From Bureaucracy to Public Management

The Administrative Culture of the Government of Canada

Dr. O.P. Dwivedi, James Iain Gow

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781442602601
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is about the systems of values, traditions, perceptions, and meanings existing in the Canadian federal public service since the First World War. Surveying that history, it considers the conflict of values arising from the attempt to add New Public Management values to older bureaucratic ones. These tensions are looked at from an ethical viewpoint, but also from that of the relationship between ends and means. Are the means proposed really likely to meet the ends proclaimed? Attempts to change a culture from the top down run against daily realities; the interests, training, and experience of all employees, elites, and others. Authors Dwivedi and Gow intend this overview to enable readers to appreciate the complex world of Canada's public servants.

A joint publication with The Institute of Public Administration of Canada.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Tables
• DEDICATED TO: John Edwin Hodgetts
• Preface
• ONE. INTRODUCTION: ADMINISTRATIVE CULTURE AND VALUES
• 1. Culture as Manifest in Organizations
• 2. The Place of Values
• 3. How to Study Values in Public Administration
• 4. Conclusion
• TWO. THE SOURCES OF ADMINISTRATIVE CULTURE IN CANADA
• 1. The Physical Environment
• 2. Social Values
• 3. Economic Culture
• 4. Political Culture
• 5. Internal Causes: Workplace
• 6. Foreign Sources of Influence
• 7. Conclusion
• THREE. THE FOUNDATIONS OF CANADIAN ADMINISTRATIVE CULTURE
• 1. Constitutional Conventions and Canadian Public Administration
• 2. Classic Regime Values of the Canadian Administration
• 3. Guardian Institutions
• 4. Conclusion
• FOUR. THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE IN CANADA: THE WHITEHALL MODEL UNDER STRESS
• 1. The Advent of the Administrative State
• 2. The Administrative State in Canada
• 3. Administrative Discretion, the Rule of Law, and Administrative Accountability
• 4. Politicization of the Administration: From Above, From Below, and From Without
• 5. Canadian Administrative Culture as Revealed by the Growth of and Response to the Administrative State
• 6. Conclusion
• FIVE. THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT MOVEMENT COMES TO CANADA
• 1. Genesis and Lineage of the New Public Management
• 2. New Public Management Movement Comes to Canada
• 3. PS 2000: Apotheosis of the Canadian Public Management Movement
• 4. Restructuring and Programme Review
• 5. Canadian Administrative Culture in the Wake of New Public Management Reforms
• SIX. CANADIAN ADMINISTRATIVE CULTURE BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT
• 1. The Findings of Our Study
• 2. A Deontological Appraisal of the New Public Management
• 3. A Teleological Approach: Between the Desirable and the Desired
• 4. Lessons Drawn from This Study
• 5. Conclusion
• Index