Sharon Sutherland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4374245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Sutherland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutherland |
| SIGNATURE | SUTHERLAND S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Comparison of Canadian master's programs in public administration, public management and public policy
Sixteen Canadian master's programs of public administration, management and policy were compared in terms of institutional location, admission and degree requirements and compulsory curriculum. Only basic programs were included; joint degrees or specialized programs in specialized fields (like international or development administration) were omitted because they make comparison extremely difficult. Even the programs retained vary greatly in dura…
Quotations for Public Speakers
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Politics
Most treatments of the problem of dirty hands in politics assume that merely holding a position of great political power will require a political actor to violate important moral standards. They assume that the successful political leader must inevitably be morally corrupted by the iniquitous choices that must inevitably be made, and, further, that this casts a shadow upon political life as a moral enterprise. This article argues, instead, that t…
The Al‐Mashat affair
The article approaches the Canadian federal government's handling of the Al‐Mashat affair in May and June of 1991 as a case study in direct administrative accountability. The author begins with a discussion of the main lines of political control under responsible government, writing as a partisan for the traditional doctrines of collective and individual ministerial responsibility. A number of questions emerging from this discussion are then pose…
Responsible Government and Ministerial Responsibility
The article defends the classical version of ministerial responsibility against recent initiatives to implement a form of direct accountability for administrators. Constitutional convention and ministerial resignations from active cabinets in the Canadian federal government and in Britain are described: in neither country do ministers resign for maladministration by their officials, nor does doctrine suggest they should. Rather, the pattern of re…
The evolution of program budget ideas in Canada
The article examines the federal Estimates budget from the perspective of whether or not the program format enhances democratic control. It introduces the idea of the budgetary system as a control in a generic management process, and then traces reforms in the accountability side of the Canadian federal government's central management system through the past twenty years. It concludes that the implementation of this version of PPBS was an error, …
Bureaucracy and governance
Bureaucracy and Political Power. By B. C. S mith . Sussex and New York: Wheatsheaf Books and St. Martin's Press , 1988. Pp . 237. Bibliography and index . £12.95 ( cloth ) Organizing Governance: Governing Organizations. By C olin C ampbell and B. G uy P eters , eds. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press . 1988. Pp . 388. $34.95 ( cloth )
Bureaucracy in Canada
Public employment in Canada
The politics of audit
The Office of the Auditor General has continued to expand its functions since the legislation of 1977. In March 1985 it was in court against the Government of Canada, pressing a claim that the auditor general (AG) required all of cabinet's papers that may have touched on the acquisition by Petro Canada Limited of Petrofina Canada Inc., a subsidiary of the Belgian company Petrofina S.A., in order to complete his review of expenditures from the Can…
Irrational versus Rational Bases of Political Preference
Political scientists who study mass political preferences in relation to basic personality dimensions assessed through the standard group of objective tests are mining an area of negligible potential. This paper suggests that political preferences are more likely to arise from rationally held cognitions about how society itself functions than from deep-seated personality needs. The potential of this approach is evaluated with data derived from tw…
Patterns of Belief and Action
Submissive authoritarians
Les recherches menant à la publication, il y a un quart de siècle, du Authoritatian Personality ont marqué le début du programme de recherches le plus durable de la psychologie sociale. Dans ce vaste ensemble d'études, il y en a, cependant, relativement peu qui se rattachent étroitement au but que s'étaient donné les premiers chercheurs en Allemagne et en Californie: la prédiction du nombre de membres du grand public qui accepteraient, et réponda…
Public Service Ethics
On the audit trail of the Auditor General
Since 1973, important changes have been brought about in the powers of the Office of the Auditor General. The balance of our system of parliamentary government is undermined by these changes. This paper argues that the Auditor General's value‐for‐money campaign has taken the oag over the line between audit and trespass on government policy. The Office's new powers have their legal basis in the new Auditor General Act of 1977, which says that the …
Assessing the results of public expenditure
In an attempt to tighten up its financial systems and improve control of expenditures, the Canadian federal government has set up a new office, that of the Comptroller General. One of this Office's responsibilities is to administer the Treasury Board's policy on program evaluation, which says that all government programs should be periodically reviewed for their effectiveness in meeting goals and for the efficiency with which they are managed. Th…
The Unambitious Female
Rokeach's Value Survey in use
