John W Langford

Biographic Data

ID740199
NAMEJohn W Langford
GIVEN NAMESJohn W
FAMILY NAMELangford
SIGNATURELANGFORD J W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX3

  • Acting on values: An ethical dead end for public servants

    Open AccessJohn W Langford, John LangfordARTICLECanadian Public Administration2004Cited by: 11

    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…

  • Corruption, Character, & Conflict: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics

    Kenneth M Gibbons, John W Langford et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1995

  • Think Tanks and Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region

    K Victor Ujimoto, John W Langford et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1992

  • Economic Policy-Making in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Henry S Albinski, John W Langford et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1991Cited by: 2

    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

    Filippo Sabetti, Kenneth Kernaghan et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1991Cited by: 2References: 10

  • Moonlighting and mobility

    Open AccessJohn W Langford, John LangfordARTICLECanadian Public Administration1991Cited by: 1

  • The Changing Shape of Government in the Asia-Pacific Region

    N Ganesan, John W Langford et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1989

  • Prefatory Note

    Open AccessJohn W Langford, John LangfordARTICLECanadian Public Administration1986

  • The Language of the Skies: The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada

    John W Langford, John Langford et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1984

    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

    Open AccessMervyn Brockett, John W Langford et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Administration1984

  • Responsibility in the senior public service: Marching to several drummers

    Open AccessJohn W Langford, John LangfordARTICLECanadian Public Administration1984Cited by: 1

  • Responsibility and the senior public service

    Open AccessMervyn Brockett, John W Langford et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Administration1984

  • The question of quangos: Quasi‐public service agencies in British Columbia

    Open AccessJohn W Langford, John LangfordARTICLECanadian Public Administration1983Cited by: 3

    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

    Open AccessJohn W Langford, John LangfordARTICLECanadian Public Administration1982Cited by: 3References: 1

  • Transport in Transition: The Reorganization of the Federal Transport Portfolio

    Trevor Price, John W Langford et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1977

    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…