Defending a Contested Ideal
Subtitle: Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008
Contributors: Rasmussen, Ken
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa
Published: 2008
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780776617770
Subjects: Politics & government
Description: 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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