POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New Public Management, Export Development Canada, Pierre Trudeau
26 Oct 2015
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Decision making (elected executive), pm is elected executive. Public administration is, the study and practice of design and operation of arrangement for the provision of public services and executive government" ( hood. Public management: the word, the movement and the science. Harper man, public service has to be political neutral. They are there to row not to steer. Clear distinction between politics and public administration. We want public servants to have political acumen. When policy recommendation is being made its impossible to do a instead of b, distinction between policy and management may be clear, but in practice its not. Departments are often very large organization, with thousands employees. 100,00"s of people in canada that work for public service. Its not as simple as a corner store. Employees people from all across the board, scientist, janitors, etc. Two major problems, it wasn"t ef cient, equity.
