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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140822803321

Autore

Juillet Luc <1969->

Titolo

Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008 / / Luc Juillet and Ken Rasmussen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 2008

Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

0-7766-2719-8

1-280-69050-X

9786613667441

0-7766-1777-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 248 pages)

Collana

Governance series, , 1487-3052

Disciplina

352.260971

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued also in French under title: À la défense d'un idéal contesté.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Democratic Government, Merit and the Public Service Commission of Canada -- Ch. 1. Origins of the Public Service Commission: 1867-1918 -- Ch. 2. Creating a Merit System: 1918-1944 -- Ch. 3. Rethinking the CSC: Gordon, Heeney and Glassco: 1945-1967 -- Ch. 4. Management Assault on the Public Service Commission: 1967-1979 -- Ch. 5. Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006 -- Ch. 6. PSC as a Cautious Reformer: Staffing Reforms during the Mulroney Years: 1984-1993 -- Ch. 7. Merit as the Essential Mandate: Repositioning the PSC: 1993-2008.

Sommario/riassunto

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.