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

• 第一著者: Ken Rasmussen (auth)
• その他の著者: Luc Juillet (auth)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2008
• 主題: Canadian Parliament; public service; commission; democracy
• オンライン･アクセス: 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...