Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Canadian Democracy
The Long and the Short of It
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6239743 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Sigelman (Texas Tech University), William G Vanderbok, William Vanderbok (Texas Tech University) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 615-624 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900041792 |
| OpenAlex | W2002545982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
The bureaucratization of the political process that characterizes twentieth century politics in many countries has not bypassed Canada—as evidenced by skyrocketing rates of government employment and expenditure and, even more dramatically, by the ever-expanding policy-making power of Canadian bureaucracy. One observer sees the civil service as occupying an increasingly strategic role in Canadian politics, a condition thatreflects in part the expanding role of modern government into highly technical areas, which tends to augment the discretion of permanent officials because legislators are obliged to delegate to them the administration of complex affairs, including the responsibility for drafting and adjudicating great amounts of sub-legislation required to “fill in the details” of the necessarily broad, organic statutes passed by Parliament. Some indication of the scale of such discretion is found in the fact that, during the period 1963–8, an annual average of 4,130 Orders-in-Council were passed in Ottawa, a substantial proportion of which provided for delegating authority to prescribe rules and regulations to ministers and their permanent advisers. By contrast, the number of laws passed annually by Canadian federal parliaments is rarely over one hundred
Administration (probate law · Bureaucracy · Delegate · Democracy · Discretion · Government (linguistics · Legislation · Legislature · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Statute · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
The Vertical Mosaic
The Vertical Mosaic
The Canadian Case for a Representative Bureaucracy
Higher Civil Servants in Ontario, Canada
Responsible public bureaucracy
Administrative culture in Canada
From a study of higher civil servants in Ontario
The Growth of Government Employment in Canada
Administrative Responsibility in Democratic Government
Responsibility and the Official
Les parlementaires et l'administration publique au Québec
Social Class and Political Change in Western Industrial Systems
Social Background in Elite Analysis
Bureaucracy and Constitutionalism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2014 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |