James Iain Gow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3602994 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Iain Gow |
| NOMBRES | James Iain |
| APELLIDO | Gow |
| FIRMA | GOW J I |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Canada’s top public servants meet agency theory in the Harper years (2006–2015)
A survey of Canada’s top public servants was used to test the effects on them of the agency version of the public service bargain held by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper (2006–2015). Most results were as expected: increasing politicization and prime ministerial influence added much complexity to the deputy minister’s job; and ministers’ political staffers acted as guardians of the agency bargain. However, the survey led to the obser…
Choisir l’administration publique ? 30 lettres pour une jeunesse sceptique, de Louis Borgeat, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2018, 239 p
Choisir l’administration publique ? 30 lettres pour une jeunesse sceptique, de Louis Borgeat, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2018, 239 p.. An article from journal Politique et Sociétés (Volume 38, Number 3, 2019, pp. 3-169), on Érudit
Speaking what truth to whom? The uneasy relationship between practitioner and academic knowledge in public administration
This article reflects on the observation that no one group – practitioners, academics, or clients – can claim to possess the full truth on any question in public administration ( PA ). PA is enriched and afflicted by its practical nature; its students try to persuade colleagues and political and administrative elites of the truth of their findings. Most PA literature presents propositions as logical means to reach desired ends, but disagreement i…
Motivations Et Valeurs Des Agents Publics À l'Épreuve Des Réformes De Yvesemery Et Davidgiauque. Québec
The intellectual legacy of J.E. Hodgetts
J.E. (Ted) Hodgetts was influenced by both the political economy approach that he learned at the University of Toronto and by the comprehensive historical method developed by Leonard White, under whom he studied at Chicago. His first great project, Pioneer Public Service, convinced him that responsible government was impossible without responsible public administration. The authors examine how his response to management theories and practices evo…
Le Parlement du Québec de 1867 à aujourd’hui de Louis Massicotte, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009, 298 p
Le Parlement du Québec de 1867 à aujourd’hui de Louis Massicotte, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009, 298 p.. An article from journal Politique et Sociétés (Minorités, langue et politique), on Érudit
L’État démocratique. Fondements et défis, de Louis Côté, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2008, 252 p
L’État démocratique. Fondements et défis, de Louis Côté, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2008, 252 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (Les frontières des mouvements sociaux / Les mouvements sociaux aux frontières) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Les effets pervers d’une bonne idée
La démocratie directe a vu le jour en Californie au début du XX e siècle dans la foulée du mouvement progressiste, issu d’un profond désabusement face aux institutions du gouvernement représentatif. En ce sens, elle peut apparaître à plusieurs comme une solution aux problèmes du même genre qui se posent au Québec et au Canada de nos jours. Cependant, l’initiative populaire et le référendum californiens ont engendré des effets inattendus qui, selo…
L'histoire de l'administration publique québécoise
Depuis quelques années, on constate un regain d'intérêt pour l'histoire administrative dans les pays occidentaux, non seulement à cause de l'intérêt intrinsèque de la matière, mais aussi parce que l'histoire se révèle bon maître en science politique et administrative. Parmi les grandes questions qui se posent, tant aux citoyens du monde contemporain qu'aux chercheurs des sciences sociales, se trouve la question de l'inévitabilité de la grande org…
Where are we coming from? Are there any useful lessons from our administrative history
This article challenges the notion that contemporary conditions are so new that there are no useful lessons to be learned from administrative history. Beginning with the observation that many recent innovations in public organizations were foreshadowed under the United Canadas, 1841–1867, it asks why they were gradually abandoned over the first century of Confederation, only to be revived recently. For reasons of efficiency and democratic governa…
Decision man
Le difficile contrôle des activités et comportements de la police
Police, as agents of the state, affect its legitimacy by their acts and the way they carry them out. They enjoy considerable powers and autonomy, in comparison with most public employees. Oddly, public administration studies almost ignore them. During the 1990s, the Sûreté du Québec experienced a number of problems of control and responsibility, not because of corruption but because of excess zeal, irresponsibility and sometimes incompetence. Sev…