Le but du rapport suivant est de fournir aux chercheurs une matière sur laquelle fonder une évaluation de l'intrigante ‘Value Survey’ faite par Milton Rokeach (1969 a; 1969 b; 1971; Rokeach et Parker, 1970; Rokeach, Miller et Snyder, 1971). La première section de l'article, qui s'appuie sur des données réunies à partir d'une vaste enquête fondée sur des exemples pris au hasard d'étudiants dans une université canadienne, prouve que la Value Survey…
Responsible Government and Ministerial Responsibility
The article defends the classical version of ministerial responsibility against recent initiatives to implement a form of direct accountability for administrators. Constitutional convention and ministerial resignations from active cabinets in the Canadian federal government and in Britain are described: in neither country do ministers resign for maladministration by their officials, nor does doctrine suggest they should. Rather, the pattern of re…
The Al‐Mashat affair
The article approaches the Canadian federal government's handling of the Al‐Mashat affair in May and June of 1991 as a case study in direct administrative accountability. The author begins with a discussion of the main lines of political control under responsible government, writing as a partisan for the traditional doctrines of collective and individual ministerial responsibility. A number of questions emerging from this discussion are then pose…
Comparison of Canadian master's programs in public administration, public management and public policy
Sixteen Canadian master's programs of public administration, management and policy were compared in terms of institutional location, admission and degree requirements and compulsory curriculum. Only basic programs were included; joint degrees or specialized programs in specialized fields (like international or development administration) were omitted because they make comparison extremely difficult. Even the programs retained vary greatly in dura…
On the audit trail of the Auditor General
Since 1973, important changes have been brought about in the powers of the Office of the Auditor General. The balance of our system of parliamentary government is undermined by these changes. This paper argues that the Auditor General's value‐for‐money campaign has taken the oag over the line between audit and trespass on government policy. The Office's new powers have their legal basis in the new Auditor General Act of 1977, which says that the …
The politics of audit
The Office of the Auditor General has continued to expand its functions since the legislation of 1977. In March 1985 it was in court against the Government of Canada, pressing a claim that the auditor general (AG) required all of cabinet's papers that may have touched on the acquisition by Petro Canada Limited of Petrofina Canada Inc., a subsidiary of the Belgian company Petrofina S.A., in order to complete his review of expenditures from the Can…
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Politics
Most treatments of the problem of dirty hands in politics assume that merely holding a position of great political power will require a political actor to violate important moral standards. They assume that the successful political leader must inevitably be morally corrupted by the iniquitous choices that must inevitably be made, and, further, that this casts a shadow upon political life as a moral enterprise. This article argues, instead, that t…
The Unambitious Female
The evolution of program budget ideas in Canada
The article examines the federal Estimates budget from the perspective of whether or not the program format enhances democratic control. It introduces the idea of the budgetary system as a control in a generic management process, and then traces reforms in the accountability side of the Canadian federal government's central management system through the past twenty years. It concludes that the implementation of this version of PPBS was an error, …
Assessing the results of public expenditure
In an attempt to tighten up its financial systems and improve control of expenditures, the Canadian federal government has set up a new office, that of the Comptroller General. One of this Office's responsibilities is to administer the Treasury Board's policy on program evaluation, which says that all government programs should be periodically reviewed for their effectiveness in meeting goals and for the efficiency with which they are managed. Th…
Rokeach's Value Survey in use
Le but du rapport suivant est de fournir aux chercheurs une matière sur laquelle fonder une évaluation de l'intrigante ‘Value Survey’ faite par Milton Rokeach (1969 a; 1969 b; 1971; Rokeach et Parker, 1970; Rokeach, Miller et Snyder, 1971). La première section de l'article, qui s'appuie sur des données réunies à partir d'une vaste enquête fondée sur des exemples pris au hasard d'étudiants dans une université canadienne, prouve que la Value Survey…
Irrational versus Rational Bases of Political Preference
Political scientists who study mass political preferences in relation to basic personality dimensions assessed through the standard group of objective tests are mining an area of negligible potential. This paper suggests that political preferences are more likely to arise from rationally held cognitions about how society itself functions than from deep-seated personality needs. The potential of this approach is evaluated with data derived from tw…
Patterns of Belief and Action
Submissive authoritarians
Les recherches menant à la publication, il y a un quart de siècle, du Authoritatian Personality ont marqué le début du programme de recherches le plus durable de la psychologie sociale. Dans ce vaste ensemble d'études, il y en a, cependant, relativement peu qui se rattachent étroitement au but que s'étaient donné les premiers chercheurs en Allemagne et en Californie: la prédiction du nombre de membres du grand public qui accepteraient, et réponda…
Rokeach's Value Survey in use
