PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meritocracy, Bureaucracy, Mothers Against Drunk Driving

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 1301
• Professor: Christopher Cooper

Document Summary

Ensures public servants work within their jurisdictions and fulfill their responsibilities. In canada, tradition of brokerage parties ( catch all parties") A party that aggregates interests from a wide spectrum. Liberal party, conservative party, progressive conservative party. But at provincial level, more ideologically fixed parties are present. Like-minded individuals who want to influence public policies (they express power) Influences legitimacy, sets the agenda, communicates information to the citizens. Reports on what"s going on the world. The media sets the agenda for each day. Influences what you think about (sets the agenda) An organization within the private sector can bureaucratic. Ministry of finance in germany, very organized structure. The professional institution carrying out the government"s policy decisions. It is a part of the executive. Each office has a clearly defined sphere of competence (division of labour) organized in a fixed hierarchy (answers to a superior: continuity. Full time work, which constitutes a career: impersonality. Behaviour based on predetermined written rules: expertise.