Canadian Public Administration articles from March 2005

Canadian Public Administration archives from March 2005

Editor's note / Note de la redaction.
March 22, 2005... This issue of the journal marks the first of my editorship, although its content has been heavily influenced by my predecessor's advice and skill. For the next three years, my hope is to maintain the quality of CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,...

Exporting governance: Lithuania adapts a Canadian policy management model.
March 22, 2005... By the end of the 1990s, Lithuania's post-independence surge of optimism had largely dissipated. National CDP stood at a scant two-thirds of its pre-independence level. (1) Increasing income inequality further exacerbated rising poverty levels....

Federal-provincial overlap and civil servants: the case of occupational training in Quebec and Ontario.
March 22, 2005... This article examines the issue of administrative overlap in the Canadian federal system, focusing on occupational training, to establish to what extent federal and provincial officials identify overlap as a management problem. Unlike other...

La reforme administrative au gouvernement du Quebec : etude du processus de changement sur la culture organisationnelle * (1).
March 22, 2005... Contexte de la recherche Depuis plusieurs annees, pratiquement tous les pays ont vecu certains processus de reforme administrative ou de reformes de l'Etat. (2) Si l'on recherche le mot > sur l'Internet, on retrouve les plans de tous les...

Citizen satisfaction with municipal amalgamations.
March 22, 2005... When Mike Harris's Conservative government came to power in Ontario, it embarked on a program of significant municipal reform. (1) A major aspect of this reform package, municipal amalgamation, had many goals, two of which were "efficient...

Urbanism, cities and local self-government.
March 22, 2005... In this article, I explore the relationship between urbanism, cities and local self-government and look at the issues this relationship poses for public administration. I write as a political theorist and not as an administrator or student of...

Michel Crozier and the study of complex bureaucratic organizations: towards the development of French strategic analysis.(GREAT BOOKS REVISITED/REVUE DES GRANDS CLASSIQUES)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... > The Bureaucratic Phenomenon. An Examination of Bureaucracy in Modern Organizations and its Cultural Setting in France. By MICHEL CROZIER. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1964. As the building block of what would later become the...

Evolution, Revolution, Amalgamation: Restructuring in Three Ontario Municipalities.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Evolution, Revolution, Amalgamation: Restructuring in Three Ontario Municipalities By THOMAS R. HOLLICK and DAVID SIEGEL. London, Ont.: Local Government Program, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario. 2001. Pp....

Money, Politics and Health Care: Reconstructing the Federal-Provincial Partnership.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Money, Politics and Health Care: Reconstructing the Federal-Provincial Partnership Edited by HARVEY LAZAR and FRANCE ST-HILAIRE. Montreal and Kingston: Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Institute of Intergovernmental...

Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's Future.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's Future By JANICE MACKINNON. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 316, bibliographical references, index. In an era of...

Educational Regimes and Anglo-American Democracy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Educational Regimes and Anglo-American Democracy By RONALD A. MANZER. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 602, bibliographical references, indexes. In the "Notes" section of this publication, the author laments the...

Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 304, index. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S., The 9/11 Commission Report, authorized edition. New York: W.W....