CITB04H3 Lecture 7: The Civil Service
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Lecture objectives: civil service organization, assessing the civil service: efficiency, access, and accountability, case study: the gardiner, civil service organization - the overall model: In charge of the while entity (like a ceo): also known as city. Recognizes complexity of large city administration (170 in. Large bureaucracy: overlapping roles, gray line between politicians and staff. managers, run the entire system. While not a complete separation between administration and policy, allows for greater efficiency. "administration. : allows more overlap between policy and administration. Mayor sitting with commissioners to make decisions: allows for commissioner specialization, council, more separation of policy. System and administrative activities: professional administrator has close to complete authority to administer programs, exists in much smaller municipalities (e. g. , not. Council, who deals with policy issues: commissioner, appointment of a few. System commissioners who are charged with supervising and coordinating departments; meet as a board: may exist in either big or small municipalities, rather than having one person run things (i. e. ,
