Theory and Practice Edited by richard d. bingham and Robert mier     

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Book reviewed in this article: Handbook of Public Administration Edited by jack rabin, w. bartley hildreth, and gerald j. miller. Public Financial Management: A Canadian Text By C. LLOYD BROWN-JOHN, ANDRÉ LEBLOND, and D. BRIAN marson. Nucleus: A History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited By Robert bothwell. Proving Discrimination in Canada By BÉatrice Vizkelety. The Future of Health and Health Care Systems in the Industrialized Societies International Public Policy Sourcebook: Vol. 1, Health and Social Welfare Division of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus Edited by jack paul desario. Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues By warren bennis. The Invisible Bureaucracy - The Unconscious in Organizational Problem Solving By HOWELL BAUM, New York: Oxford University Press. 1987 The Workplace Within: Psychodynamlcs of Organizational Life By larry hirschhorn.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Hankey: Man of Secrets By STEPHEN ROSKILL Public Administration: Policy-Making in Government Agencies By IRA SHARKANSKY Canada in Question: Federalism in the Seventies By D. v. SMILEY Up Against City Hall By JOHN SEWELL City Lib: Parties and Reform By STEPHEN CLARKSON Programs in Search of a Policy: Low Income Housing in Canada By MICHAEL DENNIS and SUSAN FISH Politics and Government of Urban Canada: Selected Readings Edited by LIONEL D. FELDMAN and MICHAEL D. GOLDRICG The Financial Structure and the Decision-Making Process of Canadian Municipal Government By THOMAS J. PLUNKETT More Taxes and More Traffic By NANCY BRYAN Inside the Third Reich By ALBERT SPEER The Influence of the United States on Canadian Development: Eleven Case StudiesEdited by RICHARD A. PRESTON Setting National Priorities: the 1973 Budget By C. L. SCHULTZE, E. R. FRIED, A. M. RIVIJN, and N. H. TEETERS Adaptation of Public Personnel Administration to Changes in Society General Report of the 14th International Congress of Administrative Sciences. By ARYEH ATTIR Establishing Ombudsman Offices: Recent Experience in the United States By STANLEY V. ANDERSON and JOHN E. MOORE Administrative Theory and Public Administration By R. J. S. BAKER     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Best Man for the Job: Joe Fratesi and the Politics of Sault Ste. Marie By harvey r. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship By will kymlicka. Pulling Against Gravity: Economic Development in New Brunswick During the McKenna Years By donald J. savoie. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 By alan dershowitz. Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe By judith glazer‐raymo. The Handbook of Canadian Public Administration Edited by Christopher dunn. The Co‐op Alternative: Civil Society and the Future of Public Services. Monographs on Canadian Public Administration ‐ No. 26 Edited by john restaskis and evert a. lindquist. The Perception of Risk Edited by paul slovic. Public‐Sector Labour Relations in an Era of Restraint and Restructuring Edited Eugene swimmer Don Mills, Ont. Poverty Inequality and Health: An International Perspective Edited by david leon and gill walt.     

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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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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: Facing Reality: Consultation, Consensus and Making Economic Policy for the 21st Century By james gillies . Investments in Failure: Five Government Enterprises That Cost the Canadian Taxpayer Billions By sandford F. borins WITH lee brown . Minding the Public's Business Economic Council of Canada. The Management Challenge -Japanese Views Edited by LESTER C. TIIUROW. Explorations in Canadian Economic History: Essays in Honour of Irene M. Spry Ed. by duncan cameron     

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Histoire de l'administration publique québécoise, 1867–1970 By James Iain Gow . Canadian Public Administration: Problematical Perspectives By Robert F. Adie and Paul G. Thomas. Réflexions sur Tart de se gouverner Par Louis Bernard. The Long Road to Reform: Restructuring Public Education in Quebec By Henry Milner . Regional Economic Development: Canada's Search for Solutions By donald J. savoie . Northern Development: The Canadian Dilemma By Robert Page Grand Illusions: The Politics of the Keynesian Experience in Canada 1945–1975 By Robert m. Campbell .     

