Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada最新文献

{"title":"State Capacity and Administrative Burdens on Citizens: Time for Export Controls and Transparency","authors":"Jennifer Robson","doi":"10.1111/capa.12584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12584","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the relationships between state infrastructural capacity, administrative burdens, and incentives facing political actors. Three recent case studies of federal capacity-building projects with limited success to date point to the roles of bureaucratic proceduralism, risk aversion, and internal administrative burdens imposed in the name of accountability. A path forward requires greater transparency by public servants and commitment by political elites to act as stewards of state capacity, ending the practice of exporting internally generated burdens outward to program users. In addition, political elites must shoulder more responsibility as active agents in the accountability process and providing political capital for risk-taking and innovation in systems renewal and service delivery. Voters may not provide immediate rewards for this action, but citizens' trust in the institutions of the state will benefit over the longer-term.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"598-608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving Interactions: Public Sector Reform and Parliamentary Committees","authors":"John L. Nater,&nbsp;Kathy L. Brock","doi":"10.1111/capa.12597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12597","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A well-functioning policy process requires a responsible public service that supports the government and implements its decisions, and a representative legislature that holds the executive to account for policy decisions and actions. Reform of either the public sector or Parliament alone is insufficient to ensure that the relationship between the two bodies works to the benefit of Canadians as intended. This article explores that relationship using committees as a focal point given their centrality to the operation of the policy system. It begins with a discussion of the role of the two bodies in the policy process and criteria for assessing any potential reforms, followed by a brief discussion of recent attempts at reform and their positive and negative lessons. We conclude by identifying three key reform options for the public sector and parliament to improve their interaction in this vital, yet often overlooked, part of the policy process.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"644-657"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Problems of Public Procurement in Canada: Rule Layering, Strategic Purchasing, and Risk Aversion as a Toxic Stew","authors":"Michael Howlett,&nbsp;Andrea Migone","doi":"10.1111/capa.12590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12590","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyzes persistent challenges in Canadian public procurement, examining in particular the federal government's complex, multi-layered purchasing processes which have contributed to high-profile failures, such as most recently the ArriveCan app and, over the past century, the majority of major military procurement projects. The primary issues found to contribute to these problems include excessive rule layering, unnecessary strategic purchasing complexities, bureaucratic risk aversion and political interference which together form a “toxic stew” leading to poorly designed processes hampering procurement efficiency and effectiveness. The article highlights three main strategic directions for improvement: streamlining procurement to increase efficiency, rethinking strategic purchasing to simplify decision-making, and enhancing transparency and accountability for all projects to combat excessive caution and political interference. These proposals aim to address the key structural and political issues that have undermined procurement and help reform this key area of government activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"517-532"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Transformation Versus Westminster Traditionalism: Mindset, Mechanisms and Critical Enablers of Systemic Adaptation","authors":"Jeffrey Roy","doi":"10.1111/capa.12598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since its inception, digital government has been a struggle between transformational aspirations and contested reforms grounded within a traditionalist governance ethos. Following a conceptual situating of such tensions, we focus on three interrelated thematic sets of digital governance reforms: i) organizational governance and enterprise architecture; ii) COVID-19 and hybrid work arrangements; and iii) the escalating risks and complexities of cybersecurity. This article argues that the pervasiveness of traditional Westminster principles—notably information secrecy and hierarchical control—has shackled the emergence of an alternative governance ethos more aligned with digital innovation and systemic openness. In order to forge the latter, three critical enablers of systemic transformation must be embraced: first, a more collaborative and open political mindset; second, an alternative governance architecture championed by a new organizational entity; and third, the forging of a more diverse and empowered public service to strengthen digital governance adaptation and anticipatory capacities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"481-494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From “Listening” to Collaborative Policymaking: Encouraging Government Engagement with Civil Society","authors":"Mary Francoli","doi":"10.1111/capa.12594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12594","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The digital age has helped to create an environment where civic engagement could flourish. The quality and quantity of data have increased and new mechanisms for engagement make it simpler than ever before. Despite this, civic engagement activities often resemble exercises in listening more than active two-way dialogue. With the Government of Canada as its focus, this article asks what changes need to be made to improve civic engagement—to make it more interactive and iterative—so that its potential as an element of good governance can be better realized? Drawing on contemporary examples of engagement related to transparency, it is argued that improvements need to focus on increasing institutionalization of engagement, improving the visibility of engagement opportunities, and building and sustaining relationships and trust with citizens.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"658-669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews: Supporting Effective Public Management","authors":"Robert P. Shepherd,&nbsp;Evert A. Lindquist","doi":"10.1111/capa.12599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12599","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Canada has long been a leader in conducting episodic spending reviews to check public spending. However, it has fallen behind many other countries that have taken a more consistent approach relying to a much larger extent on strategic reviews that not only check spending, but also examine the links between spending and policy priorities. To bring greater coherence to review processes, we argue that an embedded system would greatly enhance decision-makers' ability to make more informed budgetary choices that draw on reliable longitudinal data. There are many ways to organize reviews, and this article provides comparative international experience that could inform discussion on the rationale and benefits of an embedded review system that could be led by the Treasury Board Secretariat. We suggest that there may be a pathway to such implementation that must take into certain preconditions for success.