Public Policy

Question 1

Growth in Government

Answer 1

19th Century Negative state preserving order and borders and minimal public works

More activist state of 20th century

Govt run health and welfare

increased regulation
increased expenditures
increased public sector employment

Question 2

Federal Public service Employment by Dept

Answer 2

Canadian military

police service

Question 3

Bureaucracy

Answer 3

Word derivation
bureau = desk
kraitien = to rule

Question 4

Bureaucracy - Dichotomy?

Answer 4

Politics vs Administration
Politicians vs Bureaucrats
Line harder to draw in practise than in theory

Question 5

Role of Bureaucracy

Answer 5

Policy formation
Rule making

Policy administration

• implement law
• decide which regulations to be enforced and how

Question 6

Sources of Bureaucratic influence

Answer 6

Information

expertise
-government not experts

implementation

Question 7

Control of Bureaucracy

Answer 7

Cabinet 
ordinary legislators 
outside experts 
financial restrictions 
auditor general or Ombudsman 
courts 
other Bureaucrats

Question 8

Nature of civil service appointments

Answer 8

Patronage

• reward system
• changeover following change of govt
• civil servants owe position to politicians

Question 9

Merit Based Appointments

Answer 9

Aim to create rational civil service 
Weberian Model 
-Specialization
-hierarchy 
-political neutrality 
-impersonal relations 
-security of Tenure

Question 10

Merit based appointments

Answer 10

Appointments based on merit rather than patronage

what you know

premium placed on technical knowledge and expertise

continuity
competitive exams

unrepresentative civil service will result

Question 11

moves to Merit In Canada

Answer 11

Civil service Act 1908

• based on merit and filled through exams
• independent civil service commission
• oversee exams
• civil servants prohibited from political activities
• extensions in 1918 (all positions)

war
coalition govt
civil service commission; promotions

Question 12

move to merit

Answer 12

Civil Service act 1961
-treasury board determines pay and administrative organization

Public service employment act 1967 
-public service commission
recruitment and selection
training
re staffing and dismissal

-Treasury board
job classification
collective agreements

Question 13

Opposing patronage

Answer 13

PM Robert Borden

Question 14

Fairness in hiring

Answer 14

preference for veterans

• reward element
• competitive disadvantage

Question 15

Representatie Bureaucracy

Answer 15

Administrators have social and economic characteristics similar to those to whom they administer

towards a representative bureaucracy

• francophones
• women
• First Nations
• physically challenged
• visible minorities

Question 16

Civil Service structure

Answer 16

cab minister
deputy minister
assistant deputy ministers
branch heads

Question 17

Civil service organization

Answer 17

federal public service 
departments 
agency and boards 
crown corporations 
armed forced 
RCMP

Question 18

public policy

Answer 18

Course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems

Question 19

Scope

Answer 19

Areas in which govt will be involved

Question 20

Means

Answer 20

How will govt pursue its goals

Question 21

Distribution

Answer 21

Who benefits from govt policies

Question 22

means: Policy instruments

Answer 22

Exhortation 
expenditure 
taxation
regulation 
govt enterprise

Question 23

Who benefits

Answer 23

Social peace

individual benefits

Question 24

Which issues reach the top of the political agenda and result in govt action?

Answer 24

Focusing event
feedback
societal conditions