PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elections Canada, Service Canada, Society 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 1301
• Professor: Joseph Roman

Document Summary

Rules and types of departments: workforces of government: administer programs, past (important, changing them completely would be disruptive, serve constituencies, often fulfill recognized public needs, new program = new constituency) and present i. Communicated up to change of command, gets studied going up each i. chain. On top of chain of command, communication must be done with a. other offices and departments that could be effected (commissioners) a. Ministers and senior bureacrats (getting rid of mandatory long form census: differences between states based on how they"re classified i. Service department: most visible and popular, but not most influential in government, provide direct services to public and client groups (ex. Fisheries and oceans, passport office, service canada) i. Always multilayered, chain of command mulitlayered, ubiquitous ii. hierarchy, clear lines of managerial command. Hierarchal breakdowns because of geographical dispersion, large a. and complex so due to make mistakes, prone to break down b.