Peter Charles Aucoin, CM FRSC (October 3, 1943 – July 7, 2011) was a professor emeritus of political science and public administration at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
[3] From 1985 to 1990, he was the director of the School of Public Administration, and from 1992 to 1995, he served as chairman of the Department of Political Science.
Aucoin worked in an advisory capacity to the Canadian government at federal, provincial, and municipal levels.
[3] His article "Administrative Reform in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles, Paradoxes and Pendulums" in the journal Governance is a highly cited and seminal article describing New Public Management reforms.
His 2011 book Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government, co-authored with Mark D. Jarvis and Lori Turnbull, received the 2011 Donner Prize rewarding excellence and innovation in public policy writing by Canadians as well as the Donald Smiley Prize from the Canadian Political Science Association.