Defending a Contested Ideal
Title | Defending a Contested Ideal PDF eBook |
Author | Luc Juillet |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2008-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 077661777X |
In 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.
Defending a Contested Ideal
Title | Defending a Contested Ideal PDF eBook |
Author | Luc Juillet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9780776627199 |
In 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.
Defending a Contested Ideal
Title | Defending a Contested Ideal PDF eBook |
Author | Luc Juillet |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2008-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0776618253 |
In 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.
Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908{u2013}2008
Title | Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908{u2013}2008 PDF eBook |
Author | Luc Juillet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
In 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.
Defending a Contested Ideal Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008
Title | Defending a Contested Ideal Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
In 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.
Virtue Capitalists
Title | Virtue Capitalists PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Forsyth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2023-08-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 100920646X |
Virtue Capitalists explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – Hannah Forsyth argues that the British middle class structured old forms of virtue into rapidly expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across their settler colonies. They invested that virtue to produce social and economic profit. This virtue became embedded in the networked Anglophone economy so that, by the mid twentieth century, the professional class ruled the world in alliance with managers whose resources enabled the implementation of virtuous strategies. Since morality and capital had become materially entangled, the 1970s economic crisis also presented a moral crisis for all professions, beginning a process whereby the interests of expert and managerial workers separated and began to actively compete.
Across the Aisle
Title | Across the Aisle PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Smith |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2013-05-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442668024 |
How do parties with official opposition status influence Canadian politics? Across the Aisle is an innovative examination of the theory and practice of opposition in Canada, both in Parliament and in provincial legislatures. Extending from the pre-Confederation era to the present day, it focuses on whether Canada has developed a coherent tradition of parliamentary opposition. David E. Smith argues that Canada has in fact failed to develop such a tradition. He investigates several possible reasons for this failure, including the long dominance of the Liberal party, which arrested the tradition of viewing the opposition as an alternative government; periods of minority government induced by the proliferation of parties; the role of the news media, which have largely displaced Parliament as a forum for commentary on government policy; and, finally, the increasing popularity of calls for direct action in politics. Readers of Across the Aisle will gain a renewed understanding of official opposition that goes beyond Stornoway and shadow cabinets, illuminating both the historical evolution and recent developments of opposition politics in Canada.