Defending a Contested Ideal

In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This hist...

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Auteurs principaux: Juillet, Luc, Rasmussen, Ken
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Publié: University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa 2021
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