Classic Reading in Canadian Public Administration
Published on 1. June 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-19-542167-5 (ISBN)
Description
Classics Readings in Canadian Public Administration is a collection of 28 influential articles in Canadian public administration. It brings together articles from the pre-1985 period to provide a picture of a rich, distinctive era in Canadian public administration. The articles are divided into four parts: Structures, Human Resources, Financial Management, and Policy and Administration, each with an introduction that explores the issues that bind the
articles together. This collection provides a useful historical approach to the discipline allowing students to see the continuities in the field as well as the areas in which major changes have occured, and
encourages them to refer to the valuable theoretical history of Canadian public administration.
articles together. This collection provides a useful historical approach to the discipline allowing students to see the continuities in the field as well as the areas in which major changes have occured, and
encourages them to refer to the valuable theoretical history of Canadian public administration.
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Persons
Barbara Carroll is at Department of Political Science, McMaster University. David Siegel is at Department of Political Science, Brock University.
Content
Introduction
Part I: Structures
1: J.E. Hodgetts: Challenge and Response: A Retrospective View of the Public Service of Canada
2: Royal Commission on Government Organization: The Tasks of Management: A New Approach
3: H.L. LaFramboise: Administrative Reform in the Federal Public Service: Signs of a Saturation Psychosis
4: Colin Campbell and George J. Szablowski: What Central Agencies May and Ought to Do: Structure of Authority
5: Mitchell Sharp: The Role of the Mandarins: The Case for a Non-Partisan Senior Public Service
6: Hugh D. Segal: The Accountability of Public Servants: Our Government Would be Better if Senior Mandarins Were Less Secure
7: J.E. Hodgetts: Structural Heretics: The Non-Departmental Forms
8: G. Bruce Doern: Regulatory Processes and Regulatory Agencies
9: C.A. Ashley and R.G.H. Smails: From Canadian Crown Corporations
10: Donald C. Rowat: From The Ombudsman Plan: The Case for the Plan in Canada
11: Donald V. Smiley: An Outsider's Observations of Federal-Provincial Relations among Consenting Adults
Part II: Human Resources
12: Kenneth Kernaghan: Changing Concepts of Power and Responsibility in the Canadian Public Service
13: Kenneth Kernaghan: Codes of Ethics and Public Administration: Progress, Problems and Prospects
14: Robert A. Vaison: Collective Bargaining in the Federal Public Service: The Achievement of a Milestone in Personnel Relations
15: V. Seymour Wilson and Willard A. Mullins: Representative Bureaucracy: Linguistic/Ethnic Aspects in Canadian Public Policy
16: Kathleen Archibald: From Sex and the Public Service
17: William A.W. Nielson: Service at the Pleasure of the Crown
Part III: Financial Management
18: A.W. Johnson: Efficiency in Government and Business
19: Aaron Wildavsky: A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts
20: Sharon Sutherland: On the Audit Trail of the Auditor General: Parliament's Servant, 1973-1980
21: Rodney Dobell and David Zussman: An Evaluation System for Government: If Politics is Theatre, Then Evaluation is (Mostly) Art
Part IV: Policy and Administration
22: Peter Aucoin and Herman Bakvis: Organizational differentiation and integration: the case of regional economic development policy in Canada
23: J. Stefan Dupre: Reflections on the Workability of Executive Federalism
24: Albert Breton and Ronald Wintrobe: Bureaucracy and State Intervention: Parkinson's Law?
25: F.L. Morton and Leslie A. Pal: The Impact of the Charter of Rights on Public Administration: A Case Study of Sex Discrimination in the Unemployment Insurance Act
26: Michael J. Prince and John A. Chenier: The Rise and Fall of Policy Planning and Research Units: An Organizational Perspective
27: Mark Sproule-Jones: Coordination and the Management of Estuarine Water Quality
28: Kenneth Woodside: The Political Economy of Policy Instruments: Tax Expenditures and Subsidies in Canada
Part I: Structures
1: J.E. Hodgetts: Challenge and Response: A Retrospective View of the Public Service of Canada
2: Royal Commission on Government Organization: The Tasks of Management: A New Approach
3: H.L. LaFramboise: Administrative Reform in the Federal Public Service: Signs of a Saturation Psychosis
4: Colin Campbell and George J. Szablowski: What Central Agencies May and Ought to Do: Structure of Authority
5: Mitchell Sharp: The Role of the Mandarins: The Case for a Non-Partisan Senior Public Service
6: Hugh D. Segal: The Accountability of Public Servants: Our Government Would be Better if Senior Mandarins Were Less Secure
7: J.E. Hodgetts: Structural Heretics: The Non-Departmental Forms
8: G. Bruce Doern: Regulatory Processes and Regulatory Agencies
9: C.A. Ashley and R.G.H. Smails: From Canadian Crown Corporations
10: Donald C. Rowat: From The Ombudsman Plan: The Case for the Plan in Canada
11: Donald V. Smiley: An Outsider's Observations of Federal-Provincial Relations among Consenting Adults
Part II: Human Resources
12: Kenneth Kernaghan: Changing Concepts of Power and Responsibility in the Canadian Public Service
13: Kenneth Kernaghan: Codes of Ethics and Public Administration: Progress, Problems and Prospects
14: Robert A. Vaison: Collective Bargaining in the Federal Public Service: The Achievement of a Milestone in Personnel Relations
15: V. Seymour Wilson and Willard A. Mullins: Representative Bureaucracy: Linguistic/Ethnic Aspects in Canadian Public Policy
16: Kathleen Archibald: From Sex and the Public Service
17: William A.W. Nielson: Service at the Pleasure of the Crown
Part III: Financial Management
18: A.W. Johnson: Efficiency in Government and Business
19: Aaron Wildavsky: A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts
20: Sharon Sutherland: On the Audit Trail of the Auditor General: Parliament's Servant, 1973-1980
21: Rodney Dobell and David Zussman: An Evaluation System for Government: If Politics is Theatre, Then Evaluation is (Mostly) Art
Part IV: Policy and Administration
22: Peter Aucoin and Herman Bakvis: Organizational differentiation and integration: the case of regional economic development policy in Canada
23: J. Stefan Dupre: Reflections on the Workability of Executive Federalism
24: Albert Breton and Ronald Wintrobe: Bureaucracy and State Intervention: Parkinson's Law?
25: F.L. Morton and Leslie A. Pal: The Impact of the Charter of Rights on Public Administration: A Case Study of Sex Discrimination in the Unemployment Insurance Act
26: Michael J. Prince and John A. Chenier: The Rise and Fall of Policy Planning and Research Units: An Organizational Perspective
27: Mark Sproule-Jones: Coordination and the Management of Estuarine Water Quality
28: Kenneth Woodside: The Political Economy of Policy Instruments: Tax Expenditures and Subsidies in Canada