Robert P Shepherd
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5690157 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert P Shepherd |
| PRENOMES | Robert P |
| SOBRENOME | Shepherd |
| ASSINATURA | SHEPHERD R P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4205-1952 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Navigating Complex Processes and Relationships
Katherine Athol Hamilton Graham (1947–2025)
Governing at Arm's Length
Indigenous Administrative Reform
Several Indigenous communities and organizations are engaging in various resurgence initiatives, including those activities that restore their cultural administrative identity. The pathways to reforms are several but often follow a treaty relationship that recognizes Indigenous ways of knowing and doing. Over time, these relationships and recognitions deteriorated resulting in Indian Act approaches that deviated from longstanding traditions. Admi…
Institutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews
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…
Delivering Results for Canadians
Implementing a results‐oriented management system has been a long‐term goal and a challenge for federal public sector organizations in Canada. This article highlights the efforts by the Government of Canada to improve performance measurement, evaluation, and audit (PMEA) functions over time. The article traces administrative reforms since 2000, highlighting the shift from inputs and outputs towards a results‐focused environment aimed at achieving…
Conclusion to “Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada”
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
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…
We Cause a Ruckus”
Using qualitative data from an interdisciplinary research project about mental health and community engagement with Indigenous youth in Kasabonika Lake First Nation (Ontario, Canada), this paper explores the factors that constrain and facilitate their ability to contribute to the well-being of their community. Case studies are employed to demonstrate how the youth navigate complex social and structural conditions within the context of on-going co…
Internal governmental performance and accountability in Canada
This article summarizes and expands on the work of one of three dialogue study teams organized by the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS), Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), and the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA). The Internal Accountability Dialogue Study Team explored the rationale and effects of the performance management regime of the Canadian federal government starting the fall of 2021…
Offering Graduate Evaluation Degrees Online
This practice note describes and explores the experiences and lessons learned as we engaged learners in two online graduate evaluation programs: the University of Victoria’s Graduate Certificate and Diploma in Evaluation Program, offered since fall 2011, and Carleton University’s Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPPPE), offered online since fall 2016. Both programs are delivered to maximize the geographic accessibility of…
Reflections on Inter-University Collaboration to Deliver a Graduate Certificate in Evaluation to Government of the Northwest Territories Employees
This practice note describes and reflects on an inter-university collaboration to deliver a graduate credential in evaluation to Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) staff. The collaboration involved faculty members from two member institutions of the Consortium of Universities for Evaluation Education (CUEE). We describe the process of negotiating a contractual agreement, developing and delivering the program, and offer our reflections…
Identifying Key Epistemological Challenges Evaluating in Indigenous Contexts
The evaluation field’s understanding of Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies must improve in ways that do not serve to privilege Western ways of knowing or governmental priorities for accountability. The literature has not identified ways to bridge these in practical ways, or to move the field to balance community and government needs. This article describes some prevailing epistemological and methodological issues related to evaluation and t…
Reflections on Evaluating in Indigenous Contexts
No abstract is required
Evaluation in Indigenous Contexts
No abstract is required. This is the introduction to the special edition
Teaching public administration in the Covid‐19 era
Expenditure Reviews and the Federal Experience
Various forms of assurance are being demanded by different constituencies in the federal public administration. One form of assurance is that of financial accountability, and spending reviews are an essential input to processes that contribute to federal budgetary and expenditure management decisions. Program evaluation has also been an important contributor, but it may be the case that this federal function is overextended in that contribution. …
Linking Evaluation and Spending Reviews
The global financial crisis in 2008 was a significant watershed for governments everywhere. Diminished prospects for growth coupled with continuing demands for government interventions and chronic constraints on resources, prompted in part by the widespread adoption of variants of neo-liberalism (constrain resources to limit spending and shrink governments), have created fiscal environments where rationing expenditures among programs and policies…
Innovation diffusion and networking
Lobby legislation and regulation in Canada are relatively new. The federal government was the first to enact lobby legislation in 1989, requiring only the most basic information. Eight provinces have since proclaimed lobby legislation and another has legislation pending. This article explores whether there was a common trajectory for lobby regulations and identifies the factors fostering similarity and differentiation. Using diffusion theory and …
