Donald J. Savoie

Savoie has published many books, journal articles, and essays in edited collections.^[1] His publications include Federal–Provincial Collaboration (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981); Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003); Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994);^[2] and What Is Government Good At?: A Canadian Answer (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015).

Other publications include:

• 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, 2nd ed. in 1992.
• 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 pp. (ISBN 0-88911-586-9)
• Globalization and Governance, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development, 1993, 37 pp. (ISBN 0-662-98781-0)
• Rethinking Canada's regional development policy: a view of the Atlantic, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1997, 67 pp.
• Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics Archived 7 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, reprinted 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006.
• Community Economic Development in Atlantic Canada: False Hope or Panacea, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 131 pp.
• Aboriginal Economic Development in New Brunswick ^{[permanent dead link]}, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 143 pp.
• Pulling Against Gravity: Economic Development in New Brunswick During the McKenna Years, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
• Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes Archived 7 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, reprinted 2006.
• Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom Archived 7 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008, reprinted 2008.
• I'm From Bouctouche, Me, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009, 316 pp. (A memoir.)
• Power: Where Is It?, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
• Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides How and Why, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, reprinted 2014, 336 pp.
• Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, 336 pp.
• Looking for Bootstraps: Economic Development in the Maritimes, Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2017, 440 pp.
• Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, 504 pp.
• Thanks for the Business: K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving and the Story of Irving Oil, Halifax: Nimbus, 2020.

Savoie has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Royal Society of Canada’s 2018 Yvan Allaire Medal for outstanding contribution in governance (inaugural recipient),^[3] the 2015 Donner Prize^[4] and the 2016 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction (inaugural recipient)^[5] for What Is Government Good At?, the 2015 Killam Prize in Social Sciences,^[6] the Order of New Brunswick (2011),^[7] finalist for the SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research (2003),^[8] the Vanier Gold Medal (1999),^[9] honoured by the Public Policy Forum at its twelfth annual testimonial awards (1999),^[10] made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1993),^[11] elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992),^[12] selected the Université de Moncton's alumnus of the year (1991).^[13] Three of his books were short listed for the Donner Prize,^[14] The Politics of Public Spending in Canada was the inaugural recipient of the Smiley prize (1992)^[15] 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).^[16]

He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Université Sainte-Anne (1993),^[17] Mount Allison University (1997),^[18] Dalhousie University (2003),^[19] Saint Mary's University (Halifax) (2011),^[20] Acadia University (2014)^[21] and the University of Ottawa (2018).^[22]