Canadian Public Administration articles from December 22 2003

Canadian Public Administration archives from December 22 2003

The democratic deficit: Paul Martin and parliamentary reform.
December 22, 2003... Abstract: Paul Martin's plan to reform parliamentary government in order to eliminate the so-called democratic deficit calls for greater independence for individual MPs and the House of Commons vis-a-vis the government. In this article, we...

L'affaire Groupaction: un cas de politisation de la Fonction publique federale?
December 22, 2003... Sommaire: L'affaire Groupaction met en relief deux formes de politisation de la Fonction publique federale: l'une partisane, l'autre structurelle. La politisation de type partisan et l'integration de personnel politique au sein de la Fonction...

Administrative styles and the limits of administrative reform: a neo-institutional analysis of administrative culture.
December 22, 2003... Abstract: Students of organizational behaviour have always been concerned with understanding the manner in which complex organizations--including systems of public administration--tend to create distinctive organizational cultures and the...

Harmonization through emulation: Canadian federalism and water export policy.
December 22, 2003... Abstract: This article explores the challenges of policy harmonization in a decentralized federal polity through a study of Canadian efforts to develop nationwide water export regulations over the past fifteen years. The Canadian experience in...

The Vanier Medal.(conditions for the award and previous winners of The Vanier Medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada )
December 22, 2003... The Institute of Public Administration of Canada awards annually a gold medal as a mark of distinction and exceptional achievement to a person who, in the opinion of a panel of independent judges, has shown distinctive leadership in public...

A functioning executive: Chester Barnard and the modern manager.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... "Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests." The Functions of the Executive. By CHESTER I. BARNARD. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

Urban Affairs: Back on the Public Agenda.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Urban Affairs: Back on the Public Agenda Edited by CAROLINE ANDREW, KATHERINE A. GRAHAM and SUSAN D. PHILLIPS. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. vi, 432. biographical references, index. This publication is a...

Values in Conflict: the University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Values In Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education By PAUL AXELROD. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. 203, bibliographical references, index. Paul Axelrod has written a...

Public Policy and Local Governance: Institutions in Postmodern Society.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Public Policy and Local Governance: Institutions in Postmodern Society By PETER BOGASON. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2000. Pp. 200, bibliographical references, index. Scholars in a number of...

Citizenship in Transformation in Canada.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Citizenship in Transformation in Canada Edited by YVONNE M. HEBERT. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 289, bibliographical references. Citizenship has become a central topic across the social sciences and humanities,...

Canadian Forest Policy: Adapting to Change.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Canadian Forest Policy: Adapting to Change Edited by MICHAEL HOWLETT. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2001. Pp. x, 446, bibliographical references. In Search of Sustainability: British Columbia Forest Policy in the 1990s By BENJAMIN...

Social Policy in Canada.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Social Policy in Canada By ERNIE S. LIGHTMAN. Don Mill, Ont.: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 294, glossary, bibliographical references, index. "I was trained as an economist, and I approach the study of social policy from that...

Biotechnology & Food for Canadians. Risk Controversy Series No. 2.(The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops )(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Biotechnology Food for Canadians. Risk Controversy Series No. 2 By ALAN MC HUGHEN. Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, Centre for Studies in Risk and Regulation. 2002. Pp. xiv, 69, bibliographical references. The Ecological Risks of Engineered...

Ann L. Griffiths, Handbook of Federal Countries, 2002.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Ann L. Griffiths, Handbook of Federal Countries, 2002. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press for the Forum of Federations, 2002. Pp. xiv, 513. With an introduction written by John Kincaid, the editor of the journal...

Gudrun Trauner, E-government: Information and Communication Technology in Public Administration.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
December 22, 2003... Gudrun Trauner, E-government: Information and Communication Technology in Public Administration. Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, and Linz, Austria: Institute for Multimedia Teaching, Faculty of Law, Johannes Kepler...