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Author: Canada. Commission royale sur la gestion financière et l'imputabilité
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 17
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luc Juillet
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2008-09-13
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 077661777X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.
Author: Canada. Parliamentary Secretary's Task Force, Government-Wide Review of Procurement
Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas F. Stevens
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1993-06-14
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0773563334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStevens examines institutional frameworks for Crown corporations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba between the early 1970s and the mid 1980s, showing how each framework establishes different practices and offers distinct strategic advantages. Organizational approaches in Alberta most closely approximated what the author calls a "self-contained" design, in which corporate actors had the advantage and were most able to achieve their own objectives. In Manitoba, where "vertical information systems" prevailed, central bureaucratic monitoring agents tended, to some extent, to wield influence over the corporations. Saskatchewan practice was akin to a "lateral relations" pattern, with an equilibrium between corporate and bureaucratic goals. Stevens's comparison of Crown corporation organization designs suggests that, while no one form is inherently more efficient than another, each leads to qualitatively different outcomes. He concludes that the most important issue in problems of organization design is who is winning the Crown corporation "game" -- a finding of considerable interest to all students of government enterprise.
Author: Eliot Freidson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1000678784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book appears at an opportune time in the history of evaluation. Its detailed and up-to-date account of the organization and use of evaluation in eight Western, democratic countries—Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland—shows how evaluation functions at different levels of development. Focusing on the national or federal level of government, this volume presents a systematic and comparative view of eight nations at different stages of the development, institutionalization, and utilization of evaluations. All of these original contributions have been written by academics and government officials involved in the production and use of evaluation findings. Each shows how their respective country has moved to institutionalize evaluation at the federal level, and each explores the reasons for that institutionalization. Among them are managerial accountability, the increased complexity of the decisions facing policymakers, federally sponsored social change that needs to be tracked and assessed, and the increasing recognition that political power comes to those who possess such information. Program Evaluation and the Management of Government is tightly integrated. The contributions share coherence, a common analytic framework and use of key terms, resulting from the authors’ three-year dialogue as members of the Working Group on Policy and Program Evaluation sponsored by the International Institute for Administrative Sciences located in Belgium. Their shared commitment to working together has given us the first systematic effort to assess evaluation across such a large number of countries. It will be of interest to applied social scientists and policymakers, especially those interested in comparative research.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1996-09-30
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9264065067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing surveys and selected country case studies, this monograph identifies the factors driving human resource management reforms in the national public administrations of OECD countries.
Author: G. Bruce Doern
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1988-06-15
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0773581588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald J. Savoie
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0773503749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat implications does the GDA approach have for federal-provincial relations? How does it relate to the constitutional division of responsibility? What advantages and drawbacks does it hold for Canada's political system? More generally, what can we conclude about the GDA approach?
Author: Ivan Bernier
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1985-12-15
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1442633573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the third of six volumes dealing with Law, Society and the Economy (see list in back of book), included in the Collected Research Studies of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. This volume surveys administrative law in its various manifestations and considers new themes and issues that are likely to affect the subject. Challenging generally accepted views, the contributors discuss such topics as the structures and processes of Canadian administrative tribunals, Crown corporations as an instrument of economic intervention, and the use of delegated legislation as the preferred instrument of government regulations.
Author: Independent Review Panel on Modernization of Comptrollership in the Government of Canada
Publisher: Panel Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReports a review of comptrollership at both the central agency level of the federal government and in operating departments, but not in Crown corporations or other arms- length agencies. Begins with an overview of the character, underlying assumptions, key stages of evolution, and the advances needed in the current state of federal government comptrollership. Three views of modern comptrollership are presented: as a way of thinking and state of mind, as a management-centred function, and as an integrating function. A new direction for comptrollership is then set out, including some key principles and the responsibilities and capacity of departments and the central government. A framework of responsibilities is proposed within which elected officials, executives, specialists, and professionals can achieve modern comptrollership in the federal government. Proposals are made to achieve previously stated objectives and certain results or outputs that can be expected from exercising those responsibilities are described, along with the implications for the system. The final chapter identifies critical success factors, actions, and measures by which to make and gauge progress in the modernization of federal government comptrollership.
