Cycling Into Saigon

David R. Cameron and Graham White are professors in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

• Preface1 Transitions2 The 1985 and 1990 Transitions3 Transition Building Blocks: Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Mandates4 Bureaucratic Preparations5 The Parties Prepare for Power6 Cycling into Saigon: The Common Sense Revolutionaries Take Over7 Not Politics but Good Government: Making Transitions BetterAppendicesA Two Public Policy Forum Documents Given to Opposition PartiesB Excerpts from Mission '97C The Liberal Approach to Organization, Management, and Decision-Making in the Government of OntarioD The Conservative Transition TeamE Introduction to Political Briefing Material Given to Conservative MinistersF Speech by Premier Harris to Deputy Ministers, 27 June 1995G On the Record: Ensuring a Place in History / Peter DeLottinville and Ian E. WilsonNotesBibliographyIndex

[This book] makes an important contribution to the sparse literature on transitions in Canada and in parliamentary regimes generally … A concluding section neatly sums up the authors' advice on transition planning. It is so wise and plainly stated that their book will almost certainly become essential reading for future transition teams in Canada, and it merits attention in other parliamentary democracies as well. - S.R.J. Noel (American Political Science Review) In this fascinating work, the authors examine how the transition of government in Ontario in 1995 was a surprising success involving, as it did, the necessity of co-operation between political mortal enemies. Cycling into Saigon has important lessons for everyone involved or interested in this key stage of the electoral process, wherever it takes place. (The Donner Prize Jury)