M Paul Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Paul Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Public Administration Dalhousie University Halifax Nova Scotia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Motivational psychology and the call to professional public service in Canada
This article explores the phenomenon of the call to professional public service in Canada. It draws on the testimonials of exemplars in Canada and elsewhere, and research findings from the fields of prosocial behaviour and public service motivation (PSM), and especially from motivational psychology, with its concepts of “flow” and “element,” to shed light on the dynamics of the call and steps professional public services can take to best mobilize…
Building policy capacity at the U krainian centre
This article chronicles a CIDA technical assistance project to build central policy capacity in the Government of U kraine in 2000–01. Over ten months, 48 senior officials received intensive policy training and worked in policy units on priority issues. Evidence suggests that the project was effective at the individual and institutional levels: participants expressed high satisfaction with their learning; some outputs were immediately adopted by …
Activating Public Sector Ethics in Transitional Societies
Public sector reform efforts to combat corruption in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) have, to date, focused heavily on control and compliance measures, such as the adoption of legal frameworks. Compliance-based approaches, however, are necessary but not sufficient. This article explores the potential of integrity-based approaches to ethical public service behavior, using examples from the public and private sectors. The critical su…
Ridley's Prefectoral Administrative Function and the Case of Environment Canada
This study tests the relevance of Ridley's ideal-type concept of the prefectoral administrative function in a departmental setting in Canada. It follows the pursuit of administrative decentralization within Environment Canada, a complex department which has thus far introduced three prefectoral administrative mechanisms – a Regional Board, a Regional Director and a Committee of Regional Executives – for this purpose. The sliding scale of authorit…
Environment Canada and the pursuit of administrative decentralization
Administrative decentralization has suddenly become a major concern with respect to the operations of the national government in Canada. The specific catalyst has been a perceived need for greater responsiveness, and a belief that devolution of decision‐making power to officials in the field is a way to achieve it. It is nevertheless problematic whether the requisite decentralization can be achieved. For one thing, headquarters‐field relationship…
Responsiveness versus accountability in collaborative federalism
Accountability is very much on people's minds these days, and the area of intergovernmental relations is no exception. The concern here is that the processes of collaborative federalism developed in the name of “responsiveness” have resulted in the federal and provincial governments no longer being accountable to the public they are meant to serve. This perceived problem has elicited eloquent statements of alarm and various proposals for reform, …
A lesson in bureaucratic persistence
One of the most interesting yet seldom analysed organizational phenomena concerns ‘bureaucratic persistence.’ It speaks to the uncanny capacity of some organizations to meet the requirements of survival over long periods of time. They do so typically through adaptive adjustments in their internal and external relations. This paper provides one of the first analyses of bureaucratic persistence in the Canadian system. It records the staying power o…
Activating Public Sector Ethics in Transitional Societies
Public sector reform efforts to combat corruption in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) have, to date, focused heavily on control and compliance measures, such as the adoption of legal frameworks. Compliance-based approaches, however, are necessary but not sufficient. This article explores the potential of integrity-based approaches to ethical public service behavior, using examples from the public and private sectors. The critical su…
Building policy capacity at the U krainian centre
This article chronicles a CIDA technical assistance project to build central policy capacity in the Government of U kraine in 2000–01. Over ten months, 48 senior officials received intensive policy training and worked in policy units on priority issues. Evidence suggests that the project was effective at the individual and institutional levels: participants expressed high satisfaction with their learning; some outputs were immediately adopted by …
Environment Canada and the pursuit of administrative decentralization
Administrative decentralization has suddenly become a major concern with respect to the operations of the national government in Canada. The specific catalyst has been a perceived need for greater responsiveness, and a belief that devolution of decision‐making power to officials in the field is a way to achieve it. It is nevertheless problematic whether the requisite decentralization can be achieved. For one thing, headquarters‐field relationship…
Motivational psychology and the call to professional public service in Canada
This article explores the phenomenon of the call to professional public service in Canada. It draws on the testimonials of exemplars in Canada and elsewhere, and research findings from the fields of prosocial behaviour and public service motivation (PSM), and especially from motivational psychology, with its concepts of “flow” and “element,” to shed light on the dynamics of the call and steps professional public services can take to best mobilize…
A lesson in bureaucratic persistence
One of the most interesting yet seldom analysed organizational phenomena concerns ‘bureaucratic persistence.’ It speaks to the uncanny capacity of some organizations to meet the requirements of survival over long periods of time. They do so typically through adaptive adjustments in their internal and external relations. This paper provides one of the first analyses of bureaucratic persistence in the Canadian system. It records the staying power o…
Responsiveness versus accountability in collaborative federalism
Accountability is very much on people's minds these days, and the area of intergovernmental relations is no exception. The concern here is that the processes of collaborative federalism developed in the name of “responsiveness” have resulted in the federal and provincial governments no longer being accountable to the public they are meant to serve. This perceived problem has elicited eloquent statements of alarm and various proposals for reform, …
Environment Canada and the pursuit of administrative decentralization
Administrative decentralization has suddenly become a major concern with respect to the operations of the national government in Canada. The specific catalyst has been a perceived need for greater responsiveness, and a belief that devolution of decision‐making power to officials in the field is a way to achieve it. It is nevertheless problematic whether the requisite decentralization can be achieved. For one thing, headquarters‐field relationship…
Ridley's Prefectoral Administrative Function and the Case of Environment Canada
This study tests the relevance of Ridley's ideal-type concept of the prefectoral administrative function in a departmental setting in Canada. It follows the pursuit of administrative decentralization within Environment Canada, a complex department which has thus far introduced three prefectoral administrative mechanisms – a Regional Board, a Regional Director and a Committee of Regional Executives – for this purpose. The sliding scale of authorit…
Activating Public Sector Ethics in Transitional Societies
Public sector reform efforts to combat corruption in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) have, to date, focused heavily on control and compliance measures, such as the adoption of legal frameworks. Compliance-based approaches, however, are necessary but not sufficient. This article explores the potential of integrity-based approaches to ethical public service behavior, using examples from the public and private sectors. The critical su…
Building policy capacity at the U krainian centre
This article chronicles a CIDA technical assistance project to build central policy capacity in the Government of U kraine in 2000–01. Over ten months, 48 senior officials received intensive policy training and worked in policy units on priority issues. Evidence suggests that the project was effective at the individual and institutional levels: participants expressed high satisfaction with their learning; some outputs were immediately adopted by …
Motivational psychology and the call to professional public service in Canada
This article explores the phenomenon of the call to professional public service in Canada. It draws on the testimonials of exemplars in Canada and elsewhere, and research findings from the fields of prosocial behaviour and public service motivation (PSM), and especially from motivational psychology, with its concepts of “flow” and “element,” to shed light on the dynamics of the call and steps professional public services can take to best mobilize…
Political science (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works)