Canada’s top public servants meet agency theory in the Harper years (2006–2015)

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ID9962200
AutoresJacques Bourgault (0000-0003-3608-1458, ENAP, Canada, autor correspondente), James Iain Gow (Université de Montréal)
Ano2022
Volume88
Fascículo2
Páginas302-319
Data de publicação2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review of Administrative Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-8523 • E-ISSN: 1461-7226
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020852320905348
OpenAlexW3008655655
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas21

A survey of Canada’s top public servants was used to test the effects on them of the agency version of the public service bargain held by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper (2006–2015). Most results were as expected: increasing politicization and prime ministerial influence added much complexity to the deputy minister’s job; and ministers’ political staffers acted as guardians of the agency bargain. However, the survey led to the observation of a decline in ministers’ powers and to the surprising increase of the parliamentary accountability of deputy ministers, as well as to some challenge to the concept of public service bargains

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