POLS 2250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Treasury Board Secretariat, Treasury Board, United Kingdom Cabinet Committee

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

It is customary to speak of three branches of government legislative, executive and judicial. Three types of departments by considering the relative power of departments as determined by size, budget, responsibility for coordination, and knowledge or research capability. The three types are horizontal policy coordinative, horizontal administrative coordinative and vertical constituency. Of the three types the horizontal policy coordinative departments tend to be the most influential. The horizontal administrative coordinative departments are usually felt to be the least influential, in that they are assumed to be the nuts and bolts departments that provide the wherewithal for other departments to operate. Sponsorship program made available public funds to community groups in an attempt largely to raise the profile of the federal government in quebec. The vertical constituency departments are involved in providing services directly to the public. These are high-profile departments, in that they have the largest budgets and deal with the large constituency.