Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy
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For forms of government let
fools contest, Whatever is best
administered
is best.
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man, Epistle Three, lines 303-304
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Bureaucracy-
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Weber's Bureaucracy
Efficiency
Patronage
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Clarifies who is in charge
Know whats expected of them
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Provision of policy information
Advice to elected officials
Execution and enforcement of all laws passed
by the executive and legislative branches
Implementation of
Bureaucratic Functions
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• Influence the lawmaking process

• Play large roles in the decision making of
  government

• Provide various services to the public

• Carries out the function of licensing

Bureaucratic Functions
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Gather vast amounts of information
Apply regulations
Administer redistributive policies
Bureaucratic Functions
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Points to Ponder...
Who guards the guardians?
Are politicians mere dilettantes in the face of
the knowledge power of the bureaucracy?
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Issues of Control
Neutrality
Responsiveness
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Controls on Bureaucratic Behavior
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Controls on Bureaucratic Behavior

• Interpret the laws

• Rule on the proper administration
• and enforcement of the laws

Writ of Mandamus
Writ of Injunction
Writ of Certiorari
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COMPONENTS
Federal Government Departments
Federal Government Agencies
Crown Corporations
Central Control Agencies
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Crown Corporations
Agents of Public Policy
Draw Diverse People
Generate Revenue
Bring a uniqueness in the area of enterprise in
the Canadian Economy
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Crown Corporations

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• St.Lawrence Seaway Authority
• Telesat Canada
• Newfoundland and Labrador Development Corporation
• Cape Breton Development Corporation
• Export Development Corporation (EDC)
• Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)

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Federal Government Departments
Workhorses of the federal government and of the
executive branch
accountable to Ministers of the Crown
Line Organizations
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Kinds of Federal Departments
Vertical Co-ordinative Line Departments
Agriculture and Agri-Food
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Indian Affairs and Northern Dev. Can.
Health Canada
National Defence
Human Resources Dev.Can.
Solicitor General
Environment Canada
Citizenship and Immigration
Canadian Heritage
Veterans Affairs
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Horizontal Administrative Agencies and Departments
National Revenue
Public Works and Government Services Canada
Dept. of Intergovernmental Affairs
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Central Departments
Horizontal Policy Co-ordinative Departments
Finance Canada
Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Privy Council Office (PCO)
Treasury Board
Industry Canada
Prime Minsters Office (PMO)
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People in Public Service
Average 45 years of age
70 hours work week
P.Q. 15
West. 22
ON. 38
Atl. 4
Underpaid
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Deputy Minister
Chief policy advisor to cabinet
General manager of department
Key participant in collective management of
government
Interface between political and administrative
world
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Accountability Control
Treasury Board
Public
Cabinet
Peers
P.S.C.
Prime Minister
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Government as a communicative system
Control requires intelligence gathering and
public communication. That is what governing is
all about.
We learn much about politics, influence, and
control if we understand who controls and has
access to information.
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Message flows as a spider web of power
distributions
Professor E.R. Black
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A C C E S S
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Ed Black
We can learn much about politics,
influence,
and control
if we understand who controls and has access to
information.
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Points to Ponder...
Consider the advantage that a well educated,
well trained, and long serving bureaucrat has
over a politician elected only for a brief time.
Who has the monopoly on information? Who
is really governing our country?
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Have computers strengthened bureaucratic
institutions, thereby increasing the tension
between bureaucracy and democracy?
Points to Ponder...

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see message flows as a spider web of power
distributions...