Accountability, Rationality, and New Structures of Governance
This article argues that the new institutional arrangements and results- or performance-based accountability run the risk of overlooking several political realities and considerations. The new arrangements and processes represent a preference for economic rationality over bureaucratic rationality. They give little consideration to political rationality, which is concerned with collective values and power relationships. In managerial terms, it is …
Is the New Public Management a Paradigm? Does it Matter
Kuhn’s notion of a paradigm has been widely used in the social sciences even though its author was not sure about its applicability outside the hard sciences of nature. In the field of public administration and management, the approach known as ‘New Public Management ’ (NPM) has been seen by many as the new paradigm that is replacing the classic bureaucratic or Weberian paradigm of ‘public administration ’ (PA). However, there has been little ref…
Where Old and New Management Meet
Comparing Different Civil Services
La sécurité dans le secteur public
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Un état réduit? A Down-Sized State
Learning from Others
L'état, le citoyen et l'industrie
From 1977 to 1982, the Canadian government funded the installation of urea formaldehyde foam insulation (UFFI) in Canadian homes, then banned the product and subsequently paid homeowners who wished to have it removed. Then, in 1991, the case brought by the “victims” against the makers was found in Quebec Superior Court to be not proven. This article argues that the best way to understand this sequence of events is through a combination of decisio…
Les contrôles à l'aide sociale
James Iain Gow, , Patrick Villeneuve, Les contrôles à l'aide sociale: l'expérience québécoise des visites à domicile, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 31-52
Propos dissidents sur l'imputabilité parlementaire des hauts fonctionnaires québécois
Myriam Simard, L'enseignement privé
An experience of accountability
Diffusion of Administrative Innovations in Canadian Public Administrations
This article presents the results of 15 case studies on administrative innovation by the federal and provincial governments of Canada. The results show that the provinces, particularly Ontario, have recently challenged the federal government's traditional role as mentor in administrative affairs. More important is the process by which diffusion and innovation occur: It is a multitrack sociopolitical process in which ideas play an independent role…
Is the New Public Management a Paradigm? Does it Matter
Kuhn’s notion of a paradigm has been widely used in the social sciences even though its author was not sure about its applicability outside the hard sciences of nature. In the field of public administration and management, the approach known as ‘New Public Management ’ (NPM) has been seen by many as the new paradigm that is replacing the classic bureaucratic or Weberian paradigm of ‘public administration ’ (PA). However, there has been little ref…
Speaking what truth to whom? The uneasy relationship between practitioner and academic knowledge in public administration
This article reflects on the observation that no one group – practitioners, academics, or clients – can claim to possess the full truth on any question in public administration ( PA ). PA is enriched and afflicted by its practical nature; its students try to persuade colleagues and political and administrative elites of the truth of their findings. Most PA literature presents propositions as logical means to reach desired ends, but disagreement i…
Canada’s top public servants meet agency theory in the Harper years (2006–2015)
A survey of Canada’s top public servants was used to test the effects on them of the agency version of the public service bargain held by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper (2006–2015). Most results were as expected: increasing politicization and prime ministerial influence added much complexity to the deputy minister’s job; and ministers’ political staffers acted as guardians of the agency bargain. However, the survey led to the obser…
Diffusion of Administrative Innovations in Canadian Public Administrations
This article presents the results of 15 case studies on administrative innovation by the federal and provincial governments of Canada. The results show that the provinces, particularly Ontario, have recently challenged the federal government's traditional role as mentor in administrative affairs. More important is the process by which diffusion and innovation occur: It is a multitrack sociopolitical process in which ideas play an independent role…
The intellectual legacy of J.E. Hodgetts
