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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781116903321

Titolo

Searching for leadership : secretaries to cabinet in Canada / / edited by Patrice Dutil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9310-X

1-4426-8909-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

The Institute of Public Administration of Canada Series in Public Management and Governance

Disciplina

352.24/322930971

Soggetti

Government executives - Canada

Government executives - Canada - Provinces

Leadership - Canada

Executive advisory bodies - Canada - Provinces - Officials and employees

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Searching for Leadership / Patrice Dutil -- Clerks and secretaries to cabinet: anatomy of leadership / Jacques Bourgault -- Clerk as revelateur. a panoramic view / Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet -- Capacity, complexity and leadership: secretaries to cabinet and ontario's project of modernization at the centre / Bryan Evans -- Secretary to the cabinet in Saskatchewan: evolution of the role, 1944-2006 / Gregory P. Marchildon -- 'Super diplomat and super expediter': Wes Bolstad as cabinet secretary in Saskatchewan, 1973-9 / Ken Rasmussen -- Leviathan awakes: Harry Hobbs and the rise of Alberta / Keith Brownsey -- Leadership and province building: Guy Coulombe in Quebec / Luc Bernier -- Options and futures of secretaries to cabinet / Patrice Dutil.

Sommario/riassunto

"Although the subject of leadership is widely studied and debated, it



has never attracted much attention in relation to the public sector. Searching for Leadership is the first book to examine the evolving role of the highest-ranking public servant both in Ottawa and in Canada's provinces and territories, namely, the secretary to cabinet or the clerk of the Executive Council." "An important contribution to our understanding of Canadian governance and public management, Searching for Leadership is essential reading for scholars and students in political science, history, and public administration and management, as well as for public servants."--Jacket