John Langford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Langford |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Langford |
| SIGNATURE | LANGFORD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9811-3550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Public Service: Managing with External Providers By JohnAlford and JanineO'Flynn. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Pp . 312, bibliographic reference, index
The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement. This book probes the central dimensions of service reform efforts f…
A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
(2011). A Cold War Tourist and His Camera. Photography and Culture: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 77-84
Is irrigated agriculture in the Murray Darling Basin well prepared to deal with reductions in water availability
Mapping Local-Scale Ecological Research to Aid Management at Landscape Scales: Mapping Ecological Research at Landscape Scales
Natural resource management is typically defined by landscape-scale management zones, such as the Catchment Management Authority boundaries of the southern Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Ecological research generally deals with local-scale phenomena, with studies at the scale of such landscape management units arising only recently. We developed a method that links local-scale ecological research to landscape-scale management zones, which is …
Rethinking Government-Public Relationships in a Digital World: Customers, Clients, or Citizens
Many have argued that new electronic technologies have the potential to transform how governments relate to users of public services. This article explores the limits of e-government as it is being conceived by testing it against three service recipient models: customer, client, and citizen. We argue that despite the opportunities that electronically-based service transformations present for enhancing democratic citizen engagement and the power o…
Building an ethical public service: Michael and Jennifer on Heintzman and Langford
Acting on values: An ethical dead end for public servants
This article provides a critical analysis of the values approach to public‐sector ethics, particularly as it has been developed in Ottawa. The central tenet of this approach is that a framework of core values can be used directly by public servants to solve ethical dilemmas or to justify more specific rules of behaviour. The author argues that this approach is conceptually flawed on a number of levels. Its advocates seem confused about what a val…
To click or not to click: E‐learning for the public sector
E‐learning is being mooted as a cheap and effective way to provide public servants and public‐sector organizations with the continuous learning opportunities required to recruit and retain good employees and improve organizational outcomes. This article draws on the extensive literature on e‐learning and the authors' experience with the development and delivery of e‐learning to examine a number of issues that public‐sector managers should conside…
Partnering for e‐government: Challenges for public administrators
Governments around the world are spending huge sums of money implementing electronic government. Public‐private partnerships with information and communication technology firms have emerged as the vehicle of choice for implementing e‐government strategies. Concerns are raised about the capacity of governments to manage these complex, multi‐year, often multi‐partner relationships that involve considerable sharing of authority, responsibility, fina…
To: Ipac central command From: John Langford Subject: Loss of the Edmonton accountability expedition Date: 1 June 1996
Corruption, Character, & Conflict: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics
Think Tanks and Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region
Economic Policy-Making in the Asia-Pacific Region
development. He focusses instead on the major changes resulting from the 1988 Brussels summit, called in response to an emerging EC fiscal crisis. The analysis presupposes that the reader has some acquaintance with the Community's institutions and with the arcane language of its financial dealings, such as the vital, but sometimes mystifying, distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditures. Those innocent or unsure of such matters,…
The Responsible Public Servant
Moonlighting and mobility
Prefatory Note
The Language of the Skies: The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada
Through extensive interviews with the key participants, Professor Borins reveals the interplay of organizational ideologies and interests and leaders' personalities that characterized the conflict. Borins discusses the implications of these events for public policy and French-English relations and concludes that the federal government's ability in this case to meet francophone demands quite rapidly is cause for optimism about the ability of the f…
Le haut fonctionnaire et la responsabilité
Responsibility in the senior public service: Marching to several drummers
Responsibility and the senior public service
The question of quangos: Quasi‐public service agencies in British Columbia
Many governments employ ostensibly private organizations (or quangos) to deliver social policy to the public. Using British Columbia as a case study, this paper examines a number of questions associated with the employment of quangos by modern governments. Specifically, the author analyses the rationales which are commonly used to justify the choice of this organizational form and speculates on the continued popularity of the form in a period of …
Public corporations in the 1980s: Moving from rhetoric to analysis
Transport in Transition: The Reorganization of the Federal Transport Portfolio
Since Confederation, the making of federal transportation policy has been a major factor in the development of the Canadian nation. Nevertheless, there is remarkably little public knowledge about the actual structure and process from which these policies emerge. In this book, Professor Langford succeeds in filling this gap by providing the student of Canadian public policy with an incisive and detailed examination of the reorganization of the fed…
Seabed PoliticsBarry Buzan New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976, pp. xviii, 311
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Is irrigated agriculture in the Murray Darling Basin well prepared to deal with reductions in water availability
Acting on values: An ethical dead end for public servants
This article provides a critical analysis of the values approach to public‐sector ethics, particularly as it has been developed in Ottawa. The central tenet of this approach is that a framework of core values can be used directly by public servants to solve ethical dilemmas or to justify more specific rules of behaviour. The author argues that this approach is conceptually flawed on a number of levels. Its advocates seem confused about what a val…
Rethinking Government-Public Relationships in a Digital World: Customers, Clients, or Citizens
Many have argued that new electronic technologies have the potential to transform how governments relate to users of public services. This article explores the limits of e-government as it is being conceived by testing it against three service recipient models: customer, client, and citizen. We argue that despite the opportunities that electronically-based service transformations present for enhancing democratic citizen engagement and the power o…
Partnering for e‐government: Challenges for public administrators
Governments around the world are spending huge sums of money implementing electronic government. Public‐private partnerships with information and communication technology firms have emerged as the vehicle of choice for implementing e‐government strategies. Concerns are raised about the capacity of governments to manage these complex, multi‐year, often multi‐partner relationships that involve considerable sharing of authority, responsibility, fina…
The question of quangos: Quasi‐public service agencies in British Columbia
Many governments employ ostensibly private organizations (or quangos) to deliver social policy to the public. Using British Columbia as a case study, this paper examines a number of questions associated with the employment of quangos by modern governments. Specifically, the author analyses the rationales which are commonly used to justify the choice of this organizational form and speculates on the continued popularity of the form in a period of …
Public corporations in the 1980s: Moving from rhetoric to analysis
Mapping Local-Scale Ecological Research to Aid Management at Landscape Scales: Mapping Ecological Research at Landscape Scales
Natural resource management is typically defined by landscape-scale management zones, such as the Catchment Management Authority boundaries of the southern Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Ecological research generally deals with local-scale phenomena, with studies at the scale of such landscape management units arising only recently. We developed a method that links local-scale ecological research to landscape-scale management zones, which is …
Economic Policy-Making in the Asia-Pacific Region
development. He focusses instead on the major changes resulting from the 1988 Brussels summit, called in response to an emerging EC fiscal crisis. The analysis presupposes that the reader has some acquaintance with the Community's institutions and with the arcane language of its financial dealings, such as the vital, but sometimes mystifying, distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditures. Those innocent or unsure of such matters,…
The Responsible Public Servant
A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
(2011). A Cold War Tourist and His Camera. Photography and Culture: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 77-84
Moonlighting and mobility
Responsibility in the senior public service: Marching to several drummers
Transport in Transition: The Reorganization of the Federal Transport Portfolio
Since Confederation, the making of federal transportation policy has been a major factor in the development of the Canadian nation. Nevertheless, there is remarkably little public knowledge about the actual structure and process from which these policies emerge. In this book, Professor Langford succeeds in filling this gap by providing the student of Canadian public policy with an incisive and detailed examination of the reorganization of the fed…
Seabed PoliticsBarry Buzan New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976, pp. xviii, 311
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Public corporations in the 1980s: Moving from rhetoric to analysis
The question of quangos: Quasi‐public service agencies in British Columbia
Many governments employ ostensibly private organizations (or quangos) to deliver social policy to the public. Using British Columbia as a case study, this paper examines a number of questions associated with the employment of quangos by modern governments. Specifically, the author analyses the rationales which are commonly used to justify the choice of this organizational form and speculates on the continued popularity of the form in a period of …
The Language of the Skies: The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada
Through extensive interviews with the key participants, Professor Borins reveals the interplay of organizational ideologies and interests and leaders' personalities that characterized the conflict. Borins discusses the implications of these events for public policy and French-English relations and concludes that the federal government's ability in this case to meet francophone demands quite rapidly is cause for optimism about the ability of the f…
Le haut fonctionnaire et la responsabilité
Responsibility in the senior public service: Marching to several drummers
Responsibility and the senior public service
Prefatory Note
Economic Policy-Making in the Asia-Pacific Region
development. He focusses instead on the major changes resulting from the 1988 Brussels summit, called in response to an emerging EC fiscal crisis. The analysis presupposes that the reader has some acquaintance with the Community's institutions and with the arcane language of its financial dealings, such as the vital, but sometimes mystifying, distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditures. Those innocent or unsure of such matters,…
The Responsible Public Servant
Moonlighting and mobility
Think Tanks and Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region
Corruption, Character, & Conflict: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics
To: Ipac central command From: John Langford Subject: Loss of the Edmonton accountability expedition Date: 1 June 1996
Partnering for e‐government: Challenges for public administrators
Governments around the world are spending huge sums of money implementing electronic government. Public‐private partnerships with information and communication technology firms have emerged as the vehicle of choice for implementing e‐government strategies. Concerns are raised about the capacity of governments to manage these complex, multi‐year, often multi‐partner relationships that involve considerable sharing of authority, responsibility, fina…
To click or not to click: E‐learning for the public sector
E‐learning is being mooted as a cheap and effective way to provide public servants and public‐sector organizations with the continuous learning opportunities required to recruit and retain good employees and improve organizational outcomes. This article draws on the extensive literature on e‐learning and the authors' experience with the development and delivery of e‐learning to examine a number of issues that public‐sector managers should conside…
Acting on values: An ethical dead end for public servants
This article provides a critical analysis of the values approach to public‐sector ethics, particularly as it has been developed in Ottawa. The central tenet of this approach is that a framework of core values can be used directly by public servants to solve ethical dilemmas or to justify more specific rules of behaviour. The author argues that this approach is conceptually flawed on a number of levels. Its advocates seem confused about what a val…
Rethinking Government-Public Relationships in a Digital World: Customers, Clients, or Citizens
Many have argued that new electronic technologies have the potential to transform how governments relate to users of public services. This article explores the limits of e-government as it is being conceived by testing it against three service recipient models: customer, client, and citizen. We argue that despite the opportunities that electronically-based service transformations present for enhancing democratic citizen engagement and the power o…
Building an ethical public service: Michael and Jennifer on Heintzman and Langford
The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement. This book probes the central dimensions of service reform efforts f…
A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
(2011). A Cold War Tourist and His Camera. Photography and Culture: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 77-84
Is irrigated agriculture in the Murray Darling Basin well prepared to deal with reductions in water availability
Mapping Local-Scale Ecological Research to Aid Management at Landscape Scales: Mapping Ecological Research at Landscape Scales
Natural resource management is typically defined by landscape-scale management zones, such as the Catchment Management Authority boundaries of the southern Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Ecological research generally deals with local-scale phenomena, with studies at the scale of such landscape management units arising only recently. We developed a method that links local-scale ecological research to landscape-scale management zones, which is …
Rethinking Public Service: Managing with External Providers By JohnAlford and JanineO'Flynn. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Pp . 312, bibliographic reference, index
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