Evert A Lindquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evert A Lindquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindquist |
| SIGNATURE | LINDQUIST E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7130-8163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Institutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews: Supporting Effective Public Management
Canada has long been a leader in conducting episodic spending reviews to check public spending. However, it has fallen behind many other countries that have taken a more consistent approach relying to a much larger extent on strategic reviews that not only check spending, but also examine the links between spending and policy priorities. To bring greater coherence to review processes, we argue that an embedded system would greatly enhance decisio…
Introduction: Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada
Moving Ottawa's Department and Agency Reporting Forward: Encouraging Accountability and Sustaining Reform
Governments produce a steady stream of data, reports, and other information to ministers, legislators, and the public, and generate enormous flows of administrative data. In the digital era the flows of information generated by departments and agencies have expanded by orders of magnitude. The paradox, though, is that much of this information is never used, but many decision makers believe there is insufficient information to meet their specific …
Conclusion to “Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada”: Resonances, Sustaining Reform, and Fostering Collaborative Research
This article considers the implications of the contributions to the special issue on “Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada.” It first reflects on the reform directions proposed by contributors, the extent to which they resonate, and identifies overarching themes. It then considers the complexity of furthering and sustaining reform in large public‐sector systems, arguing that monitoring progress and motivating public servants will challenge gov…
Spending reviews and the Government of Canada: From episodic to institutionalized capabilities and repertoires
Following surges of spending and staff hiring to address the COVID‐19 pandemic, the Trudeau government announced a strategic policy review in the 2022 Budget to secure savings of $6 billion. There has been little apparent progress by May 2023 and opaque communications. This is surprising because Canada was once considered an international exemplar for spending reviews, needs to learn from the pandemic experience, has a worrisome medium‐to‐long‐te…
Ipac's 75 th Anniversary: CPA and the State of Public Administration Research
The digital era and public sector reforms: Transformation or new tools for competing values
This article considers the tools and management approaches associated with the “digital‐era” public sector reform, which many observers suggest has supplanted or should supplant previous reforms such as those associated with the New Public Management. This article levers and adapts the Competing Values Framework to categorize various public service reform movements—Traditional Public Administration, New Public Management, Public Value Management,…
Have policy process scholars embraced causal mechanisms? A review of five popular frameworks
Over 30 years, several key frameworks and theories of the policy process have emerged which have guided a burgeoning empirical literature. A more recent development has been a growing interest in the application of a ‘causal mechanism’ perspective to policy studies. This article reviews selected theories of the policy process (Multiple Streams Approach, Advocacy Coalition Framework, Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Narrative Framework Theory, and I…
The Covid‐19 pandemic crisis and repositioning governance: Implications for public administration research and practice
From an uncomfortable conversation to a productive strategic dialogue
I would like to extend my thanks to Étienne Charbonneau and his colleagues and to Eric Zeemering for their articles on the reception accorded to scholarly articles in Canadian Public Administration (CPA) and to Michael Howlett, Susan Phillips, and Al Roberts for their commentaries. In my view, even though one could get lost in further debate on the salience and meaningfulness of impact factors, that is far less important than the implication: we …
Editor’s introduction / Introduction du rédacteur
Editor’s introduction/Introduction du rédacteur
Accountability and monitoring government in the digital era: Promise, realism and research for digital‐era governance
Furthering the accountability of elected governments and the public administration apparatus which serves them is a fundamental principle of democratic societies. Over the last fifty years, there have been significant debates about how to operationalize and balance the principles of accountability in our federal governance system. The emergence and proliferation of Web 2.0 capabilities and advocates for their use in government has led to new roun…
Understanding governance in the digital era: An agenda for public administration research in Canada
Remaking Government in Canada: Dares, Resilience, and Civility in Westminster Systems
By 2015 concern had emerged about the trajectory of Canada's Westminster model and the state of democratic governance under successive Harper governments, particularly with respect to transparency and relationships with public servants, which among other things led to the election of the Trudeau government in October 2015. This article compares these developments with the wholesale reform experiences in Australia, New Zealand, and the United King…
The Global Financial Crisis and its Budget Impacts in OECD Nations: Fiscal Responses and Future Challenges
The global financial crisis of 2007–09 constituted the biggest shock to the economies of the OECD nations since the Second World War and caused most of their governments to move into intense crisis mode. They made significant adjustments to their fiscal policy regimes, including massive interventions to stabilize markets and economies. But how they reacted to the crisis, and what measures they took to deal with it, still underpin their economic a…
