Donner Prize
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The Donner Prize is an award given annually by the Donner Canadian Foundation for books considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian
public policy. The prize was established in 1998. The grand prize is $35,000; short-listed finalists receive $5,000 each. To be eligible, a book must be on a single theme relevant to Canadian policy and be authored by one or more Canadian citizens. Entries are submitted by publishers, and selected by a five-person jury whose members are drawn from the ranks of Canadian professors, university administrators, businessmen, and politicians. The committee announces a short list in April of each year. The winners and runners-up are announced at an awards banquet in May.
Past winners are:
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public policy. The prize was established in 1998. The grand prize is $35,000; short-listed finalists receive $5,000 each. To be eligible, a book must be on a single theme relevant to Canadian policy and be authored by one or more Canadian citizens. Entries are submitted by publishers, and selected by a five-person jury whose members are drawn from the ranks of Canadian professors, university administrators, businessmen, and politicians. The committee announces a short list in April of each year. The winners and runners-up are announced at an awards banquet in May.
Past winners are:
- 2010/2011: Doug SaundersDoug SaundersDoug Saunders is a well-known British-Canadian journalist and author, a columnist and reporter for the Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada...
, Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World - 2009/2010: Brian Bow, The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence and Ideas in Canada-US Relations.
- 2008/2009: Ken Coates (historian)Ken Coates (historian)Dr. Ken Coates is a Canadian historian focused on the history of the Canadian North and Aboriginal rights and indigenous claims. Other areas of specialization include Arctic sovereignty; science, technology and society, with an emphasis on Japan; world and comparative history; and post-secondary...
, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, William R. Morrison, and Greg Poelzer, Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North. - 2007: David E. Smith, The People's House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention.
- 2006: Eric Helleiner, Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime.
- 2005: Mark JaccardMark JaccardDr. Mark Kenneth Jaccard is a professor of environmental economics in the at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Jaccard develops and applies models that assess sustainability policies for energy and material.Dr. Jaccard has been a professor at Simon Fraser University since 1986...
, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy. - 2004: David LaidlerDavid LaidlerDavid Ernest William Laidler has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism. He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
& William Robson, Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991. - 2003: Michael Adams, Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada, and the Myth of Converging Values.
- 2002: John F. Helliwell, Globalization and Well-Being.
- 2001: Marie McAndrew, Immigration et Diversitè á L'École.
- 2000: Tom FlanaganTom Flanagan (political scientist)Thomas Eugene Flanagan is an American-born political science professor at the University of Calgary, author, and conservative political activist. He also served as an advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper until 2004. Flanagan's scholarship has focused on Native and Metis rights in...
, First Nation? Second Thoughts. - 1999: David GratzerDavid GratzerDavid George Gratzer is a physician, columnist, author, Congressional expert witness, and a senior fellow at both the Manhattan Institute and the Montreal Economic Institute...
, Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System. - 1998: Thomas Courchene with Colin Termer, From Heartland to North American Region-State: The Social, Fiscal, and Federal Evolution of Ontario.