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Ch 20 - The Bureaucracy Flashcards

1
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What does the bureaucracy play a key role in?

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  • policymaking and implementation
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What is the primary function of the bureaucracy?

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  • Advice decisions rather than make them
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How heads each government department?

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  • Minister
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What is the minister of a government department beholden to?

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  • Principle of ministerial accountability
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What does the principle of ministerial accountability mean?

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  • Ministers takes political responsibility for the successes & failures of their department
  • Resignations are rare
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How are government departments structured?

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  • Hierarchiacally
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Who is the most permanent head of a department?

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  • Non-partisan deputy minister
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Who are ministers allowed to have?

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  • Exempt staff, personal, political support staff
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9
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Aside from the exempt political support staff of the minister of a department, what are the rest of the staff supposed to be?

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  • Expert
  • Permanent
  • Impartial
  • Anonymous
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What did canada’s public service initially operate under?

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  • System of political patronage
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what is political patronage?

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  • spoils system
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12
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what did Canada’s public service system switch to in 1908?

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  • Merit System
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13
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What lead to an increasingly representative bureaucracy?

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  • Pay Equity Program and Employment Equity Act
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What are Crown Corporations?

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  • Government-owned operations assuming the structure of private corporations
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15
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How do crown corporations operate?

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  • Largely independent of government
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16
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What is an example of a crown corporation?

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  • Canada Post
17
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the privatization of crown corporations is a longstanding ____________ ___________.

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  • Political Issue
18
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What do administrative agencies do?

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  • oversee, regulate, or operate a specific sector of Canada’s economy or society.
19
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What are some examples of administrative agencies?

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  • Canada Revenue Agency
  • Parks Canada
20
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Who can make quasi-legislative rules and regulations?

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  • Regulatory Tribunals, like the immigration and refugee board
21
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What are the Agents of Parliament?

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  • Designed to serve or criticize parliament
  • Auditor General or Chief Electoral Officer
22
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What is a common concern given the size of the Bureaucracy?

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  • Issues of control and accountability
23
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What are the four avenues of control for the bureaucracy?

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  • Political executive
  • Bureaucratic centrla agencies
  • House of Commons
  • Judiciary
24
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What did much of the debate about bureaucratic accountability stem from?

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  • Sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s
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