Donald J. Savoie

Donald Joseph Savoie OC ONB FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian public administration and regional economic development scholar. He serves as a professor at l'Université de Moncton. In 2015 he was awarded the Killam Prize for his contribution to the field of social sciences.

Donald J. Savoie OC ONB FRSC
Born	Donald Joseph Savoie 1947 (age 73–74) Saint-Maurice, New Brunswick, Canada
Awards	Killam Prize (2015)
Academic background
Alma mater	Université de Moncton University of New Brunswick University of Oxford
Thesis	Collaboration in Federal–Provincial Relations in Canada (1979)
Academic work
Discipline	Public administration
Institutions	Université de Moncton

Biography

Savoie has published fifty books and over 200 articles in journals and edited collections during his career such as Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament, Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics (shortlisted for the Donner Prize) and Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy,[1] What Is Government Good At? A Canadian Answer, the 2015 Donner Prize winner and the inaugural winner of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (2015). His Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes (shortlisted for the Donner Prize), his 2013 book, Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy in Canada: The Desintegration of Our Institutions. His biography Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose and Looking for Bootstraps: Economic Development in the Maritimes were both shortlisted for the National Business Book Award (2014 and 2018).[2]

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993.[3]

Donald Savoie was awarded the 2015 Killam Prize in Social Sciences. He was the first scholar at an Atlantic Canadian university to receive this award.[4]

Publications

• Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981
• An overview of the importance of federal–provincial relations on regional development: the restructuring of 1982, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1984 (ISBN 0-88659-003-5)
• Regional Economic Development: Canada’s Search for Solutions, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986, reprinted 1987.
• La lutte pour le développement: le cas du Nord Est, Québec, Les presses de l’Université du Québec, 1988.
• Regional Policy in a Changing World, New York: Plenum Press, 1990.
• The Politics of Public Spending in Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990, reprinted 1990 and 1991.
• The Politics of Language, Kingston: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 1991, 23 p. ( ISBN 0-88911-586-9 )
• Regional Economic Development: Canada's Search for Solutions, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, 341 p.
• Globalization and Governance, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development, 1993, 37 p. ( ISBN 0-662-98781-0 )
• Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994, reprinted 1994, 1995.
• Rethinking Canada's regional development policy: a view of the Atlantic, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1997, 67 p.
• Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, reprinted 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006 (Review).
• Community Economic Development in Atlantic Canada: False Hope or Panacea, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 131 p.
• Aboriginal Economic Development in New Brunswick, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 143 p.
• Pulling Against Gravity: Economic Development in New Brunswick During the McKenna Years, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001
• Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, reprinted 2003, 2004, 336 p.
• Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, reprinted 2006 (Review)
• Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008, reprinted 2008.
• I'm From Bouctouche, Me, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009, 316 p. (A memoir.)
• Power: Where Is It?, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010, reprinted 2010, 302 p. (Review)
• Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides How and Why, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, reprinted 2014, 336 p.
• Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, 336 p.
• What Is Government Good At?: A Canadian Answer, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015, reprinted 2016, 388 p.
• Looking for Bootstraps: Economic Development in the Maritimes, Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2017, 440 p.
• Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, 504 p.
• Thanks for the Business: K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving and the Story of Irving Oil, Halifax: Nimbus, 2020.

With B. Guy Peters (eds.)

• New Challenges of Governance, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management / Presses de l'Université Laval, 1995, 306 p. ( ISBN 2 -7637-7445-8 )
• Managing Incoherence: The dilemma of coordination and accountability, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development, 1995 ( ISBN 0-662-61696-0 )
• Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reforms, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1998, 311 p. ( ISBN 2-7637-7574-8 )
• Governance in the Twenty-first Century: Revitalizing the Public Service, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001, 328 p. ( ISBN 2-7637-7765-1 )

With Ralph Winter (eds.)

• Les provinces maritimes : un regard sur l'avenir / The Maritime Provinces: looking to the future, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1994, 288 p (. ISBN 0-88659-027-2 )

With Maurice Beaudin

• The Struggle for Development: the case of the North East, Moncton: Presses de l'Université du Québec / Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1988, 282 p.
• New Brunswick in 2000, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1989, 200 p. ( ISBN 0-88659-018-3 )
• The challenges of the fishing industry in New Brunswick, Moncton: Acadia Publishing, 1992, 282 p. ( ISBN 2-7600-0208-X )

With André Raynauld

• Essais sur le développement régional, Montreal: University Press of Montreal, 1986, 242 p. ( ISBN 2-7606-0735-6 )

References

1. Sheppard, Jim (20 May 2008). "Donald Savoie on the crisis of Canadian government". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
2. Canadian Press, National Business Book Award announces finalists, 5 May 2014
3. Government of Canada Order of Canada record
4. "Savoie to be recognized with Killam Prize". The Daily Gleaner. Fredericton, New Brunswick. 14 April 2015. p. B3.