Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008

• Auteur principal: Ken Rasmussen (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Luc Juillet (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2008
• Sujets: Canadian Parliament; public service; commission; democracy
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...