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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada appeared to escape the austerity implemented elsewhere, but this was spin hiding the reality. A closer look reveals that the provinces--responsible for delivering essential public and social services such as education and healthcare--shouldered the burden. The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity examines public-sector austerity in the provinces and territories, specifically addressing how austerity was implemented, what forms austerity agendas took (from regressive taxes and new user fees to public-sector layoffs and privatization schemes), and what, if any, political responses resulted. Contributors focus on the period from 2007 to 2015, the global financial crisis and the period of fiscal consolidation that followed, while also providing a longer historical context--austerity is not a new phenomenon. A granular examination of each jurisdiction identifies how changing fiscal conditions have affected the delivery of public services and restructured public finances, highlighting the consequences such changes have had for public-sector workers and users of public services. The first book of its kind in Canada, The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity challenges conventional wisdom by showing that Canada did not escape post-crisis austerity, and that its recovery has been vastly overstated."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Introduction: The Permanent Unequal Union: Canada's Provinces and Territories in an Era of Neoliberalism; 1. BC's Recurrent Austerity: Victory Unfettered from Success; 2. Alberta and the Great Recession: Neoliberalism, Conservative Government, and Public Finance; 3. Active Incrementalism and the Politics of Austerity in the "New Saskatchewan"; 4. Manitoba: Fiscal Policy and the Public Sector under "Today's NDP"; 5. Ontario in an Age of Austerity: Common Sense Reloaded. |
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6. From the Bailiffs at Our Doors to the Greek Peril: Twenty Years of Fiscal "Urgency" and Quebec Politics7. Between "The Rock" and a Hard Place: Fiscal Policy in New Brunswick since 2007; 8. Provincial Fiscal Strategies and Public-Sector Management in Nova Scotia; 9. Austerity in the Garden Province of Prince Edward Island; 10. Newfoundland's Boom: A Study in the Political Culture of Neoliberalism; 11. Nunavut: Conceived in Austerity; 12. Fiscally Conservative Governance without Austerity: Devolution, Aboriginal Self-Government, and the Northwest Territories. |
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13. Fiscal Outlier: Yukon in an Austere AgeContributors; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) |
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Finance, Public -- Canada -- Provinces.
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Finance, Public. |
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Canada. |
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Fiscal policy -- Canada -- Provinces.
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Fiscal policy. |
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Civil service -- Canada -- Provinces.
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Civil service. |
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Neoliberalism -- Canada -- Provinces.
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Neoliberalism. |
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Government policy -- Canada -- Provinces.
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Canada -- Appropriations and expenditures, Provincial. |
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2008-2009 |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Evans, Bryan M., 1960- editor.
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Fanelli, Carlo, 1984- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Public sector in an age of austerity. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018] 0773553347 9780773553347 (OCoLC)1027053085 |
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Print version: Public sector in an age of austerity.: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018 (CaOONL)20189013842 |
| ISBN |
9780773554184 (electronic book) |
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0773554181 (electronic book) |
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9780773554191 |
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077355419X |
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9780773553347 |
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9780773553354 |
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