Canadian Public Administration-Administration Publique Du Canada最新文献

Scholars who study centralization and decentralization in Canada usually rely on the distribution of authority and financial/human resources to identify transfers of “power to” and “power over” among different levels of government. We argue that patterns of non-financial asset ownership are a useful yet frequently overlooked measure of “power to.” We demonstrate that Canadian municipal policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were shaped in part by the physical assets owned by municipal and provincial governments. These patterns of non-financial asset ownership reveal Canadian municipalities to be more important policy actors than typically assumed. A full understanding of the distribution of power within the Canadian federation requires attention to government ownership of physical assets.

We assess Canada's labour market policy mix in order to determine whether the inclusive growth and innovation agenda indicates that technological change has triggered a policy paradigm shift. Our analysis of four policy areas concerning labour market access indicates no paradigm shift has occurred. Instead, the agenda is an example of policy resistance: first- and second-order policy changes (changes to policy settings) maintain the status quo of labour market arrangements. The result is a revised set of supply-side policies unlikely to reorganize the labour market. Technological disruption and the COVID-19 pandemic offer opportunities to reorganize Canada's labour market policies' current policy mix, but, even under the banner of inclusive innovation, this shift is unlikely to happen.

With an aging population, have federal and provincial governments acknowledged the diversity of the policy needs of older adults? This contribution analyzes administrative and policy documents across ministries to study the frequency and the depth of engagement involving older adults with a disability, older immigrants, and those living in poverty. Precarity received marginal treatment with very limited discussions combining aging in relation to disability, immigration and migration, or poverty. Most documents focused on poverty. Disability and aging are discussed in parallel and rarely in conjunction with aging. These findings suggest a low level of priority for precarity and aging.

Graduate public administration programs at Canadian universities have seen significant growth and change over the last fifteen years. This research note assesses current programming and considers recent developments. We argue that Canadian public administration programs exhibit diversity and that they are responsive to key trends and forces shaping society. To support these claims, we compare program curriculums and highlight distinguishing features. We suggest in closing, though, that further adjustments are required for programs to take advantage of arising opportunities and to remain resilient in the face of new challenges.

How comprehensive are the provincial regulations of municipal elections in Canada? We know the “rules of the game” matter for electoral integrity but know comparatively little about these regulations at the municipal level in Canada. This question importantly highlights issues of electoral integrity at the municipal level in Canada as well as levels of centralization (or decentralization) between provinces and municipalities. To address these issues, this article presents an overview of the regulation of municipal elections in Canada using the framework from the European Electoral Performance Index (EEPI). It examines the variations in regulation of electoral management, from voter registration to post-election dispute resolution. It then discusses the areas most commonly and least commonly regulated for Canadian municipalities, highlighting some key gaps in the regulation of municipal elections in Canada.

Two prevailing theories explain citizen satisfaction with public services from different levels and sizes of government. Reform theory argues that citizens derive the most satisfaction from larger government units because of economies of scale in service delivery. Political economy theory argues that citizens achieve the most satisfaction from smaller local government units since their voice is more likely to be heard. Both theories have been tested yielding mixed findings. An alternative theory argues that citizens have different levels of satisfaction depending upon the specific services received and directly experienced. These theories are tested using Canadian national public opinion survey data.

Canada's newly adopted Impact Assessment Act requires gender-based analysis plus (GBA+)—a type of intersectionality mainstreaming—as part of assessing the impacts of resource projects. This explicit inclusion of a GBA+ requirement in legislation for the first time represents an important advance in Canada's commitments to mainstreaming, and one that offers an opportunity to examine how interested policy actors both enable and challenge mainstreaming commitments in the legislative sphere. We consider what the compound problem of invisibility and resistance in the legislative process means for ongoing efforts to advance intersectional policymaking and strengthen mainstreaming in Canada and other western democracies.

This research note explores approaches adopted by Canadian provinces to promote more representative provincial government bureaucracies. Three dimensions of employment equity are analyzed and compared for each province: the governance framework, the groups targeted, and the data reported. Each province is classified as belonging to one of four “employment equity architectures”: the absent architecture, the minimalist architecture, the partial architecture, and the comprehensive architecture. Overall, this note establishes the continuing existence of major differences in provincial approaches to fostering employment equity.