Preface – Mel Cappe 1. Introduction: Peter C. Aucoin: From New Public Management to New Political Governance – Mark D. Jarvis and Herman Bakvis Part One: The dilemmas of democratic governance 2. In Search of Good Governance – B. Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie 3. The Ethics of Public Service and Challenges of Public Service Ethics – Allan Tupper and Lori Turnbull 4. The Canadian House of Commons under Stress: Reform and Adaptation – C.E.S. Franks and David E. Smith Part Two: The paradoxes of electoral democracy: electoral law and its reform 5. The Lortie Commission and the Place of Political Parties as Agents of Responsible Government – R. Kenneth Carty and Lisa Young 6. Fixed Election Dates, the Continuous Campaign, and Campaign, Advertising Restrictions – Jennifer Smith and Gerald Baier 7. New Media, Old Media, Campaign, and Canadian Democracy – Fred Fletcher and André Blais Part Three: Public Management and Reform 8. Deputy Ministers and New Political Governance: From Neutral Competence to Promiscuous Partisans to a New Balance – Evert Lindquist and Ken Rasmussen 9. Political Management and New Political Governance: Reconciling Political Responsiveness and Neutral Competence – Jonathan Boston and John Halligan 10. Transnational Ideas, Federalism, and Public Accountability: Food safety and mandatory educational policies in Canada – Grace Skogstad and Jennifer Wallner Part Four: Accountability, democracy, and political Governance 11. The limits of accountability: what can and cannot be accomplished in the dialectics of accountability? – Mark D. Jarvis and Paul G. Thomas 12. Moving away from Hierarchy: Do Horizontality, Partnerships, and Distributed Governance Really Signify the end of Accountability? – Cosmo Howard and Susan Phillips 13. Searching for new instruments of Accountability: new political governance and dialectics of Democracy Accountability – Ralph Heintzman and Luc Juillet 14. Conclusion: New political governance and new public management: reflections on the Oucoin Legacy – G. Bruce Doern and Kenneth Kernaghan