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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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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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Judges and Judging: Inside the Canadian Judicial System By PETER MC CORMICK and IAN GREENE. La Guerre des Experts: comment la commission royale sur la gestion financière et l'imputabilité a perdu la bataille (The War of the Experts: how the Royal Commission on Financial Management and Accountability lost the battle). By MOHAMED CHARIH. Le ministère des Affaires extérieures du Canada. Volume I. Les années de formation, 1909–1946 DE JOHN HILLIKER. Canada's Department of External Affairs, Volume I: The Early Years, 1909–1946 By JOHN HILLIKER. Ethical Frontiers in Public Management: Seeking New Strategies for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas Edited by JAMES S. BOWMAN. The Third America: The Emergence of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States By MICHAEL O'NEILL. Strategic Management of Public and Third Sector Organizations: A Handbook for Leaders By PAUL G. NUTT and ROBERT W. BACKOFF. Administrative Argument By CHRISTOPHER HOOD and MICHAEL JACKSON.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Public Administration: History and Theory in Contemporary Perspective ; Edited by Joseph A. Uveces Jr . No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State 1914–1941 ; By James Struthers . When Freedom is Lost: The Dark Side of the Relationship Between Government and the Fort Hope Band ; By Paul Driben and Robert S. Trudeau . Local Government: Politicians, Professionals and the Public in Local Authorities ; By Howard Elcock . City Politics in Canada ; Edited by Warren Magnusson and Andrew Sancton . Parliament and Bureaucracy, Parliamentary Scrutiny of Administration: Prospects and Problems in the 1980s ; Edited by J.R. Nethercote . The Executive Challenge ; By Michael B. Mc Caskey . The Politics of Canadian Airport Development: Lessons for Federalism ; By Elliot J. Feldman and Jerome Milch . Organisation Theory and Management ; Edited by Thomas D. Lynch . The Politics of Canadian Public Policy ; Michael M. Atkinson and Marsha A. Chandler     

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Book reviewed in this article: Military Spending in Developing Countries: How Much Is Too Much?By BRIAN s. MACDONALD Policy Innovation in the Saskatchewan Public Sector, 1971–82 Edited by ELEANOR GLOR Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works Par DONALD F. KETTL, PATRICIA W. INGRAHAM, RONALD P. SANDERS Reform of Retirement Income Policy: International and Canadian Perspectives Edited by KEITH G. BANTING and ROBIN BOADWAY Alternative Service Delivery: Sharing Governance in Canada Edited by ROBIN FORD and DAVID ZUSSMAN Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse By CHARLES j. FOX and HUGH T. MILLER Public Management: The New Zealand Model Par JONATHAN BOSTON, JOHN MARTIN, JUNE PALLOT, PAT WALSH New Public Management and Public Administration in Canada Edited by MOHAMED CHARIH and ARTHUR DANIELS     

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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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Current Good Practices and New Developments in Public Service Management: A Profile of the Public Service of Canada Public Administration Illuminated and Inspired by the Arts Edited by CHARLES T. GOODSELL and NANCY MURRAY. Resource and Environmental Management in Canada: Addressing Conflict and Uncertainty Edited by BRUCE MITCHELL. Public Sector Collective Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Edited by GENE SWIMMER and MARK THOMPSON. The Art of Judgment: A Study of Policy Making By SIR GEOFFREY VICKERS.     

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.     

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Books recived in this article: Official Language Populations in Canda: Patterns and Contacts Par DONALAD G. CARTWRIGHT. Public Administration: A comparative Perspective Par FERREL HEADY. Canadian Housing Policy Research: Some Initial Impressions By J. BARRY CULLINGWORTH. The Demand for Housing in Canada By MARION STEELE International Handbook on Local Government Reorganization Contemporary Developments Edited by DONALD C. ROWAT. Civil Servants and Public Policy: A Comparative Study of International Secretariats By ROBERT I. MCLAREN. Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining By GERALD E. PHILLIPS. Planning Useful Evaluations: Evaluation Assessment By LEONARD RUTMAN. The Acceptable Mean: The Tax Rental Agreements, 1941–1962. R.M. BURNS. Resoures Policy: International Perspectives Edited by PETER N. NEMETEZ.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Le ministère des Affaires extérieures du Canada: Volume II, Lessor, 1946–1968 Par john hilliker et donald barry. Rethinking the Delivery of Public Services to Citizens By Leslie f. seidle . Troubled Waters: Economic Structure, Regulatory Reform, and Fisheries Trade By PETER B. DOERINGER and DAVID G. TERKLA. Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices Edited by Margaret wilson and anna yeatman. The Road to Better Public Services: Progress and Constraints in Five Canadian Federal Agencies By g. bruce doern. Greater Toronto: Report of the gta Task Force. January 1996 Public Administration in Canada: A Text By KENNETH KERNAGHAN and DAVID SIEGEL.