Donald J. Savoie

Savoie has published many books, journal articles, and essays in edited collections,[3] such as Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament, Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics and Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy,[4] What Is Government Good At? A Canadian Answer. His Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes, his 2013 book, Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why and Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions. His biography Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award (2014).[5]

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993.[6]

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.[7]

• 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.

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 (2018),[8] the 2015-2016 Donner Prize[9] and the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction[10] for What Is Government Good At?, the 2015 Killam Prize in Social Sciences,[11] the Order of New Brunswick (2011),[12] the Trudeau Fellowships Prize (2004),[13] finalist for the SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research (2003),[14] the Vanier Gold Medal (1999),[15] honoured by the Public Policy Forum at its twelfth annual testimonial awards (1999),[16] made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1993),[6] elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992),[17] selected alumnus of the year (1991)[18] and named Honorary Patron, Order of Regents, Université de Moncton (1994).[19] Three of his books were short listed for the Donner Prize,[20] The Politics of Public Spending in Canada was the inaugural recipient of the Smiley prize (1992)[21] 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” (1993).[22]

He was also awarded the Mosher prize by the Public Administration Review(US) for the best article (co-author) in public administration (1994).[23] He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Université Sainte-Anne (1993),[24] Mount Allison (1997),[25] the University of New Brunswick (2002),[26] Dalhousie University (2003),[27] St. Francis Xavier University (2005),[28] Saint Mary’s University (2011),[29] Acadia (2014)[30] and the University of Ottawa (2018).[31] He was also awarded a Doctor of Letters from Oxford University (2000).[32] Oxford awards the degree on the basis of a recommendation from an independent committee with members from Oxford University and at least one other university. The committee determines whether there is sufficient evidence to “constitute an original contribution to the advancement of knowledge of such substance and distinction as to give the candidate an authoritative status in some branch or branches of learning.” Oxford has only awarded 219 Doctor of Letters between 1923 and 2018.