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

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· University of Ottawa Press
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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 history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.

About the author

Luc Juillet is director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.

Ken Rasmussen is director of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina.

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