Canadian Public Administration articles from March 2004

Canadian Public Administration archives from March 2004

Searching for accountability in a government without boundaries.
March 22, 2004... Sommaire: L'etablissement de frontieres organisationnelles pour definir les responsabilites au sein du gouvernement, ainsi que les lignes hierarchiques transparentes ont faconne notre appareil gouvernemental. Cela a ete determinant pour etablir...

Intergovernmental relations, social policy and federal transfers after Romanow.
March 22, 2004... Sommaire: Le present article porte sur les nouvelles et anciennes dynamiques intergouvernementales concernant les transferts accordes par le federal aux provinces pour le financement des politiques sociales et de sante, qui ont decoule du...

Calling all citizens: the challenges of public consultation.
March 22, 2004... Sommaire : L'une des manieres dont les gouvernements ont reagi au mecontentement democratique exacerbe qui s'est manifeste ces dernieres annees a ete d'accroitre la participation des citoyens au processus d'elaboration de politiques en...

Michel Crozier et l'analyse strategique du phenomene bureaucratique.(Great Books Revisited)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... > Le phenomene bureaucratique. Essai sur les tendances bureaucratiques des systemes d'organisation modernes et sur leurs relations en France avec le systeme social et culturel. Par MICHEL CROZIER. Paris : Editions du Seuil, 1963. Pp. 413....

Wildavsky on "rescuing budgeting from American administration" and Heclo and Wildavsky on "village life in British budgeting".(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... "Human nature is never more evident than when men are struggling to gain a larger share of funds or to apportion what they have among myriad claimants." Wildavsky "Money talks. It speaks to the purposes of men and nations. Government...

The Politics of Public Management: the HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Politics of Public Management: The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions By DAVID A. GOOD. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 240, bibliographical references, index. This book is a comprehensive account of the...

Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 By SHELAGH D. GRANT. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 342, bibliographical references, index. Shelagh Grant should be applauded for bringing to...

Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion By DANIEL S. GREENBERG. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. x, 530, bibliographical references, index. Since the end of World War II, Greenberg argues, science...

Introduction to Emergency Management.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Introduction to Emergency Management By GEORGE D. HADDOW and JANE A. BULLOCK. Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier Science. 2003. Pp. xiii, 272, bibliographical references, index. Define emergency management? This is not an easy task. It is a...

Voluntary Environmental Agreements: Process, Practice and Future Use.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Voluntary Environmental Agreements: Process, Practice and Future Use Edited by PATRICK TEN BRINK. Sheffield, U.K.: Greenleaf Publishing. 2002. Pp. 563, bibliographical references, index. In this well-ordered collection of thirty articles...

The Canadian Federalist Experiment: from Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Canadian Federalist Experiment: From Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic By FREDERICK VAUGHAN. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 225, bibliographic references, index. Students of Canadian...

Organization Behaviour Reassessed: the Impact of Gender.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Organization Behaviour Reassessed: the Impact of Gender Edited by ELISABETH WILSON. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. 2001. Pp. xii, 244, bibliographical references. The central theme of the book is that traditional theory on...

The Struggle for Quebec: from Referendum to Referendum.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Struggle for Quebec: From Referendum to Referendum By ROBERT A. YOUNG. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1999. Pp. 210, bibliographical references, index. "Better late than never" is an old adage that, after...

Eugene Bardach, Getting Agencies to Work Together: the Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship.(Book Notes)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Eugene Bardach, Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 348, bibliographical references, index. The present buzz in so many...

Jane Jenson and Mariette Sineau with Franca Bimbi, Anne-Marie Daune-Richard, Vincent Della Sala, Rianne Mahon, Berengere Marques-Pereira, Olivier Paye and George Ross, Who Cares?: Women's Work, Childcare, and Welfare State Redesign.(Book Notes)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jane Jenson and Mariette Sineau with Franca Bimbi, Anne-Marie Daune-Richard, Vincent Della Sala, Rianne Mahon, Berengere Marques-Pereira, Olivier Paye and George Ross, Who Cares?: Women's Work, Childcare, and Welfare State Redesign. Toronto:...