PSCI331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Whistleblower, Campaign Button, Meddle

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI331
• Professor: Daniel Henstra

Document Summary

The bargain: ministerial responsibility, ministers accept all responsibility for policy and management, expect public servants to be poliically neutral. Principle: separaion of poliical and administraive aciviies, dichotomy: two-mutually exclusive spheres, poliics: elected oicials make policy: choose course of acion. Poliical decisions: who gets what, when and how: administraion: public servants implement policy technical decisions: program structure; rules of delivery pracice, poliics and administraion intertwined (overlap, policy development public servants formulate most policy proposals. ); implementaion may difer from cabinet intent poliical interference: ministers someimes meddle in administraion, ministerial responsibility: temping to micro-manage departmental. Minister has staf of poliical advisors: parisan appointees exempt from merit rules non-permanent: lose posiion when minister exits. Non-parisanship principle: refrain from publicly supporing party, person or cause, importance public must trust public servants are not inluenced by poliical ailiaion. Principle: do not publicly express views on government. Opinion on public policy and suggesions for government reform: importance.