Canadian Governments
The public sector has several unique features that differentiate it from the private and tertiary sectors. It defines, enforces, and realizes collective values according to its own missions and responsibilities such as the implementing the aspirations of the public masses. Financial performance is an inadequate evaluative tool for its success and it delivers a range of goods and services that are not part of the market including social services (Moore, 2000; Nelson, 2011). A large portion of social service delivery responsibility is taken on by Canadian provincial governments. They cope with their newly expanded responsibility by coordinating efforts of different government departments into multilevel policy networks while maintaining the most dominant feature of Canadian public governance: its narrow hierarchical structure (Atkinson et al., 2013).
Canadian governments have a highly concentrated power structure. According to (Aucoin, 1995), p. 254), “the Canada public service has suffered from what is widely perceived as an excess of ruthlessness, …show more content…
It was decided that PS 2000 did not provide a sufficiently strong solution to the deficit, and suggestions from a Program Review that were published the following year were adopted instead. As a result, downsizing was made a priority and ASD was born (Clark, 2002). Further downsizing occurred in 1995 when program spending was sharply reduced (Gourevitch & Shinn, 2007) and provincial governments were given greater responsibility over social services. Provincial governments followed a similar trajectory to the federal one apart from those in British Columbia and Saskatchewan where downsizing and privatization were already underway in the 1980s (Clark, 2002). The restructuring erased the deficit, and Canada had a surplus in the 1998-1999 fiscal year at the expense of the public service, which was now in crisis as a result of the downsizing (Clark,
The public sector has several unique features that differentiate it from the private and tertiary sectors. It defines, enforces, and realizes collective values according to its own missions and responsibilities such as the implementing the aspirations of the public masses. Financial performance is an inadequate evaluative tool for its success and it delivers a range of goods and services that are not part of the market including social services (Moore, 2000; Nelson, 2011). A large portion of social service delivery responsibility is taken on by Canadian provincial governments. They cope with their newly expanded responsibility by coordinating efforts of different government departments into multilevel policy networks while maintaining the most dominant feature of Canadian public governance: its narrow hierarchical structure (Atkinson et al., 2013).
Canadian governments have a highly concentrated power structure. According to (Aucoin, 1995), p. 254), “the Canada public service has suffered from what is widely perceived as an excess of ruthlessness, …show more content…
It was decided that PS 2000 did not provide a sufficiently strong solution to the deficit, and suggestions from a Program Review that were published the following year were adopted instead. As a result, downsizing was made a priority and ASD was born (Clark, 2002). Further downsizing occurred in 1995 when program spending was sharply reduced (Gourevitch & Shinn, 2007) and provincial governments were given greater responsibility over social services. Provincial governments followed a similar trajectory to the federal one apart from those in British Columbia and Saskatchewan where downsizing and privatization were already underway in the 1980s (Clark, 2002). The restructuring erased the deficit, and Canada had a surplus in the 1998-1999 fiscal year at the expense of the public service, which was now in crisis as a result of the downsizing (Clark,