The Australian Public Service and Policy Advising: Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Governance
This concluding article summarises the case study findings comprising the Special Issue on ‘Advising Australian Federal Governments: Assessing the Evolving Capacity and Role of the Australian Public Service’, identifies and discusses cross-cutting issues, and considers strategic implications for future practice and research. It reviews key findings from six case studies – Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Intergovernmental Relations, Housing,…
From Rhetoric to Blueprint: The Moran Review as a Concerted, Comprehensive and Emergent Strategy for Public Service Reform
On 3 September 2009, Prime Minister Rudd announced a six‐month Review of Australian Government Administration. He appointed an Advisory Group chaired by Terry Moran, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, to prepare a discussion paper, oversee a benchmarking study and consultations, and craft a blueprint to reform the Australian Public Service (APS) in order to deal with future governance challenges. The vision is to develop a…
Galvanising government–non-profit/voluntary sector relations: Two Canadian cases to consider
This volume and the June 2007 conference on which it is based explore how collaboration can be fostered in diverse governance contexts and modes: in different policy sectors, with different types of partners and at different levels of analysis (local, state, national and international). Where collaboration with non-profit organisations was concerned, one conference panel considered intriguing collaborations between governments and local communiti…
Organizing for policy implementation: The emergence and role of implementation units in policy design and oversight
The leaders of governments in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Queensland recently created “implementation” or “delivery” units at the centre, ostensibly to advise, monitor, and ensure better implementation of policy initiatives. This collection of papers seeks to explore the emergence, roles, functions, and accomplishments of policy implementation and delivery units, as well as their prospects. This overview paper provides a framework for anal…
Organizing for policy implementation: Comparisons, lessons and prospects for cabinet implementation units
This paper compares and analyzes recent case studies of initiatives of first ministers in the United Kingdom, Australia and Queensland to establish implementation and delivery units, and reflects on their implications for institutional design and theory. The first section reviews the similarities and differences in the case studies. The second section considers whether these units in practice emphasized the strategic directions consistent with ce…
Organizing for megaconsultation: HRDC and the Social Security Reform
In January 1994, the Chretien government announced the Social Security Reform (SSR), a sweeping review of federal social policy programs. Led by the minister of human resources development, it was intended to produce a comprehensive policy innovation and led to extensive consultations under the auspices of the standing committee on human resources development, individual MPS, and the Department of Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). This p…
Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada
Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada. By Stuart N. Soroka. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. 168p. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. The literature on agenda setting has gathered momentum in recent years by tapping into garbage-can models, exploring the dynamics of policy subsystems and decision making, and relying on increasingly sophisticated empirical techniques. Stuart Soroka makes two important contributions with this book: First…
Policy Analysis and Governance: Analytical and Policy Styles in Canada
The policy analysis movement revolves around the idea that a generic analytic toolkit can be productively applied to substantive policy problems, but different patterns of policy analysis can be observed across organizations, sectors, and jurisdictions. This article identifies how policy analysis and governance contexts can each be differentiated at a theoretical level, and how the latter might affect the former. It is argued that successful mode…
Government Restructuring and Career Public Service in Canada. Monographs on Canadian Public Administration ‐No. 23
Policy Analysis and Governance: Analytical and Policy Styles in Canada
The policy analysis movement revolves around the idea that a generic analytic toolkit can be productively applied to substantive policy problems, but different patterns of policy analysis can be observed across organizations, sectors, and jurisdictions. This article identifies how policy analysis and governance contexts can each be differentiated at a theoretical level, and how the latter might affect the former. It is argued that successful mode…
Public managers and policy communities: Learning to meet new challenges
Comprehending external environments is an increasingly important facet of the work of senior public servants. The purpose of this paper is to introduce concepts that will help practitioners and academic observers to describe and analyse the structure and dynamics of policy communities. The paper first draws from the political science literature to identify different networks in policy communities, considering how the role of public managers chang…
Organizing for Policy Innovation in Public Bureaucracy: Aids, Energy and Environmental Policy in Canada
Governments often operate under considerable pressure to respond effectively to the emergence of increasingly complex policy dilemmas. This article first explains some key difficulties in bringing forth comprehensive policy interventions. Despite the ubiquity of social and political constraints to policy innovation, many failures can be attributed to public bureaucracies that are not designed to deal with complex problems, and which all too quick…
Think tanks or clubs? Assessing the influence and roles of Canadian policy institutes