J.E. (Ted) Hodgetts was influenced by both the political economy approach that he learned at the University of Toronto and by the comprehensive historical method developed by Leonard White, under whom he studied at Chicago. His first great project, Pioneer Public Service, convinced him that responsible government was impossible without responsible public administration. The authors examine how his response to management theories and practices evo…
Where are we coming from? Are there any useful lessons from our administrative history
This article challenges the notion that contemporary conditions are so new that there are no useful lessons to be learned from administrative history. Beginning with the observation that many recent innovations in public organizations were foreshadowed under the United Canadas, 1841–1867, it asks why they were gradually abandoned over the first century of Confederation, only to be revived recently. For reasons of efficiency and democratic governa…
Le difficile contrôle des activités et comportements de la police
Police, as agents of the state, affect its legitimacy by their acts and the way they carry them out. They enjoy considerable powers and autonomy, in comparison with most public employees. Oddly, public administration studies almost ignore them. During the 1990s, the Sûreté du Québec experienced a number of problems of control and responsibility, not because of corruption but because of excess zeal, irresponsibility and sometimes incompetence. Sev…
L'administration publique dans le discours politique au Québec, de Lord Durham à nos jours
This article studies the varied fortunes of public administration in Quebec political discourse. After being the object of both discussion and reforms from 1840 to 1870, the administration was largely neglected for the next 90 years, except in the context of political scandals. Then, after two decades of great attention, the administration fell under attack in the 1980s. After looking at the enduring themes of this discourse, the article conclude…
Learning from Others
Les contrôles à l'aide sociale
James Iain Gow, , Patrick Villeneuve, Les contrôles à l'aide sociale: l'expérience québécoise des visites à domicile, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 31-52
Propos dissidents sur l'imputabilité parlementaire des hauts fonctionnaires québécois
Le syndicalisme des fonctionnaires du Québec, 1943–1964
In 1944, two civil servants' associations formed the General Council of Employees of the Province of Quebec for the collective defence of the interests of their members. This movement met with the opposition of Premier Duplessis, who disarmed it by a strategy in which formal recognition and consideration disguised the absence of any real concession. The Council soon gave up its attempts at collective action and its member associations continued t…
Histoire administrative du Québec et théorie administrative
Depuis environ un an, nous menons, avec une petite équipe de chercheurs, une étude sur l'histoire de l'administration publique québécoise depuis 1867. Au stade actuel de nos travaux, il nous semble opportun de faire le point sur l'appareil théorique et conceptuel que nous tentons d'appliquer à l'objet de nos recherches. Partant d'un point de vue qui situe l'administration publique parmi les secteurs de la science politique, nous voulons apporter …
Les Québécois, la guerre et la paix, 1945–60
The purpose of this study is to describe and to interpret the opinions of the French-speaking residents of Quebec on the questions of war and peace during the years 1945–60. The principal sources used in the study are the editorials of the French-language press, the results of the Gallup poll, and the speeches of Quebec members of Parliament at Ottawa. In the press, few traces of outright isolationism were found, but there were sharp divisions on…
La Nouvelle Lo1 De La Fonction Publique Dans La Province De Québec
La Nouvelle Lo1 De La Fonction Publique Dans La Province De Québec
Léon Dion, Le Bill 60 et la société québécoise. Montréal
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La modernisation de la fonction publique du Québec
Les Québécois, la guerre et la paix, 1945–60
The purpose of this study is to describe and to interpret the opinions of the French-speaking residents of Quebec on the questions of war and peace during the years 1945–60. The principal sources used in the study are the editorials of the French-language press, the results of the Gallup poll, and the speeches of Quebec members of Parliament at Ottawa. In the press, few traces of outright isolationism were found, but there were sharp divisions on…
Histoire administrative du Québec et théorie administrative
Depuis environ un an, nous menons, avec une petite équipe de chercheurs, une étude sur l'histoire de l'administration publique québécoise depuis 1867. Au stade actuel de nos travaux, il nous semble opportun de faire le point sur l'appareil théorique et conceptuel que nous tentons d'appliquer à l'objet de nos recherches. Partant d'un point de vue qui situe l'administration publique parmi les secteurs de la science politique, nous voulons apporter …
