PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Alternative Civilian Service, Sponsorship Scandal, Comptroller

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

Document Summary

Establish policy research initiative: aim to improve ottawa policy and. Can"t divorce policy making from service delivery, despite macro. 1. reforms, norm is more centralization in government (dominance of the center), so ministers keep a tight grip (less empowerment and participation) ), inefficiencies allows us to scrutinize government: 2 forms of responsibility. Objective responsibility: tules and regulations that establishes lines of i. obligation and communication and control of government i. accomplished might not be responsible. Subjective responsibility: decsions might be legal but how it s: formal lines of implicit control: all org have clear lines of command, civil servants performance monitored. Ministerial responsibility: minister completely responsible for department, i. not always practised or prevalent, lax, not often that minister resigns unless problem egregious: 3 parts of government accountability. Minister has to resign if they get in trouble and answer to. 1. parliament, disciplinary system kicks in if not directly minister"s fault (immediate supervisor and bureaucrat get in trouble)