A Handbook of Canadian Public Administration

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: CHANGING VISIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; 1. Transformation of the Public Sector: Canada in Comparative Perspective; 2. A Fragile State: Federal Public Administration in the Twentieth Century; 3. Beyond the 'New' in Public Management Reform in Canada: Catching the Next Wave?; 4. Alternative Service Delivery; 5. Democratic Administration; PART II: CHANGING EXPECTATIONS OF GOVERNMENT; 6. East Block and Westminister: Conventions, Values, and Public Service; 7. Government Restructuring and Career Public Service: Do we Need a New Cosmology?; 8. The Third Sector: Neo-Liberal Restructuring, Governance, and the Remaking of State-Civil Society Relationships; 9. Women and the Public Sector; PART III: THE POLICY DIMENSION; 10. Policy Development; 11. Policy Analysis in Canada; 12. Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations; 13. The Federal Spending Power; 14. Provincial and Local Public Administration; 15. Regulation and Deregulation; PART IV: THE ORGANIZATIONAL DIMENSION; 16. Departments and Other Institutions of Government; 17. The Central Executive in the Canadian Government: Searching for the Holy Grail; 18. Parliament and the Public Service; 19. Judicial Administration; 20. Lessons on the Centrality of Politics from Canadian Crown Enterprise; PART V: THE MANAGEMENT DIMENSION; 21. Budgetary Trilogies: The Phases of of Budget Reform in Canada; 22. Performance Management: Panacea or Fools' Gold?; 23. The Role of Deputy Ministers in Canadian Government; 24. Information Technology in the Public Sector; 25. An Introduction to Administrative Law in Canada; PART VI: THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIMENSION; 26. Restructuring Government: Human Resource Issues at the Workplace Level; 27. Workplace Equality: Human Rights, Employment, and Pay Equity; 28. Collective Bargaining and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector; 29. Compensation in the Public Sector; Index