In the 2013/14 budget, the Minister of Finance made a surprise announcement: the decision to merge CIDA with the (renamed) Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. A sensible move? If the intent is to link CIDA projects to Canadian resource developments overseas, probably no. If the...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- The State Also Rises: The Roots of Contemporary State Activism -- I Varieties of State Intervention -- 1 The Transformation of the British State: From Club Government to State-Administered High Modernism -- 2 The Forgotten Center: State...