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Canadian Public Administration Exam Questions with Complete Solutions Latest Update 2024 Public Administration - Answers - Academic study drawing on several principles -Set of administrative practices and institutional arrangements geared toward providing public services Politics and Administrat...

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Canadian Public Administration Exam Questions with Complete Solutions Latest Update 2024

Public Administration - Answers - Academic study drawing on several principles

-Set of administrative practices and institutional arrangements geared toward providing public services

Politics and Administration Dichotomy - Answers Politics is about deciding what the government should
do and public admin is about deciding how to do it. Different roles and responsibilities for the two sides

- Public admin is tied to electoral politics

- elected officials set priorities, agendas budgets and policies and public servants provide impartial
advice to politicians

Professionalization - Answers Creative of permanent, partizan public service staffed by trained experts

Public servants are hired by merit

Evolved through the reform of the patronage system, drawing on international examples (British
example - colonial rule in India, record keeping) and American example - example of what they didn't
want

1918 Civil Service Act - Answers creation of permanent civil service commission (now public service
commission)

British Bureaucratic Origins - Answers Comes from the middle ages - religious clerks that help the
monarch

King Henry the VIII's secretary of state developed the modern departmental organization

Bureaucracy Origins - Answers First used in 18th C. and means rule by officials

Max Weber, german sociologist wrote about bureaucracy as reflecting modern society - focus on
efficients and rationality, detailed imperson rules

As state expanded there was a bigger need for Bur.

Positive Power - Answers Encourage a particular type of action

Negative Power - Answers Stop a particular type of action

Democracy - Answers concept shaped by societal values, rule of the people/the many

Citizen participation of law making

Direct Democracy - Answers Citizen personally vote

Representative Democracy - Answers Delegate authority - what we have

, can still have come direct democracy votes (referendums)

Political Democracy - Answers equal rights to voting and participation in the system

Economic Demoncracy - Answers right to economic equality

Federalism - Answers Form of gov based on the division of power between two levels (federal and
provincial)

A legal social economic political and administrative arrangement

Modern federalism like American system. JAM wanted unitary (1 level) like the British have.

Constitution - Answers Body of fundamental rules, written and unwritten under which government
operates

Guarantees rights

Constitutional Monarchy - Answers the constitution limits the monarch's power

Rule of Law - Answers Guarantees that no one is above the law based on the premise of legal and
constitutional equality

Inspired by John Locke - gov. only legitimate if it has the consent of the people, laws reflect will of
people

Constitutional Convention - Answers Unwritten constitutional law, binding rules of behaviour

Cannot be enforced in the courts but politicians have obligation to respect conventions

Responsible governemnt - Answers Convention from British system, Confidence convention -
assumption that gov will act in support of the house

Appointing the Government - Answers Convention example that PM is MP most likely to be able to
secure confidence of the house, generally the leader of the part with the most seats

Convention Adv and Disadv - Answers Conventions allow for change because of the ability to break
conventions

But they can be frustrating because if allows for variation of beliefs from one PM to the next

Division of Power - Federal - Answers Nation Making powers (trade, commerce, defense, foreign affairs),
taxes, criminal code, sale of natural resources

Division of Power - Provincial - Answers education, welfare, and culture, natural resources

Peace Order and Good Government - Answers Can allow Federal government to take over but its use is
limited to emergencies

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