Canadian Public Administration articles from June 2006

Canadian Public Administration archives from June 2006

Quand les attitudes au travail sont tributaires de la progression de carriere: analyse dans le cadre de la modernisation de la gestion des ressources humaines.
June 22, 2006... La presente recherche s'inscrit dans un important contexte de reforme. En effet, la modernisation de la gestion des ressources humaines presentement en cours est censee transformer la fonction publique federale. L'objectif vise consiste a creer...

Profiling a problem in Canadian police leadership: the Kingston Police data collection project.
June 22, 2006... In May 2003 the Kingston Police began an experiment in operational research that would consider a hypothesis dealing with the issue of racial profiling in policing. In close cooperation with a professor from the Centre of Criminology at the...

Active conscience or administrative vanguard?: The Commissioner of Official Languages as an agent of change.
June 22, 2006... The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages forms a distinctive institution, different from the other officers of Parliament, in that it assumes a greater role as an independent agent for the advancement of public policy than do its...

Advising for impact: lessons from the Rae review on the use of special-purpose advisory commissions.(Bob Rae)
June 22, 2006... Introduction Ontario's recent Postsecondary Review (Rae review), led by former premier Bob Rae, was dramatically more successful than any of the nine previous reviews of special-purpose advisory commissions on postsecondary education...

Weather-vane federalism: reconsidering federal social policy leadership.(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2006... In their article, "The New Federal Tool Belt," (1) Boismenu and Graefe reorient analytic debates about hierarchy in Canadian intergovernmentalism since the Social Union Framework Agreement (SUFA). This agreement motivated two schematically...

Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, Phase I Report and Phase II report.(Report)
June 22, 2006... Ottawa: Public Works and Government Services Canada. 2005 and 2006. Pp. (total) xxxix, 2068, appendices. (1) The Phase I and II reports by the Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities may well prove to...

Classic Readings in Canadian Public Administration.(GREAT ARTICLES REVISITED/REVUE DES GRANDS CLASSIQUES)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Edited by Barbara W. Carroll, David Siegel, and Mark Sproule-Jones. Toronto: Oxford University Pres. 2005. Pp. vii, 516. Few activities can be more risky than trying to put together a collection of "classic readings." The rewards are minor...

The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World Ian Smillie and Larry Minear. Bloomfield, Connecticut: Kumarian Press. 2004. Bibliographical references, index. In this volume Smillie and Minear tell a story of...

Public Science, Private Interests: Culture and Commerce in Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Public Science, Private Interests: Culture and Commerce in Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence Janet Atkinson-Crosjean. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 229. Bibliographical references, index. Janet...

A Civil Society? Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... A Civil Society? Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life Miriam Smith. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. 2005. Pp. 224. Bibliographical references, index. While it is not always the case that a new book is both topical and...

Modernizing Accountability: A Framework for Action.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Modernizing Accountability: A Framework for Action By PETER AUCOIN, and MARK D. JARVIS. Ottawa: Canada School of Public Service. 2005. Pp. 111. This short book is a follow-up to the excellent study by Peter Aucoin, Jennifer Smith, and...

Getting It Done: A Memoir.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Getting It Done: A Memoir By DEREK H. BURNEY. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 212. Index. $39.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-7735292-68 Derek Burney's book Getting It Done should be required reading for every...

Leadership, or the Lack Thereof.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Leadership, or the Lack Thereof By KEVIN MCGUINNESS and STEPHEN BAULD, Toronto: Lulu. 2005. Pp. 625. $35.25 (paper) Leadership is defined in many different ways and it has been the subject of many papers, articles, and books. As might...

Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development? Edited by THEODORE H. MORAN, EDWARD M. GRAHAM and MAGNUS BLOMSTROM, Washington, DC, Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development. 2005. Pp. xiv, 411. ISBN...

Between Colliding Worlds: The Ambiguous Existence of Government Agencies for Aboriginal and Women's Policy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Between Colliding Worlds: The Ambiguous Existence of Government Agencies for Aboriginal and Women's Policy By JONATHAN MALLOY Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. 217. Bibliographical references, index. This book presents a...