Professor Heath won the prize, which includes CA,000 (approximately ,000), for his book, The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press, 2020).
The Donner Prize “encourages and celebrates excellence in public policy writing by Canadians and recognizes the role good public policy plays in the well-being of Canadians and this country’s success.”
You can watch a video of Professor Heath discussing his book here (at 31:18).
Joseph Heath, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, has won the 2020 Donner Prize for Best Public Policy Book.