Bureaucracy in Canada
Subtitle: control and reform
By: Sharon L. Sutherland and G. Bruce Doern.
Contributors: Doern, G. Bruce.; Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada.
Series: The Collected research studies,; vol. 43
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Bureaucracy -- Canada.; Public service commissions -- Canada.; Civil service reform -- Canada.
First sentence: When one thinks of all the major institutions of Canadian society and of how they have evolved in the past four decades, it is perhaps the public service, the bureaucracy, that has changed the most.
Description: From the Preface:  The first purpose of this study ... is to present an historical view of the evolution of public service bureaucracies as political institutions over the past three or four decades.  While our historical analysis builds on existing literature, in three areas this literature proved inadequate .... The three are:
. the emergence of a cluster of public service organizations which we refer to as the "control" bureaucracy, or, in the context of the historical typology presented in the introduction, simply as Public Service Bureacuracy III.
. the increasing degree to which public service bureaucracy has been treated as the object of public policy in such a way as to strain its capacity to carry out its basic function of implementing policy; and 
. the role of political parties as insitutions with primary and fundamental responsibilities in the democratic control of the public service. 
Chapter three provides a quantitative mapping of employment in the bureaucracy so that one gains a sense of what has grown, what is in or out of control, and most important, what distinctions must be made between the growth of officialdom as such and that of government and programs.  Pp. XV to XVII.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 215-230.
"Published ... in cooperation with the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Introduction: A Framework for Analysis
pagenum: 1; title: Definition of Bureaucracy: Pervasive, Necessary
pagenum: 2; title: The Three Public Service Bureaucracies: A Framework for Analysis
pagenum: 5; title: Public Service Bureacracy I: Traditional Departmental "Civil Service"
pagenum: 8; title: Public Service Bureacracy II: Non-Departmental Forms
pagenum: 9; title: Public Service Bureaucracy III: The New "Control" Bureaucracy
pagenum: 11; label: Chapter 1
title: The Public Service Bureaucracies and Major Constitutional Norms
pagenum: 15; label: Chapter 2
title: Organizational Controls and Roles
pagenum: 57; label: Chapter 3
title: Mapping the Bureaucracy: Quantitative Trends
pagenum: 81; label: Chapter 4
title: Public Service Bureaucracy as the Object of Public Policy
pagenum: 141; label: Chapter 5
title: Political Parties as Public Service Control Institutions and as Reform Advocates
pagenum: 157; label: Chapter 6
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 173; label: Appendix A
title: Appendix to Chapter 3
pagenum: 182; label: Appendeix B
title: Comparisons of Provincial Organizations and their Responsibilities
pagenum: 194; label: Appendix C
title: Equality of Participation and the Merit System
pagenum: 201; label: Appendix D
title: National and Provincial Wage Control Politicy Intiatives and Legislation
pagenum: 211; label: Notes
pagenum: 215