POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: United Kingdom Cabinet Committee, Unintended Consequences, Focus Group
30 Mar 2018
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Not collective decision making, would happen on occasion but largely made in departments. Some inter-departmental consultation- informal- deputy minister would meet with his or her colleages and if there were problems they would decide. Idealized of departmental cabinet and un-intended consequences or real version. Trudeau comes to power first as cabinet minister but then as pm he is upset with 2 things: It"s supposed to be collective and politicians making the decisions but trudeau found that wasn"t followed- in departments and in too many cases the ministers were captured by their bureaucrats. A lot of ministers in cabinet don"t come with ambition and they can be shifted and not know about their department. Trudeau wanted to make it more collective and put politicians back in control. To prevent bureaucratic capture he did 2 things: 1: rotating his ministers regularly so they can"t be captured. Started a bit with pearson- strengthen central agencies.
