PAP 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Information Technology, Public Choice, Treasury Board
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Pressures on the canadian state and policymaking. Past attempts to professionalise the public service, which started with laurier"s civil. Pa as a tool to respond to changing societies. The public service and the sense of authority and responsibility that had pervaded it since. Service act of 1908 the 1930s wake of ww ii service. The public service has historically produced ideas to solve public policy problems, not politicians, e. g. responses to the great depression and keynesianism. Public faith in the ability of big government to improve the lives of canadians in the. Public control of resources during ww ii developed a more robust and competent public. Visions of the perfected society and an active bureaucracy with the power to better people"s lives. Inherent suspicion of big government has always existed, e. g. the bill of rights and the. Governments have never feared using the public services for their own ends, though.