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

• Yazar: Ken Rasmussen (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Luc Juillet (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2008
• Konular: Canadian Parliament; public service; commission; democracy
• Online Erişim: 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...