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MQUP is delighted to announce that Donald J. Savoie’s Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? is a 2013 finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Congratulations to Donald and the other finalists!
This year’s winner will be announced on April 2, 2014 at Politics and the Pen in Ottawa. The finalists were selected by a jury consisting of Calgary Herald editorial page editor Licia Corbella, journalist Jane O’Hara, and Globe and Mail international affairs columnist Doug Saunders.
Now in its fourteenth year, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is awarded annually for a book of literary nonfiction that captures a political subject of relevance to Canadian readers and has the potential to shape or influence thinking on Canadian political life. The winning work combines compelling new insights with depth of research and is of significant literary merit.
FINALIST: Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? by Donald J. Savoie
An insightful account of the forces that shape Ottawa’s expenditure budget and the relations between politicians and public servants.
Thirty years ago, Anglo-American politicians set out to make the public sector look like the private sector. The traditional role of public servants advising governments on policy was turned on its head and new reforms empowered elected officials to shape policy. Evidence-based policy making was devalued as focus groups, public opinion surveys, and well-connected lobbyists provided the answers politicians wished to hear. Professor Donald J. Savoie argues that as a result, public servants have lost their way. In Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? Savoie demonstrates how the notion that public administration could be made to operate like the private sector has been misguided and costly to taxpayers.
Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the University of Moncton. He is a former civil servant and has extensive work experience in both government and academia. He has been an advisor to federal, provincial, and territorial governments, the private sector, the World Bank, and the United Nations. He is the author of numerous books, including Power: Where Is It?
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