Court government and the collapse of accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom /
There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair. This study seeks to understand why this is so by comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom. It looks to changes in values both in society and inside government, and to the rela...
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How did we get here?
- 3. Was there ever a golden era?
- 4. Disenchantment sets in
- 5. Society then and now : from an obligation to others to an obligation to self
- 6. Searching for values
- 7. Voices everywhere
- 8. Searching for loyalty
- 9. The view from the bottom : a big whale that can't swim
- 10. The view from the top : 'I'm like Hank Snow
- I have been everywhere, man'
- 11. Accountability : 'I take the blame, but I am not to blame'
- 12. Power : locating it and holding it to account
- 13. From formal processes, rules, and a doctrine to the individual.
