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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Idea of Cabinet Government
Patrice Dutil and Stephen Azzi
1. Statecraft: Theory and the Thirst for History
Patrice Dutil and Stephen Azzi
2. Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinets: The "Autocrat" in Power
Patrice Dutil
3. Alexander Mackenzie's Statecraft: Looking for Stability Ex-Centrically
Ben Forster
4. The Cabinet in Chronic Crisis: The Lessons of Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper
Ted Glenn
5. Pillars and Posts: Wilfrid Laurier's Cabinet Management
J.P. Lewis
6. The Outsider: Robert Borden and his Cabinet
John English
7. Arthur Meighen: The Lost Opportunities of Leadership
Mary Janigan and Tom Kierans
8. Cabinet Management after the Collapse of the Two-Party System: Mackenzie King in the 1920s
Robert Wardhaugh
9. R.B. Bennett’s "One-Man Government"
Larry Glassford
10. Mackenzie King's Upgrading of Prime Ministerial Power: Management, Luck, and Circumstance
Robert Bothwell
11. Louis St-Laurent: The Cabinet's Centre of Gravity
Stephen Azzi
12. John Diefenbaker: The Chief Stands Alone
Patricia I. McMahon
13. Lester Pearson and Cabinet Government: The Diplomat in Charge
P.E. Bryden
14. Pierre Inter Pares: Cabinet under Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–1979
Asa McKercher
15. "Welcome to the 1980s": Pierre Elliott Trudeau';s Quasi-Gaullist Style
Frédéric Boily
16. Brian Mulroney: Statecraft for Radical Change
Raymond B. Blake
17. Jean Chrétien: The "Friendly Dictator"
Lori Turnbull
18. Paul Martin's Cabinet: The Unforgiving Consequences of Flawed Statecraft
Patrice Dutil and Stephen Azzi
19. Stephen Harper: Alone at the Top
R. Paul Wilson
20. Justin Trudeau: "Government by Cabinet is Back"
Jeni Armstrong, Alex Marland, and Dan Arnold
Conclusion: The Mysterious Grammar of Canadian Statecraft
Stephen Azzi and Patrice Dutil
Contributors
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