Le but du rapport suivant est de fournir aux chercheurs une matière sur laquelle fonder une évaluation de l'intrigante ‘Value Survey’ faite par Milton Rokeach (1969 a; 1969 b; 1971; Rokeach et Parker, 1970; Rokeach, Miller et Snyder, 1971). La première section de l'article, qui s'appuie sur des données réunies à partir d'une vaste enquête fondée sur des exemples pris au hasard d'étudiants dans une université canadienne, prouve que la Value Survey…
The Unambitious Female
Assessing the results of public expenditure
In an attempt to tighten up its financial systems and improve control of expenditures, the Canadian federal government has set up a new office, that of the Comptroller General. One of this Office's responsibilities is to administer the Treasury Board's policy on program evaluation, which says that all government programs should be periodically reviewed for their effectiveness in meeting goals and for the efficiency with which they are managed. Th…
Submissive authoritarians
Les recherches menant à la publication, il y a un quart de siècle, du Authoritatian Personality ont marqué le début du programme de recherches le plus durable de la psychologie sociale. Dans ce vaste ensemble d'études, il y en a, cependant, relativement peu qui se rattachent étroitement au but que s'étaient donné les premiers chercheurs en Allemagne et en Californie: la prédiction du nombre de membres du grand public qui accepteraient, et réponda…
Public Service Ethics
On the audit trail of the Auditor General
Since 1973, important changes have been brought about in the powers of the Office of the Auditor General. The balance of our system of parliamentary government is undermined by these changes. This paper argues that the Auditor General's value‐for‐money campaign has taken the oag over the line between audit and trespass on government policy. The Office's new powers have their legal basis in the new Auditor General Act of 1977, which says that the …
Patterns of Belief and Action
Irrational versus Rational Bases of Political Preference
Political scientists who study mass political preferences in relation to basic personality dimensions assessed through the standard group of objective tests are mining an area of negligible potential. This paper suggests that political preferences are more likely to arise from rationally held cognitions about how society itself functions than from deep-seated personality needs. The potential of this approach is evaluated with data derived from tw…
The politics of audit
The Office of the Auditor General has continued to expand its functions since the legislation of 1977. In March 1985 it was in court against the Government of Canada, pressing a claim that the auditor general (AG) required all of cabinet's papers that may have touched on the acquisition by Petro Canada Limited of Petrofina Canada Inc., a subsidiary of the Belgian company Petrofina S.A., in order to complete his review of expenditures from the Can…
Bureaucracy in Canada
Public employment in Canada
The evolution of program budget ideas in Canada
The article examines the federal Estimates budget from the perspective of whether or not the program format enhances democratic control. It introduces the idea of the budgetary system as a control in a generic management process, and then traces reforms in the accountability side of the Canadian federal government's central management system through the past twenty years. It concludes that the implementation of this version of PPBS was an error, …
Bureaucracy and governance
Bureaucracy and Political Power. By B. C. S mith . Sussex and New York: Wheatsheaf Books and St. Martin's Press , 1988. Pp . 237. Bibliography and index . £12.95 ( cloth ) Organizing Governance: Governing Organizations. By C olin C ampbell and B. G uy P eters , eds. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press . 1988. Pp . 388. $34.95 ( cloth )
The Al‐Mashat affair
The article approaches the Canadian federal government's handling of the Al‐Mashat affair in May and June of 1991 as a case study in direct administrative accountability. The author begins with a discussion of the main lines of political control under responsible government, writing as a partisan for the traditional doctrines of collective and individual ministerial responsibility. A number of questions emerging from this discussion are then pose…
Responsible Government and Ministerial Responsibility
The article defends the classical version of ministerial responsibility against recent initiatives to implement a form of direct accountability for administrators. Constitutional convention and ministerial resignations from active cabinets in the Canadian federal government and in Britain are described: in neither country do ministers resign for maladministration by their officials, nor does doctrine suggest they should. Rather, the pattern of re…
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Politics
Most treatments of the problem of dirty hands in politics assume that merely holding a position of great political power will require a political actor to violate important moral standards. They assume that the successful political leader must inevitably be morally corrupted by the iniquitous choices that must inevitably be made, and, further, that this casts a shadow upon political life as a moral enterprise. This article argues, instead, that t…
Quotations for Public Speakers
Comparison of Canadian master's programs in public administration, public management and public policy
Sixteen Canadian master's programs of public administration, management and policy were compared in terms of institutional location, admission and degree requirements and compulsory curriculum. Only basic programs were included; joint degrees or specialized programs in specialized fields (like international or development administration) were omitted because they make comparison extremely difficult. Even the programs retained vary greatly in dura…
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