L'administration publique. Recueil de textes préparé sous les auspices des Instituts belge et français de sciences administratives. Paris
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Jean-Pierre Wallot, Un Québec qui bougeait, trame socio-politique au tournant du XIXe siècle. Montréal
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Henri Brun, Le territoire du Québec
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André Lavallée, Québec contre Montréal
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Les hauts fonctionnaires et la politiqueEzra N. Suleiman, traduit de I'americain par Martine Meusy Paris
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Science administrative Vol. 1. Théorie générale de l'institution administrativeJacques Chevalier et Danièle Loschak Paris
Science administrative Vol. 1. Théorie générale de l'institution administrativeJacques Chevalier et Danièle Loschak Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1978, 574 p. - Volume 12 Issue 3
La planification
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L'administration québécoise de 1867 à 1900
The growth of the activities of the state of Quebec from 1867 to 1900 is examined in light of expectations drawn from theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to other states. Contrary to these expectations, the state in Quebec during these years gave a low priority to the police function and was very slow to organize revenue collection on a sound basis. Instead, high priority went to railway construction, to the administration of justice (ot…
Science administrative, Tome II
Science administrative, Tome II: L'administration comme organisation et système d'actionJacques Chevallier et Danièle Loschak Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1978, 697 p. - Volume 13 Issue 3
Agriculture et colonisation au Québec
Agriculture et colonisation au Québec: Aspects historiquesNormand Séguin (sous la direction de) Montréal: Boréal Express, 1980, 220 p. - Le curé Labelle: le colonisateur, le politicien, la légendeRobert Lévesque et Robert Migner Montréal: La Presse, 1979, 203 p. - Volume 14 Issue 3
Siméon Le Sage
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La Décentralisation sans illusionJean-Emile Vié Paris
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The guru and the bureaucrat
Quarante ans de cabinets ministérielsRené Rémond Aline Coutrot et Isabel Broussard Paris
Quarante ans de cabinets ministérielsRené Rémond Aline Coutrot et Isabel Broussard Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1982, 275 p. - Les hommes de pouvoir et les nouveaux féodauxMarc Paillet Paris: Denoël, 1983, 201 p. - Volume 17 Issue 1
Le syndicalisme des fonctionnaires du Québec, 1943–1964
In 1944, two civil servants' associations formed the General Council of Employees of the Province of Quebec for the collective defence of the interests of their members. This movement met with the opposition of Premier Duplessis, who disarmed it by a strategy in which formal recognition and consideration disguised the absence of any real concession. The Council soon gave up its attempts at collective action and its member associations continued t…
Quebec nationalism in the 1980s
The Independence Movement in Quebec 1945–1980. By W illiam D. C oleman . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1984. Pp. xii, 274. Inder ( paper ) Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec. Edited by R ichard Y. B ourhis . Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters Ltd. 1984. Pp. xvi, 304. Index. $19.95 Problems and Opportunities in U.S.‐Quebec Relations. Edited by A lfred O. H ero , J r . and M arcel D aneau . Boulder and London: Westview Press. 1984. …
One hundred years of Quebec administrative history, 1867–1970
Three perspectives are used in this study. First, the role of the state in Quebec has evolved in much the same way as it has in other western states, but there are special features because of the strong desire of governments for provincial autonomy and the position of the Catholic church. Second, while Quebec gradually developed a bureaucratic administration, administrative reform did not follow automatically on the growth of government activity.…
L'État au concretJeam G. Padioleau Paris
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Réplique de James Iain Gow au compte rendu de son volume, Histoire de l’administration publique québécoise, 1867-1970, par Marc Vallières
Réplique de James Iain Gow au compte rendu de son volume, Histoire de l’administration publique québécoise, 1867-1970, par Marc Vallières. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 41, numéro 1, été 1987, p. 3-143) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Logement et luttes urbaines à Montréal (1963–1976)Pierre Hamel Montréal
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