Canadian Public Administration articles from December 2007

Canadian Public Administration archives from December 2007

Joe Galimberti and Canadian Public Administration/Joe Galimberti et al Revue Administration Publique du Canada.
December 22, 2007... Joe Galimberti made an enormous contribution to the widely acknowledged high quality of Canadian Public Administration. It is eminently appropriate that he should be honoured in this anniversary issue, marking fifty years since the Journal's...

Enduring, ephemeral and emerging issues in public administration in Canada: trends in Canadian Public Administration over fifty years (1958-2007)/Questions d'interet permanent, passeger et questions d'actualite dans l'administration publique du Canada: tendances dans Administration publique du Canada au cours de ses cinquante ans (1958-2007).
December 22, 2007... This issue marks two landmarks. It is the 50th anniversary issue of Canadian Public Administration, which began publishing in 1958, and it is the last issue to be published by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. Starting in March...

Reflections and prescriptions.(COMMENTARIES / COMMENTAIRES)(Editorial)
December 22, 2007... It is a startling reminder of the passing of time to be invited to provide some personal reflections on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Canadian Public Administration. The 25th anniversary issue was published early in the period of my...

Reflections of a 90s-era editor (the 1990s, that is, not the 1890s!).(COMMENTARIES
December 22, 2007... Contrary to popular mythology, editors of academic journals do not have complete freedom to set the directions and control the content of the publications for which they temporarily assume responsibility. Editing Canadian Public Administration...

Reflections of a former editor.(COMMENTARIES / COMMENTAIRES)
December 22, 2007... In a provocative book chapter, "Are We on the Right Track?," which he sent me not too long ago, my colleague, political scientist Alan Cairns, argued that for any academic discipline and the sub-fields within it, introspection is never-ending....

Commentaires d'un redacteur associe.(COMMENTARIES / COMMENTAIRES)(des caracteristiques des articles publies dans la Revue Administration publique du Canada pendant 1989 a 1997 )
December 22, 2007... Ayant ete redacteur associe de la Revue ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE DU CANADA pour les publications francaises pendant une periode de pres de 10 ans, soit de 1989 a 1997, il me fait grand plaisir ici d'apporter quelques commentaires personnels sur...

Comments by an associate editor.(COMMENTARIES / COMMENTAIRES)
December 22, 2007... Previous experience within the Institute of Public Administration of Canada can be helpful to someone who serves as an editor of the Journal. Having been a member of the national executive, first as an academic, when I chaired the Vancouver...

Royal commissions and public-service reform: personal reflections.(Royal (Glassco) Commission on Government Organization; Royal (Lambert) Commission on Financial Management and Accountability; (Gomery) Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities)(Author abstract)
December 22, 2007... Three score years ago and more, I completed my master of arts thesis, "Royal Commissions in Canada: A Study of Investigative Techniques," for Alexander Brady and Harold Innis. Little did I know that in later years I was to acquire a first-hand...

Les facteurs contributifs au leadership du Greffier dans la fonction publique du Canada (1).
December 22, 2007... Introduction Dans la fonction publique, tous entendent parler du Greffier du Conseil prive, ce > (2). Son titre refere a une diversite de fonctions et roles, bien que dans le langage courant, on refere toujours au > (3): secretaire du...

Public-service values and ethics: dead end or strong foundation?(Author abstract)
December 22, 2007... In the Winter 2004 issue of the journal, John Langford pronounced a negative verdict on the concern for public-service values, which has been a prominent feature of public-service reform and renewal in many countries over the past decade. (1)...

Building an ethical public service: Michael and Jennifer on Heintzman and Langford.(Ralph Heintzman)
December 22, 2007... When the editor of the Journal gave me the opportunity to provide a rejoinder to Ralph Heintzman's article, I was at first delighted. But I soon found that I was uncertain about how to reply. Should I merely re-visit my original arguments so...

Profiling of the public-service elite: a demographic and career trajectory survey of deputy and assistant deputy ministers in Canada.(RESEARCH NOTE / NOTE DE RECHERCHE)(Author abstract)(Survey)
December 22, 2007... Inspiring this study is an attempt to construct an image of the individuals who comprise the Canadian deputy / assistant deputy cadre--a unit we have called the "public-service elite" (PSE) in this article--in order to gain a better sense of...

Auditing the auditors: the Canadian democratic audit.(REVIEW ESSAY
December 22, 2007... "If legislatures are becoming irrelevant it is because governments want them to be. Cabinets benefit when legislatures meet less often." --David C. Docherty, p. 177. The volumes in the Canadian Democratic Audit were all published by...

The Vanier Medal/La Medaille Vanier.
December 22, 2007... 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...

The Institute of Public Administration of Canada/L'lnstitut d'administration publique du Canada Recipients of Vanier Medal/ Recipiendaires de la medaille Vanier.(Chronology)(Awards list)
December 22, 2007... NOTE: Positions shown are those occupied when the Medal was awarded. Lors de la remise de la medaille, les recipiendaires occupaient les postes ci-dessous. 1962 DR. H.L. KEENLEYSIDE Chairman, British Columbia Power...

Sorry, I Don't Speak French.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Sorry, I Don't Speak French De Graham Fraser. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. 2006. Pp. 340. Ce livre ne devait pas etre au depart un livre d'administration publique, quoique son but soit de comprendre comment le gouvernement federal a...

Le Prix Roland Parenteau: the J.E. Hodgetts Award.(Table)
December 22, 2007... The Hodgetts/Parenteau Awards are for the best articles appearing in the English and French languages, respectively, in Canadian Public Administration. The Inuit Inukshuk trophy is presented to the winning authors at The Institute of Public...