How Ottawa spends, 2012-2013 : the Harper majority, budget cuts, and the new opposition / edited by G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- 1. The Harper majority, budget cuts, and the new opposition / G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney -- 2. The Harper election victory, the Liberals, and debate over corporate tax reform / Ian Lee -- 3. The Hobbesian prime minister and the night watchman state : social policy under the Harper Conservatives / Michael J. Prince -- 4. Playing against type? Regional economic development policy in the Harper era / Neil Bradford and David A. Wolfe -- 5. Science and technology in Canada : government investment at a crossroad? / Peter W.B. Philips and David Castle -- 6. Toward a perimeter : incremental adaptation or a new paradigm for Canada-US security and trade relations? / Geoffrey E. Hale -- 7. The rise and fall of regulatory regimes : extending the life-cycle approach / Derek Ireland ... [and three others] -- 8. Public private partnership Canada and the P3 fund : shedding light on a new meso institutional arrangement / Christian Bordeleau -- 9. Pharmacare and federal drug expenditures : a prescription for change / Marc-Andre ́Gagnon.

10. Public policy as a inquiring system : the case of Canadian health care / Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet -- 11. Federal infrastructure program impacts : perceptions at the community level / Scott Edward Bennett -- 12. How Ontario was won : the Harper economic action plan in Ontario, 2009-2011 / Patrice Dutil and Byoungjun Park -- 13. Community colleges and applied research in the federal national innovation agenda / Paul J. Madgett -- 13. Doing the North American two-step on a global stage : Canada, its G8 Muskoka initiative, and safe abortion funding / Melissa Haussman and Lisa Mills -- appendix A. Canadian political facts and trends -- appendix B. Fiscal facts and trends.

"Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies. Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of majority government and a transformed political opposition both in Parliament and in provincial politics. Several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms are examined, including corporate tax reform, Conservative Party social policy, regional economic development, science and technology investments, Canada-US perimeter security and trade agreements, the rise and fall of regulatory regimes, and Canadian health care. Related governance issues such as federal infrastructure program impacts, the Harper government's Economic Action Plan impacts in Ontario, and community colleges in the federal innovation agenda, are also discussed in detail." -- Publisher's website.