PPAS 3190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Royal Assent, Canada Health Act, Responsible Government
15 Dec 2015
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In chapter 5 inwood discusses the influence of capitalist democracy, federalism, and cabinet parliamentary government on the structure of government and public administration. Factors influencing organizational structure: democracy: public administration in canada takes place within capitalist, canada has a federal system, within that federal system, we have a cabinet parliamentary government, capitalist democracy: Governing in canada takes place within the context of capitalist. Political economic system whose broad rules impose themselves. Root of capitalist economic systems is the right to private. State structures are created that act in the interests of those who. Property = means of production (capital, machines, factories, democracy on the scope of action of governments in obvious and subtle ways. Business interests must be defended through the structures of the state. Since majority of canadians are not capitalists (ownership of the means of production in canada is concentrated in few hands), the state must also respond to the democratically expressed will or ordinary citizens.
