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Hard-hitting reads coming out this fall; Savoie’s upcoming Democracy in Canada a ‘masterwork analysis’
By Neil Moss July 1, 2019
The Politics of Fiscal Federalism: Neoliberalism versus Social Democracy in Multilevel Governance, by Adam Harmes, is out; Putin Kitsch in America, by Alison Rowley, will be out in September; and Don Savoie's Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions, will also be released in September and in French in October. Scans of book covers
There are quite a few good public policy books out now and more coming out this fall.
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