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

• Hoofdauteur: Ken Rasmussen (auth)
• Andere auteurs: Luc Juillet (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2008
• Onderwerpen: Canadian Parliament; public service; commission; democracy
• Online toegang: 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...