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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813555703321

Titolo

The guardian : perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario / / edited by Patrice Dutil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-9427-0

1-4426-9426-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Series in Public Management and Governance

Disciplina

336.713

Soggetti

Finance, Public - Ontario

Fiscal policy - Ontario

Budget - Ontario

Electronic books.

Ontario

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The House Frost built: Institutional change and the department of Treasury, 1943-1964 / Keith Brownsey -- From 'Treasury' to 'Finance': The anatomy of a Guardian, 1961-2001 / Patrice Dutil and Devyn Leonard -- Priority Settlers and Guardians: The relationships between Premiers and Treasurers in Ontario, 1960-2001 / JP Lewis -- Intergovernmental Guardians: Treasury's role in setting the national agenda, 1959-1967 / P.E. Bryden -- From Pragmatism to Neoliberalism: Ontario's hesitant farewell to Dr Keynes / Bryan Evans and John Shields -- Thoughts into Words: The budget speech, 1968-2003 / Patrice Dutil, Peter Ryan, and Andre Gossignac -- The Ontario Ministry of Finance as an exception in Canadian Public Administration / Luc Bernier and Joseph Facal -- Dealing with complexity: Innovation and resistance in crafting the Expenditure Budget, 1961-1985 / Caroline Dufour -- Budget making in the Ontario Ministry of Finance, 1985-2000 / Ken Ogata and Gary Spraakman -- 'Guardian' as 'Spender': Infrastructure Investment, 1960-2005 / Gervan Fearon --



Guardians in Check: The impact of health care on the Ontario budget, 1960-2004 / Patrice Dutil.

Sommario/riassunto

These essays reveal Ontario's 'finance' as a dynamic policy issue shaped by the personalities of premiers and ministers, the energies of public servants at all levels, and a critical dialogue between political and administrative worlds. Drawing on different methodologies, this collection profiles a ministry as policy entrepreneur, spender, revenue generator, capacity builder, budget director, program manager, and intergovernmental agent. The Guardian fills a significant gap in public administration literature and in so doing describes how Ontario's Ministry of Finance defined its role as 'guardian.'"--Pub. desc.

"Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines the Ministry of Finance of Ontario since the Second World War. During the last sixty years the Ministry was transformed from a relatively small 'Treasury' to a sophisticated policy machine. What started as a modest bookkeeping operation evolved into a key bureaucratic and policy agency as the government of Ontario assumed a leadership position in developing the province.