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The public debate on change within the public sector is actually structured along a demarcation line opposing upholders of performance and efficiency who lean toward privatization of public services, and, by another side, those who linken the defense of public services and state intervention to the rejection of any kind of evolution and the rejection of any objective of performance improvement. The research program must be enriched to be able to get out of such false alternatives and to link the political question of the role of the sate and the technical one of administrative reform. We structure the debate around the theory of knowledge, showing that theses postures both relate to logical positivism and leave aside what is really at stake with change in the public sector. In the tradition of Friedrich V. Hayek, we propose another demarcation line, between evolutionism and positivism. Drawing on the Northian distinction between organizations and institutions, we analyze their respective dynamics and the link to be established between organizational and institutional innovation within the public sector. This new focus implies a return of the political philosophy as a bearing point for public management. Secondly, we define enrichment proposal for the research program in public management such as to link political philosophy issues and practical effectiveness and efficiency. Change in a uncertain environment asks for a revision of institutions underlying beliefs and call for a trial and errors learning process. According to the prevailing demarcation line, politics is an overhead. In our perspective it regains its full role in the classical sense of classical republicanism. In this way, public management may be included in the domain of moral sciences. ; Le débat public sur le changement dans le secteur public s'organise actuellement selon une ligne de démarcation qui oppose les tenants de la performance et de l'efficience qui penchent vers la privatisation des services publics, et de l'autre les tenants de ...

The public debate on change within the public sector is actually structured along a demarcation line opposing upholders of performance and efficiency who lean toward privatization of public services, and, by another side, those who linken the defense of public services and state intervention to the rejection of any kind of evolution and the rejection of any objective of performance improvement. The research program must be enriched to be able to get out of such false alternatives and to link the political question of the role of the sate and the technical one of administrative reform. We structure the debate around the theory of knowledge, showing that theses postures both relate to logical positivism and leave aside what is really at stake with change in the public sector. In the tradition of Friedrich V. Hayek, we propose another demarcation line, between evolutionism and positivism. Drawing on the Northian distinction between organizations and institutions, we analyze their respective dynamics and the link to be established between organizational and institutional innovation within the public sector. This new focus implies a return of the political philosophy as a bearing point for public management. Secondly, we define enrichment proposal for the research program in public management such as to link political philosophy issues and practical effectiveness and efficiency. Change in a uncertain environment asks for a revision of institutions underlying beliefs and call for a trial and errors learning process. According to the prevailing demarcation line, politics is an overhead. In our perspective it regains its full role in the classical sense of classical republicanism. In this way, public management may be included in the domain of moral sciences. ; Le débat public sur le changement dans le secteur public s'organise actuellement selon une ligne de démarcation qui oppose les tenants de la performance et de l'efficience qui penchent vers la privatisation des services publics, et de l'autre les tenants de ...

The public debate on change within the public sector is actually structured along a demarcation line opposing upholders of performance and efficiency who lean toward privatization of public services, and, by another side, those who linken the defense of public services and state intervention to the rejection of any kind of evolution and the rejection of any objective of performance improvement. The research program must be enriched to be able to get out of such false alternatives and to link the political question of the role of the sate and the technical one of administrative reform. We structure the debate around the theory of knowledge, showing that theses postures both relate to logical positivism and leave aside what is really at stake with change in the public sector. In the tradition of Friedrich V. Hayek, we propose another demarcation line, between evolutionism and positivism. Drawing on the Northian distinction between organizations and institutions, we analyze their respective dynamics and the link to be established between organizational and institutional innovation within the public sector. This new focus implies a return of the political philosophy as a bearing point for public management. Secondly, we define enrichment proposal for the research program in public management such as to link political philosophy issues and practical effectiveness and efficiency. Change in a uncertain environment asks for a revision of institutions underlying beliefs and call for a trial and errors learning process. According to the prevailing demarcation line, politics is an overhead. In our perspective it regains its full role in the classical sense of classical republicanism. In this way, public management may be included in the domain of moral sciences. ; Le débat public sur le changement dans le secteur public s'organise actuellement selon une ligne de démarcation qui oppose les tenants de la performance et de l'efficience qui penchent vers la privatisation des services publics, et de l'autre les tenants de l'assimilation de la « défense du service public » et de l'intervention de l'Etat au rejet de toute notion d'évolution et de performance. Le programme de recherche du management public doit s'enrichir pour contribuer à sortir de ces fausses alternatives et lier la question politique de l'évolution de l'Etat et celle, technique, de la réforme administrative. Nous posons le débat du point de vue de la théorie de la connaissance, en montrant que ces deux postures se rattachant toutes deux au positivisme logique et qu'elles passent à côté des grands enjeux du changement du secteur public. Dans la lignée des travaux de Hayek nous proposons une ligne de démarcation entre positivisme et évolutionnisme. En partant de la distinction faite par North entre institutions et organisations, nous analysons leur dynamique différente et le lien qui peut être établi entre innovation institutionnelle et organisationnelle dans le secteur public. Cette nouvelle perspective implique un retour au politique comme source de la décision publique et donc à la philosophie politique comme point d'où penser le management public. Dans un deuxième temps, nous définissons des axes d'enrichissement du programme de recherche en management public pour lier philosophie politique et efficacité pratique. Le changement dans un environnement incertain demande de réviser le système de croyances sous-jacent aux institutions et repose sur l'apprentissage collectif et la progression par essais et erreurs. Le politique, réduit selon l'actuelle ligne de démarcation à une fonction support de la gestion publique, retrouve toute sa place, au sens de la philosophie politique classique et de l'humanisme civique républicain. Support du questionnement éthique à la base de toute politique, et outil de résolution de problèmes, le management public peut s'inscrire dans le domaine des sciences morales. Nous concluons sur le développement de nouveaux arts pratiques de l'action publique pour conduire le changement.

Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Canadian calendar -- Editor's introduction -- THE FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE -- Parliament and politics -- THE FATE OF THE MEECH LAKE ACCORD -- THE ECONOMY -- THE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX -- NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE NATIONAL PARTIES -- ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -- WOMEN AND POLITICS -- MAJOR POLICY AREAS -- PERSONALITIES, SCANDALS, AND CONTROVERSIES -- Ottawa and the provinces -- THE DEMISE OF THE MEECH LAKE ACCORD -- NEW BUSINESS -- OLD BUSINESS -- External affairs and defence -- INTRODUCTION -- CANADA-U.S. RELATIONS -- RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY -- THE MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS -- RESPONDING TO EUROPEAN CHANGE -- SOUTHERN AFRICA -- CANADA AND THE UNITED NATIONS -- OPERATION DESERT SHIELD -- THE 1991 BUDGET -- FORCE REDUCTIONS IN EUROPE -- CRUISE TESTING AND CF-18S -- CONFRONTING THE FIRST NATIONS AT OKA -- THE MILITARY'S TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND HOMOSEXUALS -- LOW-LEVEL FLYING IN GOOSE BAY -- PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN THE CANADIAN MILITARY -- CONCLUSION -- THE PROVINCIAL PERSPECTIVES -- ONTARIO -- The Patricia Starr scandal and other legacies from 1989 -- The legislative session -- Social policy -- Resource policy -- Justice policy and prominent court cases -- Intergovernmental relations -- Political party activity -- The election -- The debut of the NDP -- The economy -- QUEBEC -- Politics -- The economy -- Legislation -- Intergovernmental affairs -- NOVA SCOTIA -- Politics -- The legislature -- The economy -- Intergovernmental relations -- NEW BRUNSWICK -- Spring legislative session -- Meech Lake again -- Fall legislative session -- The GST blues -- More signs of a troubled economy -- NDP and CoR outshine confused Tories -- MANITOBA -- The Meech Lake Accord -- The election -- The 35th legislature -- The budget and economic developments -- BRITISH COLUMBIA -- Social developments -- The economy -- Public finance -- Legislative developments -- Political developments -- PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND -- State of the economy -- Politics and government -- Significant public issues -- SASKATCHEWAN -- The government and the legislature -- The political parties -- Federal-provincial relations -- The economy -- Around the province -- ALBERTA -- The legislature -- The economy -- Environmental issues -- Political parties -- Other issues -- NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR -- The legislature -- The economy and economic development -- Politics and political parties -- Federal-provincial relations -- THE YUKON AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES -- The territories in the Canadian federation -- The Yukon: Economic conditions and policy -- Yukon politics and government -- The Yukon land claims process -- NWT: Economic change and the Mackenzie Valley -- NWT: Land claims and territorial division -- Social conditions and initiatives in NWT -- Obituaries -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- T$20.

Both at home and abroad, the events of 2002 contrasted significantly with those of the previous year, something for which most Canadians could be extremely grateful. To no one's surprise, however, the year was dominated by the issues that had captivated the world's attention at the end of 2001: the attacks on the United States and the subsequent 'war on terror' declared by the Bush administration. Canada had chosen to stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with its southern neighbour in response to those attacks, and in 2002 the meaning of that commitment became clear as Canada entered into full-scale combat operations in Afghanistan, suffered its first casualties, and ended the year torn over whether to follow the United States should it choose to send troops to Iraq.On the home front, a battle of an altogether different magnitude reached a turning point with the seeming resolution of the long-running struggle between Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Minister of Finance Paul Martin, even though by year's end, it was by no means clear who had actually won. Similarly, a number of the consequences of the 9/11 attacks remained unresolved. Changes to legislation regarding national security failed to be approved; Ottawa software engineer Maher Arar, who was arrested and deported by the United States on suspicion of terrorist links, languished in a Syrian jail despite official protest by the Canadian Government; and the war drums were beating loudly around Iraq.Continuing in the tradition of excellence for which the series has long been acclaimed, the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002 presents detailed information and insightful analyses of issues and events that have had a lasting impact both nationally and internationally

The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs is an acclaimed series that offers informed commentary on important national events and considers their significance in local and international contexts. This latest instalment covers a year of dramatic activity in provincial politics

The Canadian Annual Review has become an indispensable reference work for all concerned with Canadian public affairs. Complied by a corps of Canadian scholars and experts, it offers both a concise, convenient record of the year's events and an authoritatibve appraisal of developments.The present volume covers events in a watershed year. In constitutional matters 1987 saw the most important even since the passage of the Constitutional Act of 1982: the Meech Lake Accord.In the House of Commons, new drug patent legislation and a bill to control more tightly the influx of immigrants and refugees faced strenuous opposition. A proposal to reinstate capital punishment was rejected in a free vote.Overall the Canadian economy performed well, although slumping oil and gas prices continued to create problems in the western provinces, Ontario Premier David Peterson was re-elected, this time with an overwhelming Liberal majority. But the dominant story in Canadian newspapers throughout the year was free trade with the United States