Governing from the Centre:
The Concentration of
Political Power in Canada

Donald J. Savoie
1999, reprinted 1999 and 2000
440 pages, ISBN 0-8020-4476-X (cloth)
ISBN 0-8020-8252-1 (paper)

Available from:
University of Toronto Press, Toronto
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This book is about political power: where it lies and how it is exercised at the centre of government in Ottawa. It is also about how the centre of government is organized and how it supports the head of government — the prime minister. Accordingly, the book deals mainly with issues surrounding the machinery of government.