David A. Good

Institute of Public Administration of Canada

David Good's The Politics of Public Management is a 'textbook case' in public administration; it deals with the events and circumstances surrounding the scandal of the grants and contributions audit at Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). More specifically, Good argues that the HRDC scandal or crisis was the result of a complex series of factors, which transformed a fixable administrative matter into media headlines alleging that the government had lost one billion dollars. The author further contextualizes this scandal by analyzing the dichotomies and contradictions inherent in public administration and supporting the larger premise that certain trade-offs must be made in the administration of any public organization. Good skillfully weaves together into a coherent and comprehensible whole both theoretical (or conceptual) and practical considerations. He draws on current scholarship throughout his analysis and captures for the reader the nuances and complexities of public administration. The first and only extensive critical examination to date of the events surrounding the scandal at HRDC, this text offers an original and groundbreaking contribution to current scholarship on public administration and management in Canada.

The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions

The Politics of Public Management

Henry Mintzberg

Jacques Bourgault

Canadian Centre for Management Development

This book discusses how the role of the public manager differs from that of the private sector. Public managers are held to high standards, are in the public eye, and expected to have a private sector management style while taking into consideration the ethos of the public sector. The book presents case studies and encourages debate.

Managing Publicly

G. Bruce Doern

Richard Levesque

The authors show how the NRC's history is interwoven with the evolution of Canada's economic and industrial development and with the fostering of science at Canada's universities, in industry, and within the federal government.

Changing Hierarchies, Networks and Markets

The National Research Council in the Innovation Policy Era

William A. W. Neilson

Severances and Firings in the Senior Public Service

Getting the Pink Slip

Susan D. Phillips

Katherine A. Graham

Lessons in Participation from Local Government

Citizen Engagement

John Restakis

Evert A. Lindquist

Civil Society and the Future of Public Services

The Co-op Alternative

M. Paul Brown

The Case of the Maritime Resource Management Service

Genesis, Termination and Succession in the Life Cycle of Organizations

Sandford F. Borins

The Language of the Skies chronicles one of the most bitter crises in French-English relations in Canada: the bilingual air traffic control conflict which arose in the mid-1970s when francophone controllers and pilots attempted to use French, as well as English, in Québec aviation.

The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada

The Language of the Skies

Albert Wesley Johnson

Rosemary Proctor

Dream No Little Dreams offers rich insight into the initial planning stages of Medicare and details the protracted struggle with the medical profession that followed as Douglas fought to implement it.

A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961

Dream No Little Dreams

Institute of Public Administration of Canada

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