Policy institutes are prominent members of policy communities in Canada, but there is little understanding of their diversity beyond well‐known value orientations, nor of how they differ from other “think tank” organizations such as government councils and academic research centres. This paper supplies concepts and a framework for assessing the capacity and role of policy institutes. It compares the size and activities of several well‐known Canad…
The Australian Public Service and Policy Advising: Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Governance
This concluding article summarises the case study findings comprising the Special Issue on ‘Advising Australian Federal Governments: Assessing the Evolving Capacity and Role of the Australian Public Service’, identifies and discusses cross-cutting issues, and considers strategic implications for future practice and research. It reviews key findings from six case studies – Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Intergovernmental Relations, Housing,…
Organizing for megaconsultation: HRDC and the Social Security Reform
In January 1994, the Chretien government announced the Social Security Reform (SSR), a sweeping review of federal social policy programs. Led by the minister of human resources development, it was intended to produce a comprehensive policy innovation and led to extensive consultations under the auspices of the standing committee on human resources development, individual MPS, and the Department of Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). This p…
Aids Activism and the State in Canada
The AIDS epidemic, which began in the 1980s and took more than 3000 lives by the end of 1991, posed enormous challenges for Canada's gay and lesbian communities. The spread of the disease provided a new vehicle for morally conservative homophobia and heterosexism, and created opportunities for intrusions by health officials into the private lives of gay men. The relative neglect of state health agencies in the early years of the epidemic placed b…
Accountability and monitoring government in the digital era: Promise, realism and research for digital‐era governance
Furthering the accountability of elected governments and the public administration apparatus which serves them is a fundamental principle of democratic societies. Over the last fifty years, there have been significant debates about how to operationalize and balance the principles of accountability in our federal governance system. The emergence and proliferation of Web 2.0 capabilities and advocates for their use in government has led to new roun…
Understanding governance in the digital era: An agenda for public administration research in Canada
The digital era and public sector reforms: Transformation or new tools for competing values
This article considers the tools and management approaches associated with the “digital‐era” public sector reform, which many observers suggest has supplanted or should supplant previous reforms such as those associated with the New Public Management. This article levers and adapts the Competing Values Framework to categorize various public service reform movements—Traditional Public Administration, New Public Management, Public Value Management,…
Spending reviews and the Government of Canada: From episodic to institutionalized capabilities and repertoires
Following surges of spending and staff hiring to address the COVID‐19 pandemic, the Trudeau government announced a strategic policy review in the 2022 Budget to secure savings of $6 billion. There has been little apparent progress by May 2023 and opaque communications. This is surprising because Canada was once considered an international exemplar for spending reviews, needs to learn from the pandemic experience, has a worrisome medium‐to‐long‐te…
Remaking Government in Canada: Dares, Resilience, and Civility in Westminster Systems
By 2015 concern had emerged about the trajectory of Canada's Westminster model and the state of democratic governance under successive Harper governments, particularly with respect to transparency and relationships with public servants, which among other things led to the election of the Trudeau government in October 2015. This article compares these developments with the wholesale reform experiences in Australia, New Zealand, and the United King…
Organizing for policy implementation: Comparisons, lessons and prospects for cabinet implementation units
This paper compares and analyzes recent case studies of initiatives of first ministers in the United Kingdom, Australia and Queensland to establish implementation and delivery units, and reflects on their implications for institutional design and theory. The first section reviews the similarities and differences in the case studies. The second section considers whether these units in practice emphasized the strategic directions consistent with ce…
From an uncomfortable conversation to a productive strategic dialogue
I would like to extend my thanks to Étienne Charbonneau and his colleagues and to Eric Zeemering for their articles on the reception accorded to scholarly articles in Canadian Public Administration (CPA) and to Michael Howlett, Susan Phillips, and Al Roberts for their commentaries. In my view, even though one could get lost in further debate on the salience and meaningfulness of impact factors, that is far less important than the implication: we …
Organizing for policy implementation: The emergence and role of implementation units in policy design and oversight
The leaders of governments in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Queensland recently created “implementation” or “delivery” units at the centre, ostensibly to advise, monitor, and ensure better implementation of policy initiatives. This collection of papers seeks to explore the emergence, roles, functions, and accomplishments of policy implementation and delivery units, as well as their prospects. This overview paper provides a framework for anal…
Institutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews: Supporting Effective Public Management
Canada has long been a leader in conducting episodic spending reviews to check public spending. However, it has fallen behind many other countries that have taken a more consistent approach relying to a much larger extent on strategic reviews that not only check spending, but also examine the links between spending and policy priorities. To bring greater coherence to review processes, we argue that an embedded system would greatly enhance decisio…