In Search of a Balanced Canadian Federal Evaluation Function
In April 2009, the Treasury Board Secretariat enacted a new Evaluation Policy replacing the previous 2001 version. This new policy has generated much discussion among the evaluation community, including the criticism that it has failed to repair the many shortcomings the function has faced since it centralized in 1977. This article reviews the history of the federal function as to why shortcomings persist and makes two assertions. First, if progr…
Departmental audit committees and governance
One of the key policies arising from the Federal Accountability Act 2006 was the requirement for deputy heads to establish “department and agency audit committees.” These committees comprise retired public servants, academics and leaders from the private sector. This policy requires deputy heads to take advice from “outside” advisers for the management of their departments or agencies. This is unprecedented. The author examines the reform anteced…
Power
Socioeconomic Change in Far-West Nepal
Research Article| June 01 1989 Socioeconomic Change in Far-West Nepal: A Town in the Doti Valley Robert Shepherd Robert Shepherd Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (6): 573–579. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644753 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissi…
The 1975 Referendum and Full-Hearted Consent
Journal Article The 1975 Referendum and Full-Hearted Consent: The Story of the Referendum Campaign—and the Campaign for the Referendum Get access The 1975 Referendum. By David Butler and Uwe Kitzinger. London: Macmillan. 1976. 315 pp. £7⋅95.Full-Hearted Consent: The Story of the Referendum Campaign—and the Campaign for the Referendum. By Philip Goodhart. London: Davis-Poynter. 1976. 264 pp. £5⋅00. Robert Shepherd Robert Shepherd Search for other …
Leadership, Public Opinion and the Referendum
Delivering Results for Canadians
Implementing a results‐oriented management system has been a long‐term goal and a challenge for federal public sector organizations in Canada. This article highlights the efforts by the Government of Canada to improve performance measurement, evaluation, and audit (PMEA) functions over time. The article traces administrative reforms since 2000, highlighting the shift from inputs and outputs towards a results‐focused environment aimed at achieving…
Innovation diffusion and networking
Lobby legislation and regulation in Canada are relatively new. The federal government was the first to enact lobby legislation in 1989, requiring only the most basic information. Eight provinces have since proclaimed lobby legislation and another has legislation pending. This article explores whether there was a common trajectory for lobby regulations and identifies the factors fostering similarity and differentiation. Using diffusion theory and …
Internal governmental performance and accountability in Canada
This article summarizes and expands on the work of one of three dialogue study teams organized by the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS), Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), and the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA). The Internal Accountability Dialogue Study Team explored the rationale and effects of the performance management regime of the Canadian federal government starting the fall of 2021…
Spending reviews and the Government of Canada
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…
Departmental audit committees and governance
One of the key policies arising from the Federal Accountability Act 2006 was the requirement for deputy heads to establish “department and agency audit committees.” These committees comprise retired public servants, academics and leaders from the private sector. This policy requires deputy heads to take advice from “outside” advisers for the management of their departments or agencies. This is unprecedented. The author examines the reform anteced…
Institutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews
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…
Conclusion to “Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada”
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…
Power
Leadership, Public Opinion and the Referendum
The 1975 Referendum and Full-Hearted Consent
Journal Article The 1975 Referendum and Full-Hearted Consent: The Story of the Referendum Campaign—and the Campaign for the Referendum Get access The 1975 Referendum. By David Butler and Uwe Kitzinger. London: Macmillan. 1976. 315 pp. £7⋅95.Full-Hearted Consent: The Story of the Referendum Campaign—and the Campaign for the Referendum. By Philip Goodhart. London: Davis-Poynter. 1976. 264 pp. £5⋅00. Robert Shepherd Robert Shepherd Search for other …
Socioeconomic Change in Far-West Nepal
Research Article| June 01 1989 Socioeconomic Change in Far-West Nepal: A Town in the Doti Valley Robert Shepherd Robert Shepherd Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (6): 573–579. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644753 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissi…
In Search of a Balanced Canadian Federal Evaluation Function
In April 2009, the Treasury Board Secretariat enacted a new Evaluation Policy replacing the previous 2001 version. This new policy has generated much discussion among the evaluation community, including the criticism that it has failed to repair the many shortcomings the function has faced since it centralized in 1977. This article reviews the history of the federal function as to why shortcomings persist and makes two assertions. First, if progr…
Departmental audit committees and governance
One of the key policies arising from the Federal Accountability Act 2006 was the requirement for deputy heads to establish “department and agency audit committees.” These committees comprise retired public servants, academics and leaders from the private sector. This policy requires deputy heads to take advice from “outside” advisers for the management of their departments or agencies. This is unprecedented. The author examines the reform anteced…
