Canadian Public Administration articles

Recent articles from Canadian Public Administration

Administration at the Supreme Court of Canada: challenges and change in the Charter era.
March 1, 2009... Despite the prodigious amount of attention devoted to the work of the Supreme Court of Canada since the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, there has been scant discussion of what the "Charter era" has meant for the administration of the Court. This article...

Beyond Westminster governance: bringing politics and public service into the networked era.
December 1, 2008... The underlying premise of this article stems from the following question: is our Westminster, parliamentary model of democratic governance and administration adaptable for contemporary realities and emerging challenges? By framing this question as "adaptable" rather than "salvageable," the...

Les relations de collaboration entre le secteur public et les organismes communautaires du secteur jeunesse-enfance-famille : entre la sous-traitance et la coconstruction.
December 1, 2008... Problematique L'Etat-providence, modele dominant dans le contexte economique et social des pays occidentaux pendant trente ans (1945-1975), a subi de nombreuses transformations au cours des annees 1980 et 1990. Dans le domaine socio-sanitaire notamment, il a fait face a des pressions...

A cross-Canada analysis of the efficiency of residential recycling services.(Survey)
December 1, 2008... The primary objective of this article is to investigate the factors that predict the efficiency of residential recycling collection services in Canadian local governments. The core of the article is a quantitative analysis of national survey data obtained from local government recycling...

The New Public Management theory and European health-care reforms.
December 1, 2008... New Public Management (NPM) reforms followed the ascendancy of neoliberal ideas of the early 1980s in the U.S. and the U.K. and responded to fiscal and budget crises in such places as Europe and Canada. Successful foreign experiments, such as New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani's ability to...