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

• Autor principal: Ken Rasmussen (auth)
• Otros Autores: Luc Juillet (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2008
• Materias: Canadian Parliament; public service; commission; democracy
• Acceso en línea: 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...