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Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan
The contributors to this volume trace the evolution of public administration institutions and explore issues such as the protection and improvement of...
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This first volume of the official history of the Department of External Affairs covers the department's administrative growth from its formation in 19...
The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions
David Good's The Politics of Public Management is a 'textbook case' in public administration; it deals with the events and circumstances surrounding t...
The Role of the Chief Administrative Officer
The World of Front-line Public Servants
The most important people in government are not the prime minister, premiers, and senior bureaucrats but the people who work in government field offic...
Chapter 13: "Manitoba civil service : a quiet tradition in transition", by Ken Rasmussen....
Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government
Executive Styles in Canada places equal emphasis on both levels, explaining how and in what way cabinet systems have conformed to or diverged from thi...
Lessons in Participation from Local Government
From the Prefatory Note: ...some 250 public service sector managers came together from April 23 to 23 1986, to reflect on the impact that contemporary...
The Ambiguous Existence of Government Agencies for Aboriginal and Women's Policy
Jonathan Malloy's Between Colliding Worlds examines the relationship between governments and external activists through a comparative study of policy ...
Federal and Provincial Dimensions
Seven experts, representing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, discuss specific reform efforts in a number of social welfare policy areas and ide...
A History of Canada's Central Statistical Office and Its Antecedents, 1841-1972
The Bureau, precursor to Statistics Canada, was founded in 1918 as a centralized national agency to replace piecemeal arrangements which had developed...
Regional Development in Canada
The federal government established the Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE) in 1969 and, four years later, released it from the traditiona...
Changing Hierarchies, Networks and Markets
The authors show how the NRC's history is interwoven with the evolution of Canada's economic and industrial development and with the fostering of scie...
The Case of the Maritime Resource Management Service
Governing the Western Provinces
In this systematic investigation of how central executives in western Canadian provinces actually function, Christopher Dunn describes the evolution o...
Is There a Canadian Way?
Redden examines the theoretical dimensions of citizenship and rights in Canada as they intersect with health care politics, and offers answers to ques...
How American Consultants Remade the Canadian Civil Service, 1918-21
This paper examines why there is so much uncertainty as to what constitutes responsible bureaucratic behaviour and how this uncertainty came about. It...
The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada
The Language of the Skies chronicles one of the most bitter crises in French-English relations in Canada: the bilingual air traffic control conflict w...
A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961
Dream No Little Dreams offers rich insight into the initial planning stages of Medicare and details the protracted struggle with the medical professio...
Civil Society and the Future of Public Services
Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario
Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines th...
Privacy, Policy, and Information Technology
Severances and Firings in the Senior Public Service
How the Ontario Municipal Board Has Developed and Applied Land Use Planning Policy
Illuminates OMB practices of overturning municipal land-use planning decisions to impose its own policies, which are generally protective of private i...
Organizations, Politics and Labour Market Policy in Ontario
Precarious Values highlights the pressures and constraints under which politicians, bureaucrats, and stakeholders make decisions. The lessons and conc...