Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008

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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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Ken Rasmussen, Luc Juillet
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منشور في: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2021
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