Moving Ottawa's Department and Agency Reporting Forward: Encouraging Accountability and Sustaining Reform
Governments produce a steady stream of data, reports, and other information to ministers, legislators, and the public, and generate enormous flows of administrative data. In the digital era the flows of information generated by departments and agencies have expanded by orders of magnitude. The paradox, though, is that much of this information is never used, but many decision makers believe there is insufficient information to meet their specific …
Conclusion to “Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada”: Resonances, Sustaining Reform, and Fostering Collaborative Research
This article considers the implications of the contributions to the special issue on “Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada.” It first reflects on the reform directions proposed by contributors, the extent to which they resonate, and identifies overarching themes. It then considers the complexity of furthering and sustaining reform in large public‐sector systems, arguing that monitoring progress and motivating public servants will challenge gov…
The Covid‐19 pandemic crisis and repositioning governance: Implications for public administration research and practice
Streams, springs, and stones: Ontario public service reform in the 1980s and the 1990s
Since the era of reform triggered by the Committee on Government Productivity during the early 1970s, there has been surprisingly little writing about public service reform in Ontario. This article surveys developments since the early 1980s, reviewing the changes that occurred during the Davis, Peterson, and Rae governments pertaining to the structure and integrity of the public service, human resource development, relocation, accountability regi…
Even exorcists need theory: A new agenda for the literature on cabinet and budgetary systems
Policy Institutes in Canada: Looking Westward
Even exorcists need theory: A new agenda for the literature on cabinet and budgetary systems
Aids in Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics, and Policies
In the ten years since the first cases of AIDS were reported, the disease has spread around the world. Every country has had to come up with policies suited to its own conditions, economy, culture, and institutions. The differences among their approaches are striking. This volume, the first international comprehensive comparison of responses to AIDS, is a unique guide to the world's most urgent public health crisis. Sixteen leading experts in pub…
Aids Activism and the State in Canada
The AIDS epidemic, which began in the 1980s and took more than 3000 lives by the end of 1991, posed enormous challenges for Canada's gay and lesbian communities. The spread of the disease provided a new vehicle for morally conservative homophobia and heterosexism, and created opportunities for intrusions by health officials into the private lives of gay men. The relative neglect of state health agencies in the early years of the epidemic placed b…
Public managers and policy communities: Learning to meet new challenges
Comprehending external environments is an increasingly important facet of the work of senior public servants. The purpose of this paper is to introduce concepts that will help practitioners and academic observers to describe and analyse the structure and dynamics of policy communities. The paper first draws from the political science literature to identify different networks in policy communities, considering how the role of public managers chang…
Think tanks or clubs? Assessing the influence and roles of Canadian policy institutes
Policy institutes are prominent members of policy communities in Canada, but there is little understanding of their diversity beyond well‐known value orientations, nor of how they differ from other “think tank” organizations such as government councils and academic research centres. This paper supplies concepts and a framework for assessing the capacity and role of policy institutes. It compares the size and activities of several well‐known Canad…
Citizens, Experts and Budgets: Evaluating Ottawa’s Emerging Budget Process
Recent administrative reform in Canada as decentralization: Who is spreading what around to whom and why
Appendix: A reconnaissance of Canadian administrative reform during the early 1990s
The purpose of this paper was to provide background information for discussions at the National Seminar on Decentralization and Power Sharing on 15–17 October 1993 in St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. It emerged out of a concern that the literature has not managed to convey a sense of the extent and nature of administrative reform under way in Canada. Senior public servants working for nine provincial governments were contacted during the summer of 19…
Streams, springs, and stones: Ontario public service reform in the 1980s and the 1990s
Since the era of reform triggered by the Committee on Government Productivity during the early 1970s, there has been surprisingly little writing about public service reform in Ontario. This article surveys developments since the early 1980s, reviewing the changes that occurred during the Davis, Peterson, and Rae governments pertaining to the structure and integrity of the public service, human resource development, relocation, accountability regi…
Organizing for Policy Innovation in Public Bureaucracy: Aids, Energy and Environmental Policy in Canada
Governments often operate under considerable pressure to respond effectively to the emergence of increasingly complex policy dilemmas. This article first explains some key difficulties in bringing forth comprehensive policy interventions. Despite the ubiquity of social and political constraints to policy innovation, many failures can be attributed to public bureaucracies that are not designed to deal with complex problems, and which all too quick…
The Bewildering Pace of Public Sector Reform in Canada
Government Restructuring and Career Public Service in Canada. Monographs on Canadian Public Administration ‐No. 23
Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada
Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada. By Stuart N. Soroka. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. 168p. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. The literature on agenda setting has gathered momentum in recent years by tapping into garbage-can models, exploring the dynamics of policy subsystems and decision making, and relying on increasingly sophisticated empirical techniques. Stuart Soroka makes two important contributions with this book: First…
Policy Analysis and Governance: Analytical and Policy Styles in Canada
The policy analysis movement revolves around the idea that a generic analytic toolkit can be productively applied to substantive policy problems, but different patterns of policy analysis can be observed across organizations, sectors, and jurisdictions. This article identifies how policy analysis and governance contexts can each be differentiated at a theoretical level, and how the latter might affect the former. It is argued that successful mode…
Organizing for megaconsultation: HRDC and the Social Security Reform
In January 1994, the Chretien government announced the Social Security Reform (SSR), a sweeping review of federal social policy programs. Led by the minister of human resources development, it was intended to produce a comprehensive policy innovation and led to extensive consultations under the auspices of the standing committee on human resources development, individual MPS, and the Department of Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). This p…
Organizing for policy implementation: The emergence and role of implementation units in policy design and oversight
The leaders of governments in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Queensland recently created “implementation” or “delivery” units at the centre, ostensibly to advise, monitor, and ensure better implementation of policy initiatives. This collection of papers seeks to explore the emergence, roles, functions, and accomplishments of policy implementation and delivery units, as well as their prospects. This overview paper provides a framework for anal…
Organizing for policy implementation: Comparisons, lessons and prospects for cabinet implementation units
This paper compares and analyzes recent case studies of initiatives of first ministers in the United Kingdom, Australia and Queensland to establish implementation and delivery units, and reflects on their implications for institutional design and theory. The first section reviews the similarities and differences in the case studies. The second section considers whether these units in practice emphasized the strategic directions consistent with ce…
Galvanising government–non-profit/voluntary sector relations: Two Canadian cases to consider
This volume and the June 2007 conference on which it is based explore how collaboration can be fostered in diverse governance contexts and modes: in different policy sectors, with different types of partners and at different levels of analysis (local, state, national and international). Where collaboration with non-profit organisations was concerned, one conference panel considered intriguing collaborations between governments and local communiti…
From Rhetoric to Blueprint: The Moran Review as a Concerted, Comprehensive and Emergent Strategy for Public Service Reform
On 3 September 2009, Prime Minister Rudd announced a six‐month Review of Australian Government Administration. He appointed an Advisory Group chaired by Terry Moran, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, to prepare a discussion paper, oversee a benchmarking study and consultations, and craft a blueprint to reform the Australian Public Service (APS) in order to deal with future governance challenges. The vision is to develop a…
The Australian Public Service and Policy Advising: Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Governance
This concluding article summarises the case study findings comprising the Special Issue on ‘Advising Australian Federal Governments: Assessing the Evolving Capacity and Role of the Australian Public Service’, identifies and discusses cross-cutting issues, and considers strategic implications for future practice and research. It reviews key findings from six case studies – Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Intergovernmental Relations, Housing,…
The Global Financial Crisis and its Budget Impacts in OECD Nations: Fiscal Responses and Future Challenges
The global financial crisis of 2007–09 constituted the biggest shock to the economies of the OECD nations since the Second World War and caused most of their governments to move into intense crisis mode. They made significant adjustments to their fiscal policy regimes, including massive interventions to stabilize markets and economies. But how they reacted to the crisis, and what measures they took to deal with it, still underpin their economic a…
Remaking Government in Canada: Dares, Resilience, and Civility in Westminster Systems
By 2015 concern had emerged about the trajectory of Canada's Westminster model and the state of democratic governance under successive Harper governments, particularly with respect to transparency and relationships with public servants, which among other things led to the election of the Trudeau government in October 2015. This article compares these developments with the wholesale reform experiences in Australia, New Zealand, and the United King…
Accountability and monitoring government in the digital era: Promise, realism and research for digital‐era governance
Furthering the accountability of elected governments and the public administration apparatus which serves them is a fundamental principle of democratic societies. Over the last fifty years, there have been significant debates about how to operationalize and balance the principles of accountability in our federal governance system. The emergence and proliferation of Web 2.0 capabilities and advocates for their use in government has led to new roun…
Understanding governance in the digital era: An agenda for public administration research in Canada
Political science (33 works) · Public Administration (25 works) · Public Administration (21 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Business (11 works)