Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008 / / Luc Juillet and Ken Rasmussen.
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This hist...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ottawa : : University of Ottawa Press,, 2008 ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Governance series.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) |
Notes: | Issued also in French under title: À la défense d'un idéal contesté. |
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505 | 0 | |a Introduction. Democratic Government, Merit and the Public Service Commission of Canada -- Ch. 1. Origins of the Public Service Commission: 1867-1918 -- Ch. 2. Creating a Merit System: 1918-1944 -- Ch. 3. Rethinking the CSC: Gordon, Heeney and Glassco: 1945-1967 -- Ch. 4. Management Assault on the Public Service Commission: 1967-1979 -- Ch. 5. Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006 -- Ch. 6. PSC as a Cautious Reformer: Staffing Reforms during the Mulroney Years: 1984-1993 -- Ch. 7. Merit as the Essential Mandate: Repositioning the PSC: 1993-2008. | |
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