POLS 2250 Quiz: Paper notes - The New Public Management and Democracy in Canada

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

Document Summary

Value conflict with npm and traditional public management that (cid:862)financial mismanagement and scandal because the private-sector values encourage cost reduction, financial incentives for performance, and other means to achieve efficiency(cid:863) Sponsorship scandal: the subcontracting out to ad agencies lead to: an across the board refusal (cid:271)(cid:455) mi(cid:374)isters, the pri(cid:373)e mi(cid:374)ister"s offi(cid:272)e, a(cid:374)d pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) ser(cid:448)a(cid:374)ts to take responsibility for the program mismanagement (commission of inquiry into the. Sponsorship program and advertising activities 2005: 5-7): public servants afraid to challenge the pmo and followed orders blindly, politics overrode the principle of npm with the. In accountability terms, the diffusion of responsibility for programs makes it difficult to trace authority and financial flows when managers attempt to overcome the internal divisions of government. In this instance, the government decided to hold a public servant and a political aide publicly accountable for a particular incident and to subject them to a parliamentary committee enquiry.