Donald J. Savoie


Donald Joseph Savoie 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.

Biography

Savoie has published many books, journal articles, and essays in edited collections. His publications include Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament, Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics, Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy, and What Is Government Good At? A Canadian Answer.
His biography Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993 and promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2022.

Publications

Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981
  • , Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1984 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.', Kingston: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 1991, 23 p.
  • , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, 341 p.
  • , Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development, 1993, 37 p.
  • , Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994, reprinted 1994, 1995.
  • , Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1997, 67 p.
  • , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, reprinted 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006.
  • , Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 131 p.
  • , Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 143 p.
  • , Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001
  • , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, reprinted 2003, 2004, 336 p.
  • , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, reprinted 2006.
  • , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008, reprinted 2008.
  • , Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009, 316 p.
  • , Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
  • , Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, reprinted 2014, 336 p.
  • , Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, 336 p.
  • , Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015, reprinted 2016, 388 p.
  • , Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2017, 440 p.
  • ' Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, 504 p., 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.
  • , Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development, 1995
  • , Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1998, 311 p.
  • , Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001, 328 p.

With Ralph Winter (eds.)

  • , Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1994, 288 p

With Maurice Beaudin

  • , Moncton: Presses de l'Université du Québec / Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1988, 282 p.
  • , Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1989, 200 p.
  • , Moncton: Acadia Publishing, 1992, 282 p.

With André Raynauld

  • , Montreal: University Press of Montreal, 1986, 242 p.

Prizes and awards

Donald J. Savoie has won numerous prizes and awards, including: inaugural recipient of the Royal Society of Canada’s Yvan Allaire Medal for outstanding contribution in governance, the 2015–2016 Donner Prize and the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction for What Is Government Good At?, the 2015 Killam Prize in Social Sciences, the Order of New Brunswick, finalist for the SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research, the Vanier Gold Medal, honoured by the Public Policy Forum at its twelfth annual testimonial awards, made an Officer of the Order of Canada, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, selected the Université de Moncton's alumnus of the year. Three of his books were short listed for the Donner Prize, The Politics of Public Spending in Canada was the inaugural recipient of the Smiley prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association for the best book in the study of government and politics in Canada and Les défis de l’industrie des pêches au Nouveau-Brunswick was awarded “Le Prix France-Acadie”.
He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Université Sainte-Anne, Mount Allison, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary’s University, Acadia and the University of Ottawa. He was also awarded a Doctor of Letters from Oxford University.