Donald Joseph SavoieCCONBFRSC (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.[1][2]
Biography
Savoie has published many books, journal articles, and essays in edited collections.[3] 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,[4] 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).[5]
He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993[6] and promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2022.[7]
Publications
Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981
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] finalist for the SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research (2003),[13] the Vanier Gold Medal (1999),[14] honoured by the Public Policy Forum at its twelfth annual testimonial awards (1999),[15] made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1993),[6] elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992),[16] selected the Université de Moncton's alumnus of the year (1991).[17] Three of his books were short listed for the Donner Prize,[18]The Politics of Public Spending in Canada was the inaugural recipient of the Smiley prize (1992)[19] 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).[20]
He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Université Sainte-Anne (1993),[21] Mount Allison (1997),[22] Dalhousie University (2003),[23] Saint Mary’s University (2011),[24] Acadia (2014)[25] and the University of Ottawa (2018).[26] He was also awarded a Doctor of Letters from Oxford University (2000).[27]
