Defending a Contested Ideal: Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008
In: Governance Series
Abstract
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 history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.
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canada, public service commission, public servant, Bureaucracy, Civil service, Civil service commission, Democracy, Human resource management, Ottawa
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Englisch
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University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa
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