POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Canada Border Services Agency, Parole Board Of Canada
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Political science 1g06 2013 ii lecture 3b political control of the. Some models of bureaucratic behaviour assume that the bureaucracy is there to play two apolitical roles. Advice: the bureaucracy provides the government with unbiased, expert advice where requested. Implementation: the bureaucracy will impartially implement legislative directives. In either case, the bureaucracy is viewed as a neutral tool that can be controlled equally by whatever government happens to win an election. However, the bureaucracy is arguably no less political than any of the other political institutions that we have examined. The federal public sector employs roughly 486 000 people working in close to 400 organizations this is just at the federal level. Direction for these departments is determined by the minister in charge of that department. The day to day management of the department is assigned to an appointed deputy minister.