Donner Prize

Given by Donner Canadian Foundation

111 Works / 112 Items 2,457 Books 55 Reviews ½ 3.7
The Donner Prize is an annual award presented by the politically conservative Donner Canadian Foundation for books considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian public policy. To be show more eligible, the book must be on a single theme relevant to Canadian policy and must have been authored by one or more Canadian citizens. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (22), Shortlist (90)
Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2021 (1), 2019/2020 (4), 2020 (1), 2018/2019 (3), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (4), 2013 (5), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010/2011 (5), 2010 (1), 2009/2010 (3), 2009 (1), 2008/2009 (4), 2007/2008 (4), 2008 (1), 2006/2007 (2), 2007 (1), 2005/2006 (4), 2006 (1), 2004/2005 (4), 2005 (1), 2004 (2), 2003/2004 (3), 2002 (3), 2001/2002 (3), 2001 (7), 2000 (7), 1999 (4), 1998 (7)
Announced:
April 11: Shortlist2023 Recent

Winner 22

WorkYear
Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World by Dan Breznitz2021
The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State by Joseph Heath2020
Stumbling giants : transforming Canada's banks for the information age by Patricia Meredith2017
Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control (Communication, Strategy, and Politics) by Alex Marland2016
What Is Government Good At?: A Canadian Answer by Donald J. Savoie2015
Dealing with losers : the political economy of policy transitions by M. J. Trebilcock2014
International Law and the Arctic by Michael Byers2013
Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century by Jeffrey Simpson2012
Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government by Peter Aucoin2011
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug Saunders2010
The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-US Relations by Brian Bow2009
Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North by Kenneth Coates2008
The People's House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention by David E. Smith2007
Towards North American Monetary Union?: The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime by Eric Helleiner2006
Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy by Mark Jaccard2005
Fire and Ice by Michael Adams2004
Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991 by David E. W Laidler2004
Globalization and Well-Being (Brenda & David McLean Canadian Studies) by John F. Helliwell2002
Immigration et diversité à l'école : Le débat québécois dans une perspective comparative by Marie McAndrew2001
First Nations? Second Thoughts by Tom Flanagan2000
Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System by David Gratzer1999
From heartland to North American Region State: The social, fiscal and federal evolution of Ontario : an interpretive essay by Thomas J. Courchene1998

