Donald Joseph Savoie (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.
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 (2014).
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 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 () 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. ( ) 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. ( ) 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. 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. 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. 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 ( ) Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reforms, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1998, 311 p. ( ) Governance in the Twenty-first Century: Revitalizing the Public Service, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001, 328 p. ( )