Oil, the State, and Federalism: The Rise and Demise of Petro-Canada as a Statist Impulse: 2 (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy) - Softcover

Fossum, John Erik

9780802076625: Oil, the State, and Federalism: The Rise and Demise of Petro-Canada as a Statist Impulse: 2 (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy)

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ISBN 10: 0802076629 ISBN 13: 9780802076625

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1997

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The creation and privatization of Petro-Canada provides an important lesson in state intervention and Canadian public policy. John Erik Fossum explores the reasons for the federal government's intervention in the energy industry between 1973 and 1984 and shows how its initial objectives failed, culminating in the privatization of Petro-Canada in 1990. In other countries, state oil policy unfolded along state-industry lines of conflict. Fossum shows us how in Canada the conflict was deflected to focus on the jurisdictional and constitutional concerns of governmental actors. The dismantling of state intervention was associated with a reverse deflection and reduced conflict in both the state-industry and intergovernmental arenas.

Oil, the State, and Federalism is a sophisticated analysis of statist and federalist theories of Canadian public policy-making that will spark debate among political scientists, analysts, and policy-makers.

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John Erik Fossum is Associate Professor in the Department of Administration and Organizational Theory, University of Bergen, Norway. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia in 1990.

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