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Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Thinking Government Website -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Thinking about Canadian Society and Government -- 2 Ideologies of Government and Public Service -- 3 Institutions of Governance -- 4 Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making Systems -- 5 Organizational Design and Management Decision Making -- 6 Financial Management -- 7 Human Resources Management -- 8 Issues in Management Reform -- 9 Accountability: Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Ethics -- 10 The Challenges of Leadership -- Key Terms -- Index.

Marking the 25th anniversary of the series, Canada Among Nations 2009 focuses on how leading foreign and Canadian thinkers and doers assess Canada's prospects in a world in which the US will become more pre-eminent and predominant. The rise of China, India, Russia, and Brazil as well as the increased significance of Europe and the further development of Africa are all transforming the context in which Canadians live. Given the change in the tone, style, and substance of American foreign policy, and the need to deal with unprecedented international financial problems and global economic retreat, the topic of this volume is especially timely.

Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 The Society That Was -- 1 Before the Transformation -- PART 2 Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Society in Transition -- 2 The Ascendance of Courts -- 3 Representative Politics in Disarray -- 4 Chasing Choice: The Market Abounding -- PART 3 Some Examples of a Changing Canada -- 5 Aboriginals: Two Row Wampum, Second Thoughts, and Citizens Plus -- 6 Citizens in Cyberspace: The Internet and Canadian Democracy -- 7 The Youngest Citizens and Education as a Public Good? -- 8 Ever More Citizens Who Are Senior: An Ageing Canada -- Conclusion: " The Dance of Adjustment" -- Notes -- Index.