Shortlist 90

WorkYear
The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better by Abdi Aidid2023
Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to Covid 19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever by Joanna Baron2023
Who Owns Outer Space?: International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space: 176 (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 176) by Michael Byers2023
The Privacy Fallacy by Ignacio Cofone2023
Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice by Kent Roach2023
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker2019/2020
Living with China: Finding a Middle Power's Middle Way (Rotman-Utp Publishing - Business and Sustainability) by Wendy Dobson2019/2020
Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada's Future by Dennis McConaghy2019/2020
The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age by Richard Stursberg2019/2020
Population Bombed!: Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change by Pierre Desrochers2018/2019
University Commons Divided: Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus (UTP Insights) by Peter MacKinnon2018/2019
Excessive Force: Toronto's Fight to Reform City Policing by Alok Mukherjee2018/2019
Charte canadienne et droits linguistiques : Pour en finir avec les mythes by Frederic Berard2017
Pushing the Limits: How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow by Kelly Gallagher-Mackay2017
Governing public-private partnerships by Joshua Newman2017
Too Critical to Fail: How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure by Kevin Quigley2017
L'intégration des services en santé : une approche populationnelle by Yves Couturier2016
Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World by Juliet Johnson2016
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin2016
A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices by Sandra Martin2016
Back to the Well: Rethinking the Future of Water by Marq De Villiers2015
Les grandes universites de recherche : institutions autonomes dans un environnement concurrentiel by Robert Lacroix2015
Middle Power, Middle Kingdom: What Canadians Need to Know about China in the 21st Century by David Mulroney2015
From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation: A Road Map for All Canadians by Greg Poelzer2015
Réinventer le Québec : douze chantiers à entreprendre by Marcel Boyer2014
Brave New Canada Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World by Derek H. Burney2014
Enlightenment 2.0 by Joseph Heath2014
Out of the basement youth cultural production in practice and in policy by Miranda Campbell2013
Unjust by design Canada's administrative justice system by Ron Ellis2013
The Third Rail: Confronting Our Pension Failures by Jim Leech2013
Shut off the Canadian digital television transition by Gregory Taylor2013
Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid by Jennifer Clapp2012
Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation by Mary Janigan2012
Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl by Pamela Blais2010/2011
Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights by Tom Flanagan2010/2011
CHUM (Le): une tragédie québécoise by Robert Lacroix2010/2011
Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums (Mcgill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History) by Ruth B. Phillips2011
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug Saunders2010/2011
XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame (U of T Centre for Public Management Series on Public Policy & Administration) by Neil Seeman2011
Oka by Harry Swain2010/2011
Who Owns the Arctic?: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North by Michael Byers2009/2010
A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future by Larry Campbell2009/2010
Branding Canada: Projecting Canada's Soft Power Through Public Diplomacy by Evan H. Potter2009/2010
Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic lllusion of an Islamic State by Tarek Fatah2008/2009
Fixing the future : how Canada's usually fractious governments worked together to rescue the Canada Pension Plan by Bruce Little2008/2009
The limits of boundaries : why city-regions cannot be self-governing by Andrew Sancton2008/2009
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation by Frances Widdowson2008/2009
Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent by Rodrigo Bascuñán2007/2008
Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs by Michael Chettleburgh2007/2008
Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy by Robert L. Evans2007/2008
Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar by Janice Gross Stein2007/2008
Dreamland: How Canada's pretend foreign policy has undermined sovereignty by Roy Rempel2006/2007
Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes by Donald J. Savoie2006/2007
Rethinking the Welfare State: Government by Voucher by Ronald J. Daniels2005/2006
The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream by John Ibbitson2005/2006
Signposts of success : interpreting Ontario's elementary school test scores by David R. Johnson2005/2006
Governing with the Charter: Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent (Law and Society Series) by James B. Kelly2005/2006
Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World by Peter S. Grant2004/2005
Smoke and Mirrors: Globalized Terrorism and the Illusion of Multilateral Security by Frank P. Harvey2004/2005
Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (Law & Society S) by Christopher P. Manfredi2004/2005
The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression (Toronto Studies in Philosophy) by L. W. Sumner2004/2005
Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News by Lydia Miljan2003/2004
Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada by Eric Montpetit2003/2004
The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective by David E. Smith2003/2004
Liquid Assets: Privatizing and Regulating Canada’s Water Utilities by Elizabeth Brubaker2001/2002
Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming by Christopher Essex2001/2002
A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization by Michael Hart2002
The Cost of Climate Policy (Sustainability and the Environment) by Mark Jaccard2002
Who Gets In: What's wrong with Canada's immigration program - and how to fix it by Daniel Stoffman2001/2002
The politics of taxation in Canada by Geoffrey Hale2001
On Kiddie Porn: Sexual Representation, Free Speech and the Robin Sharpe Case by Stan Persky2001
The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue by Kent Roach2001
Pulling Against Gravity: Economic Development in New Brunswick During the McKenna Years by Donald J. Savoie2001
The Friendly Dictatorship by Jeffrey Simpson2001
Most Favoured Nation: Building a FrameworkSmart Economic Policy2001
Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State by Alan C. Cairns2000
Cycling into Saigon : the Conservative transition in Ontario by David Cameron2000
The Marshall decision and native rights by Kenneth Coates2000
Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking (Canada & International Relations) by Daniel Madar2000
Retreat from Growth: Atlantic Canada and the Negative-Sum Economy by Fred McMahon2000
The Charter Revolution and the Court Party by F. L. Morton2000
Getting Away with Murder: The Canadian Criminal Justice System by David M. Paciocco1999
Due process and victims' rights : the new law and politics of criminal justice by Kent Roach1999
Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics by Donald J. Savoie1999
White man's law : native people in nineteenth-century Canadian jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring1998
Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery by Michael Harris1998
The Practice of Language Rights in Canad by C. Michael Macmillan1998
The Three Questions: Prosperity and the Public Good by Bob Rae1998
Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life by William Watson1998
Talk and Log: Wilderness Politics in British Columbia by Jeremy Wilson1998

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