Power
Innovation diffusion and networking
Lobby legislation and regulation in Canada are relatively new. The federal government was the first to enact lobby legislation in 1989, requiring only the most basic information. Eight provinces have since proclaimed lobby legislation and another has legislation pending. This article explores whether there was a common trajectory for lobby regulations and identifies the factors fostering similarity and differentiation. Using diffusion theory and …
Expenditure Reviews and the Federal Experience
Various forms of assurance are being demanded by different constituencies in the federal public administration. One form of assurance is that of financial accountability, and spending reviews are an essential input to processes that contribute to federal budgetary and expenditure management decisions. Program evaluation has also been an important contributor, but it may be the case that this federal function is overextended in that contribution. …
Linking Evaluation and Spending Reviews
The global financial crisis in 2008 was a significant watershed for governments everywhere. Diminished prospects for growth coupled with continuing demands for government interventions and chronic constraints on resources, prompted in part by the widespread adoption of variants of neo-liberalism (constrain resources to limit spending and shrink governments), have created fiscal environments where rationing expenditures among programs and policies…
Reflections on Inter-University Collaboration to Deliver a Graduate Certificate in Evaluation to Government of the Northwest Territories Employees
This practice note describes and reflects on an inter-university collaboration to deliver a graduate credential in evaluation to Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) staff. The collaboration involved faculty members from two member institutions of the Consortium of Universities for Evaluation Education (CUEE). We describe the process of negotiating a contractual agreement, developing and delivering the program, and offer our reflections…
Identifying Key Epistemological Challenges Evaluating in Indigenous Contexts
The evaluation field’s understanding of Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies must improve in ways that do not serve to privilege Western ways of knowing or governmental priorities for accountability. The literature has not identified ways to bridge these in practical ways, or to move the field to balance community and government needs. This article describes some prevailing epistemological and methodological issues related to evaluation and t…
Reflections on Evaluating in Indigenous Contexts
No abstract is required
Evaluation in Indigenous Contexts
No abstract is required. This is the introduction to the special edition
Teaching public administration in the Covid‐19 era
Offering Graduate Evaluation Degrees Online
This practice note describes and explores the experiences and lessons learned as we engaged learners in two online graduate evaluation programs: the University of Victoria’s Graduate Certificate and Diploma in Evaluation Program, offered since fall 2011, and Carleton University’s Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPPPE), offered online since fall 2016. Both programs are delivered to maximize the geographic accessibility of…
We Cause a Ruckus”
Using qualitative data from an interdisciplinary research project about mental health and community engagement with Indigenous youth in Kasabonika Lake First Nation (Ontario, Canada), this paper explores the factors that constrain and facilitate their ability to contribute to the well-being of their community. Case studies are employed to demonstrate how the youth navigate complex social and structural conditions within the context of on-going co…
Internal governmental performance and accountability in Canada
This article summarizes and expands on the work of one of three dialogue study teams organized by the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS), Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), and the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA). The Internal Accountability Dialogue Study Team explored the rationale and effects of the performance management regime of the Canadian federal government starting the fall of 2021…
Spending reviews and the Government of Canada
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…
Institutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews
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…
Delivering Results for Canadians
Implementing a results‐oriented management system has been a long‐term goal and a challenge for federal public sector organizations in Canada. This article highlights the efforts by the Government of Canada to improve performance measurement, evaluation, and audit (PMEA) functions over time. The article traces administrative reforms since 2000, highlighting the shift from inputs and outputs towards a results‐focused environment aimed at achieving…
Conclusion to “Re‐Setting the Public Service of Canada”
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…
Indigenous Administrative Reform
Several Indigenous communities and organizations are engaging in various resurgence initiatives, including those activities that restore their cultural administrative identity. The pathways to reforms are several but often follow a treaty relationship that recognizes Indigenous ways of knowing and doing. Over time, these relationships and recognitions deteriorated resulting in Indian Act approaches that deviated from longstanding traditions. Admi…
Navigating Complex Processes and Relationships
Katherine Athol Hamilton Graham (1947–2025)
Governing at Arm's Length
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