{"id":15533,"date":"2016-10-27T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15533"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:01","slug":"norman-hillmer-stephen-azzi-write-macleans-best-worst-prime-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/norman-hillmer-stephen-azzi-write-macleans-best-worst-prime-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Hillmer and Stephen Azzi write in Macleans about the best and worst prime ministers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Norman Hillmer and Stephen Azzi write in Macleans about the best and worst prime ministers.\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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For the third time in less than two decades, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University professors Stephen Azzi<\/a> (Political Management and History) and Norman Hillmer<\/a> (History) have surveyed the best historical and political minds of our country to rank Canada\u2019s 23 prime ministers on their effectiveness. Unlike in years past, this time, the duo created two lists: one cataloguing prime ministers in office for a short term (a list of 10), and another for those in office for a long term (a list of 13). They surveyed a record 123 experts, and added new questions about the prime ministers\u2019 environmental and indigenous policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It led to some surprising results \u2013 one being that our current prime minister, who has been in office for less than a year, has already surpassed his predecessor on the list. Maclean\u2019s sat down with Azzi and Hillmer to dig deeper into the survey\u2019s key findings. The rest of the article “What makes an effective Prime Minister<\/a>” by Nikki Wiart is available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the third time in less than two decades, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University professors Stephen Azzi (Political Management and History) and Norman Hillmer (History) have surveyed the best historical and political minds of our country to rank Canada\u2019s 23 prime ministers on their effectiveness. Unlike in years past, this time, the duo created two lists: one cataloguing prime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15536,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions\/15536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}