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THE EVOLVING PHYSIOLOGY OF GOVERNMENT

CANADIAN PUBLIC

ADMINISTRATION IN TRANSITION

GOVERNANCE SERIES

Governance is the process of effective coordination whereby an organization or a system guides itself when resources, power, and information are widely distributed. Studying governance means probing the pattern of rights and obligations that underpins organizations and social systems, understanding how they coordinate their parallel activities and maintain their coherence, exploring the sources of dysfunction, and suggesting ways to redesign organizations whose governance is in need of repair.

The series welcomes a range of contributions from conceptual and theoretical reflections, ethnographic and case studies, and proceedings of conferences and symposia, to works of a very practical nature that deal with problems or issues on the governance front. The series publishes works both in French and in English.

The Governance Series is part of the publications division of the Centre on Governance and of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. This is the 21st volume published in the series. The Centre on Governance and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs also publish a quarterly electronic journal, www.optimumonline.ca .

Editorial Committee

Caroline Andrew
Linda Cardinal
Monica Gattinger
Luc Juillet
Daniel Lane
Gilles Paquet (Director)

The published titles in the series are listed at the end of this book.

THE EVOLVING PHYSIOLOGY OF GOVERNMENT

CANADIAN PUBLIC

ADMINISTRATION IN TRANSITION

edited by
O. P. Dwivedi,
Tim A. Mau,
and Byron Sheldrick

University of Ottawa Press, 2009

All rights reserved.

The University of Ottawa Press acknowledges with gratitude the support extended to its publishing list by Heritage Canada through its Book Publishing Industry Development Program, by the Canada Council for the Arts, by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences through its Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and by the University of Ottawa.

We also gratefully acknowledge the University of Guelph and the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa whose financial support has contributed to the publication of this book.

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA
CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

The evolving physiology of government : Canadian public
administration in transition / edited by O.P. Dwivedi, Timothy
Mau and Byron Sheldrick.

(Governance series, 1487-3052)
Essays originally presented at a conference honouring professor J.E. Hodgetts
on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, held in Guelph, Ont.,
in September 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7766-0706-1

1. Public administration--Canada. 2. Canada--Politics and
government. I. Dwivedi, O. P., 1937-II. Sheldrick, Byron M.
III. Mau, Timothy, 1969-IV. Series: Governance series (Ottawa, Ont.)

JL75.E86 2009 351.71 C2009-900360-0

Published by the University of Ottawa Press, 2009
542 King Edward Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
www.press.uottawa.ca

TABLE OF CONTENTS

John Meisel

From There to HereJ. E. Hodgetts

O. P. Dwivedi, Tim A. Mau, and Byron Sheldrick

Chapter One
Evolution of Disciplinary Approaches and Paradigms in the Study of Public Administration in Canada

Iain Gow

Chapter Two
Public Administration Research and Organization Theory:

Evert Lindquist

Chapter Three
The Origins of Merit in Canada

Ken Rasmussen and Luc Juillet

Chapter Four
The Politics-Administration Dichotomy:

Peter Aucoin and Donald J. Savoie

Chapter Five
The Unfortunate Experience of the Duelling Protocols:

C. E. S. Franks

Chapter Six
Law and Innovation:

A. Paul Pross

Chapter Seven
From Administration to Management:

Caroline Dufour

Chapter Eight
Trust, Leadership, and Accountability in Canadas Public Sector

Paul G. Thomas

Chapter Nine
Putting Citizens First Service Delivery and Integrated Public Governance

Kenneth Kernaghan

Chapter Ten
American Perspectives on Canadian Public Administration

Keith Henderson

Chapter Eleven
A Comparative Perspective on Canadian Public Administration within an Anglophone Tradition

John Halligan

Chapter Twelve
Comparative and Development Administration in Canada:

O. P. Dwivedi and Tim A. Mau

Chapter Thirteen
Administrative Law and Public Governance:

Byron Sheldrick

FOREWORD

John Meisel

Professor J. E. Hodgetts is the unwitting motivator and fairy godmother of the conference that brought together the papers in this volume. The latter is not exactly a Festschrift, for such a collection in his honour appeared in 1982 (Dwivedi, 1982). And how many such encomia can a modest man endure? So no one breathed the F-word when the authors of the papers gathered in these pages met in Guelph, Ontario, in September 2007 to honour Canadas doyen of the study of public administration. He was, nevertheless, the raison dtre of our being there and the inspiration and model of much of the work that nourished the minds of the attendees not only for the two days of the conference but for years and decades before. Whatever name one wishes to bestow on what, by common consent, turned out to have been a quite unusually successful intellectual exercise, it was an elaborate embroidery drawing on diverse strands of Ted Hodgettss lifelong oeuvre.

The banquet on September 21, 2007, was not only the principal social event of the gathering, but it also provided a rare and precious opportunity to hear the guest of honour reflect on the history and nature of the academic discipline he so greatly nourished and embellished. The preface for this volume contains the notes that underlay his talk. It was my honour and pleasure to introduce Ted, and my notes for this occasion constitute, with some emendations and additions, the backbone of this foreword.

A graduate of the University of Toronto and Chicago, and a one-time denizen of Oxford, Ted taught inspiringly at Queens, Toronto, Memorial, and Dalhousie, and was the principal of Victoria College and then president of Victoria University in Toronto. Deeply involved with the Lambert and Glasgow Commissions and with a hand in Gomery II, he likewise contributed to numerous other inquiries in Canada and abroad on a wide range of subjects. The Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) awarded him its coveted Vanier medal and named a literary prize after him. Several universities have bestowed honorary degrees on him. It says something about the enduring value of his academic and educational contributions that the most recent LL.D. from the University of Toronto was awarded while Ted was enjoying his nineties.

He has made immense and critical contributions to the literature on public administration as an author and editor. Moreover, he has inspired and overseen outstanding work by generations of students, both graduate and undergraduate. Several of them, now stellar performers themselves, have written some of the papers that follow. But his contribution has been prodigious elsewhere as well, ranging from being the co-author of the legendary

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