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"470-480"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Re-Setting the Public Service of Canada","authors":"Evert A. Lindquist","doi":"10.1111/capa.12589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12589","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This collection was inspired by a variety of conversations with public administration scholarly colleagues, former and current federal public servants, a panoply of diverse op-ed contributions in newspapers and online forums about the state of the Canadian Public Service (too numerous to itemize), and, of course, Donald Savoie's reiteration of his long-standing concerns in &lt;i&gt;Speaking Truth to Canadians About Their Public Service&lt;/i&gt; along with his call for a Royal Commission on the Future of the Federal Public Service (May &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Savoie &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There has always been much to admire about the Canadian Public Service: its history, its many leading lights, its loyalty and responsiveness to a succession of elected governments, its many signature accomplishments and ability to pivot in response to significant crises, and its ongoing engagement with international entities—such as the OECD and many more—to further the spread of important principles of public administration in the service of democratic governance around the world. But in recent years there has been a series of disappointing service delivery results, leaks and ethics concerns; a palpable sense of unease about how quickly the public service has taken advantage of digital tools and platforms; frustration among reform-oriented public servants about the pace of change and increasing reliance on consultants to provide strategic advice and undertake reviews; concern over return-to-work policies and the ability of public service leaders to lead and build productive cultures in distributed workplaces; growing sense of frustration with administrative burden; and anxiety about the effects of early rounds of restraint on department and agency operating budgets, with more promised for the foreseeable future. Not all of this can be attributed to the Canadian Public Service: governments have come and gone, made a succession of policy decisions along with inevitable non-decisions and blind spots, including whether to reform public services, leading to frustration about the state of governance in Canada and the uneven quality of public sector delivery. But all of these concerns have now accumulated amidst the prospect of large upheavals to come with an aggressive new US administration, a continually rapidly evolving geo-political context, and the arrival of a new Canadian government after the 2025 national election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The succession of complaints and calls for reforming the federal public sector have typically focused on a particular issue and usually have not identified a reform solution. Indeed, a close reading of such assessments often suggest that related proximate issues are at play, which would also need tackling with new capabilities or reform. This suggests that not only is there no shortage of issues to address, but that there are varying degrees of interconnectedness among them. Nor has a coherent vision or narrative been offered of what a “reformed” Canadia","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"433-438"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12589","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strengthening Morale and Motivation in the Public Service in Turbulent Times","authors":"Karine Levasseur,&nbsp;Andrea Rounce,&nbsp;Wiesława Dominika Wranik","doi":"10.1111/capa.12583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12583","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The public service in Canada has undergone major changes and experienced significant pressures in the last decade. These changes and pressures create conditions of uncertainty, and alongside workplace policies, arrangements, leadership, and culture, affect the morale of current public servants and future public service motivation. This issue requires immediate attention because the morale of the public service determines the performance and quality of service delivery to citizens, as well as making the public service a good place to work. This research note prescribes a pathway for reform: 1. Define problems of morale and motivation; 2. Create a time-limited task force with the goal of creating a permanent entity to address motivation and morale; and 3. Collaborate with current and future public servants to provide professional development.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"609-619"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12583","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Machinery to Executive Density: Time for Structural Reforms?","authors":"Michael Wernick","doi":"10.1111/capa.12593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12593","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Canadian public service has adapted to many forces of change in recent years. What has not changed is the core structural software of how it is constructed and organized. Two dimensions of structural change are available to the next government, and they could choose to pursue both. One is the domain of \"machinery of government\" and the other is in the layered hierarchical pyramid of occupations and management. These are areas where change would involve rewiring of core legislation and would face considerable internal resistance. They are also areas where change can bring unintended consequences and generate new issues and tradeoffs. Nevertheless, it won't be possible to get to a public service fit for purpose on its current foundations and scaffolding.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"459-469"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Information Governance: Paving the Way to Digital Institutions and Organizations","authors":"Daniel J. Caron","doi":"10.1111/capa.12585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12585","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Advances in ITCs features have been putting our institutions and organizations under sustained pressure for several years. Based on concrete examples, this article first recalls the nature of the issues at stake and raises the importance of reconsidering our ways of organizing our bureaucracies based on the central role of information. The main responses provided so far are analyzed in the light of this shortcoming in the processing of information, which is often overlooked. Then, democratic principles and values are discussed as guidelines to be respected to avoid a techno-centric drift. Finally, the importance of understanding the meaning and implications of the digital transformation, the need to consider the organization from the perspective of information processing, and the implementation of information governance are addressed as the three cornerstones of the digital transformation. The text concludes with a series of proposals to be considered to achieve this.</p>","PeriodicalId":46145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada","volume":"67 4","pages":"506-516"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/capa.12585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}