POLSCI 1G06 Lecture 3: January 21, 2014 - Bureaucracy - Lecture 3B .doc
31 Dec 2014
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Some models of bureaucratic behavior 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. The federal public sector employs roughly 486 000 people working in close to 400 organizations . There are 3 main components1: government departments, 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. The deputy minister is usually a career public servant with the technical knowledge necessary to handle the day to day operations of the portfolio. The deputy minister is assigned two principal roles: : she acts as chief adviser to the minister o. She functions as manager of the department : crown corporations. Canada has 45 parent crown corporations at the federal level, which have a total of.
