From Arm's Length to Hands-On : : The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940 /

From Arm's Length to Hands-On : : The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940 / / John Hodgetts.

Confederation was a relief to legislators who had to ensure the uneasy union between Upper and Lower Canada; the dualism had demanded double-barrelled ministries and the rotation of the capital, after 1849, between Toronto and Quebec City every four years. The year 1867 was therefore a watershed. Th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
VerfasserIn:
Hodgetts, John,
MitwirkendeR:
Beck, Jeanne,
Careless, J.M.S.,
French, Goldwin,
Oliver, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Ontario Historical Studies Series
  • Preface
  • Prologue: A Government Reborn
  • 1. To Know Thyself: Early Ontario's Administrative Needs
  • 2. Early Administrative Modes
  • 3. Offices as Departmental Building Blocks, 1867-1905
  • 4. Early Departmental Satellites, 1867-1905
  • 5. Early Tasks and Administrative Means: Mostly Men and No Machines
  • 6. Personnel and Personalities in the Early Public Service
  • 7. Organizational Response to the Hands-On Administrative Mode, 1905-1940
  • 8. Twentieth-Century Satellites: Meredith's Models
  • 9. Expanding the Universe of Satellites
  • 10. Regulation and Reform of the Public Service
  • 11. Implementing the Administrative Reform Agenda
  • 12. Financial Management and Public Service Accountability
  • Epilogue: Beyond the Formative Years
  • Notes
  • Index

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