Four finalists announced for $50,000 Donner Prize for best public policy book

TORONTO – Toronto author Joseph Heath, who recently won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, is up for another lucrative award.

The University of Toronto philosophy professor has made the short list for the $50,000 Donner Prize for “Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our Lives” (HarperCollins Publishers).

The book won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize last month.

Three other books are on the short list for the Donner, which awards the best public policy book by a Canadian.

They are:

— “Reinventer le Quebec: Douze chantiers a entreprendre” by Marcel Boyer and Nathalie Elgrably-Levy (Editions Stanke)

— “Brave New Canada: Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World” by Derek H. Burney and Fen Osler Hampson (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

— “Dealing With Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions” by Michael J. Trebilcock (Oxford University Press)

This is the 17th year for the Donner. The winner will be announced in Toronto on April 29.