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Dream no little dreams : a biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961 / A.W. Johnson ; with the assistance of Rosemary Proctor

Author
Johnson, A. W. (Albert Wesley), 1923-2010
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 394 pages).
Additional Creators
Proctor, Rosemary
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Contents
1 The Roots of the CCF in Saskatchewan and Canada -- 2 Planning the Program for a CCF Government -- 3 The First Months of the CCF Government: Innovation and Ferment -- 4 New Wine in Old Vessels -- 5 Transforming the Functioning of Government: 1946-1948 -- 6 Forging a New Equilibrium in Governance: 1948-1952 -- 7 A Mature Government in Its Third and Fourth Terms -- 8 Policy Implementation and Reassessment in the 1950s -- 9 Reflections on the 1950s and Renewal in the 1960s -- 10 Medicare -- Epilogue: The Legacy of the Douglas Government -- Annex: Financing a CCF Program within the Canadian Federation.
Summary
"In 1944, the people of Saskatchewan elected the first socialist government in North America. Dream No Little Dreams is the biography of that government, led by the great Tommy Douglas of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, later the New Democratic Party). Providing a case study in the art and practice of governing, A.W. Johnson analyses the policy decisions of the CCF with the added benefit at times of having an insider's viewpoint. Johnson, a senior public servant in Saskatchewan during most of the Douglas years, begins by introducing the government's central mission - the transformation of the role of the state - and describes how it achieved this goal over some seventeen years."--Jacket.
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9781442620919 (electronic bk.)
1442620919 (electronic bk.)
9780802089540 (bound)
0802089542 (bound)
9780802086334 (paperback)
0802086330 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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